Anti-Semitism on California Campuses

• The problem on campuses across the country is that pro-Palestinian activists, in their zeal to seek self-affirmation, statehood, and "social justice," have waged an extremely caustic cognitive war against Israel and Jews.
  
• Being pro-Palestinian on campuses today does not necessarily mean that one is committed to helping Palestinians be productive, live well, build a free and open nation or create a civil society with transparent government, a free press, human rights, and a representative government.
  
• What being pro-Palestinian seems to have come to mean is continually denigrating and attacking Israel with a false historical narrative and the grotesquely misused language of human rights. What is claimed to be anti-Israel sentiment often rises to the level of raw anti-Semitism.
  
• It is enough to make Jewish students, whether or not they care about Israel at all, uncomfortable, unsafe, or even hated on their own campuses.
  

The California university system seems to have the dubious distinction of being the epicenter of the campus war against Israel. The situation that has apparently reached such intolerable levels that the Board of Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) was forced to take some action. This effort resulted in a study entitled the "Final Report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance." The study attempts to establish guidelines by which any discrimination against a minority group on campus would be identified and censured. The report, however, specifically focused on the thorny issue of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism as a prevalent and ugly reality throughout the California university system.

The report examined a range of incidents that occurred during the 2014-15 academic year. It cited unfortunate transgressions that "included vandalism targeting property associated with Jewish people or Judaism; challenges to the candidacies of Jewish students seeking to assume representative positions within student government; political, intellectual and social dialogue that is anti-Semitic; and social exclusion and stereotyping." The problem on California campuses, and on campuses across the country, is apparently that pro-Palestinian activists, in their zeal to seek self-affirmation, statehood, and "social justice" for Palestinians, have waged -- presumably as a tactic in achieving those ends -- an extremely caustic cognitive war against Israel and Jews. That, however, appears to be just part of a larger, more invidious intellectual jihad against Israel led by some of those in the Muslim world together with some Western elites who also wish to weaken, and ultimately destroy, the Jewish state.

Being pro-Palestinian on campuses today, it turns out, does not necessarily mean that one is committed to helping the Palestinians be productive, live well, build a free and open nation or create a civil society with transparent government, a free press, human rights, and a representative government. Being pro-Palestinian on campus today involves very little that actually benefits or makes more likely the birth of a new Palestinian state that will live side by side in peace with Israel. What being pro-Palestinian seems to have come to mean is continually denigrating and attacking Israel with a false historical narrative and the grotesquely misused language of human rights.
The moral uprightness that anti-Israel activists feel in denouncing what they perceive to be Israel's supposedly "racist," "apartheid" character, combined with its purportedly being an "illegal occupier of stolen Muslim land," has manifested itself in ideological assaults against Zionism, Israel, and, by extension, Jews in general.

Of great concern to those who have observed the invidious byproduct of this radicalism, including the Regents Working Group, is the frequent appearance of what is claimed to be anti-Israel sentiment, which often rises to the level of raw anti-Semitism, when criticism of Israel bleeds into a darker, more sinister level of hatred. It is enough to make Jewish students, whether or not they care about Israel at all, uncomfortable, unsafe, or even hated on their own campuses.

Being pro-Palestinian on campus today seems to have come to mean continually denigrating and attacking Israel with a false historical narrative and the grotesquely misused language of human rights, which often rises to the level of raw anti-Semitism. (Image source: Hamas on Campus video screenshot)

A 2014 study commissioned by then-UC President Mark G. Yudof, to measure the climate faced by Jewish students, found that

"Jewish students are confronting significant and difficult climate issues as a result of activities on campus which focus specifically on Israel, its right to exist and its treatment of Palestinians. The anti-Zionism and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movements and other manifestations of anti-Israel sentiment and activity create significant issues through themes and language which portray Israel and, many times, Jews in ways which project hostility, engender a feeling of isolation, and undermine Jewish students' sense of belonging and engagement with outside communities."

If anything, since that study was written, matters have gone from bad to worse. This latest report only affirmed Yudov's earlier findings, and stated more specifically, that

"Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California. Most members of the University community agree with this conclusion and would agree further that the University should strive to create an equal learning environment for all students."

