Anti-Israel BDS resolutions have been seizing campuses in Canada. According to an article in the Jerusalem Post, it is Hamas — an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood — that has fueled and directed the BDS and Israel Apartheid Week campaigns on university campuses across North America, through chapters of the Muslim Student Association and the Palestine Solidarity Network. Yet these menacing campaign drives are being minimized, passed off at best as a difference of opinion, and at worst, as social justice campaigns to protect Palestinians from the so-called brutalities imposed by an apartheid state.
A recent Brandeis University study on anti-Semitism singled out Canadian and Californian universities as locales where hostility toward Jewish students was especially high.
In Spring 2014, several hundred Ryerson University students voted “overwhelmingly in favour” of supporting BDS. Then three months ago, what was described as “a hate-filled anti-semitic message full of vile language” was found scrawled in the men’s bathroom at Ryerson. It referenced the “stealing of Palestinian land” and called for Israel, Jews and supporters of the state of Israel to “burn in hell.” In April, the president of the organization called Ryerson’s Students Supporting Israel said she was spat upon while holding an Israeli flag as she filmed a school project on campus, prompting investigations by Toronto police and the university’s Investigations and Crime Prevention Office.
Referring to the graffiti, Ryerson President Sheldon Levy stated:
We are shocked and saddened….Graffiti of this nature is absolutely unacceptable at Ryerson and has no place on our campus or anywhere else. We are committed to providing a civil and safe environment which is free of discrimination, harassment, and hate, and is respectful of the rights, responsibilities, well-being and dignity of all its members.
Despite the rebuke to such blatant anti-Semitism, there still lurks a more subtle and dangerous new anti-semitism that is paraded as dissent in political opinion, but that aims to delegitimize the state of Israel.
I had the unfortunate firsthand experience of a display of this phenomenon — albeit a seemingly mild version — during a speech I gave before an adult part-time class at Ryerson University on November 9. Also speaking was the executive director of a Christian Zionist organization. The professor who invited us did a stellar job at keeping balance and poise in the midst of unreasonable “student” attacks against the state of Israel, and some aimed at me personally.
The experience I will recount is one that is far too often justified by reference to the Palestinian plight, and is also minimized by those who undermine the peril of this subtle form of new antisemitism.
My speech encompassed the justification of support for Israel beyond “the Bible said so,” with references to the two-state solution delineated long ago by the League of Nations, to which Arab states still took offense, as they rejected Israel’s very existence — despite the British partition plan favoring the Arabs – and thus attacked the Jewish State it upon its birth in 1948. My co-speaker was her usual charming self as she discussed the fine work of her Christian Zionist organization. Then came my segment, which was more about the blend and crossover between religion and politics with regards to Israel.
It was stunning to witness the spectacle of a significant number of audience members virulently against the state of Israel with no justification, rhyme or reason, and most critically, no apparent recognition of why Israel needs to defend itself from obliteration. When challenged to explain their positions, they could offer no explanation for their views beyond “you’re passionate, you’re religious….you’re one-sided,” or “I find it hard to listen to a one-sided approach.” The obsession with the “occupied territories,” “the fence,” “the expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem,” and the “poverty of Palestinians is because of Israel” was obscene in the face of Israel’s struggle to exist, not to mention the deadly Hamas, PA and Fatah Charters seeking Israel’s obliteration; the persecution of Christians in Bethlehem; the stabbings in Jerusalem; the rocket attacks; the Muslim women and children human shields used by Hamas; and so on. One woman talked with disdain about her “evangelical brother,” whom she found to be ignorant and bigoted, as she implicitly accused me of being an ignorant evangelical who blindly supported what she portrayed as the criminal state of Israel, but gave no evidence when asked to explain and elaborate upon her thoughts.
She and her fellow Israel-haters didn’t even care that Abbas announced that there would not be one Jew in a Palestinian state (a demonstration of pure hatred and apartheid), or that Abbas did his PhD in Holocaust denial. It was as though these folks were deaf, dumb and blind to history and the current realities of Israel’s existential threat as well as the grave sufferings being endured by the persecuted Church in Islamic states and in Bethlehem, from which Christians have been driven out.
Given plenty of opportunity and encouragement to address exactly what in the points I had made that the “students” thought was flawed, they had no answer or even any desire to examine the issues fairly in search of truth, but instead persisted with a brazen display of raw anti-Semitism disguised as caring about the Palestinians. Not even one question was posed during the speech (or Question and Answer period) about to where the 31 billion dollars of aid that the West gave to the Palestinian Authority vanished. I will answer now: much went to funding terrorism, for starters, which included reward blood money to terrorists who successfully murdered innocent Israelis.
When the bright Ryerson Professor posed a question to an attendee about whether it would really make any significant difference if Israel stopped its expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem, the answer was that at least people would not be as upset. The ludicrousness of this answer was perplexing.
