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...Just last month, Harvard announced that it accepted students from 79 different countries for the College Class of 2011. I cannot but wonder how many of these countries have maps that make no reference to the state of Israel or textbooks that include gems like this one from the Palestinian territories: “my brother, the oppressor [referring to Israelis] has crossed the line and the time has come for jihad and martyrdom.” Harvard, with its influence both on its own students and on students everywhere, must do more to combat these dangerous perceptions...
Indeed, the authors assertions seem to mirror those found in any two-bit anti-Zionist tract, holding that Israel lacks any moral claim to American support, because the “creation of Israel entailed a moral crime against the Palestinian people,” in addition to the grossly exaggerated and inaccurate claim that Israel has continued to commit crimes against Palestinians including “massacres … and rapes by Jews.” And this is from the former academic dean of the Kennedy School. If this is what Harvard’s top professors...
...explosions caused by the IDF’s incursions into both the Old City of Nablus and Balata. We were frequently greeted by ‘Shalom!’ in the street in Nablus and Balata—maybe a surprise to outsiders who may believe the Palestinian people indoctrinated and hate-filled, but reinforced by the fact that we did not hear a single Palestinian person express hatred or blame towards the Israeli people during our research—just incomprehension and despair. It would be hard for an Israeli citizen to have the honor of experiencing this...
...Bronshtein claims that the events of 1948 have “little to do with the current events in Balata,” but this minimizes both the prolonged suffering of the Palestinian refugees and the role of Israel in creating the refugee problem (as described by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe in his recent book, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”), and in prolonging...
Amid cheers, multiple ovations, and a large entourage from her native kingdom of Jordan, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah stressed the need to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a talk at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening, saying that “if it’s not resolved soon, we might not have a chance in the future.” Speaking before a capacity crowd in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the queen—who is of Palestinian and Jordanian decent—described the conflict in the Middle East as not simply...