The JSU had cake and cotton candy for Yom Hatzmaut and we had a visitor who insisted we were out to make a political statement.
He told us the answer is to fight racism! Yeah, OK, great. That's it, how could we miss it? New policy folks: ban all racism.
Back to the point: Israel is a country. There's more going on there than IDF soldiers and military strategies.
There are accomplishments and failures and social problems just like any other country. My comparative religions professor once told me that people hold the Jews to a higher standard, that they expect them to set a high standard for the rest of the monotheistic (and possibly beyond?) world.
Am I making a political statement if I am concerned with Israel's social issues?
