A tweet I made yesterday seems to have resonated with a lot of people:
Actually, I think Birthright SHOULD go to Hebron, to Shuhada Street, and explain exactly why things are as they are - the snipers who used to shoot at Jews with impunity, the Jewish rights to our second holiest city, the 1929 pogrom, the sacrifices Jews make to live there.
Apparently, people understand that even Birthright, as great as it is, often does not directly answer the questions that attendees might have.
Nearly six years ago I gave a lecture at Yeshiva University on how to answer anti-Israel arguments. Since the lecture was over an hour and twenty minutes, I decided to break it up into 20 sections, one each to answer one popular anti-Israel argument.
Here's part 1, on the accusation that Israel is a colonialist state.
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