Summary
“If the
Nazi programme for the final solution of the Jewish problem
had been complete,
for sure there would be peace today in Palestine.”
Baruch Kimmerling,
Guardian Unlimited (Internet) October 5, 2002
The opinions and claims of Israel academics
against Jews, Zionism and Israel are discussed and analyzed in this study. It is
estimated that some 20 to 25% of people who teach the Humanities and Social
Sciences in Israel’s universities and colleges have expressed extreme
anti-Zionist positions, largely, though not exclusively, in regard to Israel’s
policies and actions vis-à-vis the Arab Palestinians. In addition to their
expression of anti-Zionist, and often outright anti-Semitic attitudes, they have
engaged in public demonstrations, prepared and signed petitions addressed to
soldiers in the IDF to disobey their commanders’ orders and not serve in Judea
and Samaria, and have been active in encouraging academic organizations abroad
(particularly in England) to boycott Israel universities and academics. These
academic personnel travel abroad and consistently denounce Israel for a series
of crimes against Arabs that are as fictitious as are the claims made by the
Arabs themselves. In fact, the anti-Zionist academics have adopted the Arab view
of Israel’s history and of Arab accusations against Israel without regard for
their relation to reality. In particular, is the distressing use of the analogy
between Israel policy and practices of the Nazi regime in WWII. A distinct
percentage of the far-Left anti-Zionist outcries espoused the extreme position
that Israel should be either a bi-national state or should be replaced in its
entirety by an Arab-Palestinian nation, precisely in the terms advocated by
Hamas and the PLO. In short, Jewish academic personnel who teach Israeli
students in our institutions of higher learning advocate that Israel be
dismantled as Israel as a Jewish state; the ingathering of the exiles should be
discontinued, and Israel should cease persecuting the Palestinians by killing
homicide bombers who infiltrate Israel or retaliate against the firing of
rockets at towns like Sderot. In short, we should surrender to the Arabs for the
sake of peace. Is this phenomenon sanctioned under the guise of academic
freedom, or is it actually sanctioned by the incumbent powers that be who want
peace now at all costs, including the destruction of the third commonwealth?
Not a few of the anti-Zionist academics
were lifetime communists and adhere to a Marxist ideology that opposes separate
nationalism beyond the international brotherhood of the proletariat. To
dismantle Israel is a first step in this direction, despite the fact that other
nations oddly enough refuse to follow suit.
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