Israel Must Be Defended on American Campuses observer/2014/11/israel-must-be-defended-on-american-campuses/ Nobelist Elie Wiesel Comes to Cooper Union to Stand Up for Israel -- Even If NYUs Jewish Student Groups Wont Israel is the great battle of our time. The question all diaspora Jews face is whether Israel’s name and reputation will survive into the next decade. Never before has the world ganged up on the Jewish state like now. We all fear that terrorist organizations, or perhaps an Iranian nuke, will destroy Israel. Those are legitimate fears, seeing how passionate Israel’s enemies are about her annihilation. And yet Israel seems eminently capable of defending itself. But what if Israel’s economic lifeline is threatened by global boycotts and divestment? Winston Churchill’s greatest fear for Britain during the Second World War was not a German invasion. He was confident in the RAF and Royal Navy’s ability to turn the Nazis back. His real fear was economic starvation by German U-Boats sinking British merchant shipping. Nobody asks young American, Australian, European, and South African Jews to don the olive green uniform, dodge grenades, evade bullets, and fight in Gaza. But we do ask them to be warriors for Israel on campus, the very locus of Israel hatred in Western culture. Read more at observer/2014/11/israel-must-be-defended-on-american-campuses/#ixzz3JLZx9koY Follow us: @newyorkobserver on Twitter | newyorkobserver on Facebook
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:15:48 +0000
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