Forward op-ed: Zionists complaining about death threats are "snowflakes"

Rob Eshman writes in The Forward:The way Jewish institutions reacted to a few dozen pro-Palestinian students protesting at the University of Michigan last week exemplifies an unwelcome trend in pro-Israel advocacy: the rise of Snowflake Zionism.  The protesters marched through campus on Jan. 12 behind a woman who shouted into a bullhorn, “There is only one solution!”...

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01/18 Links Pt2: Moshe Dayan’s Tragic Blunder; Mahmoud Abbas’ Dissertation; Why Israel’s enemies will hate the Louvre; No room for anti-Israel bias at Kennedy School

From Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: Moshe Dayan’s Tragic Blunder There is an argument to be made for permitting wider access and the right to pray for Jews at the site of the biblical Temples. In part, this argument charges that defense minister Moshe Dayan, in electing not to fully realize Israel’s sovereignty over the Mount immediately after its breathtaking capture in the 1967...

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