— by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Professor Alan Dershowitz came to the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday evening, February 2, 2012, to accomplish two goals: one, to continue in his role as American's most outspoken, knowledgeable "celebrity" to "Make the Case for Israel" (the title of his 2003 book
); and to tell Penn pro-Israel students, the Penn administration and the larger Philadelphia pro-Israel community, that they are model Israel advocates. He accomplished both. Last semester a few students conspired to create an organization on Penn's campus with the goal of hosting a conference there to promote the boycotting of, divesting from and sanctioning of Israel ("BDS"). Rather than create panic, however, their efforts forged an otherwise virtual impossibility: a community acting in almost complete unison to showcase Israel and educate those willing to be educated so they too would join the ranks of supporters, rather than vilifiers.
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