I’ve got two items of note on the Israeli Apartheid Week front today:
- Tablet Magazine has a nice selection of opinions on how to deal with IAW
- And Brits throwing water balloons.
I’ll leave the water balloons aside for a minute and focus on the Tablet piece, which brings together a variety of people all combating IAW in their own ways. The gist of a few of parts of it:
- David Bernstein of the David Project continues his media blitz on the subject of his organization’s new strategy. His bit in this Tablet piece is titled, “Don’t Go Negative.”
- David Fine, a friend of New Voices and the editor of Columbia’s undergrad Jewish journal, says the best thing to do is “Publicly Confront Pernicious Arguments.” Recalling a panel he once sat on at a campus event, he writes, “It was the moment I had been told to fear—the dreaded campus debate about Israel—and yet no lightning struck. It turns out that it was fairly easy to expose this person’s despicable worldview.”
- Yoav Schafer, a Harvard student and former IDF soldier, points out “that about 65 percent of the coverage of last year’s Israel Apartheid Week was in Israeli or Jewish publications.”
The rest of the piece is well worth reading. So go do that. Their illustration for it is also super-cool.
Now, on to this water balloon incident. In the US, IAW is happening right now, but in other parts of the world it was last week. At the London School of Economics, one of the infamous mock checkpoints appeared. But then, according to YouTube user davidsmithsonian201’s description, things went horribly awry as ” four students threw numerous water bombs.” Bombs! Bombs, I say!
He continues: “The balloons hit our members, with several of these missiles hitting these students directly in the face, who were as a result incredibly upset by the incident.” I’ll bet they were.
