How Israel Has Changed Its Approach to the War, and How the War Has Changed Israel
“We’re no longer afraid of casualties.”
November 20, 2024
Religious freedom on Royce Quad.
Last spring, UCLA was the location of one of the ugliest campus anti-Israel movements, which took over the main quad and prevented students from crossing it unless they wore a special wristband. “To receive such a wristband,” explains Michael A. Helfand, “one had to pledge allegiance to the anti-Israel views of the protesters and, in addition, be personally vouched for by one of them as ideologically sound.” A Jewish student named Joshua Ghayoum claims that he was physically intimidated when he tried to ignore these rules, and—along with two other students—is now suing the school for violating their First Amendment rights.
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The United States doesn’t have the luxury of fumbling the present because it disagrees with the past.
Religious freedom on Royce Quad.
The missionary in the parking lot.
A century-old poster provides a window into the Yishuv.