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By Mark G. Yudof and Ken Waltzer
Anti-Israel sentiment mixed with age-old anti-Semitism has reached a fever pitch at Vassar College. It is time that faculty and administrators take a stand against this toxic brew on behalf of academic values.
The campus of this private liberal-arts college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has experienced more than its share of anti-Israel activity. In the spring of 2014, the boycott of a course in the International Studies Programbecause it involved a trip to Israelincluded heckling students and picketing the class. During the fall of 2015, attempts were made to boycott Sabra hummus because the maker of this popular food is partly owned by an Israeli food company.
The most recent incident was a talk on Feb. 3 by Jasbir Puar, a Rutgers associate professor of womens and gender studies. The address, Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters, was sponsored by eight Vassar departments and programs, including Jewish Studies and American Studies.
Ms. Puar began by exhorting the students to support a boycott of Israel as part of armed resistance. As reported by several in attendance at the speechthe professor introducing her requested that it not be recordedMs. Puar passed on vicious lies that Israel had mined for organs for scientific research from dead Palestiniansupdating the medieval blood libel against Jewsand accused Israelis of attempting to give Palestinians the bare minimum for survival as part of a medical experiment. When asked, she agreed with a questioner that Israeli treatment of Palestinians amounted to genocide but objected to the term itself, which she said was too tethered to the Holocaust.
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Wild charges against Israel have often been aired on U.S. campuses over the past several years, and their moral perversity pointed out. But Ms. Puars calumnies reached a new low. She spoke of Jews deliberately starving Palestinians, stunting and maiming a population. The false accusation that a people, some of whose members were experimented on at Auschwitz, are today experimenting on others is a disgrace.
Yet characterizing Israel and Zionism in ways that anti-Semites formerly characterized Jews has become a stock in trade among anti-Israeli activists on college campuses. And it exposes the real motivation of those who profess to criticize only the Israeli governments policies with regard to the West Bank, not Jews themselves.
Now there is a resolution before the Vassar student union, in part seeking a boycott of Ben & Jerrys, on the grounds that the companyfounded by two Jewssells ice-cream transported on Jewish-only roads to be sold in Jewish-only settlements. This is part of a broader divest-from-Israel resolution to be voted on this spring, which also includes other U.S. companies.
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Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)Anti-Semitism never really went out of vogue, it just changed forms. Now, the original form is actually coming back into fashion and, for the most part, it is met with a big "meh!" or an "intellectual" explanation as to why it is "OK...sometimes."
ADL Denounces Incident at Brooklyn College Where Students Called for Zionists to Get Off Campus; Commends Administration for Strong Stand Against Anti-Semitism
February 18, 2016
New York, NY, February 18, 2016 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today denounced the interruption of a faculty council meeting at Brooklyn College on February 16 where students allegedly demanded that Zionists leave campus and referred to a professor at the gathering as a Zionist pig. ADL commended Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould and Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs William A. Tramontano, for their strong condemnation of the incident.
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Also see: ADL Report Shows Increase in Anti-Israel Activity on U.S. College Campuses
The problem is so few stand up against anti-Semitism, and there is also the problems of conflating anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activities, from both sides, but it is only challenged when one group does it and is claimed to be "truth" when the others do it.
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(1,777 posts)...to argue that Jews are responsible for misogyny. Perhaps Stormfront would be more friendly to junk "scholarship."