The reference to anti-Zionism being henceforth prohibited as unacceptable speech or behavior received immediate and thunderous denunciation from, not surprisingly, those very groups and individuals who have been the worst perpetrators -- groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Student Association, Jewish Voice for Peace and other groups, students and faculty who supposedly support human rights. They have been joined in their outrage by supposedly "free speech advocates" and others who feel that guidelines proscribing speech about a topic that many see as merely political is contrary to the notion of academic free speech -- not to mention unconstitutional in seeking to censor people's speech at all.

However, the guidelines crafted by the Regents were not cobbled together for the purpose of criminalizing or suppressing free speech. One of the difficulties pro-Israel groups and activists have had in making the Regents see the necessity of a workable code for gauging what is, and what is not, anti-Semitism has been the difficulty university officials themselves have had in knowing when pro-Palestinian activism on their campuses has become something more in keeping with the elements of classic anti-Semitism. For that very reason, pro-Israel groups had encouraged the Regents to incorporate in their report the working definition of anti-Semitismused by the U.S. Department of State, which defines anti-Semitism existing as

"Using the symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism to characterize Israel or Israelis; drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis; blaming Israel for all inter-religious or political tensions; ... applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation; ... denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, and denying Israel the right to exist..."

These are exactly the type of attitudes and accusations expressed regularly on California campuses.
If the UC system adopts the use of the State Department's working definition of anti-Semitism, and incorporates it into the "principles against intolerance," does that mean, as critics of the principles have suggested, that the free speech of pro-Palestinian activists will be suppressed, censored, or punished? Not even slightly. Pro-Palestinian students and faculty can continue to sponsor virulent "Israel Apartheid Week" events, promote annual divestment and boycott resolutions against Israel, construct mock "apartheid walls," hang blood-strewn Israeli flags, accuse Israel supporters of being racist and genocidal, give tacit support to the murder of Jews by being apologists for Palestinian terror, and continue to chant "Long live Intifada." They can continue supporting murderous Arab campaigns against Israeli civilians, and chanting, "Palestine will be free, from the River to the Sea" -- meaning that a new Palestinian state should displace Israel, not exist in peace beside it. They will still enjoy their constitutionally-protected right to speak freely and in whatever manner they choose, even if that speech is corrosive, factually defective, hate-filled, biased, historically-inaccurate, defamatory, and what is usually defined as "hate speech."

The existence of the "principles against intolerance" and the working definition of anti-Semitism will not prevent anyone from spewing forth whatever intellectual sewage he or she chooses. But, importantly, administrators will finally have the ability to identify instances when pro-Palestinian activism crosses the line into anti-Semitism. They can then publicly and immediately condemn that speech when it occurs, just as they regularly -- and appropriately -- do if a hangman's noose is found on campus, or slurs are made against gay students, or if students wear little sombreros at a tequila-fueled off-campus party, or if, in those rare instances, Muslim students are characterized as supporters of terror.
University administrators have been reluctant to identify and condemn anti-Semitic behavior and speech when it occurs. Armed with the State Department's working definition and the other language in the "principles against intolerance," school officials will, without moral or ethical qualms, be able to stand up against intolerance when directed at Jewish students and other pro-Israel members of the campus community, as in the past they have been unwilling or unable to do.

Pro-Palestinian activists have been trying to elevate the Palestinian cause by degrading Israel and its supporters with virulent language, slanders, blood libels, and racist inversions of history and fact. As former Harvard president Lawrence Summers put it, they have unleashed forms of expression that are "anti-Semitic in their effect, if not their intent." That is the issue here, and why it is both necessary and important that, in the effort to help Palestinians achieve statehood and promote their cause, another group -- Jewish students and pro-Israel individuals on American campuses -- do not themselves become victims in a struggle for another group's self-determination. This is a situation that leaders on campuses, at least, can now prevent from taking place.

Richard L. Cravatts, PhD, is author of Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews, and president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7701/antisemitism-california-campuses

Cravatts wrote:What being pro-Palestinian seems to have come to mean is continually denigrating and attacking Israel with a false historical narrative and the grotesquely misused language of human rights. What is claimed to be anti-Israel sentiment often rises to the level of raw anti-Semitism.

Yes, but anti-Semitism in a different sense. The term no longer conjures up visions of the horrific crimes of WWII. The expression has morphed into a term that characterizes a regional difference between two nationalities.

As an adjective the term has tempered down somewhat. It now means the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. We already know that is an active, volatile dispute in the world.

