Europe blinded by anti-Semitic bigotry

The Association of University Teachers in the United Kingdom is set today to begin blacklisting Israeli professors who refuse to condemn their country's policies toward Arabs.

The academics will debate today whether to boycott three of Israel's eight universities – Haifa, Bar Ilan and Hebrew – over their alleged complicity with the government's policies toward the so-called "Palestinians."

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But the boycott will exclude "conscientious Israeli academics and intellectuals opposed to their state's colonial and racist policies."

Let me give you my perspective on this action – the perspective of an Arab-American.

Israel is not a colonial state. It is not a racist state. The Arabs who live in Israel are among the freest Arabs in the world.

Every so-called "Palestinian" college has been created and funded by Israel. There were no Palestinian colleges or universities before 1967. And that is with good reason. Before 1967, there was no such thing as a Palestinian national identity. That notion was invented by Yasser Arafat and his allies post-1967 so they could pursue their plan to eradicate the Jewish state and the Jewish people of the Middle East by posing as victims rather than persecutors.

You can see just how well that insidious plan is working among Europe's hateful, anti-Semitic pseudo-intellectuals. It's working to perfection.

The victim is being blamed for the crime.

The AUT's indictment of Israel is short on specifics – with good reason. There simply is no case to be made that Israel is oppressing Arabs, that it is making life unbearable for them, that it is the worst place on earth for them.

In Israel, Arabs vote in free elections. They hold office. They protest. They freely publish newspapers attacking the government.

Arabs don't do this in any other state – with the possible exception of newly liberated Iraq.

In Israel, Arabs are even permitted to teach their revisionist history lessons. They are free to teach the most vile kinds of hatred against Jews and Israelis – even receiving subsidies for those lessons from the suicidal, self-loathing, politically correct and intellectually incorrect Israeli government.

Yet, none of this matters in the rarefied atmosphere of Europe's perverted academic culture.

It's about Arab nationalist chic. It's cool on campus in Europe and North America to wear the keffiyeh. Never mind the fact that it represents repression, dictatorship, murder of the innocents, terrorism. Jews aren't cool. Arabs are.

Some Arabs, that is.

Christian Arabs aren't cool, either. Europe is silent as they are persecuted, murdered and scattered to the four winds by the Islamic nationalists and the phony Palestinians.

Only Christians and Jews who denounce their beliefs, embrace their enemies and tormentors and who blame themselves for acts of violence against them are to be accepted and tolerated under the new European academic orthodoxy.

Sadly, if this brand of ethnic and religious hatred were limited to the academy, it would not represent a crisis. Unfortunately, what is happening today in the annual council of the Association of University Teachers in England is symptomatic of what is spreading like a cancer throughout Europe, Canada and other parts of the world.

It is the mental disorder of anti-Semitism. It is a disease. It is irrational. It defies explanation. And it is evil.

Europe is undergoing the kind of mass psychosis it experienced once before – in the late 1930s.

This is how it started then. Self-delusion is a pre-requisite for the justification of holocaust, of genocide, of ethnic cleansing.

If you doubt what I am saying, ask yourself the following questions:

• Why are there no boycotts of Syrian universities?

• Why are there no boycotts of Saudi Arabian universities?

• Why are there no boycotts of Iranian universities?

• Why are there no denunciations of the police state totalitarianism that is the norm throughout the Middle East with one notable exception – Israel?