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A.J. Caschetta - Jewish News Syndicate Writer

A.J. Caschetta

A.J. Caschetta is a principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, where he is a Ginsburg-Ingerman fellow.

In 2004, he called for an “intifada in America.” Students for Justice in Palestine echoed his call.
No doubt plenty of virtue-signaling progressives will observe this celebration of misogyny.
Like the U.S. military’s handover of Bagram Air Base to the Taliban and the Minneapolis Police Department’s surrender of its 3rd Precinct building to rioters, a second nuclear deal with Iran will ensure even more aggression. It will also make war, perhaps even nuclear war, inevitable.
Just as PLO chief Yasser Arafat turned the checkered keffiyeh into a symbol of terrorism, today’s Palestinian nationalists have turned the banner that of their aspirations into one as contemptible as that of the Confederates.
The former U.S. secretary of state said things about peace-making in the Middle East that he probably now wishes he could take back.
From the moment that video footage of Floyd’s death went viral, Palestinian activists throughout the United States and abroad tried to turn the subsequent protests against police brutality into an American intifada.
While everyone shares outrage about the death of George Floyd, no good can come of romanticizing and mimicking Palestinian “resistance.”
So long as they are led by fools who never miss a meal, whose electricity never goes out and whose bank accounts are in the black, Palestinians will remain stateless.
How low would the Middle East Studies Association go in advocating academic freedom for anti-Israel ideologues?