If you are appalled by Columbia University students occupying an iconic campus building made famous by 1960s anti-war student protests, patriotic thoughts of the Boston Tea Party must terrify you. Columbia protesters broke a few windows in their continuing demonstrations against the Israeli/American genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Tea Party...

A Palestinian boy living on Israel’s West Bank rolled a rubber truck tire toward an already burning fire. Wearing a mud-smeared T-shirt and a determined expression, he dumped the tire and ran for another. “There’s my column,” I said to my wife, Stephanie, pointing to the TV screen as we...