ACADEMIA POLLUTED BY ANTI-SEMITISM

The humanitarian racist's version is that only white people can be held responsible for their actions, while non-whites can only be victims. According to humanitarian racists, for example, the driving out of the Christians by the Muslims from the Palestinian territories is something happening among "colored" people, who are by definition not responsible anyhow, so they cannot be blamed. Therefore, Israel has to be blamed. Now, if you say to an extreme leftist or a promoter of human rights who hold these views that they are racists, they are completely offended, because they have never thought it through. Yet they are no less racist than white supremacists.

According to Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jew hatred is like air pollution. There is the type that comes out of a large industrial chimney and spread over a large area, and then there is the type that he describes as coming from the exhaust pipes of millions of cars, each spreading a little bit of poison.

The former, he says, was characteristic of the Nazi era - with its "boss," Adolf Hitler, as the central smokestack the world over. The latter, he claims, describes today's post-modern form of the phenomenon: global, but fragmented, with no single leader or source - and primarily aimed at Israel...... It is what he sees as the gradual mushrooming of anti-Israel bias on campuses across the world, culminating in this year's effort on the part of British academics to boycott Israeli universities.....

....There have been three stages of anti-Semitism. The first was religious anti-Semitism, initially Christian and now overshadowed by religious Muslim anti-Semitism. The second stage was nationalist-ethnic-racist anti-Semitism. And the third - the latest one - is anti-Israelism, against the collective Jew, the State of Israel. Each of these has three characteristic phases. The first is demonization; the second is exclusion; and the third is expulsion or destruction. We see elements of all three phases today, directed against the collective Jew.

Demonization - whereby Israelis are called the Nazis of today, citizens of an apartheid or colonialist state.

Then there's exclusion. Boycotts are a typical case of exclusion. Finally, there is expulsion or destruction. That is the Hamas version of the Palestinian state, or [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's goals.

But is today like the 1930s? Well, there is one major difference. During that period, anti-Semitism was centralized. Then there was one guy who was the boss of anti-Semitism - Hitler. He wasn't the only one, but he was a single, major actor, who garnered international support from many people outside the confines of the Nazi Party in Germany.

Gerstenfeld Explains how hatred of Jews has spread into Universities:

We live under the fallacy that educated people - or specialists in a certain field - have better judgment than the man in the street. One of the myths about the Nazis is that they were primitive - that the party had no intellectuals. But if you ask people to name the leading philosopher in Europe in the second half of the 20th century, the dominant answer would be Martin Heidegger - a Nazi. And if you ask them to rate the 10 most important thinkers of Europe, at that time you often find a second Nazi on that list: German law professor and political theorist Carl Schmitt.

The second point is that in many European countries, if you were not a leftist, you set yourself apart from the leading intellectuals.

I lived in France in the 1960s, and if you weren't on the Left - and even today if you aren't there - you were an intellectual outsider....The academic system has three major lines of defense. The first is academic freedom. The second is tenure. The third is calling its critics McCarthyites. Now, any self-governing world is corrupt by nature. And universities are not very efficient places, as anybody who teaches there will tell you.

The 1968 generation wanted to conquer the world. They went nowhere. So they took refuge in academia, the only part of the world where they found a real home. This often failed generation ended up in that one refuge, where they could promote each other - and bring in their buddies. This is, among others, particularly true of Middle Eastern studies departments in the United States.

But if you dare call these guys crooks, they accuse you of being a McCarthyite. Such a claim is false. McCarthy had governmental power behind him. All those who criticize the pseudo-scientific crooks who have nested themselves among serious academics in some of the humanities, including in Israel, have no such power......

....Let's understand this better. Today, there are three major currents of anti-Israelism. One of them - the extreme Right - is not important in universities. In the universities you only find two of these major forces - pseudo-humanitarian and Muslim. The extreme right wing is largely absent.

Everybody knows and accepts that Nazism and fascism have a very clear concept of superior people and inferior people, whereby the former should dominate the latter. This concept is partly behind colonialism, as well - where the white people were superior and the non-whites inferior. Almost everybody agrees that these are despicable opinions.

But you find the mirror-image of that on the Left. The humanitarian racist's version is that only white people can be held responsible for their actions, while non-whites can only be victims. According to humanitarian racists, for example, the driving out of the Christians by the Muslims from the Palestinian territories is something happening among "colored" people, who are by definition not responsible anyhow, so they cannot be blamed. Therefore, Israel has to be blamed. Now, if you say to an extreme leftist or a promoter of human rights who hold these views that they are racists, they are completely offended, because they have never thought it through. Yet they are no less racist than white supremacists.

You ask why Palestinians are never confronted by their homocide bombings, and other murders of innocents? That is the best explanation I have every heard. They left believes that ONLY NON-WHITES can be victims. And Being predominantly white Jews can not be victims.

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