Mondoweiss:New ad campaign in college papers calls out Israeli leaders’ bigotry against Palestinians

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22. Here's the problem.

Let's assume that the Palestinians have a case to make (I believe that they actually do to some extent, although they are more in the wrong than the Israelis). That reasonable case would be something along the lines of, "We want a state of our own, and we are willing to agree that the Jews can have a state of their own as well." Except that isn't what the Palestinians have always argued. Instead, they have always claimed that the Jews have no right to a state of their own, and that the Palestinians are entitled to everything. This latest UNESCO resolution is of a piece with that. Instead of merely complaining about the supposed wrongs of the Israelis, the Palestinians used it as a vehicle for furthering their true agenda: denying Jewish connection and right to a state in Israel. It's not a case of bias. It's not a case of different causation from justification. Here they are the same, just as they have been for decades. The cause is Palestinian hostility to a Jewish state, and the justification (such as it is) is that same hostility. The resolution is a weapon in the Palestinian war against the rights of the Jewish people and the existence of Israel.