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Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=8879
Israel Gets Failing Grade on US Campuses
(New York Jewish Week) Natan Sharansky - A recent poll showed that 28% of students were more "sympathetic" to Israel and 22% more "sympathetic" to Palestinians, as compared with the general American population that sides with Israel by more than 3 to 1 (49% to 14%). During the 1990s, Israel stopped all of its programming on college campuses, as well as many of its auxiliary public relations efforts, because it was convinced that good policies (i.e., the peace process) needed no explaining. Our government must re-enter the fray and stand shoulder to shoulder with those organizations that have worked so hard on campuses to defend Israel against this unprecedented onslaught.