A LIFE THREATENING DISEASE - II

Like the corona virus, the new anti-Semitism has mutated so that practitioners of it can deny that they are anti-Semites. “After all”, they’ll say, “I’m not a racist. I have no problem with Jews or Judaism. I only have a problem with the State of Israel”. But in a world of 56 Muslim nations and 103 Christian ones, there is only one Jewish state, which constitutes one-quarter of one per cent of the land mass of the Middle East!

Israel is the only one of the 193 member nations of the United Nations that has its right to exist regularly challenged, with one state, Iran, and other groups, committed to its destruction.

How come the Jews have been  “chosen” for thousands of years as the world’s scapegoats whenever a crisis emerges? At the time of Jesus, Jews were hated because of their religion. At the time of Hitler they were hated because of their race. Today, since the leading source of authority worldwide is “human rights” Israel is regularly accused of crimes against humanity: racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing - and whatever else can be trumped up.

The fact that Israel is the only fully functioning democracy in the Middle East with a free press and independent judiciary is apparently of no consequence. The quality of life enjoyed by Israel’s Arab citizens is higher than that of the average citizen in all 56 Muslim nations.

What is hardest to understand is the fact that anti-Semitism is not only prevalent among the “ignorant” but has evolved from the highly educated scholars of academia.

In Britain for example, a wave of discrimination against Jews has swept through the universities over recent decades. Some universities are even Judenreim and not only in Britain.

As Robert Festenstein of the UK's Jewish Human Rights Watch - who has been working for years to combat antisemitism in British universities - said: "Jews are being educationally ethnically cleansed from certain universities in the UK".

The objective of today's academic bullies is not so much to drive the Jews out but to shut them up and shut them down — to suppress any dissent from their own radical anti-Zionist agenda aimed at delegitimising the Jewish state. They often succeed, forcing Jews to go elsewhere, to keep quiet about facts regarding Israel, and even to cause them to hide their Jewish identity.

Quite understandably, many young Jews just want to get on with their studies and their lives. They avoid engaging in potentially damaging political confrontations, which could also have adverse effects on their examination results and employment prospects.

Why should any Jew, or any member of any race or religion for that matter, be victimised because of who they are? Why should any proud Jew, who wants to express his or her support for the Jewish state, be afraid to do so? In any civilised society it must be possible to openly put across the opposing argument without fear.

David Collier is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Berkeley  University, and works in the fields of comparative politics. After intensive research, he claims that   Wikipedia is doing more damage to historicity and to the Jews, and especially anyone with Zionist leanings, than any other media outlet on the planet.

Even though Wikipedia has a caveat that its material may not be accurate, the fake/distorted information, especially when it comes to Israel, is copied and reused by millions of people.