Their campaign to delegitimize the Jewish State was itself conducted illegitimately, with numerous violations of the university’s bylaws leading to the referendum being disqualified.
For a nation with 333 million people and boasting the world’s longest continuous democracy, there’s nothing super about our political process.
Super Bowl advertising is always a key platform for brand and cause awareness and this year, the need to fight anti-Jewish hate made bids for awareness. But were these ads successful?
At its core is a simple message: Jews don’t belong anywhere. At least not on earth.
Today, more than 30 years later, I wonder what my grandfather would have said about South Africa charging Israel with genocide at the International Court of Justice.
The fundamental differences in our identities are deeply embedded in cultural values, taught to children from generation to generation.
By every standard of measurement, the assumptions we made and the strategies we employed do not appear to have been effective in this battle to defeat hate.
If Israel is going to rid itself of Hamas once and for all, it will have to make it quick.
Hamas the military force will never be the same after this Israeli campaign. But Hamas the movement, Hamas the idea, will surely survive.
There are historical precedents for State Department officials, and other prominent Americans, viewing human rights violations by evil regimes as less important than some policy goal.
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