Stop the Campus War Against Israel and the Jews
The radical Islamic state of Iran is leading a global movement calling for a second Holocaust — the elimination of Israel from the face of the earth. The Islamic terrorist organizations Hizbollah and Hamas are calling on Muslims to destroy the Jewish state and kill the Jews in those exact words. And on campuses across the United States, radical professors and student groups are lining up to support the genocide.
The day Israeli troops left Gaza – a territory that has been used as a launching pad for three aggressive wars against the Jewish state – Hamas terrorists began a three-year campaign of rocket attacks on Israel that was only halted by an Israeli counter attack, which began in December 2008. As Israel was defending itself from these Hamas attacks, University of California Sociology professor William Robinson assembled pictures university administrators described as “lurid†of Nazis persecuting Jews and emailed them to all the students in his course on globalization along with a diatribe about how the Israeli soldiers fighting Hamas terrorists were no different from fascist troops in World War II destroying the city of Warsaw.
Robinson’s propaganda message had no educational context, was unrelated to the subject of the course, and allowed for no alternative viewpoints. It had nothing to do with education. It was purely an act of aggression, part of an intensifying war against the Jews that has broken out on many fronts across American higher education:
- A University of Rochester sit- in during Israel’s defensive war in Gaza intimidates school administrators into backing a demand for the university to divest from companies doing business with “the Israeli war machine.â€
- During Israel’s war to defend itself from 7,000 unprovoked rocket attacks launched at civilian targets from the Hamas-run Gaza strip, “teach-ins†were held on campuses across the country whose theme was that Israel is a Nazi apartheid state and the Hamas terrorists are freedom fighters.
- An event at UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies encourages the audience in a “Zionism is Nazism†chant and portrays the genocidal terrorists of Hamas as peace-seeking, unjustly provoked victims.
- At University of California Irvine graduation ceremonies, members of the Muslim Students Union wear green stoles mimicking those of suicide bombers with Arabic word shahada (“martyrâ€) printed on them.
The campus war against Israel and the Jews, with its ominous overtones of the 1930s, is both a reflection of the Middle East conflict and something much more: an effort by radical groups to stigmatize America and the west by stigmatizing Israel. This campus conflict has been building for several years, as radical professors and student groups have targeted Israel and the Jewish students who defend it. But in the aftermath of 9/11, as Israel became a front line state in the war on terror, this campus war has intensified. Students, particularly Jews, who refuse to join the attack on Israel are not only criticized; they are subjected to hatred and intimidation.
At one level it is a war of symbols: campuses are adorned with banners in which the Star of David is joined to the swastika by an equal sign; as Israel is the only Jewish state and was created against the backdrop of the Nazi Holocaust, this is a hate crime in itself; student governments and academic senates push measures for disinvestment based on the blood libel that Israel – the only democratic state in the Middle East — is morally equivalent to the racist apartheid regime of South Africa; in a cynical reversal of the Biblical story, the genocide inciting Islamic world, enabled becomes David and tiny and outnumbered Israel becomes Goliath.
The conflict increasingly features the threat of real, as opposed to merely rhetorical violence. Pro-jihad groups such as the Muslim Students Association, an organization that supports Hamas and is part of the Muslim Brotherhood network which now has hundred of campus chapters and regularly sponsors fundamentalist Islamic prophets of hate, have dropped the pretense that it is only Israel and not Jews that are in their gun sights. In demonstrations at UCLA, its members showed that there is no such distinction as they chanted “Death to Israel!†in almost the same breath as “Death to the Jews!â€Â At a pro Palestinian demonstration at UC Irvine, MSA members threaten Jewish students with violence and chase them off campus.
