Sadly, we are used to the anti-Semitism of Europe. After all, that is where anti-Semitism has historically thrived in a most virulent form and does still today. We are also used to the Jew hatred of the illiterati of Europe’s universities having seen so often the petitions they’ve raised to denounce Israel and give succor to Hamas and Fatah — and any other terrorist group that comes down the pike, for that matter. Of course, this infection of hate, racism and self-destructive terror worship is increasingly appearing at our own universities in the U.S. Nothing is more representative of that than the example of the “U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel” recently emanating out of several California Universities.
Sponsored by several radical Muslimists that claim at being professors in a handful of California universities, this petition is one of the first of it’s kind here in the U.S. A disgusting milestone on the road to the Islamization of our tax payer funded institutions of higher learning. It is also an effort that pushes an extreme anti-intellectualism in our schools.
Now, we can all agree that freedom of expression is a bedrock of our national culture. If these Islamofascist supporting “professors” want to blather about their support for bombers and murderers, well, that is their choice. But there is no reason these anti-intellectual cretins should expect the public to pay them with the state tax dollars that fund their salaries.
Anti-Intellectualism Infects our Schools
Just what is the goal of this effort? Organizers of this fetid petition hope to cut off all scholarly contact between U.S. universities and those in Israel. Thus this anti-intellectual effort seeks to eliminate the Jewish perspective and to artificially promulgate, without intellectual debate, the Islamist point of view.
These “professors” want to kill free and open expression, they want to silence debate, and quash any version of the existing relations of the Mid East of which they disapprove. This flies in the face of every American principle of vigorous debate and free expression as well as a simple expectation of scholarly rigor. After all, if there is never a cross word spoken to their favored ideas, then there is no rigorous exposition of the issues and no challenge to received opinion.
So, not only are taxpayers paying for this racist hatred but taxpayers are also funding an effort to eliminate scholarly debate instead of encouraging it.
Here are the anti-Semites being paid by our tax dollars to attack Jews:
Mohammed Abed, California State University, Los Angeles
Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Lara Deeb, University of California, Irvine
Manzar Foorohar, California Polytechnic State University
Jess Ghannam, University of California, San Francisco
Sherna Berger Gluck, California State University, Long Beach
Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles
David Klein, California State University, Northridge
Dennis Kortheuer, California State University, Long Beach
David Lloyd, University of Southern California
Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis
Marcy Newman, An Najah National University
Edie, Pistolesi, California State University, Northridge
Magid Shihade, University of California, Davis
If you are an alumni of any of the above universities, I’d suggest contacting your alma mater and let them know how you feel about this evil being perpetrated in the name of your school. If you are a taxpayer in California, call your state reps and let them know what you think of this exercise in anti-intellectualism being foisted upon the schools you are funding with your taxes.
Lastly, these acolytes of hate plan to expand this petition and bring it to more taxpayer funded schools across America. If you are not unfortunate enough to be a citizen of California, you should nonetheless keep your eyes open for this jeremiad to be visited upon your own colleges and universities.
Keep the US from becoming a carbon copy of European anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Anti-Israel is not Anti-Semitic
daninmaine Friday, January 30th at 12:02PM EST (link)How can you expect to be taken seriously when you make a ridiculous claim like that. Is it Anti-Persian to by Anti-Iran? Anti-Muslim? Is it Anti-American to be Anti-Obama? People are free to criticize the governments of foreign nations. I know many people who are Jews to the core who did not support the gaza incursion. Argue things on the merits of policy/morals/justice, but don’t smear people as racists or anti-semites. That’s lame.
Welcome To RedState, daninmaine..........
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, January 30th at 9:10PM EST (link)Really… I mean it.
Thing is, if I were you, I’d not take this any further. If you do though, check your ’6′ often for a happy bunny moment.
By the way…. If you feel like it, head over to The UK, Europe and Scandinavia – see what happens when you criticize one of the Muslim country’s governments.
Cheers, and good luck here at RedState !
By the way...
daninmaine Friday, January 30th at 12:05PM EST (link)I am not saying I support the professors. I think what they are doing is ridiculous and completely antithetical to the aims of the academic life. But I don’t have any reason to call them anti-semites.
Do a little
Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Friday, January 30th at 8:55PM EST (link)Do a little reading about some of these Marxists, hatemongers and anti-Semites. You’ll see why I called them so.
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Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Friday, January 30th at 8:59PM EST (link)Check out David Lloyd especially. He is the Marxist, anti-Semite leader of this garbage.
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daninmaine Saturday, January 31st at 9:20AM EST (link)OK, I take your point. In me, however, these people engender laughter rather than fear or hatred. David Lloyd is an ENGLISH professor, for God’s sake. I mean, it’s fricking hysterical. His Marxism is strictly academic: tied up with his post-colonialist theoretical methodology. This guy probably spends most of his professional time teaching sophomore survey courses and writing articles for journals that nobody reads about non-canonical Irish literature. Really…I’m supposed to be worried about English professors now?
Boy, where do I start..............
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 9:44AM EST (link)I know………
These people are “educating” our children. It is NOT limited to universities in Whackofornia.
We’re paying for it now in our own tax dollars. If there is no counter to it all, VERY soon we’ll be paying with our own liberty and blood.
Cheers !
Baby boomers getting old...
daninmaine Saturday, January 31st at 9:53AM EST (link)I’m getting my PhD in Renaissance Literature right now. Maybe it’s why I’m not worried. I know plenty of professors like this Lloyd. They talk about subjugation and resistance and “the market” when they discuss literature, but they are white-bread suburbanites in their real lives. It makes me happy to be in my field though: immersed in the conflicts of the 16th century, I encounter fewer ideological loons.
