Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Richard Cravatts has at the absurd event, ongoing now: Israeli Occupation Week constitutes intellectual dishonesty
Seeming to confirm a worldview that the brilliant British commentator Melanie Phillips describes in her new book as "a world turned upside down," Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace have co-sponsored the tellingly named Israeli Occupation Awareness Week, which will be held from Nov. 8 to 11.
The events once again demonstrate the moral incoherence seen on many college campuses whenever there is debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Brandeis' ideology has clearly been hijacked by the Left's obsessive reverence for something that came to be known as "social justice," an ideological pathology that informs the very educational mission of Brandeis today...