I’ve begun to understand why college students are so anti-Israel, and most of the time, I don’t believe it’s their fault. The combination of having information taught in classes that is so deeply saturated with anti-Israel content and the sometimes blind trust my peers have toward the authority of professors is difficult to challenge.

One such example: a required class for my undergraduate Journalism degree called “Cross Cultural Journalism” intends to “provide journalistic tools for the coverage of diverse ethnic, gender, ability and ideological groups inside and outside the United States.”

One week focuses on International Politics and Conflict, however instead of focusing on the ways these events can be represented journalistically, the two classes were spent watching the documentary “Mayor” following Musa Hadid, previous mayor of Ramallah, through two years of his service. 

While the documentary was interesting to watch, showing it in a classroom uncritically pushed narratives about a complicated geopolitical issue in arguably inaccurate ways. In not showing information from the contrasting perspective to give both sides of the story and show the ways different sides of journalism can affect a story, my professor used this movie to push her personal world view on her students.

With large amounts of context missing, in conversations about the legal status of the West Bank and its Arab inhabitants, Israel was named an occupational force whose main target is to........

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