As such, it's good that university students take an interest. Berkeley is one of the preeminent universities in the world. It produces the best and brightest minds anywhere...perhaps it will produce statesmen that will bring wisdom and resolution to the conflict.

Original Quill wrote:

Cravatts wrote:What being pro-Palestinian seems to have come to mean is continually denigrating and attacking Israel with a false historical narrative and the grotesquely misused language of human rights. What is claimed to be anti-Israel sentiment often rises to the level of raw anti-Semitism.

Yes, but anti-Semitism in a different sense.  The term no longer conjures up visions of the horrific crimes of WWII.  The expression has morphed into a term that characterizes a regional difference between two nationalities.

As an adjective the term has tempered down somewhat.  It now means the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.  We already know that is an active, volatile dispute in the world.  

As such, it's good that university students take an interest.  Berkeley is one of the preeminent universities in the world.  It produces the best and brightest minds anywhere...perhaps it will produce statesmen that will bring wisdom and resolution to the conflict.

1) Really, I suggest you speak to survivors and the fact the US barred many Jews from seeking sanctuary within the US before the second World War. To claim something based off never even understanding or having a concept of antisemitism is just absurd. You claim to say it does not conjure up visions of horror when around the Arab world there is an industry of antisemitism, where the levels are huge to say the least in the populations, making the racism of African Americans look small fry in comparison

2) Point again missed at every level, where ifd this was any other nation where it ceases top be criticism and hate directed at a people that is racism, plain and simple the point you are missing

3)  It is good there is healthy discussions, but just like black students should have protection whilst attending University from hate, so should any minority. Racism clearly exists against whites, no matter ho much you deny this and continue to downplay antisemitism. This is the problem with the US, racism is rife

Didge wrote: Really, I suggest you speak to survivors and the fact the US barred many Jews from seeking sanctuary within the US before the second World War. To claim something based off never even understanding or having a concept of antisemitism is just absurd. You claim to say it does not conjure up visions of horror when around the Arab world there is an industry of antisemitism, where the levels are huge to say the least in the populations, making the racism of African Americans look small fry in comparison

The period from 1933-1945 was a confusing and difficult time for world-wide Judaism and the world.  But in America it was about one-tenth of the intensity that it was (and still is) for Europeans.  In America we read about antisemitism, but I never really experienced it until I lived in Europe.

The point is that the “concept of antisemitism” is changing.  Thankfully, we see that dark age slipping behind us and into history.  The term comes to mean a newer kind of conflict, in which roles and victims are not quite the same.  

Didge wrote: It is good there is healthy discussions, but just like black students should have protection whilst attending University from hate, so should any minority. Racism clearly exists against whites, no matter ho much you deny this and continue to downplay antisemitism. This is the problem with the US, racism is rife

Berkeley is perhaps the greatest university in the world to reflect and deliberate on controversial issues and events.  It has always been in the forefront of radical efforts and change.  It is telling that this issue comes to Berkeley.  That means it is an issue that needs attention.

Nor should we fear the process.  No one needs protection from ideas.  Indeed, the greater the exposure—the greater the chance to deliberate and decide—the better the education for the individual.  And…the better the institution at doing its job.

Original Quill wrote:
The period from 1933-1945 was a confusing and difficult time for world-wide Judaism and the world.  But in America it was about one-tenth of the intensity that it was (and still is) for Europeans.  In America we read about antisemitism, but I never really experienced it until I lived in Europe. The point is that the “concept of antisemitism” is changing.  Thankfully, we see that dark age slipping behind us and into history.  The term comes to mean a newer kind of conflict, in which roles and victims are not quite the same.  

Berkeley is perhaps the greatest university in the world to reflect and deliberate on controversial issues and events.  It has always been in the forefront of radical efforts and change.  It is telling that this issue comes to Berkeley.  That means it is an issue that needs attention.

Nor should we fear the process.  No one needs protection from ideas.  Indeed, the greater the exposure—the greater the chance to deliberate and decide—the better the education for the individual.  And…the better the institution at doing its job.

