"Juden raus!"
The message is the same.
Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick hits the nail on the head in describing the BDS-promoters on college campuses. They are brown shirts, pure and simple.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Campus-brownshirts-rising-346739
The only word to describe them is, "brown shirts". That is what they are. They are thugs using the tactic of intimidation to turn the Israel-Palestinian conflict into the number one issue of contention in American higher education. As a result, they are turning our campuses into powder kegs.
Glick was very smart to point out the most egregious acts of anti-Semitism on the college campuses. In the last few paragraphs, she outlines the way to take action. Sue the bastards. Only when the pain of civil suits that empty the pockets and bank accounts of the perpetrators and the college Administrators will the targeted hate be dramatically reduced.
ReplyDeleteSue the bastards!
This is as silly as comparing advocates of same sex marriage to the civil rights movement.
ReplyDeleteI go along with calling anyone "brown shirts" who is engaged in physical disruption of intimidation of speech they happen to find offensive. (If most speech were not offensive to someone, there would be no need to provide for freedom of speech, because there would be no threat to it).
But calling any and all BDS agitation equivalent to the SA crying "Juden Rause" makes no more sense than People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wrapping themselves in the mantle of the civil rights movement.
Sic semper analogy.
Yes Siarlys, you probably believe that Kristolnacht is a Princess House home party.
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Gary, your first sentence is inarguable, and is precisely what I said. Your second sentence is a broad characterization that no doubt applies to some, but not others, of the BDS movement. The fledgling BDS campaign at Marquette University claims to neither advocate dismantling of Israel nor destruction of Jews. They may mean it, or may be wolves in sheep's clothing. Time will tell.
ReplyDeleteSquid, I was beginning to think you a man possessed of some modicum of honor and integrity, but aside from the fact that I am unfamiliar with Princess House (your wife's business perhaps?), my point was precisely that every critique of Israel is not a call for Krystallnacht II.
Everyone who criticizes Israeli government policy or calls for pressure to be applied to Israel to force changes in that policy is not ipso facto either anti-Jewish or a brown shirt. And among Israelis, there are some notable brown shirts.
Or perhaps I misunderstood you Squid. Does "Kristolnacht" refer to a Halloween party at Irving Kristol's house?
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