Indivisible anti-Semitism. By Caroline Glick. Jerusalem Post, March 14, 2014. Also at FrontPage Magazine.
Glick:
For
Europe’s elite, radical and increasingly, violent anti-Zionism has become the
anti-Semitism of choice. Among other things, anti-Zionists believe that Israel
is inherently illegitimate and necessarily, and purposely, evil. For them,
Israel is Nazi Germany.
And
supporters of Israel are for them the greatest evildoers in the world. They
should be accorded no courtesy, and be treated as human scum.
This
has been made clear, most vividly in recent years on college campuses where
pro-Israel supporters are run off campuses, shouted off stages and barred from
presenting their views.
One
recent episode of this sort occurred on March 5 at the National University of
Ireland, Galway, where British professor Alan Johnson tried to speak in
opposition to an initiative to get the university to join the boycott,
divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.
A
YouTube video of the event showed how a mob of BDS supporters prevented him
from speaking. They shouted curses at him and his colleagues and demanded they
“get the f*** off our campus!” Writing of the experience and the hate movement
that stands behind it in The Times of Israel, Johnson reported that the student
leading the effort to silence him is the head of NUIG’s Palestine Solidarity
Society named Joseph Loughnane.
In
2008, Loughnane said, “The Jews run the American media and push their agenda.”
Johnson
wrote that “the border between being radical and transgressive [toward Israel]
and being anti-Semitic is now porous.”
Although
accurate, Johnson’s assertion understates the problem.
Opposing
Judaism and Jews, denying Jewish rights to education and ritual observance, and
attacking Jews; and opposing the Jewish state, denying Jews their right to
self-determination and attacking supporters of the Jewish state, are two sides
of the same coin. There is no border – porous or solid between them. They are
one and the same.
And all
anti-Semites know it.