Stopping the Campus War Against Israel and the Jews
Until now, the unholy campus alliance of Muslim supporters of the Islamic jihad and secular radicals at war with America, have been winning these battles. In large part this is because of the support they receive from faculty members who use their classrooms to reinforce the virulent anti-Israel and anti-American messages of the jihad. They are abetted by administrators, who otherwise rigorously punish even the suspicion of “hate speech†but are so cowed by the campus left that they refuse to apply similar standards to the Jew-haters on their faculties and among their campus organizations. But the real problem is that this campus war has been going on for so long now and has been so one-sided that it has created a culture of stigma for Israel and the Jewish students who support it or who criticize the genocidal ambitions of Hamas and other Islamo Fascist groups involved in the Palestinian cause.
During the week of October 12-16, 2009 the David Horowitz Freedom Center is organizing a nationwide protest whose theme will be “Stop the Campus War Against Israel the Jews.†We intends to attack the culture of stigma that has placed a target on the back of every Jew attending a college and to support students who are standing up to the hate and fighting back. We will do this in several ways:
- In a series of pamphlets and flash videos, we will document the fact that the all out, totalitarian attack on Israel is in fact a blatant form of anti Semitism. These publications will show the full range of the left’s anti Semitic assault —in classrooms, in administrative decisions, and especially in the abusive arena of campus politics.
- We will report on the bigotry Jewish students on campuses experience as part of their every day academic and social lives in a series of first person accounts that will dramatize the crushing way in which the virulence of the hatred against Israel affects individuals, especially when they speak up in or out of class with an opposing view.
- We will establish alliances with Jewish student groups under attack and with Christian groups defending Israel. We will also reach out to Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, an embattled faculty organization that attempts to promote an even handed discussion of Israel and Palestine on campus, and increase their visibility and influence. We will do the same with individuals such as Alan Dershowitz, who has waged an often lonely struggle against the “divestment†movement that has become one of the left’s most potent weapons in its offensive against Israel.
The centerpiece of the Freedom Center’s campaign to “Stop the Campus War Against Israel and the Jews†will be a week-long series of demonstrations . Based on the Center’s successful “Islamo Fascism Awareness Weeks,†these teach ins will feature films, lectures, and panel discussions with figures such as Nonie Darwish, Yossi Ohlmert, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, and myself. By revealing the irrational hatred of the left’s attack on Israel, and documenting its anti Semitic overtones and its support for terrorist groups, this week of demonstrations will win space for an honest discussion of Israel and the Middle East conflict and of the objectives of the campus left in our universities.
For more information, go to www.terrorismawareness.org
There seems to be a gradual awakening concerning the global threat of Islamic Fundamentalism so exemplified by Israel’s endless and ongoing war in the Middle East. Israel is the front line in this battle. The totally unjustified, venomous attacks against Israel in our so called “institutions of higher learning” can only be the result of a long term and ongoing, Muslim directed strategy to infiltrate and indoctrinate the administrative and teaching staffs of these institutions with the fundamentalist Islamic doctrine that Jews are descendants of pigs and must be destroyed.
That they have succeeded to such a great extent is disturbing but no longer surprising; consider the results of our 2008 election. That they have succeeded in the face of such overwhelming evidence contrary to their scurrilous accusations against Israel is a grudging tribute to the power of propaganda to distort the truth. Hitler used it to render the world deaf and dumb; unfeeling bystanders to the Holocaust. Islamic Fundamentalists are effectively using it to “finish the job” after which they’ll continue to follow the dictates of Sharia and direct their efforts of world domination towards the rest of us including these useful campus automatons, the useful, “independent, intellectual” idiots now firmly in their grip.
The power of this Islamic Fundamentalist movement is frightening. Your efforts are commendable as are those of others who’ve been shouting from the rooftops for a very long while and labeled as sufferers of Muslim derangement syndrome.
I have been concerned about the growing anti-Semtism in the campuses of our nations colleges for ten years now. It is another event that hearkens back to 1938 and Hitlers Reich many of the college professors of today would fit right in with the Nazis and there goals. Decent people of fairness must step up and stop it.
Sooner or later, we will have to fight these hate mongers, and I’m talking the same way we fought the Nazis and their allies in WWII.
I’d of thought you as Jews would shy away from accusing groups of people of world domination, and branding religions as evil.
