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Editorial ArticleThe Orwellian Lobby for Neve Gordonby Steven Plaut Neve Gordon makes Ilan Pappe look like a serious academic and a patriotic Zionist. He makes Micah Leshem and Yuval Yonay look rational and pro-Israel. It is always amusing watching the Israeli Academic Fifth Column joining anti-Semites from all over the world, rushing out to defend the right of anyone to smear Israel and Jews, and to defend the most mind-bogging falsehoods and blatant fabrications in the name of "academic freedom." These are invariably the very same people who oppose freedom of speech for those who disagree with their own political agendas and, in particular, oppose freedom of expression for those who think Israel has the right to exist and the right to defend itself. They no doubt see the Swedish newspaper's "report" of Jews harvesting body parts of dead Palestinians to be a great manifestation of freedom of speech and academic freedom. But they are the last people on earth to defend freedom of speech for anyone expressing an unfashionable, politically incorrect, or patriotic opinion, while at the same time cheering on Neo-Fascist attacks on freedom of speech when they are adopted by far leftists. So out trot the members of the Gordon Lobby to defend Neve Gordon's call for a worldwide boycott of Israel and its institutions. Out come these heroic people pretending they do not know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid regime, and so instead they cheer on international efforts designed to end Israel's very existence as if they are battling "apartheid." In the name of "democracy," these people demand that the world impose upon Israel the political agenda of the few dozen people in the country who endorse Neve Gordon's "one-state solution," endlessly and repeatedly promoted by Gordon, a "solution" that does not differ at all from the Rwanda solution, and one rejected by every Israeli Jew except for those few analogues to Taliban John and Lord Haw-Haw who, like Gordon, seek to have the Jews, or at least the Zionists, thrown into the sea. And even more amusing is the pretense by the Academic Fifth Column that they think Gordon is some sort of champion of democracy. A champion of democracy who wants the world to suppress Israeli self-determination and majority rule, and coerce the country into accepting Gordon's own agenda for annihilating Israel. A champion of democracy who misuses the courts to try to suppress the freedom of speech of those who criticize his opinions through SLAPP harassment (for details, see here, here and here ). Anti-democratic SLAPP suits are a favorite tactic of Neo-Fascists and people like David Irving. A champion of democracy who harasses his own students if they fail to toe his anti-Zionist line (for details, see here), a champion of democracy who refuses to allow pro-Israel opinion to be voiced in his classes, a champion of democracy whose hatred of Israel and Jews is so venomous that it is regularly regularly carried on Neo-Nazi, Holocaust Denial, and jihadi web sites and newspapers, including the official Iranian regime newspaper. A champion of democracy who served as a human shield for murderers and terrorists being hidden by Yassir Arafat, interfering illegally with IDF anti-terror operations. A champion of democracy who misuses his academic position to smear army officers and to attempt to get them indicted overseas in kangaroo courts as "war criminals" (for details, see here). And no less amusing is the pretense by such people that they are not aware of the scores of "academics" at Israeli universities who have built careers upon little more than turning out charlatan anti-Israel hate propaganda, pseudo-academics hired and promoted by their ideological comrades inside the system. DePaul University can fire an anti-Semitic pseudo-academic with no serious scholarly achievements (for details, see here), as can other schools in the democratic world, but at Israeli universities similar people are retained and granted tenure in the name of "academic freedom." Then there is the sudden outrage on the part of the Academic Fifth Column at the prospect of donors to Israeli universities exercising THEIR freedom of speech about such things, and at the growing signs that donors and elected officials are refusing to pony up cash for sedition and hate propaganda. And anyone who thinks the Israeli taxpayer and his elected representatives will sit back endlessly as academic freedom is abused by the Academic Fifth Column and campuses are turning into little anti-Zionist indoctrination centers should think again. For more details see: |