Does the uproar over the “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups” say more about its substance or its audience? On Oct. 8, one day after the Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 people in Israel, more than 30 student groups at Harvard signed onto a joint statement holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” On the same day, Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, published an editorial taking a similar line: “The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu.” The parallels between the Harvard statement...
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