While climate change may be a hoax, anti-semitism is alive and well. Even, or more appropriately, especially on college campuses throughout the US. Case in point the latest event at NYU. A student organized an event about climate change, only fool school officials and start marketing an event about Israeli apartheid against the poor Palestinian people.
According to Ynet: “An anti-Israel student event was planned, and then canceled Monday, at New York University (NYU). The student, who has asked to hold an event unrelated to Israel, was actually planning an event to explore Israeli “brutality” against the Palestinians.
After receiving permission to host an event at NYU on May 4, based on a proposal for a forum on climate change, the student responsible then hung flyers for a conference on “The Hidden History of Zionism: The Road to Gaza’s Killing Fields,” to be hosted by the International Socialist Organization, an anti-war Marxist group.
“The recent assault on Gaza by the Israeli military and the continuing economic blockade of the region has shocked millions of people around the world,” read the flyer, which featured a picture of a bloody Gazan child from Israel’s Operation Cast Lead against Hamas.”
I guess that climate change and ‘Israeli apartheid against Palestinians’ are similar; neither is based on much of anything factual.
The new Israeli foreign policy is on display, and it sure is refreshing. Gone is cow-towing to all world leaders in the hope that they will ‘like Israel’ in exchange for them to pressure Israel into committing national suicide. The new policy, put forth by new FM Avigdor Lieberman, is to stand up for principle, and if you don’t like it, tough. Even if it mean souring diplomatic relations.
The latest episode comes after Lieberman called back to Israel, ambassador Ilan Elgar, in protest of the Swiss president meeting with Iranian madman Mamoud Ahmadinejad.
According to Ynet: “Even before the meeting, state officials in Jerusalem expressed their anger and resentment. “There’s no reason in the world for meeting with a Holocaust denier, the president of a country exporting terror, hatred and anti-Semitism,” one of the sources said.
“A meeting with Ahmadinejad badly damages the international moral coalition against Iran and serves as a dishonorable move which should never take place. A head of state who has some respect for himself should not shake the hand of the Holocaust denier from Tehran.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed Ahmadinejad’s participation in the conference at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting Monday, saying that “While we remember the six million (Jews murdered in the Holocaust), a conference will be held in Switzerland allegedly against racism. Its guest of honor is a Holocaust denier who does not conceal his plan to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
“I congratulate the countries which chose to boycott the conference. Contrary to those dark days, today we have a strong Jewish state,” he said, adding that “Unfortunately, not everyone has learned the lesson of the Holocaust.”
Well I guess that the one country that hasn’t learned the lesson of the Holocaust is the same country whose banks stole hundreds of millions of Jewish money during the Holocaust.
In 2001, the United Nations world conference against racism in Durban, South Africa, became a venue for the worst display of anti-Semitism since the Nazi period. The conference declaration singled out Israel, while NGO activists and demonstrators called for the elimination of “racist” and “Apartheid” Israel. Supporters of Israel were vastly outnumbered and hardly seen in the international media.
The U.N. is holding its follow-up Durban Review Conference in Geneva during the week of 20-24 April 2009. Libya chairs the planning committee, and Iran and Cuba are vice-chairs. The latest draft declaration reaffirms the 2001 text, which couples Israel with racism.In support of Durban II, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist extremists are organizing a series of public events in Geneva on 18-20 April, where they will call for a campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel, which they compare to Nazi Germany.
In response, on Wednesday, 22 April, friends of Israel—Jews and non-Jews from across Europe and around the world—will gather in Geneva to stand with Israel as its very legitimacy comes under attack, supporting Israel as a democratic, multicultural, and humanitarian society that respects human rights and the UN Charter.
Natan Sharansky will be participating in this rally, and will be the keynote speaker in the session titled “Israel, Democracy, and the Search for Peace””
The year is 2009. York University in Toronto. Jews chased through the campus and then basically held hostage. Couldn’t be true, could it? Sure is. According to the Jpost: “Jewish students at
York University in Toronto were forced to take refuge in the Hillel office last Wednesday night as anti-Israel protesters banged on the glass doors, chanting, “Die, bitch, go back to Israel,” and “Die, Jew, get the hell off
campus.” and, “Daniel Ferman, the Hillel president, who was called a “f*****g Jew” and a “dirty Jew” by the protesters, said, “We were basically being held hostage in our own space.”
So the college campus, which is supposed to be the bastion of tolerance and open mindedness, has turned into a cesspool of anti-semitism. Where were the police, and the rest of the authorities? How could they allow this to happen. Do they share similar feelings, or have they been intimidated, like so many others throughout the world? Jewish students at York need to stand up for their ethnic background, and wear it proudly. The rest of the student body needs to stand by the side of the Jewish students in order to show solidarity. Anything short of this signals their approval for this incident.
