{"article":{"id":267287,"heading":" Anti-Israel Radicalism's Genocidal Nature at UC Davis","author":" Dr. Richard L. Cravatts","created":"2015-02-07 20:25:18","modified":"2015-02-18 04:27:42","last_modified":"Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:27:42","article":"
In a morally coherent world, the chilling statement “Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis” would not have been spoken publicly, and certainly not by an elected student leader at an American public university.
But in California, the veritable epicenter of academic anti-Israelism and its attendant stealth jihad, this statement, spoken last week by student leader Azka Fayyaz during a divestment resolution debate at the University of California, Davis, is par for the course, and indicative of how debased the conversation about the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict has actually become.
Thus, while members of the UC Davis chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and others who supported this noxious vote purport to care solely about the malevolence of Israel and punishing the Jewish state for its political misbehavior and human rights abuses, at least some part of that campaign is clearly to embrace terrorism, as well as the rigid, oppressive precepts of a seventh-century theology comprising the tenets of Islam.
Are those absurd pronouncements by Ms. Fayyaz—that Sharia law and the invidious ideology of Hamas now define, and represent, the university—beliefs that are widely embraced on this American campus? What does Sharia law even have to do with UC Davis in the first place, or for that matter a resolution urging the school to divest from companies that contribute to the defense of Israel?
Does being a supporter of Palestinian self-determination mean that the genocidal Islamist group Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and other nations, is now considered an appropriate group worthy of support and adulation?
The fact that a student leader can proudly and publicly proclaim allegiance to and alignment with the aspirations of Hamas, a thugocracy of genocidal murderers..., is frightening.
What this vote, and Ms. Fayyaz’s perverse utterances, do make clear is that the cognitive war against Israel, both on campuses and in the streets of Europe and the United States, is not just a campaign targeting the Jewish state; it is, in fact, as many observers have been warning about for some time, a broader assault to dismantle Western-style values in the name of a creeping ideological jihad, a cognitive war—with Israel the primary smokescreen with which the human rights activists and others in the hate-Israel movement mask their fundamental revulsion for everything that Western democracies hold dear.
So when pro-Palestinian activists and critics of Israel repeat the claim that Palestinians somehow have an internationally-recognized legal “right” to resist occupation through violent means, Hamas’s very reason for being, they are both legitimizing that terror and helping to insure that its lethal use by Israel’s enemies will continue unabated. Those who lend their moral support to terrorism, and who continually see the existence of “grievance-based violence” as a justifiable tool of the oppressed, have helped introduce a sick moral relativism into discussions about radical Islam and Palestinianism, not to mention Israel’s right to protect its citizens from being slaughtered.
The fact that so many activists feel comfortable with openly supporting a terrorist group with the single purpose of murdering Jews, that they publicly wish for and proclaim, as Ms. Fayyaz just did, that “Israel shall fall insha’Allah,” indicates quite dramatically how acceptable genocidal Jew-hatred has become, both in the streets and on campuses in America and Europe.
This is clearly not, as it is frequently and disinegenuously asserted, merely “criticism” of the Israeli government’s policies; this is what many define as a new permutation of anti-Semitism—an irrational, seething animus against the Jew of nations, Israel, the wish for Jews to be murdered as part of “resistance,” and for Israel itself to be destroyed, all muddled in a disingenuous brew of human rights rhetoric and Western self-hatred.
The fact that a student leader can proudly and publicly proclaim allegiance to and alignment with the aspirations of Hamas, a thugocracy of genocidal murderers who could care less about a distinct Palestinian state, let alone an Arab sovereign entity living “side by side in peace” with Israel, is frightening. Evidently, there has been a profound moral blindness on the part of pro-Palestinian activists in not recognizing that the foundational document by which Hamas was established—the 1988 Hamas Charter—is animated with genocidal Jew-hatred, replete with a global strategy to extirpate Israel and murder Jews, wherever they may live, based on millennial dreams of apocalyptic jihad.
While Israel’s campus enemies at UC Davis and elsewhere feel free to speak against it in the most destructive and venomous way possible, as occurred last week, at the same time, pro-Israel, anti-terrorism voices are marginalized, disregarded, shouted down, or denounced as hate speech, unworthy of being part of an ongoing, vigorous debate, and deserving only of being punished and silenced by those who want only one side of the debate to be heard in what should be a vigorous, thoughtful debate in the ‘marketplace of ideas.'
Obviously, last week’s successful resolution vote signaled to many pro-Palestinian students that not only did they no longer have to apologize for Islamic terror, they could proudly, and publicly, swear allegiance to Hamas while screaming “Allah Akbar” at Jewish students during the divestment vote (a phrase which, among others, the 9\/11 hijackers screamed moments before their jets crashed into the twin towers).
There is no explanation for why educated and well-intentioned individuals, experiencing paroxysms of moral self-righteousness in which they are compelled to speak out for the perennial victim, can loudly and publicly advocate for the murder of Jews—who already have created and live in a viable sovereign state—on behalf a group of genocidal enemies of Israel whose tragic condition may well be their own doing, and, at any rate, is the not the sole fault of Israel’s.
