The Academic Left is Making Their Hatred of Israel Personal
“We are being berated, bullied and condemned face-to-face or via email by other academics and activists, some of whom we’ve worked with for decades.”
The left embraced the idea of ‘you are either with us or against us’ over Trump. Now they’re doing the same thing over Israel.
Phyllis Chesler writes at the Jewish News Syndicate:
The antisemitic mob by any other name
In the aftermath of Oct. 7, Western cities have been inundated by loud, sometimes violent, masked zombie-like pro-Hamas mobs. They glue and chain themselves to roads and bridges; interrupt public events; storm museums, classrooms, churches and synagogues; and deface Israeli, Jewish and pro-Israel restaurants. And, of course, the mobs call for the death of the Jews and the extermination of Israel. The sight of Jewish blood and the burned corpses of Jews seems to have enraptured and unleashed Jew-haters worldwide.
Many of these protestors are well-funded by the same sources that pay for the indoctrination of American professors, students, student organizations, the media and non-profits.
But there is another kind of harassment that academics and pro-Israel advocates and activists have been facing. It is more private and personal but equally invasive and invidious. We are being berated, bullied and condemned face-to-face or via email by other academics and activists, some of whom we’ve worked with for decades.
I do not seek to “talk” to those whose views I already know are profoundly anti-Zionist and antisemitic. I am too busy for such private and dinner table dialogues. I am careful not to poke the bear or the beehive. But since Oct. 7, long-time “comrades” have been unable to resist privately castigating me for my thought crimes. This is their own petty form of mob harassment.
One woman, a red-diaper baby I’ve known since 1971, began writing articles accusing Israel of every imaginable crime. Apparently, she felt compelled to do so because of the articles I’ve been writing. I quietly removed her from my mailing list and, when she called, I told her that we could never discuss Israel or Judaism.
Then, I received an unsolicited email from a longtime colleague. She asked whether I had lost my mind or was misinformed due to my support for Israel and the IDF. “Would [I] object to removing Netanyahu so that a two-state solution could be achieved?” she demanded to know.
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More and more, I think October 7 served to tear off the mask and expose the antisemitism, of which there is far more than anyone wants to admit.
What mask? Are you confusing the academic left for the Tucker/Candace/Jeremy from the Quartering right? I am unaware of any mask worn by the academic left. Was it the “Jewish privilege” the use of Jew/Zionist as a pejorative? Was it the quota system to reduce Jewish enrollment? Or perhaps it was the classes dedicated to fostering anti-Semitism? Or theory of the world that leaves Jews only a place as evil subhuman oppressors?
If you know of some kind of mask worn by the academic left please let me know where exactly it was.
The Jewish community had an anachronistic image of the University, a view that had to do with ignorance and emotional investment in education due to culture and nothing to do with any attempt by the academic left to cover up who they are.
The woke worldview prior to 10/7 whether on issues of race, gender or climate, had a distinct tone of Marxist and anti Semitic ideology stemming from its hatred of merit, the traditional family and raising families with traditional moral values.
Socialism dies in the light. I am currently enjoying how Jeremy Clarkson is single-handedly destroying the concept of a “local council,” showing them to be an HOA on steroids at best. Power-mad, agenda-driven idiots have never been “the good guys” in the history of man. I remember reading a Playboy 50 years ago that liberals were just fascists who wore hush puppies. I have seen little since then to convince me that was an incorrect statement.
Bebe is just doing the long overdue “full measure,” nothing more. Only liberals seem surprised that the nurses in that hospital seem to have a lot of grenades and are firing back.
The Academic Left? Heck, big media and most of the government workers in DC have shown themselves to be committed Jew-haters. It’s a much bigger circle than just academia.