“This felt scary. There is someone on this campus who is threatening to me,” one student said.

As Cornellians turned their attention to Israel’s military actions in Gaza, Noah Karr-Kaitin '13 was faced with a test between two competing values: his support for Israel and my liberal-democratic political ideals.

In Five Broken Cameras, the incendiary Israeli-Palestinian conflict is viewed from the lens of a bystander. Lubabah Chowdhury '14 shares the power this film harbors.

Roadmap to Apartheid is a difficult documentary to watch, Lubabah Chowdhrury '14 writes. This film about drawing and crossing lines will be screened at Malott Hall on Sunday. 

Student groups respond to Palestinian officials' recent bid for United Nations membership by holding public discussions on campus.

Cornellians urge U.S. support for a peaceful two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. 

Omer Ben-Zur '12 on Israel: We have learned to yield and use with no remorse a sword in one hand and hold an olive branch in the other — the sooner the population in the Western world is able to understand why, the better.

To the Editor:

Re: “Race, Empire and Palestine: A World View,” Opinion, Oct. 22

We are former Sun columnists who have written in the past about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and understand that the issue is fraught with complexity. While we are proud that The Sun publishes a range of viewpoints, rambling columns that feature demonstrably false “facts” undermine the credibility of the Sun as a whole.

To the Editor:

Re: “Race, Empire and Palestine: A World View,” Opinion, Oct. 22

I was deeply offended by this column. The author’s claims of Israel’s imperialism and racist policies simply do not bear out in practice.

The author appeals to the discredited notion that Zionism is racism in order to support his claim of Israeli apartheid. He also confuses Judaism as a religion with Jews as an ethnic group. Zionism is the belief in an ethnic Jewish right to self-determination in the historical Jewish homeland, the type of right the author surely supports for Palestinians.

[Editor’s Note: This column is the second installment of a two part series, the first half of which appeared in yesterday’s Sun.]