This war has shown us that no matter where a Jew lives, their identity and feeling of safety is connected to the State of Israel. That brings with it a responsibility that Israel cannot ignore.

While six million Jews were led to the slaughter without the ability to defend themselves, Israel is still a regional power  in pain but very much alive and vibrant.

The international community is paying close attention to events in Gaza. UN resolutions, mass demonstrations, innumerable speeches and statements from politicians of all stripes. Yet one response is curiously absent. There have been almost no offers to take in refugees from Gaza.

learly, the Palestinians and their propagandists have developed a whole lexicon, a series of talking points and slogans that distorts words, negates history, and obscures Palestinian intentions. Israel went along with these lies for too long

If Harvard’s motto is to remain “veritas,” then it must purge the illiberal, totalitarian poison in its midst.

Western denialism is similar to isolationism before Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

In mid-September 1972, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir convened a secret meeting of cabinet ministers and security officials. Days earlier, 11 Israeli athletes had been murdered on the sidelines of the Olympic games in Munich by Black September, a notorious Palestinian terrorist group.

Todays democratic softness toward Iran began in 2007, when Barack Obama claimed his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was imprisoned by “Washington Groupthink.”

 These international crimes undermine the foundations and security of the international community and violate universal moral values and humanitarian principles.