This is going to be a short post, because things are very simple and hate-mongers want to muddy the waters.
Last year we wrote the verbose article In Defense of Israel. The piece was very long and I don't feel like re-hashing it.
But, ultimately, the violence described was, as it always seems to be, in the Middle East.
Now today we are talking about the "protests" at Columbia University, an Ivy League School in the United States. You send the cops out and ask those protesters 2 Questions:
Question 1: Do you believe in the 2 State Solution?
If they say no, Israel must be destroyed, skip question 2. If they say yes, move to question 2.
Question 2: Does Israel have a right to exist?
Now if the protester says YES to both? Keep protesting, that is your right as an American. That is a pro-Palestinian protester.
Now if the protester says NO to either? Deport that student. That is an anti-Semite. They can take that attitude with them right back to the old country.
Saying Israel shouldn't exist is code for Jews shouldn't exist. If you want to protest what's going on in Gaza, that is more than fair.
Saying Jews should die in coded language should get you, minimally, kicked out of your Ivy League School.
Back in the 1940's, the Germans screamed "Jews should die." And millions died.
Today, Muslims scream "Jews should die." Then they protest that the Jews don't die quietly, they fight back like hornets.
Israel would lay down their arms with this simple sentence from Palestinians. "Israel has a right to exist."
I could go on, and on, and on...
But it's that simple.
Replace the word Israel with any other country.
GREAT BRITAIN has a right to exist.
ARGENTINA has a right to exist.
CHINA has a right to exist.
See how absurd it is that people argue Israel DOESN'T have a right to exist?
You argue Israel is a new country? Uh, there's a dozen NEWER countries in Asia alone. Do you want to argue with me that Bangladesh shouldn't exist? (Established 1971.)
What's going on now at Ivy League Universities, the heart of American Academia, is an embarrassment.
