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Last week, Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, celebrated Israel’s Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut) by posting an illustrated map of Israel—which is not, in itself, unusual. What was unusual was the map they chose: one that depicts Gaza and the West Bank as part of Israel, territories that the vast majority of the world’s governments, international law, and even many Israelis do not recognize as part of the sovereign State of Israel.