Israeli Flag Is Offensive, Bush=Hitler Poster Not So Much

WhackingDay has a mind-numbing and yet utterly predictable story up today about how he was asked to remove the flag of Israel from his office door because it was “offensive.” The Australian National University seems to be like many American campuses today. Department listservs are regularly used to publicize anti-American and anti-Israel rallies, there is routine and public castigation of conservatives on the assumption that everyone in the room is liberal, and snide political posters are hung on many of the walls and office doors. Regarding the last, one of the office decorations that I remember most prominently from my time at Pitt (excluding the random Che pictures and annoying anti-Bush chain emails posted on half of the office doors) was this giant version of that annoying “Clone of the Attack” poster that hung in the hallway of the political science department. So the environment that he describes is familiar. And while I’m not sure that we’ve reached a point yet on most campuses in America where the Israeli flag would be banned as outright offensive (although that could definitely happen on some campuses – Columbia, I’m look at you here), the dangerous alliance between openly anti-Semitic Muslim groups and the traditional Left has certainly been growing. (Via Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiler)