Conservatives conflate opposition to Israel with antisemitism and have used political power to punish pro-Palestinian voices even as the First Amendment and academic freedom mandate the protection of all speech
Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians has blighted Jewish-Muslim ties, but the seven-decade conflict is a blip if seen from the perspective
Britain and France spawned conflict by secretly hammering out the 1916 Sykes-Picot accord, arbitrarily redrawing borders by marking straight lines with a crude chinagraph pencil and a ruler on the Middle East’s map as their shared spoils of the First World War, without letting the region’s people, especially Palestinians, have a say, condemning them to dispossession
