Read this article. It will
make you feel uncomfortable, but you need to read it.
It
is a graphic description of the sort of thing that is going on on campuses
across the U.S.
I
first noticed this about ten years ago. I experienced events at the University
of Binghamton and at SFSU. Northern California schools are particularly bad,
but it is everywhere. I don't think people realize how bad it is.
This
almost incredible un-self-conscious anti-Jewish bigotry emanates from the very
same people who bemoan the persistence of anti-black racism as evidenced, for
example, in the police forces around the country, notably including Oakland CA.
It begs a host of interesting and uncomfortable questions. The same visceral
reactions that these people attack in others reside deeply within their own
psyches. Only the targets are different. There are good targets and there are
bad targets. It's ok to target Jews because they are beneficiaries of white
privilege and use it to oppress Palestinians. It is not ok to attack blacks because
they are bona fide victims.
And
this closed-minded embrace of stereo-types is protected by the conviction that
you should not listen to people with whom you disagree if they make you feel
uncomfortable - that very fact suggesting that they are immoral. So any attempt
to counter the horribly distorted impression that they have of Israel and of
Jewish history is easily deflected and buried.
Seen
in this light, campus anti-Semitism is not an isolated aberration. It is the
very litmus test of a dangerous and disturbing closing of the American
student's mind.
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