Analyzing two pieces in The Forward: a review of a documentary film about the anti-Israel protests at Columbia, and an article about the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza.
Khalil is no hero. It’s just that the way the government is mistreating him is unacceptable, unforgivable, and terrifying.
Trump’s new executive order on antisemitism targets university campuses and the left. It doesn’t address the more virulent antisemitism on the right — by far the bigger danger to Jews.
…perfect justice, Kirsch argues, would mean restoring the Land of Israel to the Jews who were driven out of it by the Romans and also to the Palestinian Arabs who have been denied sovereignty by the Jews. “But any attempt to secure the country for just one of these peoples would inflict suffering on millions…”
With the permission of the Jewish Review of Books, TTN is posting in two parts, “Unsettling Ideology,” Michael Walzer’s review of Adam Kirsch’s book, “On Settler Colonialism,” published in its Fall 2024 issue, beginning here.
Study reveals how and why Jew and Muslims felt physically threatened on campus during protests over Israel’s war against Hamas
Those who oppose policies of Israel’s current government have numerous allies among Israeli academics. Most Israeli universities are committed to promoting equality and a shared society.
Most demonstrators may be against the existence of Israel as a country. This can be seen as anti-Zionism, but questioning the survival of a nation is actually worse than opposing an ideology (an “ism”).
The deaths of children and other innocents in Gaza, mostly from US-supplied weaponry, are what’s driving campus protests. Too many non-combatants have died, but Israel is not trying to exterminate the Palestinian people.
Global eruptions of antisemitism precipitated two conferences at the same venue, over 20 years apart. Although Israel is not to blame for the hatred of Jews, its policies and military actions often trigger it.
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