I was surprised at the end of my presentation by a surprising nice round of applause, as well as by the sudden appearance of many in support of Israel that I wished had spoken up more.
What nation on the face of the earth faces obliteration by Islamic regimes, on top of unjustified and venomous attacks from Western critics who enjoy their safety at home — and in Israel, were it not for jihadists — and who would be murdered if they even so much as openly expressed their views about freedom of religion or rights for women and gays in the despotic territories surrounding Israel? A question to contemplate: Israel has habitually tried to make friends out of its foes; has it worked?
I posted this first-hand experience on Facebook, and one of the comments by an Israeli Defense and security specialist displayed some insights into raw truth:
Don’t we know this? We did warn the world about ISIS. We did warn the world about aviation and airport security. We did warn the world about border security. Did anyone listen? Of course not!!!!
Four decades ago, the renowned professor Bernard Lewis wrote that an “ominous phrase” was heard immediately preceding the Six-Day War in 1967: “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.’” In an era of rising jihadist infiltration into Western civilization, let’s hope that leaders and campus authorities can begin deciphering the meaning and profundity of such a statement in the face of stark and mounting evidence.
Christine Williams is an award winning Canadian journalist and public relations consultant. She is also an appointee of the Canadian government.

Infidel from Down Under says
With the Islamic loving Justin Trudeau now running things in Canada muslims living there must be starting to think they have already made it to ‘Paradise’ and are no doubt putting out calls for their ‘brothers and sisters’ still in in the ME and Africa to come and join them. Canada may well under Trudeau become one of the preferred choices for Allah Worshipers to resettle especially given the way they are wearing out their welcome in Europe
Meanwhile the Jews in Canada much like in the EU ,US and Australia are probably now starting to realize those of the ‘left’ are not their friends and not to trusted , the progessives as they like to think of themselves will always take the side of and support the Mohammedans no matter what
mortimer says
Agreeing with I.D.U. Canadian Jewry may quickly regret they supported the Tru-Dope when the persecution of Jews skyrockets in Canada.
RonaldB says
I think you’re both being optimistic about US or Canadian Jews reevaluating their support for far-left leaders.
There are actually several branches of Judaism: “liberal” Judaism, and orthodox. The liberal branch is part of the far left, with emphasis on “social justice”, “fairness”, gun control, support for immigration illegal aliens, and the rest. The voting patterns for Jews in the last Presidential election was very close to that of blacks.
If you look at the websites of “liberal” Judaism, you will see exactly zero learning with respect to the huge dangers of Muslim immigration and the prevalence of far-left political thought, which considers Israel to be not only Jewish, but an outpost of Western culture, which the far-left hates.
https://www.urj.org/
The Orthodox seem to be more pragmatic and tied to actual reality. c
Victor Redlick says
While we should all be proud of the outstanding and incomparable job the most benevolently blessed among us perform, vis-a-vis the establishment of (their) eponymous teaching monuments and vast endowments, it is also these same philanthropists’ responsibility to give more line item attention to their respective multi-million dollar donations, as they affect the quality of life and society within the college and university institutions’ atmosphere, both in.. and outside the classrooms. Therefore, it is a matter of the most dire consequence that at least one of these elite altruists – including, but not limited to private trusts and diverse corporate citizens – take a more hands on approach to what is being done with and more pointedly.. to.. their best intended monetary largesse. With such proliferating examples of campus anarchy continuing to grow exponentially, and little, if nothing, being done about removing the insidious disease once and for all, I hope these people of phenomenal means pay a heck of a lot better attention to their primary vocational welfare than they do to the shambles that are being made – before everyone’s very eyes – of once august learning facilities which, shamefully, no longer command the reverence.
RonaldB says
I think the fundamental problem with universities is far more deep-rooted.
What we have now is a vast system of indoctrination where the authority figures (professors) exert a huge influence and control over students. I don’t object to Marxist philosophy being taught, or shown at a university, but I think it’s suicidal to have a Marxist professor with the ability to assign grades and references to students, and to have a vote in the administration of departments.
Universities now are completely divorced from the consequences to their students. Many government and private-sector jobs require university degrees, which obligates many young people to commit themselves to an expensive and useless waste of their time, at best. At worst, they are put under the authority of people who do not have their best interests, or the interests of our country, in mind. There is absolutely no way a degree in gender studies will prepare a student for anything other than teaching gender studies.
The current system of academic privilege, tenure, legal rights, public support, and the requirement for some type of degree has created a vast propaganda machine designed to advance a particular viewpoint and squeeze out critical thought. My feeling is, we need to dramatically de-emphasize the power and influence of the academic establishment and the system of universities and colleges.