We are not seeing anything change as there is a contingent of Muslims that wish to wipe out the Jews, which are a very real threat to Israel itself and the more Muslim immigrants that come to the Us will see a further rise of antisemitism, which is happening within the EU.
The point is this is not trying to stifle debate but pull up those using the conflict to spout hate and to protect minorities from hate. Again what is sadly happening is people are using the conflict to spout hate of the Jews and American Jewish students are constantly targets of this hate.
Its no good saying its different, as the hate has remained consistent for well over a 1000 years. This does not mean all Muslim immigrants hate Jews, but a substantial majority will from certain Muslim majority nations. That is very troubling

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:
The period from 1933-1945 was a confusing and difficult time for world-wide Judaism and the world.  But in America it was about one-tenth of the intensity that it was (and still is) for Europeans.  In America we read about antisemitism, but I never really experienced it until I lived in Europe. The point is that the “concept of antisemitism” is changing.  Thankfully, we see that dark age slipping behind us and into history.  The term comes to mean a newer kind of conflict, in which roles and victims are not quite the same.  

Berkeley is perhaps the greatest university in the world to reflect and deliberate on controversial issues and events.  It has always been in the forefront of radical efforts and change.  It is telling that this issue comes to Berkeley.  That means it is an issue that needs attention.

Nor should we fear the process.  No one needs protection from ideas.  Indeed, the greater the exposure—the greater the chance to deliberate and decide—the better the education for the individual.  And…the better the institution at doing its job.

We are not seeing anything change as there is a contingent of Muslims that wish to wipe out the Jews, which are a very real threat to Israel itself and the more Muslim immigrants that come to the Us will see a further rise of antisemitism, which is happening within the EU.
The point is this is not trying to stifle debate but pull up those using the conflict to spout hate and to protect minorities from hate. Again what is sadly happening is people are using the conflict to spout hate of the Jews and American Jewish students are constantly targets of this hate.
Its no good saying its different, as the hate has remained consistent for well over a 1000 years. This does not mean all Muslim immigrants hate Jews, but a substantial majority will from certain Muslim majority nations. That is very troubling

Well, those are the issues when you climb down into the sand box.

But they are vastly different issues than when WWII ended. That's why I say the meaning of 'antisemitism' has changed so drastically.

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:


We are not seeing anything change as there is a contingent of Muslims that wish to wipe out the Jews, which are a very real threat to Israel itself and the more Muslim immigrants that come to the Us will see a further rise of antisemitism, which is happening within the EU.
The point is this is not trying to stifle debate but pull up those using the conflict to spout hate and to protect minorities from hate. Again what is sadly happening is people are using the conflict to spout hate of the Jews and American Jewish students are constantly targets of this hate.
Its no good saying its different, as the hate has remained consistent for well over a 1000 years. This does not mean all Muslim immigrants hate Jews, but a substantial majority will from certain Muslim majority nations. That is very troubling

Well, those are the issues when you climb down into the sand box.  

But they are vastly different issues than when WWII ended.  That's why I say the meaning of 'antisemitism' has changed so drastically.

Which shows again how little you understand the problem and how again Islamic groups wish to finish what Hitler could not do.

So there is nothing different at all and when you have people wishing to see the destruction of Israel in the US coming from the far right, the left and Muslims, that is a troubling factor indeed

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Well, those are the issues when you climb down into the sand box.  

But they are vastly different issues than when WWII ended.  That's why I say the meaning of 'antisemitism' has changed so drastically.

Which shows again how little you understand the problem and how again Islamic groups wish to finish what Hitler could not do.

So there is nothing different at all and when you have people wishing to see the destruction of Israel in the US coming from the far right, the left and Muslims, that is a troubling factor indeed

It bears no relationship to Hitler. Move on. It's different issues, different adversaries, different victims.

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:


Which shows again how little you understand the problem and how again Islamic groups wish to finish what Hitler could not do.

So there is nothing different at all and when you have people wishing to see the destruction of Israel in the US coming from the far right, the left and Muslims, that is a troubling factor indeed

It bears no relationship to Hitler.  Move on.  It's different issues, different adversaries, different victims.

Yes it does showing you have no understanding of some of the Islamist groups

So nothing is moving on until you bother to actually research

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

It bears no relationship to Hitler.  Move on.  It's different issues, different adversaries, different victims.

Yes it does showing you have no understanding of some of the Islamist groups

So nothing is moving on until you bother to actually research

If you have nothing more, I'll move along.

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:


Yes it does showing you have no understanding of some of the Islamist groups

So nothing is moving on until you bother to actually research

If you have nothing more, I'll move along.  

