by Richard L. Cravatts
• March 28, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The problem on
campuses across the country is that pro-Palestinian activists, in
their zeal to seek self-affirmation, statehood, and "social
justice," have waged an extremely caustic cognitive war against
Israel and Jews.
- Being
pro-Palestinian on campuses today does not necessarily mean that one
is committed to helping Palestinians be productive, live well, build
a free and open nation or create a civil society with transparent
government, a free press, human rights, and a representative
government.
- What being
pro-Palestinian seems to have come to mean is continually
denigrating and attacking Israel with a false historical narrative
and the grotesquely misused language of human rights. What is
claimed to be anti-Israel sentiment often rises to the level of raw
anti-Semitism.
- It is enough to
make Jewish students, whether or not they care about Israel at all,
uncomfortable, unsafe, or even hated on their own campuses.
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Being pro-Palestinian on campus today seems to have
come to mean continually denigrating and attacking Israel with a false
historical narrative and the grotesquely misused language of human
rights, which often rises to the level of raw anti-Semitism. Pictured
above, a mock "Israeli checkpoint" set up during "Israeli
Apartheid Week" in 2010 on the University of California, Los Angeles
campus. (Image source: AMCHA Initiative)
The California university system seems to have the dubious
distinction of being the epicenter of the campus war against Israel. The
situation that has apparently reached such intolerable levels that the
Board of Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) was forced
to take some action. This effort resulted in a study entitled the
"Final Report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against
Intolerance." The study attempts to establish guidelines by which
any discrimination against a minority group on campus would be identified
and censured. The report, however, specifically focused on the thorny
issue of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism as a prevalent and ugly reality
throughout the California university system.
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