This summer, discussions about America's role in the world have reached fever pitch. In fact, it has become near impossible to recognize a clear message within the noise of bold, and sometimes contradictory, statements about the proposed future of US foreign policy.
The world is consumed by chaos: No continent is without major strife. Civil wars, bloody persecutions, and the rise of Islamic terrorism have set fire to this world, and the strong-arm posturing by Russia, Iran, and North Korea tests old alliances and spells growing danger.
Professor Alan Dershowitz of the Harvard Law School recently penned an op-ed in the Boston Globe in which he called out the Black Lives Matter movement for anti-semitism. The prominent professor emeritus said that although he supports the work of BLM in confronting police brutality and raising awareness about racism, the group crosses the line when it goes off message and adopts resolutions about Middle East politics, particularly those that accuse the state of Israel of genocide. Dershowitz explained:
Genocide means the deliberate extermination of a race, such as done by Nazi Germany to Jews and Sinti and Roma or by the Hutu against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It has no application to deaths caused by self-defense measures taken to protect citizens against terrorism. To falsely accuse Israel of "genocide" — the worst crime of all, and the crime whose very name was coined to describe the systematic murder of 6 million Jews — is anti-Semitic.
