How the Idea of Palestine Escaped the Middle East and Took Over the International Left
What young American Jews are failing to understand.
July 2, 2024
Down and out in London and Paris.
School may be out for the summer, but elsewhere in the U.S. anti-Israel protests emerged with renewed ferocity last weekend: throwing smoke bombs outside a Democratic fundraiser in midtown Manhattan, shouting pro-Hamas slogans in a Chicago suburb in the middle of the night, and setting up an encampment in a public park in a Massachusetts town. But none of this compares to the routine violence seen in European cities, including the recent anti-Semitic rape of a twelve-year-old girl (by three boys barely older) in Paris and the brutal beating of Jewish schoolchildren in a London subway station. Ben Cohen comments on the situation:
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Down and out in London and Paris.
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