One-State Solution: Only if a Jewish State

If Harvard University wants to sponsor a discussion on a one-state solution for Israel, so be it. All they can do is talk about it. Then again, the limitations of academic debate, shackled by speech codes and the innate liberal tendencies of any college students, indicates that such discussions will not prove fruitful to expanding students' of the fraught politics and cultural issues in the region.

Universities have betrayed a terrible close-minded mentality when it comes to Israel.
It is both arrogant and disconcerting to read about distant and committed activists who think that Israel should become an empty shell of moral relativism, one where its statehood as a haven for Jews throughout the world would be compromised to appease rabid Arab dictatorships and intolerant factions bent only on pushing the Jews into the sea. Such would be the case if the mainstay of Jewish identity were compromised in order to "make peace" with the "oppressed" Arab minorities in the region.

Universities are not necessarily "indoctrination mills" as Senator Rick Santorum is purported to have shared, but to assume that they foster open inquiry and open-minded discussion is a specious argument at best. From UC Irvine to UC Santa Cruz, the anti-Zionist movement remains strong, dressed up in the used-up rags of political correctness and toleration. Jewish activists do not disrupt Muslim meetings, but adherents allied with Muslim groups have taken it upon themselves to rage against Zionist speakers and harass Jewish students. That such hateful comments like "UC Israel" are posted all over the Orange County UC campus is a testimony to the narrow-minded rhetoric which still dominates among college students, so obsessed with group and global equality, that they overlook wrongdoing perpetrated by Palestinians in the "Occupied Territories" of the Middle East.

If there is a one-state solution, it must remain the Jewish State. The residents of the West Bank are indeed Israelis, even if they repudiate the nationality. They rely on Israeli rule of law, security, and pluralism to make the case of the annihilation of Israel or its assimilation with the Arab communities in her midst.