(JTA) Carl Schrag - At scores of schools across the U.S., pro-Israel students have mounted a dramatic effort over the past two years to take back campuses from anti-Israel activists. "We have spent the last two years trying to tip the balance on campus in favor of Israel," said Alexander Ross Berger, 20, a junior at George Washington University. "We were given the tools to take back the campus," said Daniel Frankenstein, a Berkeley student. "Not only have we taken it back - we own the campus now." Rather than engaging in shouting matches and refuting every anti-Israel comment, the students were taught to promote their own agenda of pro-Israel messages by networking with campus leaders. At Berkeley, the approach seems to be paying off. Last month, two years after some 1,500 to 2,000 anti-Israel students occupied a campus building during a Deir Yassin rally, barely 150 people showed up at the annual Deir Yassin demonstration.
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