While Confronting Russia in Europe, the U.S. Helps It in the Middle East
Putin’s arc of steel.
September 14, 2022
The “tyranny of group self-righteousness.”
At the University of California, Berkeley’s prestigious law school, a group called Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) has launched a campaign—apparently with some success—to convince other student organizations to adopt a bylaw pledging not only to support boycotting, divestment from, and sanctioning Israel (BDS) but also that they “will not invite speakers [who] have expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.” Richard Cravatts comments:
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A repeat of May 2021 could be much worse.
The “tyranny of group self-righteousness.”
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What if thousands of texts weren’t burned during the Holocaust?