The establishment of zion and subversion of western democracy to support this amounts to nothing more than Jewish supremacism, biblical claims are not moral or just.
History will repeat itself if your not careful, even the Bolsheviks in Russia are turning to national Bolshevism in a reaction to the underhanded Oligarchs( 9 of the 12 are Jews), this behaviour of seizing a nations assets when they are weak and downtrodden is far too reminiscent of Germany 1919-1933, as then though it’ll be decent grass roots Jews that ultimately pay the price of the disgusting behaviour of your mafia-esque capitalists.
In what way did you fight the nazis? as it’s really quite surprsing what a small percentile of free Jews actually signed up and went to fight the nazis. This isn’t an attack on you, i’m white and British so i’m personally offended that the glory of standing against Hitler is claimed by yourselves, even though arguably you did the most to form and antagonise the nazis, and the least to fight against them.
It must be nice live in a blind fantasy. My son makes up more convincing lies and stories than you. Why don’t you read the other side and not believe the crap that the left is giving you. I feel sorry for you if you don’t.
You're an idiot R. Milne. I am a white American woman, and its whimpy men like you that have put us in the position we are today. You think your so culturally elite, that you don't even make sense. You fool! You head is buried in the sand and its time to pluck it out. Otherwise, our children will have to pay for your stupidity.
Why should the world care about the conflict?
(To make myself clear: I feel sorry for the victims of the conflict, both Palestinian and Israeli, but I don’t want to take sides with either country/government).
Unprovoked attacks have been made by both sides. False accusations have been made by both sides. Crimes have been committed by both sides (for example, deliberately shooting civilians or exposing them to excessive risk of being collateral damage).
Cease-fires, peace and negotiations have been broken by both sides.
And both countries try to cover, deny or diminish the importance of their mistakes to the rest of the world.
All in all it’s tit for tat. “He did this so I had a right to do that” “But he did that so what I did was right and he shouldn’t had fought back”. It’s been going on for decades and now it’s a mess with both sides having their share of mistakes and blame. That’s what happens when a conflict goes on for too long.
I have sympathy for neither opponents. And that’s really all there is about supporting either country: sympathy.
If you are Palestinian or don’t like Jews, then you should support Palestine. If you are Israeli or don’t like Arabs or Muslims, then you should support Israel. If one of these countries is a military ally or an economic partner, then you should support that country.
But there’s no way to reasonably and without bias say one of the two countries is right and the other one is wrong.
And since I am not Israeli or Palestinian or Muslim or Jewish, and I don’t live in either countries, I don’t care who’s right and who’s wrong, or who wins and who loses. I’m sorry there is this war, I’m sorry innocents suffer, but I will not take sides.
And for this reason I wish both countries would try not to involve me in their mess. I am no exception: nobody who has no personal interest with either country wants to take sides either.
Keep your opinions and problems to yourselves. Don’t ask us in our colleges and universities to side with you, no matter which country you represent. You are both to blame and both as guilty.
In fact, you don’t want to get us involved because you would not like what we would have to say. We would tell you that at this point, the only solution that still has a chance to work is to merge both countries together and create one large country that regroups both Palestinians and Israeli.
I’m sure neither side would like this, so don’t try to get us, people who are neutral on this conflict, involved.
(I hope the above expression of my opinions will help those who try to gain support from us to understand why people like us, who have no particular reason to side with either country, feel about being asked (sometimes even pressured) to side with either Palestine or Israel).
A Student,
I guess it is okay to not have an opinion on a certain subject. But why waste 8 paragraphs on nothing. Consider this. If you lived in a house and your neighbor, who is very nice to everybody in the neighborhood, accept you. In fact every time this neighbor sees you or your family or kids, threatens to kill you and starts lobbing big rocks at your house, lets say 10 times a day. So you call the police and they tell you that your neighbor has a right to do that. What would you do?
What is your opinion about that?
What I am saying is that sometimes you have to take a stand. I hope that you get it.