The older generation of Jews is without doubt dangerously deluded. In his remarks last Friday, my rabbi spoke of the threats faced by Jews today, and as his example cited...the Jew-hater riot in Montreal? The Jewish man shot by an illegal immigrant jihadi in Chicago? Anything happening on a college campus? Nope. He mentioned, only, a neo-Nazi rally in Columbus, OH.
The wilfull blindness and cognitive dissonance of many liberal Jews has reached a level suggesting psychosis. I have no doubt your Rabbi believes what he is saying. He and those who truly don't see the danger from the left need serious psychiatric treatment. I feel sorry for them.
Today’s grad students and junior faculty are tomorrow’s tenured profs, department chairs, deans….They have been radicalized way beyond their mentors. They are the reinforcement, perhaps more powerful than the vets they are replacing. This is going to be a long and difficult haul.
Students who want to oppose the university professors who have embraced the ideology of the "red-green" alliance could register for their classes and engage these professors relentlessly in vigorous and rigorous debate. As students in their classes, they can make sure not to let these professors go unchallenged when week after week they pontificate on the evils of Zionism from behind the protection of their tenure shields. If this tactic is pursued it would be important to self-impose the following prerequisite: "must be very well versed in the history of Israel, the Jewish diaspora, the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the systematic lies which are typically propagated by anti-Zionist/ anti-Semitic professors". It would be naive to enter the classes of the professors who believe that slaughtering Jews is legitimate resistance without being able to let these professors know that you are fully aware that they are propagandists for terror groups and not honest academics. Students who choose the path of resisting the academic antisemitism that is coated in anti-Zionism must do so respectfully yet relentlessly. Students who choose to stand up to the cultural anthropologists who have made a career out of demonizing Israel must be willing to wear their failing grade with pride. Wearing the F in "settler colonial studies 101" is far superior to living in the shadows and tip toeing across your campus for four years. This path is not for everyone. It will be quite difficult. I know this is easier said than done because I have not done this. It is not for everyone. I do know that in the long run exposing the professors who make a living blaming de-legitimizing and slandering Israel will be so much more rewarding than a grade of A. Years from now no one will care about your GPA but they will listen intently when you speak about the semester you decided to “fight the good fight” and you inspired others to follow.
The older generation of Jews is without doubt dangerously deluded. In his remarks last Friday, my rabbi spoke of the threats faced by Jews today, and as his example cited...the Jew-hater riot in Montreal? The Jewish man shot by an illegal immigrant jihadi in Chicago? Anything happening on a college campus? Nope. He mentioned, only, a neo-Nazi rally in Columbus, OH.
The wilfull blindness and cognitive dissonance of many liberal Jews has reached a level suggesting psychosis. I have no doubt your Rabbi believes what he is saying. He and those who truly don't see the danger from the left need serious psychiatric treatment. I feel sorry for them.
It was not good in Montreal. I thought it was pretty bad.
Today’s grad students and junior faculty are tomorrow’s tenured profs, department chairs, deans….They have been radicalized way beyond their mentors. They are the reinforcement, perhaps more powerful than the vets they are replacing. This is going to be a long and difficult haul.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
Students who want to oppose the university professors who have embraced the ideology of the "red-green" alliance could register for their classes and engage these professors relentlessly in vigorous and rigorous debate. As students in their classes, they can make sure not to let these professors go unchallenged when week after week they pontificate on the evils of Zionism from behind the protection of their tenure shields. If this tactic is pursued it would be important to self-impose the following prerequisite: "must be very well versed in the history of Israel, the Jewish diaspora, the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the systematic lies which are typically propagated by anti-Zionist/ anti-Semitic professors". It would be naive to enter the classes of the professors who believe that slaughtering Jews is legitimate resistance without being able to let these professors know that you are fully aware that they are propagandists for terror groups and not honest academics. Students who choose the path of resisting the academic antisemitism that is coated in anti-Zionism must do so respectfully yet relentlessly. Students who choose to stand up to the cultural anthropologists who have made a career out of demonizing Israel must be willing to wear their failing grade with pride. Wearing the F in "settler colonial studies 101" is far superior to living in the shadows and tip toeing across your campus for four years. This path is not for everyone. It will be quite difficult. I know this is easier said than done because I have not done this. It is not for everyone. I do know that in the long run exposing the professors who make a living blaming de-legitimizing and slandering Israel will be so much more rewarding than a grade of A. Years from now no one will care about your GPA but they will listen intently when you speak about the semester you decided to “fight the good fight” and you inspired others to follow.
It’s great to see young people standing up to the far left brainwashing. Maybe the next generation will be OK!
Let it Be so. Let it Be so.