Student embrace of Hamas – willfully ignorant and antiSemitic

For decades, a generation of students, often protected  by their parents from information and views that might disturb them, arrived on college campuses demanding that administrators continue to protect  them from  feeling hurt by uncomfortable ideas or stressed by robust discussions of the harsh realities of a complex world. They called out microaggressions and insisted on trigger …

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Wrestling with the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war

Remember Entebbe? Look it up. It was the site of a 1976 Israeli operation to rescue 248 hostages from an Air France flight captured by Palestinian terrorists and given sanctuary by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. The non-Israelis were quickly released, except for the Air France crew. The roughly100 hostages who were Israelis were hidden in …

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