The U.K. is telling its universities that they have to actually start clamping down on anti-Semitism on campus. Big job. I wonder if they can.
The government is due today to unveil steps universities must take to stamp out campus anti-semitism.
The communities minister, Phil Woolas, is expected to announce that the police should use existing powers under the Public Order Act 1986 to prosecute Islamic extremists, and others, if they make any speeches on campus which are anti-semitic.
Universities are expected to be told to keep a record of any complaints about anti-semitic behaviour, which would include statements or speeches made by students.
Here’s my favorite part:
The report said it was unreasonable for universities to boycott academics who work in Israel because that was an affront to academic freedom. The MPs added that university vice-chancellors’ response to dealing with the problem was “patchy” and it called on them to tackle the issue “vigorously”.
Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors and has been involved in discussions with the government about campus political extremism, refused to comment on any government proposals ahead of today’s announcement.
And here comes the Islamophobia whine:
But any attempt to recruit lecturers into a “policing” role is likely to be rejected after the University and College Union warned in October its members would not be “sucked into a kind of anti-Muslim McCarthyism”.
We’ll see if anything changes. I’m thinking not.
Sad to say that Universities have to be told by the government to eradicate anti-Semitism. It shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Obviously any attempt to get rid of antisemitism (which is actually a euphimism for Judenhasse) is by definition anti-Muslim McCarthyism.
Just because McCarthy lied about his political opponents and waved blank pieces of paper does not mean that there were not actual traitors around. I’ve often wondered if he was not part of a conspiracy to discredit the anti-communist movement. That would make a great conspiracy or spy story.
And how long before someone “clarifies” that they’re only talking about anti-Semitic speech, and not “anti-Zionist” speech?
Apparently it’s not just in the universities.
Actually Sue Blackwell and her cronies were kicked out in a putsch British anti-Zionists Purge the anti-Racists
by Atzmon and Shamir/He is a Swedish neonazi named Jöran Jermas, London Times Exposes Columnist “Israel Shamir” as Swedish neo-Nazi just a short while ago.
I read that. But she’s not concerned about the lack of an anti-Israel boycott. She’s concerned with her anti-Israel actions being conflated with anti-Semitism due to the anti-Semites that are rampant in the anti-Israel movements.
In other words, fuck what Sue Blackwell thinks. She’s enabled the haters for years.
Ah. They finally outed Shamir and he’s not a Jew? How surprised I am. Not.