as Rabbi Froman said: “We’ve tried to get this car started for 44 years and it’s not going anywhere; maybe we should change the engine?” And he’s right on that. We have tried everything else; why not try another way?

As it turns out, it is very easy to drown a campus with propaganda if you can afford it.

What Israel got in exchange for unilateral disengagement was not a thriving Palestine in the making but an Islamist, radical, oppressive, and violent regime that promptly started launching rockets and mortar shells into towns and villages in the south of the country and as far as they could reach, sometimes all the way to Tel Aviv. The results of

And this, I later learned, is a very Jew-y thing to do. To keep the old traditions and adapt them to modern times. An ancient text can be the most modern, and the holiest and most pious is also sometimes the most provocative and gutsy. An ancient story, which was kept for generations, can get a new life and, as such, new relevancy.

BDS is not a movement for justice or for peace. The movement doesn’t offer any solutions for peace anywhere

One of the sources of that resiliency, in his opinion, is the fact that Judaism is decentralized and encourages dissent.

BDS leadership doesn’t care at all about the plight or human rights of Palestinians anywhere else in the world—if they did, they might work toward improving the horrifying conditions in overstuffed refugee camps in places like Lebanon or on reforming UNRWA, which enables Palestinians to stay “refugees” for three generations and counting.

The tensions between the Jewish Yishuv, the Arabs, and the British were escalating rapidly. There were riots, attacks, and counterattacks on all sides. The Arab residents of Palestine, whether they had just immigrated or had been there for generations, were not happy with the sudden return of the Jews. The Jewish residents were similarly unhappy

2007 he opened a factory in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, which employed 1,100 workers—850 Palestinians and 250 Jews—a beautiful tapestry of the region working together every day. The social justice keyboard warriors of BDS got a whiff of this blasphemous coexistence, and their manic base was activated.