Older and Weiser

There has been a troubling coalescing of Marxist economics and anti-Semitism on college campuses in recent years. The anti-globalization crusaders, who rioted in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings in the 1990s, more  recently have found a vanguard issue – Israel –  seeing it as the tip of the spear for colonial capitalism and racism. The results of this union have been documented by guerilla filmmakers and others with access to YouTube.

On October 15th, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave the King Abdullah II Leadership Lecture at the University of Chicago. Members of the student body noisily disrupted his speech shouting “War criminal!” and “Fascist!” Such epithets were sporadically met with “Shut up!” or “Get her out of here!”  You can see some of these outbursts in a video that was actually produced by the Electronic Intifada, a self-described source of news on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Watch the video here.

Below, a reader of Older and Weiser offers his opinion of this disturbing trend, originally written in response to a recent post, entitled: “Revolutionary Anti-Semitism.”

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I fear this is going on throughout the university system. When students are taught falsehoods about the Middle East and Israel’s role in defending herself can there be any other reaction than this? When the media and public institutions are complicit in anti-Semitic propaganda, what hope is there for our children in the future? What hope is there for good, law-abiding people when the mob gains control?

When dialogue breaks down, they resort to hurling insults and accusations. When we cannot or will not reason with each other, they resort to bullying. And when they have amassed enough people, enough political or physical strength then what will happen? When they don’t want to listen to reason, when our ideas or values are no longer of consequence and when they have gained the will and strength of the mob then what will be?

I believe that once again we are witnessing the beginnings of very difficult times for us.

I think it is incumbent upon us to speak up at every opportunity that we have. To be active in political organizations and PACs. If we are complacent then I fear that the holocaust museums today may be just the prequel to another worldwide effort to eradicate the Jews. One day all that may be left of us might be those images in the museums of tolerance, because Tolerance is not being taught today.

At least not that I can see,

Adrian Goldstein

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