No surprise that the Liberals of academia are anti-Semitic....but it is surprising when one of their owns chastises them.
1. "The Holocaust deniers may never have attained respectability, but Holocaust fatigue ultimately does the same job. ...the American Studies Association, which called for a boycott of contacts and exchange between American and Israeli scholars in a mail-ballot resolution passed Dec. 4, 2013,...
2. [They write:] Whereas the United States plays a significant role in enabling the Israeli occupation of Palestine , American scholars have a particular obligation to address this issue because their own country is deeply complicit in it, not to say the major obstacle to relieving Palestinian persecution.
3. .... the coded language makes it clear enough. This statement decrying anti-Semitism is anti-Semitic through and through.
4. The question is why, with no shortage of brutal, repressive and authoritarian states in the world and no end of minorities subject to adversities ranging from discrimination to ethnic cleansing, Israel alone should merit a demand for boycott and divestiture by the scholarly community. No one has provided an answer to this question because the suppositional case of Israel is distinctive for the obvious but unmentionable reason that it involves the worlds only Jewish state.
5. Anti-Semitism has never been a simple phenomenon, and it isnt in this instance either. Supporters of Israel like to point out that it is the only democracy in the Middle East. It is for this very reason, however, that it attracts antipathy. Modern democracy is secular and pluralistic, and the idea of a state that proclaims its essential character in terms of religion is antithetical to the liberal tradition. If Israel is a democracy, it cant be a Jewish state. If it is a Jewish state, it cant be a democracy.
6. Opponents of Israel, however, take a leap forward from this. Israels presumed goal is the annexation of the West Bank and Gaza to create a Greater Israel, or, short of that, the permanent subjugation of the Palestinian territories as an economic fiefdom. If you listen to the more rabid religious extremists in Israel, you can find color for this view. It nonetheless flies in the face of the record.
7. Israel no sooner occupied the West Bank and Gaza in the Six-Day War than it offered to evacuate them in return for Arab diplomatic recognition.
a. During the period of the Oslo Accords, 99 percent of the Palestinian population was transferred from direct Israeli control to the Palestinian Authority.
b. In 2005, Ariel Sharon unilaterally withdrew all Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip.
c. In the last previous round of peace negotiations, Benjamin Netanyahu froze all West Bank settlements while awaiting Palestinian proposals. They never came.
8. .... they also indicate a substantive desire by successive Israeli governments to resolve the Palestinian issue peacefully over several decades. Had there been a like reciprocity on the other side, a settlement might have been reached a good while ago.
9. Boycott supporters ignore these facts in favor of a black-and-white narrative of Israeli oppressors and Palestinian oppressed. The Palestinians...are innocent of all responsibility for their condition. This is the classic canard of anti-Semitism....That it comes garbed in the rhetoric of politically correct anti-colonialism only makes it the more insidious.
10. The academic boycott of Israel voted for last month by the American Studies Association is the latest example of an anti-Semitism cloaked in the garb of political correctness. That its sponsors deny any such intention only makes it the more obvious."
ASA and anti-Semitism | The Triangle
A professor who speaks out against the anti-Semitism of the Left????
Based on the strangle-hold that Liberals have on academia, one can only conclude that Robert Zaller has tenure....
1. "The Holocaust deniers may never have attained respectability, but Holocaust fatigue ultimately does the same job. ...the American Studies Association, which called for a boycott of contacts and exchange between American and Israeli scholars in a mail-ballot resolution passed Dec. 4, 2013,...
2. [They write:] Whereas the United States plays a significant role in enabling the Israeli occupation of Palestine , American scholars have a particular obligation to address this issue because their own country is deeply complicit in it, not to say the major obstacle to relieving Palestinian persecution.
3. .... the coded language makes it clear enough. This statement decrying anti-Semitism is anti-Semitic through and through.
4. The question is why, with no shortage of brutal, repressive and authoritarian states in the world and no end of minorities subject to adversities ranging from discrimination to ethnic cleansing, Israel alone should merit a demand for boycott and divestiture by the scholarly community. No one has provided an answer to this question because the suppositional case of Israel is distinctive for the obvious but unmentionable reason that it involves the worlds only Jewish state.
5. Anti-Semitism has never been a simple phenomenon, and it isnt in this instance either. Supporters of Israel like to point out that it is the only democracy in the Middle East. It is for this very reason, however, that it attracts antipathy. Modern democracy is secular and pluralistic, and the idea of a state that proclaims its essential character in terms of religion is antithetical to the liberal tradition. If Israel is a democracy, it cant be a Jewish state. If it is a Jewish state, it cant be a democracy.
6. Opponents of Israel, however, take a leap forward from this. Israels presumed goal is the annexation of the West Bank and Gaza to create a Greater Israel, or, short of that, the permanent subjugation of the Palestinian territories as an economic fiefdom. If you listen to the more rabid religious extremists in Israel, you can find color for this view. It nonetheless flies in the face of the record.
7. Israel no sooner occupied the West Bank and Gaza in the Six-Day War than it offered to evacuate them in return for Arab diplomatic recognition.
a. During the period of the Oslo Accords, 99 percent of the Palestinian population was transferred from direct Israeli control to the Palestinian Authority.
b. In 2005, Ariel Sharon unilaterally withdrew all Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip.
c. In the last previous round of peace negotiations, Benjamin Netanyahu froze all West Bank settlements while awaiting Palestinian proposals. They never came.
8. .... they also indicate a substantive desire by successive Israeli governments to resolve the Palestinian issue peacefully over several decades. Had there been a like reciprocity on the other side, a settlement might have been reached a good while ago.
9. Boycott supporters ignore these facts in favor of a black-and-white narrative of Israeli oppressors and Palestinian oppressed. The Palestinians...are innocent of all responsibility for their condition. This is the classic canard of anti-Semitism....That it comes garbed in the rhetoric of politically correct anti-colonialism only makes it the more insidious.
10. The academic boycott of Israel voted for last month by the American Studies Association is the latest example of an anti-Semitism cloaked in the garb of political correctness. That its sponsors deny any such intention only makes it the more obvious."
ASA and anti-Semitism | The Triangle
A professor who speaks out against the anti-Semitism of the Left????
Based on the strangle-hold that Liberals have on academia, one can only conclude that Robert Zaller has tenure....
