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Monday, October 10, 2005

Dennis Prager describes some of the trouble on campuses in the LA Times, When young Jews major in anti-Semitism (via Snapshots):

...universities have become society's primary breeding ground for hatred of Israel. This hatred is often so intense that the college campus has become a haven for people who use anti-Zionism to mask their anti-Semitism. Moreover, anti-Zionism itself is a form of anti-Semitism, even if some Jews share it. Why? Because anti-Zionism is not simply criticism of Israel, which is as legitimate as criticism of any country. Anti-Zionism means that Israel as a Jewish state has no right to exist. And when a person argues that only one country in the world is unworthy of existence — and that happens to be the one Jewish country in the world — one is engaged in anti-Semitism, whether personally anti-Semitic or not...

That seems correct to me. The idea that only the Jews of Palestine -- who worked hard to create a nation -- that their national aspirations alone in the world are uniquely demonic, are racist is by definition, is anti-Semitic. It is holding the Jews apart and divisive and insidious uniquely among nations. That is anti-Semitism. The fact that there are people with enough time on their hands to provide nuance and obfuscation and an intellectual veneer with a few chapters of text for their fellow travellers changes nothing.

There certainly may be an infinitely small minority of sincere anti-Zionists who are not themselves either anti-Semites or allowing themselves to be used for anti-Semitic purposes, but they are a small group indeed. Right now, many of those great bastions of leftist anti-racism and liberality, the universities, are cess-pit Judenhass incubators.

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