On October 7, 2023,

Hamas terrorists invaded Israel by sea, land, and air, murdered some 1,200 Israelis,

captured over 200 hostages, 133 of whom to this day, remain in captivity in the territories from which Israel

unilaterally withdrew in 2005. That was October 7th. Just a few hours would go by before the

most fervent anti-Israel activists would express their delight at the unprovoked and brutal

murder of Jews. Within weeks, the circle of those most fervent anti-Israel

activists would grow to include more and more, and then we started to see, coinciding with the

onset of Israel's military response, mass marches and protests in the streets of major American and

European cities. Campus activism began to pick up, and by the time that the

fall turned to winter and winter turned to spring, when the weather was finally nice enough,

student protests grew in greater intensity and scale. Anti-Israel campus activism has never been

more confident or more violent than it is right now. For you see, in years past, much of the

anti-Israel activism was mixed up with pious nods to the desire for peace and a two-state solution

that would allow for Palestinians to enjoy their own sovereignty alongside a secure Israel.

But that is not what is meant by the chance, now common, at the most prestigious universities

in the United States, calling to globalize the Intifada, referring to nothing else, but in this

context to the two terror campaigns that targeted Israeli children, women, civilians, in cafes,

buses, people just going about their business on the streets of Israel, suddenly

stabbed or detonated. Or the chant, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,

referring to the erasure of the Jewish state altogether. Or the slogan, now common,

we don't want two states, we want 48, referring, of course, to the year of Israel's founding,

and giving dark voice to the delusion

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