For Campus Protesters: Seven Questions About the Middle East

From a veteran foreign correspondent, here’s a short quiz for a summer of study.

Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP
Anti-Israel protesters at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP

Summer is a time for college students to go home, work at summer jobs, and to listen to new voices. I spent my freshman year as a leftist. The highlight was chasing a former vice president of Vietnam around a campus speaking venue. Later, I worked on a ranch at Boyd, Montana, population 40. I came back to my sophomore year with a different world view. In that spirit, I offer seven questions for today’s protest generation:

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