Hat tip Romirowsky.com and Frontpage Magazine
Asaf Romirowsky of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East has an op-ed on the on-going obsession of American academia with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and supporting the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel. Now the current issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom, the journal of the Association of American University Professors is dedicated to BDS.
http://www.romirowsky.com/13990/aaup-and-bds
Omar Barghouti, mentioned in the above piece, is the little ingrate who is spearheading BDS even though he has received his higher education from the country of Israel, an inconvenient point he avoided when he came to speak at UC Irvine earlier this year.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2013/02/omar-barghouti-at-uc-irvine-februry-4.html
I long for the day when our universities can get back to the job of educating our youth instead of indoctrinating them with the pet obsessions of our radical professors, who put their own freedom of expression on some sort of a pedestal while trying to take away the right of others to express opposing points of view.
I've called this obsession monomaniacal and pathological. Of the hundreds of bloody wars, disputes, and other conflicts going on in the world, THIS one is in the forefront of academic discourse and THE most important conflict for this administration's attention.
ReplyDeleteDepending on whose figures you accept, the number of casualties of all kinds, suffered by both sides, in all the Israeli/Arab conflicts combined, they are still a fraction of those in just the Syrian conflict and that is not to even mention the perhaps millions killed in the Iraq/Iran War or the Indian/Pakistan separation. Another long list of these can be supplied ... but will the MSU even mention them? Certainly not. Only if Jews are on one side or another is it the major concern of the left.
The professors you reference evidently feel that they are not living unless they are boycotting and divesting from something or other, and since South Africa is off the table, Israel is the most available dish to satisfy their psychic appetites. It apparently hasn't crossed anyone's minds that extraordinary measures are for extraordinary evils, and anyway, Israel is too well connected with too many markets and supply chains to easily be divested from the world.
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