How Israel Became Passé

I looked sheepishly at the speaker who dragged out to Waltham to speak to our Israel advocacy group. We felt rather awkward when only six people showed up to the training session, the latest in a series of pro-Israel educational events on campus.  Five of the six people were on my club’s board.

In my freshman year of college, I became president of an Israel advocacy club.  I was excited to lead a group of people in a cause that I believed in.  I learned quickly how to plan events, and advertise them so hundreds of people would show up.  But I also learned quickly that our club was not really serving our campus community, or the Jewish people, or Israel.  We were just a bunch of tools for large Jewish organizations that wanted to push their ideas on our campus.