(National Post) It was September 2000, and Charlotte Kates was in college when violence erupted in the West Bank and Gaza.
It was the beginning of what would become known as the second intifada — a violent uprising whose Arabic name means “shaking off” — that left around 4,000 civilians dead and saw Palestinian terrorists carry out suicide bombings in Israel, triggering an Israeli military retaliation.
Back in North America, Kates spent that time transforming herself into a controversial anti-Israel activist on campus, drawing both attention and condemnation for promoting Palestinians’ “right to resist” and being an outspoken defender of employing violence.
The same remains true nearly two decades later.
