New in PJ Media: It’s simple, really. Why do so many college and university students hate Israel? Because they know nothing about it, and have bought into the propaganda they’ve been fed. In the midst of the recent and nationwide demonstrators featuring students (and many others) denouncing Israel for its alleged crimes, Algemeiner reported that “students […]
The Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity
Many of those students self-righteously chanting “from the river to the sea” — a phrase that calls for the eradication of the one Jewish state and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state — turn out not to know very much, and sometimes nothing at all, about Israel and the Palestinians, though they are quite […]
They are ‘Passionate About Palestine,’ But They Can’t Find Palestinian Territories on a Map
Berkeley professor Ron Hassner decided to see just how much American college students know about the Middle East, and whether there was a correlation between the passion they felt about certain issues, and their knowledge of the relevant facts. He found, much to his chagrin, that the more passionate a student felt about the supposed […]