Why do so many Jewish 18-year-olds begin their university studies with the pro-Israel sentiments they learned at home, then emerge four years later more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause?

By MOSHE PHILLIPS, JPOST

THE GRAVE of John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, in Boston. Parents have a right to know who is teaching their kids about Israel.
(photo credit: REUTERS/BRIAN SNYDER)

The news that The Harvard Crimson newspaper issued an editorial in support of the BDS campaign to boycott Israel has surprised many in part because a Crimson editor had been active on social media stating how proud she is as a Jew to have had a part in the publishing of the editorial. We hear a lot about Jewish college students who have become pro-Palestinian. We know about polls showing that younger American Jews are much less connected to Israel than their parents.

How can this trend be explained? Why do so many Jewish 18-year-olds begin their university studies with the pro-Israel sentiments they learned at home, then emerge four years later more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than to Israel?

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By: Aryeh Savir and Sheri Oz/TPS

Israeli police officers during clashes outside the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem’s Old City on April 1

Israel will establish a national guard to contend with security threats within the country’s borders, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced.

Speaking in wake of a series of terror attacks in Israel that claimed the lives of 18 people, Bennett stated during the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday that “the supreme task of the Israeli government is to restore personal security to the citizens of Israel,” and therefore it is promoting the establishment of a National Guard.

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The chairman of Ra’am is angry with Bennett’s conduct regarding Ra’am’s demands vis-à-vis the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

By Orli Harari, INN

Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas has cut off contact with the leaders of the coalition. Kan 11 News reported on Sunday that Abbas is furious at the conduct of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his coalition partners regarding Ra’am’s demands vis-à-vis the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and has not been answering their telephone calls.

On Saturday, Abbas sought to coordinate with the King of Jordan the moves on the Temple Mount. According to a senior member of the coalition, the crisis with Ra’am is serious and close to being irreversible.

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By David Israel ,  JEWISH PRESS

Sources close to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett have denounced Interior Minister and Bennett’s political partner and ally for more than a decade Ayelet Shaked, saying she is “heating up the situation with her announcement about the Temple Mount and her blessing for convening a planning council to discuss settlement construction.” According to those sources, cited Sunday morning by Reshet Bet radio, “Shaked sticks fingers in the eye of our coalition partners, and if she continues like this, this coming Knesset session will end right when it starts.”

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by Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY      May 8, 2022

Election integrity and freedom of speech are the two most basic requirements for a democracy, a government by the people, exercised directly or through elected representatives. The 2020 United States presidential election breached them both. Unprecedented in US election history, Democrat-run cities in battleground states suspended vote-counting, and then mysteriously resumed with drastically changed trajectories of the vote count. Americans went to sleep certain that President Donald Trump had been reelected. When they woke up, Joe Biden had mysteriously surged ahead to “win” the election. Americans remain shocked, confused, and angry. What happened??

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THE RUSSIAN SHIP ADMIRAL MARKAROV WAS NOT DESTROYED AS REPORTED BUT IS NOW IN SAFE HARBOUR.
ZELENSKY LIKE THE GERMAN GENERALS, WHEN ALL WAS LOST, IS ORDERING HIS MEN TO STAY AND FIGHT. IMMORAL.
YES, KHARKOV WAS A SMALL GAIN FOR UKRAINE.

American support for Ukraine is chasing an elusive, vaguely defined victory similar to the fruitless 20-year American commitment in Afghanistan.

“So will the United States support Ukraine until it is ground into dust? In order to avoid needless human suffering, we could push Ukraine towards some reasonable accommodation with Russia “

By Christopher Roach, AM GREATNESS

Afghanistan was rightly called a forever war. At nearly 20 years, it more than doubled the time of America’s combat action in Vietnam and was five times longer than American fighting during World War II.

At least part of the problem in Afghanistan arose from the vague definition of victory. Dealing with insurgents and global terrorists rather than nation-states, it was unlikely that representatives of al-Qaeda and the Taliban would someday surrender on the deck of a battleship. 
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by Amir Taheri, GATESTONE  •  May 8, 2022

Pictured: Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a speech in Red Square during a Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Sergey Guneev – Host Photo Agency via Getty Images )

• Rather than signaling the end of hostilities, Putin may announce a widening of the perimeters of a war he no longer controls.
• The invasion [of Ukraine] has led to an unexpected strengthening of creaking political and military bonds among Western powers and whetted their appetite for regime change in Moscow, something that many, perhaps even most, would have shied away from before Putin began raining his missiles on Kiev.
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T. Belman. I have always thought that the purpose of the movement was to create a platform from which to spew their anti-Israel venom. So for me it was always about smearing Israel rather than hurting her economically. Because they were always about arguing for a boycott, they were invited everywhere to speak. It was a legitimate academic discussion.

