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What’s Behind the Demonization of Israel?

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 5/13/2026 2:03:36 AM

Recently, I say in the last two years, but especially the last three months, there’s been an increasing demonization of Israel and, by association, Jews who support it. We’ve seen these campus protests on American universities where they have these signs, “From the river to the sea.” That’s an eliminationist slogan that Israel would be wiped off the map from the Jordan River all the way into the Mediterranean Sea and, I guess, dumped into it. And, of course, we’ve had antisemitic incidents of students chasing Jewish students into a library and trapping them there,

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Recently, I say in the last two years, but especially the last three months, there’s been an increasing demonization of Israel and, by association, Jews who support it. We’ve seen these campus protests on American universities where they have these signs, “From the river to the sea.” That’s an eliminationist slogan that Israel would be wiped off the map from the Jordan River all the way into the Mediterranean Sea and, I guess, dumped into it. And, of course, we’ve had antisemitic incidents of students chasing Jewish students into a library and trapping them there,
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