While Hezbollah’s daily newspaper in Lebanon praised the New York Times and the Washington Post for their flattering obituary of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, most Arabs celebrated the end of someone they saw as a tyrant who had ordered the assassination of his Lebanese opponents and the killing and displacement of millions of Syrians.
Campus Protesters Miss the Mark on Israel’s Right to Self-Defense
by Walter E. Block | October 2, 2024
Image of George Washington University protests — GWU Anti-Israel Protest © Ted Eytan (Licensed under CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
With October 7 approaching, campus protests against Israel cannot be too far behind. We’ve already seen a few.
For example, “Protesters return to Columbia University as the fall semester begins.” Emerson College in Boston was the starting point for a pro-Palestinian march throughout the streets of that city. Students for Justice in Palestine organized a march at Ohio State, calling for divestment in Israel.
To be sure, thanks to a new bit of backbone on the part of university leadership, based on political revulsion at what occurred last spring, these protests are less incendiary, many have been moved off campus, and the overnight “tent cities” have disappeared.