Similarly the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was not about liberating a non-existing country but about destroying Israel

By Civis Americanus, AM THINKER

The express purpose of the Arab League’s Resolution 1547 was to weaponize displaced Palestinian Arabs against Israel. This is incontrovertible and damning evidence that every single organization and business that is involved in the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement is at best a stooge and enabler, if not a willful participant, in an international fraud that abuses the trust of the entire international community to support the agenda of terrorists.
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by Najat Al-Saied. GATESTONE  •  May 8, 2022

• The real danger lies not only in denying that the Holocaust took place, but, worse, in rewriting history, especially by those who oppose peace and stability. Their main motive seems to be to perpetuate hatred and hostility so that the conflict — their raison d’être and possibly also their careers — remains continuous and immortal.
• The real dispute in the Middle East is actually between two axes: an Axis of Moderation and an Axis of Resistance (to moderation, non-violence, normalization and peace).
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by Victor Rosenthal    May 8/22

Whoever has a gun should prepare it, and whoever does not have a gun should prepare his cleaver, axe, or knife. – Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, 30 April 2022.

Nothing characterized Jewish life everywhere during the two millennia of diaspora more than the contingency of it. There were good times, bad times, and worse times, but unless some non-Jewish power protected them temporarily – and it was always temporary – anything could be done to the Jews. Their property could be stolen, their women violated, their homes burned. Over and over.
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By  Dr. Mordechai Kedar, NEWS BLAZE    May 7/22

For years I have been yelling from my op-ed pages that Israel is aiding and abetting a homegrown Arab Fifth Column. Sadly, my yelling fell on deaf ears and now my warning is in play. Israel is now a democracy on a suicide path.

What is there to do about the young Arabs who feel that the State of Israel is crumbling in front of their eyes?

This op-ed, in Hebrew, by Mordechai Kedar, PhD, was translated to English by Nurit Greenger | May 4, 2022
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By Anna Kaplan, Forbes Staff   May 7/22

Affinity Partners, a new private-equity fund started by Jared Kushner, plans to invest money from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in Israeli businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, marking the first time the giant Saudi fund has invested in Israel, with which the Saudi government does not have a formal diplomatic relationship.

KEY FACTS

Affinity Partners has selected at least two Israeli startups to invest in, people familiar with the plans told the Journal.

Affinity Partners has raised more than $3 billion, which includes a $2 billion commitment from the Saudi Public Investment Fund.

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I’m tired of this. I’m tired of seeing our so-called leaders taking our flag, washing out the blue and only leaving the white of surrender.

By JONATHAN POLLARD,  JPOST          May 6/22

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SOLDIERS DANCE at the 74th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, at Mount Herzl, Wednesday night. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

I am privileged this year to celebrate our Independence Day as a free person in the Land of Israel. After enduring 35 years of prison and house arrest due to my actions as an Israeli agent, my love for this country and its wonderful citizens has only increased with each and every day that passes. More than anything else, though, I am deeply grateful to God for all our brave soldiers, who in their devotion to the survival of our country allow the miracle of our national rebirth to reoccur every day of the year.

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In the event of intensified fighting in Syria, Assad will likely turn to Iran rather than Russia for support.<
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By Nikola Mikovic,  ARAB WEEKLY       07/05/2022

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (R) receives Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Damascus, March 23, 2022. (AFP)

Russia’s military debacle in Ukraine will have serious consequences for Moscow’s geopolitical position. Unable to defeat one of the poorest countries in Europe, the Kremlin will now have a hard time preserving its traditional allies in the Russian sphere of influence.

This is especially true in Syria, which has been under Moscow’s strategic umbrella since the Soviet era. For instance, Turkey’s recent decision to close its airspace to Russian aircraft transiting to Syria,viewed as applying pressure on Moscow over its war in Ukraine, will affect Russian military capabilities in Syria, where more than 63,000 Russian troops have deployed.

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T. Belman. “key bases” only. Doesn’t mean that Russia is abandoning Syria.

DEBKA  May 6/22

Russian units deployed to Syria are assembling at the air bases of  Hmeimim, Qamishli, Deir e-Zor and T4, ready for some to transfer to the Ukraine warfront. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Russians are handing over key bases to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Hizballah.

by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  May 7, 2022

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech in Tehran, on January 3, 2022. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

• These US rewards to Iran for terrorism, destabilizing the region, treating its own people with brutality and cheating on 2015 nuclear deal would significantly increase Iran’s revenues; these, in turn, will doubtless be funneled into the pockets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Quds Force and their militia and terror groups including Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah for still more expansionism and terror.

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