Wednesday, April 11, 2007
It's a cornucopia of campus moonbats today. Next up, self-despising (self-hate is too mild in this case) Israeli academic Ilan Pappe who's left his home at Haifa University and departed for a place where he'll be truly appreciated -- the UK.
Before landing on the UK beachhead where he was to take up as Chair of History at Exeter University, Pappe was already firing artillery at his foes -- the Jewish college students of England: Jewish students attacked by Israeli academic
Dr. Ilan Pappe, of Haifa University, has been instrumental in organizing previous, failed attempts to boycott Israeli institutions in Britain, and is now set to leave Israel and take up a chair of history at the University of Exeter in south west England, where he hopes to set up a "center for Palestinian studies." [One could be forgiven thinking that that more or less describes the entire higher-education system these days. -S]
An article in the British Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), entitled 'Historian hits out at Jewish student lobby,' extensively quoted Pappe as complaining that UK Jewish students have formed a "lobby" aimed at quashing open debate on the Middle East.
"…Professor Pappe may find that Britain is not the haven of peace and tolerance he seeks. Jewish students' groups have already complained about his appointment, saying he is anti-Zionist," the article said.
"Jewish student organizations have ceased to care for the interests and concerns of Jewish students but have become a front for the Zionist point of view. They act as an arm of the Israeli embassy," Pappe was quoted as saying...
What was that I was saying about Finkelstein? If not for an accident of birth, Pappe's rhetoric would be far more recognizable, or at least less tolerable.
The UK "Jewish Leadership" is "concerned." This will not matter in anything: UK’s Jewish leaders concerned over university appointment
Ilan Pappe has published numerous books and essays accusing Israel of “ethnically cleansing†the Palestinians.
"Zionism is far more dangerous to the safety of the Middle East than Islam," Pappe said in one interview recently and two years ago he was a major supporter of the Association of University Teachers’ proposals for an academic boycott of Israel...
Ironic, I know, that one of the leading lights of the boycott Israel movement will likely be complaining loudly that people are trying to silence him.
[h/t: Adam Holland]
What is it about our faith that we produce so many self-haters?
Pappe is the "wicked son" of the Haggadah - or is it Finklestein?