Part Two, as promised:
Australian anti-Semites are having a field day at college campuses, apparently.
Anti-Semitic attacks were up worldwide this summer, coinciding, of course, with Israel being in the news for the war with Hezbullah. I’m betting you can search high and low and not find a single attack on a Muslim or Arab as a result of the war, but hey, I’m biased.
But to Australian universities:
Daniel Wyner is used to robust debate. A senior figure in the Australasian Union of Jewish Students, he moves around Melbourne campuses arguing for Israel. But he was taken aback recently when a Monash lecturer confronted him, almost incoherent with rage, and called him a Zionist oppressor and f—ing racist.
[…] “I’ve been at La Trobe, Deakin and Melbourne too. The problems, the anti-Semitism, the vilification we feel as students on campus are coming almost entirely from the left. The Socialist Alternative (a left-wing student group), they just latch on to a cause which isn’t theirs to try to make it their own by twisting it,” Wyner says.
[…] At Melbourne University, security staff had to keep apart the Students Against War and Racism and a group of mostly Liberal Club members waving Israeli flags. Tensions flared, insults were traded and observers said only a handful of guards prevented the conflict becoming physical. The vice-chancellors of both Melbourne and Sydney universities called for calm, saying that while vigorous debate was acceptable, vilification was not.
And yet, vilification is exactly what Israel gets on most college campuses these days.
In Sydney some Jewish students feel so intimidated that they are wearing hats over their kippahs (skull caps). In Melbourne they are more defiant, but they are concerned.
“There’s a real feeling of threat,” says Deon Kamien, Victorian president of the Union of Jewish Students. “It’s not something I can put in words. A lot of students who would feel very comfortable wearing a kippah or T-shirt with Hebrew words on it now feel they are being targeted as Jews — not supporters of Israel, but Jews. When they walk past socialist stalls (on campus) they are called f—ing Jews.”
Again, this is what I have been saying for years: It isn’t anti-Zionism. It isn’t even anti-Israelism. It’s anti-Semitism, plain, naked, open hate.
The answer, they are convinced, is that latent anti-Semitism is resurfacing. A Christian observer at Melbourne University, who did not want to be named, certainly thinks that’s the explanation in this city. He says “Jew-baiting” is rising, as opponents try to turn anti-Israel sentiment to anti-Jewish. “Socialists bait Jewish students. The intention is to get Jewish students to fight back so they can use them. It’s a deliberate incitement of people’s emotions to generate conflict.”
The Socialist Alternative tactics are outlined in an in-house publication.
Discussing an incident at Melbourne, when a socialist stall was overturned, Daniel L. says the best response is to “immediately make a huge fuss — denounce them loudly, screaming ‘you’re a murderer, you support George Bush’s war, you support killing innocent people in the Middle East, you’re fascist scum’ and so forth. When we did this it had a huge polarising effect with people coming up afterwards to show their support. Often this was from the point of view of freedom of speech, rather than a willingness to support fighting Israel. But that doesn’t change the fact that it is excellent terrain for us.”
One writer, Vashti, says “two young Lebanese guys came up and asked if they could beat up the Zionists”.
Daniel says of this: “They knew which side they were on and were willing to fight. We do not want to start fights with the Liberals ourselves, but if Lebanese people do it’s a good thing and we’re f—ing well with them.”
Right. The students are perfectly willing to farm out their anti-Jew violence, not unlike what Iran and Syria are doing via Hezbullah and other terrorists groups. Colleges are a microcosm of the world. I learned that while I was in college. It reflects the events outside campus, and here we have a perfect example of the college socalists advocating violence—by someone else—against Jews. After all, they’re not really Jews, they’re Zionists, right?
In the meantime, Muslims are effectively left alone on Australian campuses.
Omran says there has not been a single report of Muslim students being intimidated, but Muslims are nevertheless increasingly frustrated. “They feel the world is walking all over them, that Muslim blood is very cheap, of less importance, that there’s a blatant attempt to demonise anyone of Islamic faith by politicians or certain parts of the media. This can only lead to radicalisation, and we should look forward to more extremism.”
You have to love it. Muslims are not victims, but they’re complaining that they feel like victims, and are threatening “extremism.” Jewish students are being victimized—sometimes violently—and they’re—following protocol and writing letters and filing complaints.
But Jews are the ones being vilified.
One thing you learn about being Jewish: It may not be rabbit season or duck season, but it’s always Jew season. And college campuses are the training grounds for our world’s future leaders.
Jews are in trouble. Again.
The eternal question is how do we most effectively combat this.
The absolute worst response to this is engaging these pukes in debate. They should be exposed and marginalized.