Debunking Myths About Israel & Palestine

While in Israel there were voices who advocated relinquishing lands so that the two people might live side by side, the PLO was hardly open to compromise. Its attitude to Zionism was explicit in its charter: Zionism is a colonialist movement in its inception, aggressive and expansionist in its goals, racist and segregationist in its configurations

thought Zionism was a highly self-explanatory concept, and I was shocked to discover the misunderstanding and misinformation about it and about Israel in general.

I carried a sign that read “Free Gaza from Hamas,” because even though I am pro-Israel, I am also pro-Palestinian, just anti-Hamas, a terrorist organization which aims to annihilate Israel, and which uses international aid money to build attack tunnels instead of schools and hospitals.

this campaign seeks to delegitimize and isolate Israel as a pariah state. The campaign also seeks to convey to college students the false notion that Israel is among the worst human rights violators in the world and is guilty of genocide, torture, racism, ethnic cleansing, and Nazi tactics, whereas the Palestinians and their Arab supporters are vic

This conveniently leaves out the fact that the United Nations granted the Jews a return to their ancestral homeland after the Jewish people were nearly destroyed in the Holocaust; that Israel agreed to the UN Partition Plan for Statehood; that the Arabs refused it and attacked the new Jewish state in order to destroy it. There was literally zero sy