tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101681086683292380.post8913813040402121545..comments2024-03-12T10:54:53.242+02:00Comments on Haifa Diary: Academics for Israel??Haifa Diaristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626155391673063983noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101681086683292380.post-54288285234101401342008-09-28T21:16:00.000+02:002008-09-28T21:16:00.000+02:00It's sad, but it's true. It's not just that the e...It's sad, but it's true. It's not just that the entire history of Israel is suppressed in academia to the extent that it is demonized and "Palestine" is legitimized (which is ridiculous, since the name 'Palestinian' is Latin for 'inbred, illiterate trash trespassing in Israel'), but those who actually know and want to teach the truth are effectively silenced. ANd it's not just ISrael. It's all the Tears of Jihad, which is amazing, since jihad is an ever-looming existential threat to us all. You never learn about the 270,000,000 people slaughtered in the name of Islam, about how North AFrica was once a Christian land and Central Asia a Buddhist land, let alone India's history or what happened to those millions of Assyrians and Armenians in Turkey, or that there ever was an Arab slave trade, let alone that the pervasive rape of African women was how Arabs as a race became dark-skinned, or that the slave trade had 5x the mortality rate of the ATlantic slave trade and that it lasted 900 years longer and only ended (officially anyway) in 1970 when Oman finally outlawed slavery, or that it continues in Sudan and Mauritania. You can take a course on WWII, but you never learn about who carried out the eastern end of the HOlocaust, or about how Bosnia killed off 90% of its Jews by early 1943. Nor do you learn about the horrors to which Muslim sex slaves (oops! I mean 'women and little girls') are subjected on a daily basis even in our own towns in Women's Studies courses. <BR/><BR/>I realize that for a lots of people the Tears of Jihad are simply too tragic to face. I think this is why Jews in particular tend to be ignorant about Jihad and the whole history of Judaism vs. Islam, but if they knew it they would be better armed in this world. They would also understand that Muslims have no legitimate claim to Jerusalem or Kashmir for that matter.<BR/><BR/>But academia's betrayal of Israel and the Jews is intolerable. Academia is a very hostile environment for Jews, at least in my school. It's far more difficult for us to be accepted in the first place, and then when Muslims stalk, accost, harass, and terrorize us every relevant university office condones their behavior. And there's of course a dearth of legitimate Jews in academia, which is not surprising given the way we are treated on campus. But the sickest part of it is that acadeima is littered with closet Muslims who pose as token Jews, most notably Bernard Lewis, the Master of Disinformation. You can get pretty far on that alone in academia, especially in Saudi Agenda departments. The Linguistics Department at Indiana University-Bloomington, where I attend school, is headed by one, who is so unable to contain his Islamic mindset that he can't take responsibility for his own actions, cannot speak to people except in taqiyya, and operates on the assumption that everyone is as illiterate and ignorant as your average Muslim, who of course lives under pervasive milieu control per the proscriptions of the cult. He then admits endless Egyptians to my department, one of whom is unarguable retarded, several of whom can't speak English, and all of whom lack the equivalent of a Guatemalan 1st-grade education. ANd then when you confront him about the obvious corruption of the admissions committee, the fact that my civil rights are endlessly violated in my required courses, and that we have to attend extra class sessions to make up for all the time wasted on idiotic questions by Egyptians who can't follow a simple lecture, he tries to instigate the most criminally insane Egyptian in the Department kill me by letting him know that I 'insulted his honor.'<BR/><BR/>I could have a career in academia if it weren't for all the damn academics or if I believed that academia's purpose were to educate people. It serves mostly to miseducate people as far as I can tell, and it's gotten a lot worse in the last 10 years, between when I started college and when I started grad school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com