The academic left in Israel is a knowing and full partner of the Palestinian effort to destroy Israel. The left's lock step control of the Israeli campus seems, if possible, even greater than their hold on the American campus. Caroline Glick's article on the rot in the higher education establishment in Israel is astounding, even for those not expecting much from higher education these days.

The good works of David Horowitz and the group ACTA (American Council of Trustees and Alumni) have helped expose the intellectual corruption of the humanities faculties at many prestigious private and state universities in America.  In this country, the academic left does damage, but increasingly it is obvious that much of their student audience is tuning them out. A recent Harvard study showed that college students supported the war in Iraq at a 10% higher level than the general American population.

Regrettably, Glick suggests that this may not be the case in Israel, a truly embattled society, where the will to resist Islamic terrorism and neighboring states seeking its destruction is vital to the country's survival. When students begin to question the legitimacy of their country, after being fed a steady diet of noxious false history and propaganda, the vital will to struggle on might recede. 

It is easy to see why academics, intellectuals, and journalists in the West can babble on about the 'apartheid' Israeli state, and its aggression and theft of the Palestinian homeland, and the need for a complete right of return, and a single multi ethnic state of Israel/Palestine, when fed a steady diet of these prescriptions from their Israeli colleagues.

Posted by Richard 12 26 03