Re: The surge of ant-semitism

Submitted by henri boll (United States), Dec 17, 2002 at 19:58

The surge of anti-Semitism in US university campuses and the petition campaign against Israel is promoted by relatively small number of faculty with interlocking interests . Its driving force are Islamists and their sympathizers who help prosecute the war against Israel as way of diverting attention away from Arab regimes and blaming the Arab world poverty and despair on the USA and Israel.

They are joined by leftists-including Jews-who see in Jewish particularism the chief hindrance to their international faith: by radicals who consider Israel and America to be colonial powers and how promote their reactionary or revolutionary alternatives: and by antiwar enthusiasts who blame Israel for inviting Arab aggression against it.

Arab rulers see in Israel's a free and open society a threat to Muslim hegemony and to autocracy rule. What they fail to recognize is that, far from championing human rights, the divestments petition is a springboards for the spread of anti-Semitic hostility to American campuses .The economic boycott has been part of the Arab arsenal in the war against Israel for the past 50 years.

Henri Boll
livingston NJ
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