When someone punches you in the face, there are three ways to fight back: One, you punch him back. Two, you complain to authorities. Three, you drive him crazy.
Unfortunately, pro-Israel groups on U.S. campuses are very good at complaining, but very bad at punching back or driving our enemies crazy.
And let’s not mince words — the BDS movement is an enemy movement. Groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have no interest in promoting peace between Israel and Palestinians. What they want to do is punch Israel in the face. Forget anti-Semitism — it’s bad enough that these groups are single-mindedly focused on crushing Israel any way they can.
So, how are pro-Israel groups fighting back against this onslaught? Mostly by complaining. It's getting so bad that we're settling for lame resolutions that condemn anti-Semitism. Uh, no kidding.
When one Jew — David Horowitz of the Freedom Center — tried punching back recently at UCLA, he got attacked by…other Jews. “We don’t fight like that!” was their message. “We don’t stoop to their level!”
Horowitz fought back with a nasty poster campaign that ridiculed the word “Justice” in the name Students for Justice in Palestine. By showing the horror of what a Palestinian group like Hamas can do to other Palestinians, he was basically saying: Now THIS is an injustice against Palestinians worth fighting. He was exposing SJP’s hypocrisy.
Whether you agreed with the posters or not, they were a punch in the face.
Originally published in the Jewish Journal