As they grow up and as their values and identities are beginning to form, children look up to the leaders in their lives for guidance. Since children are so impressionable, adults, namely parents and teachers, must model proper behavior for children. Regrettably, something quite contrary is being taught to many...
Harvard’s Sara Roy: All Hamas Needs is Love
Solving Gaza is simple. If Israel only wanted to, it could make Hamas disappear, its military wing evaporate, and its followers give up their claim to Jerusalem. That, at least, is what seems to pass for “smart” at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). In a London Review of...
Israel Border Policewoman Hadas Malka Murdered in Damascus Gate Terror Attack
Security has been increased at the Damascus Gate, one of the entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, following the Palestinian terror attack where 23-year-old Israeli Border Policewoman Hadas Malka was murdered on Friday night. Malka was murdered and four others were injured when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire on policemen near...
Gaza’s Electricity and the Tragedy of Palestinian Leadership
The nearly two million citizens of Gaza are facing a growing electricity crisis, with most Gazans now having only four hours of power a day. This is the result of the tensions between Hamas, who rule Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority/Fatah, who rule the West Bank. Even though Gaza is ruled...
Students for Justice in Palestine Linked to Terrorist Affiliate
Anti-Semitism is on the rise at college campuses. From January to June 2016, 287 anti-Semitic incidents occurred on 64 campuses, an increase of 45% since the year before. Unfortunately, Stanford is no exception to this ugly trend. In Spring 2016, during an ASSU meeting, Senator Gabriel Knight spoke of “Jews controlling...
The Choices Palestinians Make
After returning from an awful weekend trip with a Christian youth group, I told my mother I wanted to stop going to church in the next town over and worship where we lived. “Nobody likes me over there,” I said. Her response was direct and brutal: “Maybe they are not...
EU-Supported Palestinian University Calls to “Blow Up” Jews
A Palestinian university with strong U.S. and E.U. ties held a militant parade graphically calling for the murder of Jews. Birzeit University, just outside of Ramallah in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), held festivities to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the Fatah movement on December 31, 2016. Fatah is...
Op-Ed: We all want justice
Unfortunately, the feel of worldwide oppression is often very present. A Wednesday night event held in the Boston University Law Auditorium, titled “Imprisonment of a People: From the U.S. to Palestine,” hosted by the Students for Justice in Palestine and UMOJA: BU’s Black Student Union, addressed this very fact. The...