Inside the Middle East: Columbia's Israelis

So who cares. Rubenstein was a leftist for so many years till he finally sees the light in his old age. Everybody understands that Israelis choosing to live abroad are not as decent as those choosing not to leave. It's the same with all countries.

Israeli who live abroad have done their duty and sacrafied alot. It is normal for Israeli to leave the country and go to American or elsewhere. Like any citizen of country. Sometimes you like your country and sometimes you do not like your country. No different than anybody from any country.

As for Orthodox Jewish Students - Let me go to Israel & fight. Let them go to Israel and go through exactly what every Israeli goes through. How Quickly for diaspora Jews to judge and learn to understand the reasons why???

And then people want to know why Americans are "anti-intellectual." You really have to wonder what the point of a university education is. To parrot the absurd ravings and jargon of self-appointed arbiters? I'm talking about the social "sciences," of course, not the subjects that deal with verifiable facts, like the sciences and mathematics.

I remembered thinking when I read Rubinstein's article how ironic it was for a leftist to express his disappointment in other leftists.

They may be further to the left than he is, but he and others like him helped lead the way/open the floodgates. They are of his (and other leftists) making! So now he wants to distance himself from them? I guess that that Jewish guilt must be kicking in...big time.

He needs to take a good long look in the mirror and search deep inside his soul...and take responsibility! He is NOT blameless.

The Islamofascists and the Left have a love affair based on their shared anitpathy to the West. At its core, the idea is simple: Arabs and other thrid-world people are always blameless because they are always victims. Edward Said made an entire career out of this idea, essentially accusing anyone of racism who dared criticize third world people.
Thanks in part to Said, reverse discrimination is de rigeur in academia today. Ibn Warraq debunks this thinking in his new book, "Defending the West".

The cowardice of Jews on university campuses is a very old story - too bad it is not limited to college life . Just take a look at the nitwits rushing to join in Obama-mania - they turn away whenever you ask them about why Obama chose Min.Wright's church . As for the yordim who bash Israel , they are an especially pathetic bunch - Rubinstein's account of his experience at Columbia was depressing, but hardly surprising.

"I remembered thinking when I read Rubinstein's article how ironic it was for a leftist to express his disappointment in other leftists"

Ooooh, it's happening, slowly, but it's happening...

I know loads of lefties who have lost patience with jihad and who have woken up to the treatment of all of those once-lefty causes: women, blacks, gays, and yup, once upon a time Jews.

My only hope is that the numbers rejoining reality aren't smaller than those who fall for the po-mo worldview that paints victims as aggressors, tyrants as heroes, etc, etc

the real significance of the issue here is that thousands of american university students are being constantly exposed to anti-israel rhetoric on a daily basis by leftist arabist professors. expatriate israeli professors often add to the rubbish being taught.
unfortunately these students are being inculcated with propaganda under the guise of intellectualism. they however are the future leaders on the u.s. that is the problem and these dishonest professors are contributing to it.

The question that Amnon Rubinstein needs to ask himself is whether a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish state of mind can be sustained for more than one generation by "professed and impassioned secular" Jews whose "Judaism is national and cultural". Rubinstein's characterization of religious Judaism as primarily about "temptations of paradise, the punishment of hell, ...or the revival of the dead" shows that his concept of Judaism is very shallow, for someone who has the intellect that he obviously has.