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What Happens When You Teach at Columbia and Reject Hamas
Shai Davidai and Yardenne Greenspan

…At first, we assumed this was all a big misunderstanding. We thought that if we could only get our friends to see what our childhood under constant suicide bombings was like, they would realize the depravity of student protesters calling for another intifada. We thought that we could get our friends to realize that there is no meaningful difference between the families slaughtered on Israel’s southern border and our own families, who live just 55 miles away. We thought that if we could only give voice to our people’s pain and suffering, our friends would not so flippantly reject our lived experiences. We thought that our friends would let us grieve. We were naive and we were wrong. READ MORE

ATLANTIC MAGAZINE Dara Horn: Why the most educated people in America fall for antisemitic lies The through line of anti-Semitism for thousands of years has been the denial of truth and the promotion of lies. These lies range in scope from conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial to the blood libel to the currently popular claims that Zionism is racism, that Jews are settler colonialists, and that Jewish civilization isn’t indigenous to the land of Israel. These lies are all part of the foundational big lie: that anti-Semitism itself is a righteous act of resistance against evil, because Jews are collectively evil and have no right to exist. Today, the big lie is winning.