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Reader comment on: On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians' Real Agenda Submitted by Stuart Ailion, Mar 25, 2009 07:20 Unfortunately, the trend for pro-Palestinian dogma on campus at US universities is equally well entrenched at UK academic institutions. I have a son at Nottingham University where the pro-Palestinians recently occupied a law lecture theatre until a set of demands were met by the university, you know, the usual stuff around delegitimising Israel and official recognition for Hamas. They left after 2 weeks of considerable disruption without any concessions by the university. What is sad is that there is an absolute ignorance of historical or factual context allowing reasonable debate. Many actual Palestinians engage in dialogue that could, one day, lead to a 2 state solution but the unholy alliance of Far Right, Extreme Left with a few Anarchists thrown in for good measure are actually motivated by something far more sinister than the destruction of zionism or the State of Israel - that is just an increasingly politically correct mask which hides a new, virulent form of international anti-semitism. It is still, fortunately, difficult to express openly anti-semitic views in public in Western democracies. Holocaust denial will never be perceived as legitimate. Nobody outside of the Arab world really believes that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was not a forgery. Jews do not drink the blood of Christian children at Passover. However, the new anti-semites can re-write Middle Eastern history (up to yesterday's news if so desired) in a way that delegitimises Israel, accuses it of all the things that are actually wrong with its surrounding Arab neighbours, calling for its destruction simply because it is a Jewish State. The anti-semites cannot stand the fact that the Jewish people have expressed their legitimate right to self-determination, and this manifests itself in modern anti-zionism. I can highly recommend a superb new book by the non-Jewish MP Denis Mcshane called "Globalising Hatred - The New Anti-Semitism". The general thesis of the book is that until the anti-semites masquerading as anti-zionists are exposed a political solution to the problems of the Palestinian people is a remote possibility.Note: Comments are screened, and in some cases edited, before posting. This site reserves the right to reject anything found to be objectionable. Submit a comment on this article Other reader comments on this itemComment on this item |
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