You never did to start with

Once again let me know when you hav actually researched the subject

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

If you have nothing more, I'll move along.  

You never did to start with

Once again let me know when you hav actually researched the subject

Hi didge.  Didn't mean to insult you when I called you a nerd (thread's locked).  I consider us both nerds, and incapable of threatening anyone. We're both history nerds. That's all I meant.

I think you are avoiding my point...namely, that the term 'antisemitism' no longer recalls the days of atrocities.  Times have changed and we move on.  What is at issue in these new demonstrations at Berkeley and other American universities, is the issue as it stands today.

Israel is no longer a ghetto in Warsaw.  It is a rather impressive modern power.  It stands opposed, not to a Nazi power, but a third-world nationality, if not yet a nation.  That's the situation as it stands today.  If you want to live 70-years in the past, we'll leave you there.  But I don't think anyone is going to join you in characterizing Israel as a victim.

If you don't want to discuss that matter...if you want to continue living this unicorn you have that a world-class power is a victim...well, not interested.

And forget the cross-examination.  If you can't go to a direct presentation of your case, well I guess your case is closed.

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:


You never did to start with

Once again let me know when you hav actually researched the subject

Hi didge.  Didn't mean to insult you when I called you a nerd (thread's locked).  I consider us both nerds, and incapable of threatening anyone.  We're both history nerds.  That's all I meant.


I think you are avoiding my point...namely, that the term 'antisemitism' no longer recalls the days of atrocities.  Times have changed and we move on.  What is at issue in these new demonstrations at Berkeley and other American universities, is the issue as it stands today.

Israel is no longer a ghetto in Warsaw.  It is a rather impressive modern power.  It stands opposed, not to a Nazi power, but a third-world nationality, if not yet a nation.  That's the situation as it stands today.  If you want to live 70-years in the past, we'll leave you there.  But I don't think anyone is going to join you in characterizing Israel as a victim.

If you don't want to discuss that matter...if you want to continue living this unicorn you have that a world-class power is a victim...well, not interested.

And forget the cross-examination.  If you can't go to a direct presentation of your case, well I guess your case is closed.

1) Consider all you want, we are far removed and if you want to label yourself as inept at socially getting along with people, be my guest

2) You made no point other than you fail to understand not only is Israel been fighting for its very existence since its formation in 1948, its also having to defend itself from regressive s like you that idiotically play down antisemitism and have not learn a thing from the last time there was a holocaust. The BDS movement fundamental goal is the destruction of a nation, a Jewish nation, which maybe you can show me any other world wide recognized nation that has groups looking to wipe that nation from the map?

3) It shows how little you ever understand history but again make the most ignorant answers based off your own regressive stance and fail again to even recognise the goal of Hamas in its charter is the destruction of the Jews, the same with Hezbollah, the same with Iran, the same with ISIS. So instead of reading marval comics, I suggest you actually read something in the real world and then come back to me with some evidence and not something that you dream up in the fanatatsy world of Quill

4) If this had been African American students, and where the words racism and black were in the same sentence, we would have had hours on the most boring and inane drivel about the US south and the Republicans, followed by even more crap about how you do not even know the reasons for the American civil war. Followed by even more crap claims where you claim there is no racism towards whites, even though Jews suffered far more racism than blacks have by any other group and over the longest time in history.

4) If you want to continue spouting the ignorance you keep showing on this topic, I suggest the Australian section there are two clowns there you could spend hours of fun with playing pin the tail on the doughnut. So thanks for why you prove you absolutely are no champion of social injustices. You just want to look like a champion of black people because you suffer from white guilt, and even more idiotic conception, being as they allows you to blame yourself for something you never did and fail to actually learn from history

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Hi didge.  Didn't mean to insult you when I called you a nerd (thread's locked).  I consider us both nerds, and incapable of threatening anyone.  We're both history nerds.  That's all I meant.


I think you are avoiding my point...namely, that the term 'antisemitism' no longer recalls the days of atrocities.  Times have changed and we move on.  What is at issue in these new demonstrations at Berkeley and other American universities, is the issue as it stands today.

Israel is no longer a ghetto in Warsaw.  It is a rather impressive modern power.  It stands opposed, not to a Nazi power, but a third-world nationality, if not yet a nation.  That's the situation as it stands today.  If you want to live 70-years in the past, we'll leave you there.  But I don't think anyone is going to join you in characterizing Israel as a victim.

