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How to Respond on Campus to Hamas’s Attacks
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How to Respond on Campus to Hamas’s Attacks
Ben Sasse should now send his message not only to ‘Jewish Gators’ but to every member of the University of Florida community.
Oct. 20, 2023 10:57 am ET
I am moved by University of Florida President Ben Sasse’s refusal to “tiptoe” around the fact that “What Hamas did is evil and there is no defense for terrorism.” I echo your editorial’s celebration of this “model of moral clarity” (“Ben Sasse’s Letter to Jewish Gators ,” Oct. 13). In a world with truly liberal, morally centered universities committed to democracy, this message would not have been brave—but it was. It would not have stood out—but it did.
Mr. Sasse should now send his message not only to “Jewish Gators” but to every member of the community. The Palestinian atrocities of Oct. 7 aren’t a Jewish issue but a threat to Western civilization—just as Russia’s invasion isn’t only a Ukrainian issue.
Prof. Gil Troy
McGill University
Jerusalem
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A Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University currently living in Jerusalem, Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist. He is, most recently, the editor of the new three-volume set, “Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings,” the inaugural publication of The Library of the Jewish People ( www.theljp.org ) . Two years ago he co-authored with Natan Sharansky Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People, was published by PublicAffairs of Hachette. Recently designated one of Algemeiner’s J-100, one of the top 100 people “positively influencing Jewish life,” Gil Troy is the author of The Zionist Ideas , an update and expansion of Arthur Hertzberg’s classic anthology The Zionist Idea, published by the Jewish Publication Society and a 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist.
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