Two decades after 9/11, Muslims once again feel like second-class citizens in the West.  When they look at the plight of civilians in Palestine, they cannot help but feel that a Palestinian life is not equal to an Israeli life.  President Biden’s words of sympathy ring hollow when his actions do not match his words.  He cannot genuinely empathize with those killed or wounded at the Al-Ahly hospital attack while using his veto at the UN Security Council to block the resolution calling for Israel to pause fighting and allow humanitarian corridors into Gaza. He cannot profess that there is…

The culture of intelligence agencies paved the way for disaster. Regional war could revive the nuclear specter that haunted the world in 1973.   The trauma that Israel suffered on Oct. 7 is both unprecedented and unthinkable by any Israeli historical measure. Never before has Israel experienced such a calamity in its 75-year history. Even Hamas never expected such operational success. Indeed, actors across the region, notably Hezbollah and Iran, were stunned by the success of the Hamas offensive. One striking finding that only became known in recent days highlights the enormity of the Israeli intelligence blunder: Israeli military planners never considered such…

TEXAS; DENVER; CAMBRIDGE, MASS.; BOSTON; AND WALTHAM, MASS. Hamas’ surprise attack on Israeli civilians over the weekend incited strong reactions on college campuses across the United States. As the conflict escalated to war and atrocities were coming to light, many students voiced often harsh judgments about responsibility and the conflict’s history. That ignited a firestorm and raised questions about the role of universities in addressing divisive issues and fostering critical thinking among students who are still working out moral and ethical views. In statements that started to appear quickly after the deadly attack at a music festival and kibbutzim, in…

Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza. Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab armies that started the 1948 war that saw Israel seize 78 percent of historic Palestine. The lie that Israel faced annihilation in 1967, forcing it to invade and occupy the remaining 22 percent of Palestine, as…

Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state – when it was known as the Zionist movement. Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967. It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The…