Harvard law professor and noted Israel advocate Alan
Dershowitz has said that the best way to win over the ‘undecideds’ when he’s
speaking in universities on ‘the case for Israel’, is to show that the
‘pro-Israel’ crowd are also in favor of a two-state solution to the conflict,
whereas the ‘pro-Palestinian’ supporters are not. In other words, whereas the Jewish student
society is willing to see a Palestinian state established alongside Israel, the
collection of far-leftist, (allegedly) liberal and Muslim students who support
the Palestinian cause cannot reconcile themselves to Israel’s existence.
Having been involved in Israel advocacy in universities
myself in Britain (a country where the campus anti-Zionism makes the average US
university look like an AIPAC conference) I broadly agree with Professor Dershowitz. There is no question that the best hasbara
tool Israel has is the Arab world’s history of rejectionism and its repeated preference
for continuing the fight to eliminate the Jewish state, rather than compromising
on the land and finally giving the Palestinians a state of their own alongside Israel.
