Arutz Sheva
Opinion
Sunday, April 03, 2016 10:01 AM | Matthew M. Hausman
Gross hypocrisy or
willful complicity: The US campus
Free speech is hardly being
respected on campus, anti-Semitism is.
By Matthew M. Hausman
Anti-Semitic hate speech
has become common on American college campuses, where the classroom is used to
promote radical ideals and students with dissenting viewpoints are ridiculed
and harassed. Leftist academics abuse their positions as teachers to
disseminate anti-Israel propaganda while their institutions provide safe-havens
for Jew-hatred misrepresented as political commentary.
They claim their words are
shielded by the First Amendment, but deny the same constitutional protection to
those with contrary views. Jewish students and advocates are routinely
slandered and denied any forum for rebuttal, and when progressive invective
leads to physical violence, faculty stooges often blame the victims.
The annual spectacle of Israel Apartheid Week shows how easily anti-Semitism is accepted and how firmly traditional stereotypes are entrenched in multicultural ideology. Demagogues on both the right and left have traditionally used straw enemies as bogeymen to generate support for radical programs, and anti-Jewish hatred has always been an effective tool for riling the masses – particularly in Europe and the Muslim Mideast. But whereas conservatives in America have confronted the past and denounced anti-Semitism, the left continues to demonize Jews as it justifies radical Islam and delegitimizes the Jewish State.
The annual spectacle of Israel Apartheid Week shows how easily anti-Semitism is accepted and how firmly traditional stereotypes are entrenched in multicultural ideology. Demagogues on both the right and left have traditionally used straw enemies as bogeymen to generate support for radical programs, and anti-Jewish hatred has always been an effective tool for riling the masses – particularly in Europe and the Muslim Mideast. But whereas conservatives in America have confronted the past and denounced anti-Semitism, the left continues to demonize Jews as it justifies radical Islam and delegitimizes the Jewish State.
Despite the myth of progressive tolerance, the left has always been
ambivalent regarding Jewish religion and nationality, which were reviled by
many of the fathers of European liberalism from Voltaire on down. Considering
today’s progressive affinity for enlightened churches that promote liberal
values and for Islamists who do not, there is clearly more to the left’s
defamation of Jewish religion and nationhood than political ideology. How
else to explain progressive sympathy for radical Islam despite its rejection of
democratic ideals? In the absence of similar core values, this “red-green
alliance” seems more bound by common hatred of Jews, Israel, and western
society.
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