That these activists are willing, and ready, to sacrifice the Jewish state, and Jewish lives, in the name of social justice and a specious campaign of self-determination by Palestinian Arabs, shows how morally corrupt and deadly the conversation about human rights has become—both on campuses and outside the ivy walls.
“The whole problem with the world,” observed philosopher Bertrand Russell, “is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” On the UC Davis campus, fools and fanatics may have prevailed in the current vote, but, in doing so, seem to have revealed the true nature of their genocidal, anti-Semitic hatred.
And its lethal nature and intent should frighten us all.\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/Articles\/Article.aspx\/16417#.VNZz7ixCmVo","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Again the anti-semitism at the heart of the BDS movement surfaces","numcomment":12,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/02\/267287.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":267288,"heading":"BDS targets the jewish state","article":"Well, duh.","author":"Ali McCrack","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2015-02-08 02:36:41","modified":"2015-02-08 02:36:41","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sen.jpgkqp7aq.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sen.jpgkqp7aq.jpg"}},{"id":267293,"heading":"Israel Targets Itself","article":"The criminal state of Israel targets all Jews with their racist hate and greed by association.\r\nThey make all their enemies by own actions.\r\nget real.","author":"cut the BS","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-08 15:23:30","modified":"2015-02-08 15:23:30","fileurl":""},{"id":267346,"heading":"Springtime for Sheepshit","article":"Don't be stupid\r\nBe a smarty\r\nCome and join\r\nthe Nazi Party.","author":"laughing man idVer:50110cd94540727534e1ff13a2","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-13 02:41:25","modified":"2015-02-13 04:04:41","fileurl":""},{"id":267351,"heading":"laughing now","article":"And this from a whacked out cult of "Genocidal" racist ubermench, Zionists. \r\nThese dickweeds never have a clue just how petty, pompous and paranoid they show themselves to be.. ","author":"'Genocidal' ha ha ha ha ha","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-13 14:53:51","modified":"2015-02-13 14:53:51","fileurl":""},{"id":267372,"heading":"still laughing","article":"Stasi Sheepdog is, as we've always known, a deeply mentally disturbed Nazi, still living in the past. \r\n\r\nWith the knowledge that it emigrated from East Berlin, it's easy to understand how it hates the Jews as Daddy Adolf did. Adolf destroyed his own country, and Stasidog still can't face it. \r\n\r\nTurn your rage where it belongs, Stasi Dog.","author":"laughing man idVer:50110cd94540727534e1ff13a2","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-15 04:41:58","modified":"2015-02-15 04:41:58","fileurl":""},{"id":267384,"heading":"ha","article":"no one and I mean no one ( except the mentally infirm or an obsessive Zionist ) even care about the Nazi cult.\r\n And they should know the "zi" in Nazi stands for Zionist.","author":"'Genocidal' paranoids","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-16 03:51:56","modified":"2015-02-16 03:51:56","fileurl":""},{"id":267385,"heading":"Springtime for Sheepshit","article":"How about that? All of a sudden the old senile Nazi forgets its own language, that it doesn't know "National sozialist".\r\n\r\nDaddy Hitler destroyed your country. Accept it.","author":"laughing man idVer:50110cd94540727534e1ff13a2","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-16 04:00:47","modified":"2015-02-16 04:00:47","fileurl":""},{"id":267389,"heading":"springtime in Palestine","article":"meet an old friend there.\r\nYou little cult's association with the NaZis.\r\n","author":"'Genocidal' whack job Zionists","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2015-02-16 15:15:58","modified":"2015-02-16 15:15:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zionazi.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zionazi.jpg"}},{"id":267392,"heading":"cult association","article":"Old Nazis. What are they good for? ","author":"in the know","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2015-02-16 21:56:37","modified":"2015-02-17 02:31:32","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hitler-a-muslim.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hitler-a-muslim.jpg"}},{"id":267393,"heading":"question","article":""And they should know the "zi" in Nazi stands for Zionist."\r\n\r\nMight it mean "Muzzi" too?","author":"just wondering idVer:346eb86faf7029ccda464c9b","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-16 23:26:59","modified":"2015-02-16 23:26:59","fileurl":""},{"id":267400,"heading":"the coin of truth","article":"if you must post, at least post something real.\r\nThis coin is real. Nazis in Palestine.\r\nIt still is. They still are and they're committing genocide.","author":"other","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2015-02-17 19:14:34","modified":"2015-02-17 19:14:34","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zionazi.jpgcxv3cn.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zionazi.jpgcxv3cn.jpg"}},{"id":267405,"heading":"sad little Nazi","article":"You shall have 72 sheep in Paradise.","author":"Haj Amin al-Husseini idVer:de771d9fdcb75be30d","parent_id":267287,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-02-18 04:27:42","modified":"2015-02-19 15:44:44","fileurl":""}]}