Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Disengagement from Gaza
Hamas learned that terror wins.
August 20, 2019
Kowtowing to Louis Farrakhan.
In 2001, Al Sharpton paid a visit to Sudan, where he met with black Christians who had been held as slaves by Muslim Arabs. Most of these slaves had been captured during raids on their villages in which the male population was slaughtered and women and children sold into servitude. Sharpton, notorious for aggravating racial tensions in the U.S. and provoking two murderous outbreaks of anti-Jewish violence in New York City, pledged to take up their cause and for a brief time spoke about it publicly. But he soon abandoned the issue, as Charles Jacobs explains:
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Their itinerary was to a fantasyland where Israel does not exist yet is simultaneously an oppressor and a catastrophe.
When administrators incite mobs.
Kowtowing to Louis Farrakhan.
The Old City, Hebrew University, and the Western Wall.