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The Real Danger of Delegitimizing Israel on Campus
(JTA) David Bernstein - Anti-Israel spectacles on campus range from "apartheid walls" to mock security checkpoints, from boycotts and divestment initiatives to hostile anti-Israel protests. Yet such inflammatory acts do not resonate with the vast majority on campus. In recent focus groups conducted by The Israel Project, a diverse set of students was nearly unified in its opposition to boycotts and other such tactics, regardless of the students' feelings about the Jewish state. The struggle on campus, then, is to assure that the next generation of American political leadership is as supportive of Israel as the last one. In a world turning ever more unfriendly to Israel, it is more important than ever that we do all that we can now to ensure that American support, at least, remains strong into the future. The writer is executive director of The David Project.