After months of silence, Violet returns to the microphone. From Harvard’s Gaza solidarity encampment to the fallout of her suspension, we follow her return to campus protests. But after her grandfather’s death, she confronts a stark realization: her call for divestment from Israel is undoing the pro-Israel work her grandparents spent decades advancing.

Further reading

• Harvard Magazine, “Harvard Encampment Ends / Quiet” (May 2024) — account of the pro-Palestine encampment at Harvard Yard and its evolving dynamics Harvard Magazine

• The New York Times, “Palestinian Activist Arrest & Jewish Community Tensions” (March 11, 2025)

• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Working Definition of Antisemitism

• The Crimson, Naftali Bennett at Harvard Business School Talk (2025) — “Naftali Bennett HBS Talk”

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My Home Fronts is hosted and recorded by Romy Neumark.

Editing by Noa Amiel Lavie.

Sound design by Tina Tobey Mack.

Art work by Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi, courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort Gallery, NYC.

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