If you don't want to discuss that matter...if you want to continue living this unicorn you have that a world-class power is a victim...well, not interested.

And forget the cross-examination.  If you can't go to a direct presentation of your case, well I guess your case is closed.

1) Consider all you want, we are far removed   and if you want to label yourself as inept at socially getting along with people, be my guest

2) You made no point other than you fail to understand not only is Israel been fighting for its very existence since its formation in 1948, its also having to defend itself from regressive s like you that idiotically play down antisemitism and have not learn a thing from the last time there was a holocaust. The BDS movement fundamental goal is the destruction of a nation, a Jewish nation, which maybe you can show me any other world wide recognized nation that has groups looking to wipe that nation from the map?

3) It shows how little you ever understand history but again make the most ignorant answers based off your own regressive stance and fail again to even recognise the goal of Hamas in its charter is the destruction of the Jews, the same with Hezbollah, the same with Iran, the same with ISIS. So instead of reading marval comics, I suggest you actually read something in the real world and then come back to me with some evidence and not something that you dream up in the fanatatsy world of Quill

4) If this had been African American students, and where the words racism and black were in the same sentence, we would have had hours on the most boring and inane drivel about the US south and the Republicans, followed by even more crap about how you do not even know the reasons for the American civil war. Followed by even more crap claims where you claim there is no racism towards whites, even though Jews suffered far more racism than blacks have by any other group and over the longest time in history.

4) If you want to continue spouting the ignorance you keep showing on this topic, I suggest the Australian section there are two clowns there you could spend hours of fun with playing pin the tail on the doughnut. So thanks for why you prove you absolutely are no champion of social injustices. You just want to look like a champion of black people because you suffer from white guilt, and even more idiotic conception, being as they allows you to blame yourself for something you never did and fail to actually learn from history

You do have a sociopathic problem, don't you?  Well, I've done all I can to help you.  You're on your own.

As far as Israel is concerned, you are living in a 70-year old history.  Whenever I find something that doesn't exist, but is an composite of two or more features recognizable in nature, I call that a unicorn.  A unicorn is a beast that combines a horse with a rhinoceros, having a tusk protruding from its forehead.  It is a human construct, and does not exist anywhere on earth today.

A unicorn is a mythical beast.  That phrase comes from a short story by James Thurber, called The unicorn in the Garden.  

James Thurber wrote:
THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN
Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses." She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him.

"The unicorn is a mythical beast," she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still there; now he was browsing among the tulips. "Here, unicorn," said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. "The unicorn," he said,"ate a lily." His wife sat up in bed and looked at him coldly. "You are a booby," she said, "and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch."

The man, who had never liked the words "booby" and "booby-hatch," and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. "We'll see about that," he said. He walked over to the door. "He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead," he told her. Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn; but the unicorn had gone away. The man sat down among the roses and went to sleep.

As soon as the husband had gone out of the house, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could. She was very excited and there was a gloat in her eye. She telephoned the police and she telephoned a psychiatrist; she told them to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket. When the police and the psychiatrist arrived they sat down in chairs and looked at her, with great interest.

"My husband," she said, "saw a unicorn this morning." The police looked at the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist looked at the police. "He told me it ate a lilly," she said. The psychiatrist looked at the police and the police looked at the psychiatrist. "He told me it had a golden horn in the middle of its forehead," she said. At a solemn signal from the psychiatrist, the police leaped from their chairs and seized the wife. They had a hard time subduing her, for she put up a terrific struggle, but they finally subdued her. Just as they got her into the strait-jacket, the husband came back into the house.

"Did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?" asked the police. "Of course not," said the husband. "The unicorn is a mythical beast." "That's all I wanted to know," said the psychiatrist. "Take her away. I'm sorry, sir, but your wife is as crazy as a jaybird."

So they took her away, cursing and screaming, and shut her up in an institution. The husband lived happily ever after.

Moral: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/unicorn1.html

A unicorn exists only in your mind.  If you try to meld the story of Israel in the 1930's with Israel and Palestine, you've got a unicorn.  A unicorn is a mythical beast.

