Palestine

Just yesterday, an email went out from the University stating that Conflict Kitchen had closed after receiving death threats. Conflict Kitchen is a small restaurant that serves food from countries that the United States is in conflict, changing the countries every 6 months. In addition to serving food, they also give more information about the culture and lifestyle of the people there. The most recent iteration of Conflict Kitchen was serving Palestinian food, and obviously, Israeli people seemed to take offense to this fact, protesting outside the store and trying to open up their own version of Conflict Kitchen. My issue with how most Israeli people react to any news about Palestine is too long to put into this post, but I found an interesting infographic that shows how many countries recognize Palestine as a state. Currently, it is 135 countries, meaning that greater than 1/2 of the countries in the world support the Palestinians. That being said, the countries that are missing are also the ones that have most of the power in global forums, so numbers clearly don't tell the whole story. 

From Washington Post