The Washington Stand: Some Facts About Israel You Might Have Missed
The people of this tiny nation have taken a historically underdeveloped region and built a thriving country.
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The people of this tiny nation have taken a historically underdeveloped region and built a thriving country.
To reclaim human rights, foster comity among citizens, and restore appreciation of the public interest, it is vital to reform our colleges and universities. Institutions of higher education erode the public interest by promulgating an intolerant and anti-pluralist creed under the rubric of multiculturalism while providing outposts for propagandists of barbarism.
“After Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians,” notes The Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley, “BLM groups in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington issued statements supporting Hamas’s tactics.”
The argument being made by those presidents who refused to speak out against the October 7 attack is that it’s acceptable to promote ideas which contradict the nation’s underlying moral sensibilities.
The United States must correct course by rebuilding American education around the principles of freedom and democracy, America’s experiment in ordered liberty, and the wider Western civilization – with its uncommon appreciation of the diversity of civilizations.