Jewish Groups Cacoon Themselves
If you can't make things better, pretend that you've made things better:
"After many years of seeing the campus as a burden or liability, the pro-Israel community is coming to see the campus as a potential asset to the American pro-Israel movement," said Jonathan Kessler, director of leadership development at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "What an incredible turnaround."
Back in the real world persistent Israel-bashing in American classrooms starts at the top and filters its way down through graduate students - who are trying both to curry favor with and outright imitate their professors - to the undergraduate population:
A new survey of attitudes toward Israel among graduate students at top US universities offers a disturbing, if not frightening, picture of increasing sympathy for the Palestinian cause and blame on the Jewish state for the lack of peace...
Many of the students come from homes sympathetic to Israel, Luntz reported, but through exposure to university professors and mainstream media have grown "impatient" with Israel and emotionally connected to the Palestinian cause, to the point of rationalizing Palestinian suicide bombings and coming to see Israel as a "burden" to the United States rather than "an ally."
Many of the students come from homes sympathetic to Israel, Luntz reported, but through exposure to university professors and mainstream media have grown "impatient" with Israel and emotionally connected to the Palestinian cause, to the point of rationalizing Palestinian suicide bombings and coming to see Israel as a "burden" to the United States rather than "an ally."
In today's academy, calling yourself a Communist gets you an ethos of faux bravado, as if anyone in the last few decades has been denied tenure for being too far Left. These are places where the problem with Dean is that he is too pro-business and launching pro-NPR campaigns over email lists is par for the course. Professors who are uninformed about the Middle East conflict feel no compunctions against randomly dropping smug anti-Israel lines in everything from English to Classics to Anthropology classes. Describing yourself as a Zionist will bring the same gasps and murmuring from a seminar that you'd get if you called yourself a racist.
"After many years of seeing the campus as a burden or liability, the pro-Israel community is coming to see the campus as a potential asset to the American pro-Israel movement," said Jonathan Kessler, director of leadership development at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "What an incredible turnaround."
Back in the real world persistent Israel-bashing in American classrooms starts at the top and filters its way down through graduate students - who are trying both to curry favor with and outright imitate their professors - to the undergraduate population:
A new survey of attitudes toward Israel among graduate students at top US universities offers a disturbing, if not frightening, picture of increasing sympathy for the Palestinian cause and blame on the Jewish state for the lack of peace...
Many of the students come from homes sympathetic to Israel, Luntz reported, but through exposure to university professors and mainstream media have grown "impatient" with Israel and emotionally connected to the Palestinian cause, to the point of rationalizing Palestinian suicide bombings and coming to see Israel as a "burden" to the United States rather than "an ally."
Many of the students come from homes sympathetic to Israel, Luntz reported, but through exposure to university professors and mainstream media have grown "impatient" with Israel and emotionally connected to the Palestinian cause, to the point of rationalizing Palestinian suicide bombings and coming to see Israel as a "burden" to the United States rather than "an ally."
In today's academy, calling yourself a Communist gets you an ethos of faux bravado, as if anyone in the last few decades has been denied tenure for being too far Left. These are places where the problem with Dean is that he is too pro-business and launching pro-NPR campaigns over email lists is par for the course. Professors who are uninformed about the Middle East conflict feel no compunctions against randomly dropping smug anti-Israel lines in everything from English to Classics to Anthropology classes. Describing yourself as a Zionist will bring the same gasps and murmuring from a seminar that you'd get if you called yourself a racist.
