Israel Apartheid Week

Israel Apartheid week is up and running again, and it really is disgusting that such an event is allowed to take place on University campuses, once known to be a bastion of cooperative and intelligent dialogue. Now, debate has been hijacked by the most radical and disgusting of fringe groups. Groups that claim only to be anti-Israel and anti-Zionist, but in truth are Anti-Semetic in action and words. Telling all Jews to die and go back into ovens has nothing to do with Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. It has to do with the world's oldest hatred, towards an identifiable group that has contributed so much. (For those who claim Anti-Semitism relates to Arabs too, because they're also Semitic people, I say to you that you are an ignorant fool. To equate the so called mistreatment of Arabs to the 2000 year old hatred of Jews, leading to them being slaughtered in the Crusades, in the Inquisition, attacked by the Cossacks, years of pogroms, and then the Holocaust, is idiotic.)

Some may claim that this is within the boundaries of free speech, and some of this may be true. However, the event has no reasoned dialogue, rather it is just hatred being spat at the Jews on campus. For a Jew to be in fear while on campus is not acceptable. Unfortunately, the hypocritical Human Rights Commissions would never do anything to stop the extreme left fringe, therefore no matter how badly Israel and Jews are demonized they will never intervene. It is up to brave University administrators to stop this sham.

Nor is anything that the other side is claiming true. To compare the actions of Israel and Apartheid South Africa is intellectually dishonest. One can clearly see that Israel's supposed racist actions were put in place to stop terror. Anybody who lived in Israel before the Intifadas will tell you that Jews would safely go into Palestinian towns to shop. A 'racist' policy wasn't suddenly put into place for no reason. Nor, would a country paralyze its progress by spending all of its money on security, so it could carry out a 'racist' project. Every Arab country is far worse to its own than Israel is, yet so called lovers of peace never mention this. Why don't some of these people go to Saudi Arabia and see how they will be treated? Oh wait, only Muslims can go there, and if you're a women you can't drive, and if you're raped, you shouldn't have shamed your family.

This farce needs to be stopped and be revealed for what it is. History has proven that where Anti-Semitism flourishes, nothing good will come of value to Jews in that society, nor the others who inhabit it.

Some good articles
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/03/02/jonathan-kay-on-the-lesson-from-israel-apartheid-week-anti-semitism-is-now-a-creature-of-the-left.aspx
http://www.newsweek.com/id/186974/page/1
http://thentherewaslight.com/515_israel-apartheid-week-preaching-hate-choir-2/
See this disgusting poster.