Liberals HATE Jews!
Liberals HATE America -.,
by Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer
New York Post
June 25, 2002
For three decades, left-wing extremists have dominated American academics,
spouting odd but seemingly harmless theories about "deconstruction,"
"post-modernism," "race, gender and class," while venting against the United
States (the country they hate), its government and its allies.
Only these ideas are not so harmless. The radical notions espoused in the
classrooms and in campus demonstrations have recently had dangerous
consequences. These are especially visible with regard to the Arab-Israeli
conflict.
Consider some of the steps American professors took during 2002:
* Columbia University: Hamid Dabashi, a specialist on Iran, compared
Israel's military maneuvers in Jenin (to prevent future suicide bombings)
with the Nazi Holocaust. When one student protested his canceling class to
attend a rabidly anti-Israel sit-in, he sneeringly replied, "I apologize if
canceling our class in solidarity with [Palestinian] victims of a genocide .
. . inconvenienced you."
Joseph Massad, a Jordan specialist at Columbia, spoke at that same
anti-Israel rally, calling Israel "a Jewish supremacist and racist state"
that, he proclaimed, "should be threatened." This is in addition to a talk
with the inflammatory title "On Zionism and Jewish Supremacy" and a course
that (students report) served as a soapbox for anti-Israeli polemics.
* SUNY-Binghamton: Robert Ostergard of the political-science department
converted his course into an anti-Zionist platform. One guest speaker, Ali
Mazrui, presented a lecture that a student called "a 45-minute diatribe
against Israel" equating Zionism with fascism, Israel with apartheid South
Africa and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with Hitler.
* Kent State University, Ohio: Julio César Pino of the history department
published an ode to a Palestinian suicide bomber, lauding her courage and
calling on Allah to "elevate your place in paradise."
* University of Oregon: In a course entitled "Social Inequality," the
sociology department's Douglas Card called Israel "a terrorist state" and
Israelis "baby-killers" and insisted that students agree with his view that
Israel "stole land" on the final exam. One student said Card bashed Israel
and Jews "at every opportunity."
* UC-Berkeley: The English department's Snehal Shingavi, a leader of
"Students for Justice in Palestine," announced a course on "The Politics and
Poetics of Palestinian Resistance" with the now-infamous "warning" to
conservatives "to seek other sections."
In brief, instructors routinely tout wild-eyed politics and openly wield
their authority to indoctrinate students. At times, they even admit this, as
in the case of Andrew Ross, the then-Princeton English professor who boasted
in 1990 that he was using his position to radicalize "the children of the
ruling class."
Not surprisingly, some interpret all this as implicit permission to harass
Jewish and pro-Israel students. The result: a wave of verbal and physical
attacks.
* At San Francisco State University, anti-Israel students physically
threatened students marching for Israel while shouting phrases like, "Die,
you racist pigs," and "Hitler should have finished the job," prompting the
school's president to admit that he was never "as deeply distressed and
angered by something that happened on this campus" in his 14 years there.
Even after this incident, pro-Palestinian students continued to use an
SFSU-owned Web page to engage in Holocaust denial and accuse Jews of ritual
murder.
* At Berkeley, anti-Israel students occupied a classroom building, leading
to the arrest of 79 of them, including one charged with a felony for biting
a police officer.
* At the University of Colorado at Boulder, students desecrated an Israeli
flag and chalked anti-Semitic slogans on the main campus walkway.
* At the University of Illinois, they assaulted with rocks a home flying an
Israeli flag, shattering the front window.
Although professors teaching Middle East-related courses are the most
responsible for this degeneration on campus, others, too, are complicit. By
indulging the Middle East specialists' radicalism and efforts at
indoctrination, alumni, administrators, parents, other faculty, Education
Department officials and state legislators effectively condone those
activities.
The time has come for all these stakeholders to take back the universities
as institutions of civilized discourse. This can be done only by ending the
now-regnant atmosphere of extremism and intimidation. The place to start is
by condemning and curbing the leftist activism that too often passes for
Middle East scholarship.
--
"while it's true that not all liberals are stupid, it is also true
that most stupid people are liberal"
--
"while it's true that not all liberals are stupid, it is also true
that most stupid people are liberal"
John H. Fisher
America -.," <sever077...@aol.com> writes:
None of this has been cloaked in the veil of secrecy or deceit!!! Don't you
think it is part of the educational process, and the progress of the human
race, that everything be put on the table for study, analysis, digestion, and
resolution that brings, with each controversy, all of us closer to truth -
whatever it may be??? When LAWS are broken, we have a system which addresses
those situations. For you to dwell on isolated incidences is somewhat
disingenuous!!! (IMVHO)
Why do you take issue with those who devote their lives to a particular
discourse, share it with others to contradict (if necessary), and lend efforts
ot opening to reality what lurks in the hearts and minds of men!!! Do you
want that only the "Shadow" should know??? Why do you feel threatened by what
education produces to inspire thought (much thought) before concluding the
proper course to take in its pursuit for even more knowledge and human
advances????
Personally, I'm more concerned with the propaganda which is paid for and spread
by those special interests which would control thought in our educational
institutions.
You characterize those whom you (in a condemning way) referring to them as
"Left-Wing Extremists on Campus"!!!! What would be your characterization of
your own portrayal!!! What "WING" do you support in opposition to the free
thoughts expressed in some of our universities!!! Why do you condemn what is
part of the educational process??? What have you to fear??? Why don't you
respond to each of the issues, individually!!! Just trashing the thoughts of
others won't make it!!!
You object to the portrayal of others as they view those matters which are of
particular import to them. There are many faults to be addressed when
propaganda is an issue. Particularly disgusting to me, just today, was the
little baby (strapped in bombs) which Israeli propagandists tried to pass off
as being a reality, other than their own creation, to incite more hatred in
their continuing efforts to suppress those whom they have, for years,
oppressed. (JMHO)
BTW, when it comes to expression of thought, do you include the following
Universities in your tirade:
http://www.maven.co.il/subjects.asp?S=146
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John H. Fisher
taxse...@aol.compliance (John H. Fisher) writes:
As an addendum, from my observation, most, if not all (and there are many)
of my Jewish friends, and those with whom I have been carrying on discussions,
for years, and other personal observation 'n discussions on the net, I can
recall
none of them being other than liberal. The Jewish right wing, sadly (IMVHO),
has created the nightmare that exists in its pursuit for absolute conquest, and
control (albeit clothed in deceit), of the entire territory.
Here is an interesting site for your perusal! It's not total in its
committment, based on my brief study, but it's a start!!! Not all Jewish
people are of the same mind!!! Most of what the discussion is all about is not
based on prejudice or "HATE" for Jews. Before the newly generated movement to
"HATE" Muslims, I thought we, as a nation, had come to a point where there was
a minimum of such intolerance. There are some exceptions, when it comes to
intolerance for religion, but the arguments (for the most part) have to do with
religionists who would war into eternity because of their beliefs.
http://www.jppi.org/
"Jack"