Wednesday Jul 23, 2008
Posted by Dr. Mitchell Bard
Another academic year has come and gone and the big news was that there was little news from the campus. This was a year dominated by positive stories, the enthusiasm for Barack Obama and nationwide Israel at 60 celebrations.
The year began with fears that professors Walt and Mearsheimer would infect students with their venomous inventions about the Israeli lobby, but they barely caused a ripple. Their long-term impact in the classroom as their book is adopted in Middle East courses may yet be corrosive, but their immediate impact was nil.
There were the usual handful of anti-Semitic incidents to report, but nothing unusual in terms of either quality or quantity. The truth is that anti-Semitism is not a problem on American campuses.
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Michael Thaler: M. Thaler, San Francisco, Sunday, Jan.4, 2009
Most anti-Israel incidents at Berkeley go unremarked because of self-censorship by the "liberal student body, faculty and surrounding community", while Hillel and other "proactive" Jewish organizations hide in the bushes, and covertly side with an openly antagonistic campus administration. Consequently, it has become increasingly "inconvenient" for students to reveal their Jewishness openly, let alone a pro- Israel position. Is this "proactive" ghettoization of future Jewish leaders a mere inconvenience or a serious problem for American Jewry?
DAJ USA: Bard is either lacking in historical perspective or is misguidedly indifferent. If that Yale vote had happened 35 years ago - say in the early 70's - the results would have been in the reverse, in favor of maintaining that special relationship. Israel needs more, not less friends, in this world.
J.S. Robinson Botswana: @ T.W.
So, once again, we will judge over a billion people by the acts of the minority, because Islam is the necessary boogeyman of the 21st century, and Muslims as a collective appear to have PA issues.
I agree with David - most students probably just don't care.
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