Hate Spaces Gives a Horrifying Glimpse Into Anti-Israel, Antisemitic Activity on US Campuses

[ericson00]

https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/11/27/hate-spaces-gives-a-horrifying-glimpse-into-anti-israel-antisemitic-activity-on-us-campuses/

“Hate Spaces” is a documentary film produced by Ralph Avi Goldwasser and Americans for Peace and Tolerance, who also gave us “The J Street Challenge,” and as the full title suggests, it describes the recent surge of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activity on American university campuses.
I’ve written about the phenomenon more than once, so I didn’t expect to be surprised by anything in the film. But despite knowing about the various incidents described, the sheer volume and intensity of them taken together left me shaken. Yes, shaken, and I’m not easy to shake.

I was an academic for a short time some decades ago, and the combination of ideological intensity and insulation from the real world that characterizes many students and faculty is not entirely unfamiliar to me, but I couldn’t have imagined that it would focus this way, on one group and one target – my people and my country.

Student activism has always centered on freedom, anti-authoritarianism, opposition to oppression of minorities and support for civil rights, especially free speech. What is happening on campuses is that these principles are being twisted so that the outcome, rather than a reduction in oppression and increased human rights, is the intimidation, marginalization, silencing and even persecution of Jewish and (especially) pro-Israel students.

and people wonder how Trump even managed a quarter of the Jewish vote and why many Jews aren't into Ellison; the left needs to clean house and restore its credibility BADLY.

[oberliner]

1. This is a major issue on many college campuses around the US and the world

It's a shame that only right-wingers seem interested in talking about it. I know some Democrats and progressives have occasionally made some noise about this problem, but not enough in my opinion.

[leftynyc]

3. Disgusting

I have an online Jewish friend whose son goes to Oberlin - the news out of there has been pretty ubiquitous but in short an assistant professor just recently got fired for her anti-Israel and anti-semitic posts on facebook. The day after this cretin got what she deserved, a Jewish professor's house was vandalized and the professor was threatened. If Ellison gets the nod at the DNC, they wont get one fucking dime from me.