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:

1) Consider all you want, we are far removed   and if you want to label yourself as inept at socially getting along with people, be my guest

2) You made no point other than you fail to understand not only is Israel been fighting for its very existence since its formation in 1948, its also having to defend itself from regressive s like you that idiotically play down antisemitism and have not learn a thing from the last time there was a holocaust. The BDS movement fundamental goal is the destruction of a nation, a Jewish nation, which maybe you can show me any other world wide recognized nation that has groups looking to wipe that nation from the map?

3) It shows how little you ever understand history but again make the most ignorant answers based off your own regressive stance and fail again to even recognise the goal of Hamas in its charter is the destruction of the Jews, the same with Hezbollah, the same with Iran, the same with ISIS. So instead of reading marval comics, I suggest you actually read something in the real world and then come back to me with some evidence and not something that you dream up in the fanatatsy world of Quill

4) If this had been African American students, and where the words racism and black were in the same sentence, we would have had hours on the most boring and inane drivel about the US south and the Republicans, followed by even more crap about how you do not even know the reasons for the American civil war. Followed by even more crap claims where you claim there is no racism towards whites, even though Jews suffered far more racism than blacks have by any other group and over the longest time in history.

4) If you want to continue spouting the ignorance you keep showing on this topic, I suggest the Australian section there are two clowns there you could spend hours of fun with playing pin the tail on the doughnut. So thanks for why you prove you absolutely are no champion of social injustices. You just want to look like a champion of black people because you suffer from white guilt, and even more idiotic conception, being as they allows you to blame yourself for something you never did and fail to actually learn from history

You do have a sociopathic problem, don't you?  Well, I've done all I can to help you.  You're on your own.

As far as Israel is concerned, you are living in a 70-year old history.  Whenever I find something that doesn't exist, but is an composite of two or more features recognizable in nature, I call that a unicorn.  A unicorn is a beast that combines a horse with a rhinoceros, having a tusk protruding from its forehead.  It is a human construct, and does not exist anywhere on earth today.

A unicorn is a mythical beast.  That phrase comes from a short story by James Thurber, called The unicorn in the Garden.  


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Sorry I think your brain has gone down into meltdown mode

Clearly the words black and racist have not appeared enough in the sentences for your brain to function properly

I suggest you go back to your marval comics as easily seen you talk nothing but bullshit

Also how about really showing you up to be a right ignorant idiot lol



http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-28/newly-discovered-fossil-reveals-when-siberian-unicorns-last-roamed-the-earth


So after showing up your ignorance once again, I suggest you research this subject, as I get tired of showing up how stupid you are

Offer up evidence, not inane drivel

A unicorn is a mythical beast.

Original Quill wrote:A unicorn is a mythical beast.

Its not a myth as seen

Which really made you look a right wally


ha ha

Now stop ruining my thread with your ignorance

Its a unicorn...a construct made up in your mind. There is no comparison of Israel 70-years in the past with Israel and Palestine today.

BTW, if it weren't for the many times I have stood up for you, you'd be gone by now. Your thread indeed!

Original Quill wrote:Its a unicorn...a construct made up in your mind.  There is no comparison of Israel 70-years in the past with Israel and Palestine today.

BTW, if it weren't for the many times I have stood up for you, you'd be gone by now.  Your thread indeed!  

Get off this thread you ignorant idiot

As seen you know nothing about racism and even less about antisemitism, you just suffer from the regressive disease called "white guilt"

1.09 BILLION
People in the world today
harbor anti-Semitic attitudes

2014 survey of attitudes toward Jews in over 100 countries around the world

2015 Update in 19 Countries


http://global100.adl.org/

As I recall this is a thread in the American section. You are a guest, sociopath. Either behave yourself or leave.

Original Quill wrote:As I recall this is a thread in the American section.  You are a guest, sociopath.  Either behave yourself or leave.

Just because you are an american does not mean you can steal the thread because its in that section



Now jog on your ignorant twat and learn

1.09 BILLION
People in the world today
harbor anti-Semitic attitudes

2014 survey of attitudes toward Jews in over 100 countries around the world

2015 Update in 19 Countries


http://global100.adl.org/

Rubbish. Anyone can make up a number.

Original Quill wrote:

Rubbish.  Anyone can make up a number.

So just about the poorest and most ignorant reply from you to date

Did you study the research?

