Meanwhile, in the land of 10,000 kooks….

mndaily.com

Three flags were flying over the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Mall area Wednesday afternoon: American, Palestinian and Israeli.

Hillel, the University’s Jewish student center, and student group Gopher Israel were giving out free falafel and hummus, playing music and waving Israeli flags in honor of the country’s 61st independence day.

Along the base of the Northrop Plaza, protesters organized by the Muslim Student Association waved Palestinian and American flags and silently held signs protesting Israeli actions.

“The point is to show what Israeli independence is really celebrating: decades of oppression,” said Susie Gad, a second-year law student in the Muslim Student Association.

I see there are 105 comments. I didn’t open them up, but usually you get some pretty nasty anti-Israel, anti-Semitic commentators here. Much more explicit then you usually get when Israel’s right to exist is debated.