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Dan Schnur

Dan Schnur

Dan Schnur is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications.

A federal court has rightly ruled that campus protesters’ persecution of Jewish students is antisemitism pure and simple.
Both are talking tough for the moment, but leaving themselves sufficient wiggle room for future deal-making.
I hope that Netanyahu’s laudable objectives can be accomplished before the price of Israeli blood, treasure and international isolation become too great to bear.
While hope and optimism are essential components of a successful strategy, they do not comprise a sufficiently sturdy platform for any high-risk endeavor.
Just because none of us can do everything doesn’t mean that none of us can do anything.
A traditional definition of humanitarianism would certainly include access to food, water and medicine. But it would also contain some reference to the prevention of murder, rape and kidnapping.
The same self-assurance that led me to believe that racism and bigotry in this country were shrinking forces had also convinced many of us that Israel’s strengths could now protect it from the ancient hatreds that Jews have faced since biblical times.
Schiff and Porter are running neck-and-neck in early polling, but Schiff maintains an almost 3-1 fundraising advantage.
For those of us who care about the strength and reliability of the U.S-Israel relationship, the result was unsettling.