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Micha Danzig

Absent is a decade-plus of anti-Jewish violence that led up to the Arab Revolt. That is only one of many omissions in this supposedly “historical” story.
Both were heroes. Both shouldn’t have needed to be heroes.
Just as Putin believes Ukraine has no right to exist as an independent state, so haters of Israel are convinced the Jewish state has no right to exist.
The truth is that the “obstacle to peace” in the Arab-Israeli conflict before 1967 (before there were any “occupied territories”) is the same obstacle that since 1937 has caused every Palestinian Arab leader to reject six different peace and partition plans that would have created the first independent Arab state west of the Jordan River.
Many of the same progressives who defend “The Squad” keep telling us that “silence is violence” and “silence is complicity.” They’re right. If only they would take their own words to heart.
We must fight against this assault on the truth and assault on morality as if our lives depend on it. Because, ultimately, they do.
Shimon HaTzadik is a neighborhood where Jews and Arabs could have lived side by side peacefully had Arabs not tried to ethnically cleanse all of the Jews living there.
It is long past time for “business as usual” with anti-Semitism, particularly on college campuses.