DanInMaine, I'd like to offer an 'experience' challenge to you and I'm being serious.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 10:28AM EST (link)Take a few day trips to some schools……… elementary, middle and high. Especially the elementary schools.
Tell ‘em you’re doing some research for a book.
Unless you agree with the Socialistic/Communistic approach to life, the eye-opening experience will quite possibly enrage you to the point of acting.
I see it every day.
My job is to help protect kids – I install and program surveillance systems and two of the big contracts are with ‘gubmint skrewlz’ here in South Flori-duh and I work mainly in Elementary schools because I don’t do this for the money….. I do this to see the smiles on the little ones and know what little I do to help is keeping them that much safer from maniacs and pedophiles.
Anyway, what I’m on about is not isolated to down here, or just one or two schools. They have The One all over the place……. you’d think Dr. King never existed, or America just started it’s existence when Teh Mess-I-Yah got elected.
It’s nothing more than indoctrination and brainwashing and a way for our friends on the left to cement their unworkable visions on a society of free people and never ever lose power.
With all due respect, get out in the real world, Dan. You may learn some things that are not in literature written by people with no real world experience.
I’m off to the range for some targeting and a bit of time on the LE obstacle course.
Cheers !
Wow, how dismissive of you
daninmaine Saturday, January 31st at 1:45PM EST (link)I never said what I did before i went back to graduate school,did I? Perhaps I taught in public schools. Perhaps I was a journalist. Perhaps i did both. Perhaps what I saw was not indoctrination but badly funded crap-holes where teachers and administrators alike were just trying to keep it all from going to hell.
Maybe, instead of me “getting out in the real world” (where I’ve been many years) you should try reading a few more books or something.
Yes, of course, Dan
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 1:52PM EST (link)the rest of us can’t imagine what the real world is like because we aren’t one of the tenured elites. If we’d just read more, we wouldn’t be so uninformed. Where would you suggest we start? Saul Alinsky? Lenin? What reading material will produce your level of enlightenment?
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
I think you missed the point
daninmaine Saturday, January 31st at 4:45PM EST (link)I was responding to the person who said I didn’t understand the “real world,” based on nothing.
And if you really want to know...
daninmaine Saturday, January 31st at 4:47PM EST (link)…I’d start with the complete works of William Shakespeare…of course!
Dismissive of me? Why yes, yes it is.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 3:58PM EST (link)DanInMaine:
The one thing I am is honest. Some say to a fault. I can also become extremely snarky when the need arises.
So here’s some honesty: Quite awhile ago, I officially and certifiably lost all pretense of patience with people who refuse to see wrong as wrong.
Free speech? Absolutely. I love it, live it and will defend it to my death for any American, including those with whom I disagree.
If a private school or university wishes to instruct their students in the ‘fine arts’ of Anti-Semitism, Socialism, Community Organizing…… whatever (unless a place is actively advocating violence), I have zero problem with that. Nobody says anyone has to attend those venues, let alone pay for their existence.
However, what the crux of this diary is regarding and where this all started, are tax dollars going to fund what most people believe to be a one-sided indoctrination to evil, let alone wrong vs. proper (notice I didn’t say ‘right’, lest I be thought of as meaning Republican).
Now then as to books and other litrature, I actually do read. Really. The current tome on my nightstand is entitled “The Founders’ Second Amendment ; Origins Of The Right To Bear Arms”, by Stephen P. Halbrook….. Our nation’s Founders own words and actions that became one of our basic Rights as Americans.
On reading this journey back into time, it is clearly evident that America’s founding fathers placed The Second Amendment as an individual Right. At some point in the near future, I sincerely “hope” that our Supreme Court Justices will each read the book to assist them in any upcoming decisions on ’2A’, or the “change” coming may not be accepted by the people.
One final thing…….. I honestly meant it when I said welcome to RedState. Even if you are one of the many “plants” of our friends on the left, it’s a real pleasure having discourse that opens up honesty in all of us – it’s the arena of ideas here and we all have our own.
Last thing I wish to do is alienate anyone and to show that I do read every post and think on things (sometimes after my fingers run ahead of what’s left of my mind), I will offer up an apology to you for being dismissive, with the qualifier noted above on my lack of patience – of which you had no idea.
There are friends here at RedState who are admitted liberals and we have great discussions on all topics. I hope you stick around and take part. Who knows, maybe we can bid you and others welcome to our home, which many consider to be ‘the dark side’.
Cheers !
OK, Kenny
daninmaine Saturday, January 31st at 4:49PM EST (link)Thanks for the welcome. You may think I’m a “plant” but I agree with you about some things. The second amendment, for one. Also, that the professors on the list above are loons. The only thing I disagree with you about is the “danger” they represent. Like I said, “marxist” college professors are just, in the end, yuppie phonies.
Dan, for a great 2A read, I'd suggest that book I mentioned...... It's amazing.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 5:24PM EST (link)The baseline logic and simplicity of our founders’ ideals were so important to the fledgling nation’s future that they were all willing to lay down their lives in the cause. that’s clearly evident in their words.
It’s one of the only collections I know of that has such a detailed a chronological order of how a Right came into being.
On the Shakespeare front, I’ve read good ‘ol Willie and have a quite nice bound collection. Decent stuff for a Brit, but he ain’t no Kinky Friedman.
Cheers !