No and again you play down antisemitism, proving my point the regressive lefty is at heart a racist

As the evidence is clear

You have denied racism towards whites, even through I emphatically proved that was nonsense and how even whites in the US suffered racism, including both Jews and the Irish

Go back to fanatzing about being a judge to help combating your insecurities

Holocaust Scholar Says He Was Wrong to Assume Serious Jew-Hatred Wouldn’t Resurface After Nazi Defeat (INTERVIEW)




“Antisemitism has become a serious threat once again,” an eminent Holocaust scholar told The Algemeiner on Tuesday, saying he had thought that after the demise of the Nazis and knowledge of the destruction they wrought, serious public Jew-hatred was unlikely to surface again in the West in any major way. “I was wrong,” Alvin Rosenfeld, professor of English and Jewish studies at Indiana University, said, pointing to a conference he has organized for next week, aimed partly to respond to and address the problem.

“It is critical that we call attention to the phenomenon and try to understand it, and the underlying issues, including the role that hostility to Israel plays in it. And to do that we begin by bringing scholars together,” Rosenfeld said.

The conference — “Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Dynamics of Delegitimization” — runs from April 2 through April 6 at the Bloomington campus, and was a year and a half in the planning. “There has never before been a conference on this subject of this size and scope at any American university, as far as I know,” Rosenfeld said. “We sent out a ‘[url=http://www.indiana.edu/~iscaweb/Call for Papers ISCA April 2016.pdf]call for papers[/url]’ in early 2015, looking for papers addressing the relationship between anti-Zionism, antisemitism and broader ideological currents of thought. We were happily surprised to receive 85 submissions from around the world, from Europe, Israel and Asia, including many from major scholars.”

Among those coming from closer to home, Rosenfeld said, are Cary Nelson of the University of Illinois and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin of the University of California Santa Cruz. “Prof. Nelson will be speaking on ‘Anti-Zionism and the Humanities,’ a particularly crucial topic given the state of things on campuses these days, where hostility to Israel often spills directly into antisemitism. And Prof. Rossman-Benjamin, who directs AMCHA Initiative, will be speaking about their recent empirical study demonstrating the relationship between campus Anti-Zionism and antisemitism.”

(AMCHA Initiative is a campus antisemitism watchdog group that earlier this month released a study that provided “the first hard evidence” that anti-Zionism fuels antisemitism, as reported by The Algemeiner.)

Rosenfeld expressed satisfaction that his own campus was largely immune to the problems making news across the US and Europe. “We have not received any negative attention about our conference,” he said, “and the administration has been extremely supportive. Indiana University President Michael McRobbie wrote a very powerful endorsement letter for the conference, acknowledging the significance of the topic and its critical timeliness. I couldn’t ask for more or better than that.”

Additional endorsements, Rosenfeld said, came from Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Professor Judea and Ruth Pearl, cofounders of the Daniel Pearl Foundation and parents of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, whose beheading, they noted in a letter to conference participants, “has come to symbolize the horrors and inescapable reality of resurgent antisemitism.”

The keynote address, Rosenfeld said, will be delivered by world-renowned Canadian parliamentarian, jurist and human rights activist Irwin Cotler. “Antisemitism is on the rise again,” Rosenfeld concluded, “and the situation on campuses seems especially acute. We cannot hope to stop it or overturn it immediately, but our goal is to open more eyes toward what is happening, to get more people to start paying attention to contemporary antisemitism and the role that hostility to Israel plays in generating it — if our conference does that, it shall be a success.”


http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/03/30/eminent-holocaust-scholar-to-bring-peers-together-to-address-serious-threat-of-rising-antisemitism-interview/

There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!"

The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces.

"Don't cry 'wolf', shepherd boy," said the villagers, "when there's no wolf!" They went grumbling back down the hill.

Later, the boy sang out again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away.
When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong!

Don't cry 'wolf' when there is NO wolf!"

But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more.

Later, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock.

Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, "Wolf! Wolf!"

But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come.

At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping.

"There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, "Wolf!" Why didn't you come?"

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village.

"We'll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth, "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!”

Original Quill wrote:

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Reported for attempting to derail the thread and disruption

At least he didn't post the version where the boy was eaten by the wolf.

Otherwise...hammer, nail, head!  

Original Quill wrote:Otherwise...hammer, nail, head!  

Reported for attempting to derail the thread and disruption