Wellington says
As a former teacher at the higher education level for three decades, I couldn’t agree more with your post, RonaldB I saw first-hand what you have here written about. It is now indoctrination and not education. It’s no longer higher education but lower education. And the pathetic, petty, control-freak egos of so many leftist teachers is both appalling and yet grimly amusing. I had many students tell me about certain teachers where I taught that you just keep your head down, don’t disagree with them and give them what they want with respect to any written assignments. I had not a few students who told me that I was the only teacher they had that made them feel proud about America and the West, not because I didn’t point out faults about America and all the West, which I did, but because I actually said many positive things about them too.
There are even other problems in addition to the ones you mentioned. Three of them are 1) how expansive the administrative bureaucracy has become, needlessly so I would vigorously argue; 2) the poor quality of the textbooks nowadays (e.g., the original Western Civilization textbook that I used back in the Eighties was far superior to the ones I was using by the time I retired——-part of the reason why textbooks are so terrible nowadays, in addition to all the pc/mc crap in them, is that they are now often done by committees rather than just one or two persons and a disjointed, not particularly coherent, text is frequently the result); 3 ) enormous, almost insane, tuition costs which put many students in a financial black hole by the time they graduate and which exist because of all those extra administrators I already mentioned plus ridiculous pension benefits and because of your standard overall avarice, which is so deliciously ironic since leftists rail against the capitalistic system with regularity.
Hope you and yours are doing well, RonaldB. Take care.
RonaldB says
Thank you Wellington.
I always avidly look forward to your posts, which are logical and knowledgeable.
I’m doing quite well, thank you, and hope the same for you.
Westman says
I agree with RonaldB and Wellington. I observed the same in my brief experience with University culture and administration.
billybob says
Imagine if you will one day the Palestinians or perhaps Iran succeed in their goal of “wiping the State of Israel” off the map. Such a thought is deeply saddening. Then we would see the Middle East as a vast, barren wasteland, from one end to the other. An endless sea of Islamic oppression and savagery.
Jews have contributed so much to this world in art and science and every endeavor under the sun. What have the Palestinians ever given us beyond their innovations in terror tactics and their death cult. Israel is the only nation in the Middle East where democratic ideals thrive, an oasis in a desert.
Take Lebanon for example. Only a few decades ago it was much a Christian country, another oasis. Historically it had a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity. Today it is dominated by Hezbollah, another Islamic group of terrorist like Hamas. No longer “the Paris of the Middle East”. What would become of Israel once its borders are breached by the Islamic hordes?
It is so sad to see how anti-semitism has been taking over the political discourse in Europe. We don’t want this to happen here in North America, and especially in my home and native land.
Shame on you, students at Ryerson!
gordon miller says
This is good to hear, particularly from an American named billybob.
Ima Freeman says
What does B.D.S. stand for?
Ima
Infidel from Down Under says
@ Ima . Boycott,Divest and Sanctions
Peter Brock says
Excellent question, Ima.
The acronym addicts consistently prove themselves unworthy of intelligent communication, i.e. readership.
For one, I refused to read this hodge-podge of non-English beyond the editorial offense of having some acronymiacal paw-print in the introduction of this …splatter.
When writers emit particles of the English alphabet in this manner, it is because they presume everyone that might read further is already interestedin or accustomed to what they have to say.
They feel no obligation to “inform” others who immediately must decide which phylum of jungle-gruntings is being posited. Or, maybe who don’t know or might not give a damn,
It is, alas, the fault of the editor(s) who allow for such affront to readers.
Since Ms. Williams obviously did not take the photo slapped onto the top of the report, it was an editorial negligence and the presumption that an image of a placard was message …enough.
Wrong at the outset. Violation of the first-reference rule. Secret handshakes, knowing winks, and all. Bad journalism is bad journalism.
C’mon, Spence, get some editorial help… at least for sake of the educable reader(s).
Moving on… Sorry.
Angemon says
The link right after BDS is mentioned is to an article explaining what it BDS means.
Melissa says
I am so proud of you to go into what appears to be chum fed taqiyya waters! I am a Christian American & get so appalled when Israel is accused of so called atrocities of Palestinians. Israel has had a tough road to traverse just to exist & I personally can’t & do not want to imagine what day to day life is like wondering when the next attack is coming. All out assaul, women & children being taught to Martyer themselves in the name of the devil? I I applaud the toughness of Israel people to continue life with these hard truths. If America & Canada keep,it’s current liberal ignorant pace of what they think Islam is we will know exactly how it feels to be stressed every day not about traffic or no wifi, but of being bombed, stabbed or shot just because we are not Muslim. Please wake up & read a Koran or watch some videos by ex Muslims. Don’t defend something you have no knowledge on! Peace & prayrs!
Mtahew Solo says
These people who call themselves Palestinian Arabs …they are mostly Amalekites a nomadic people who are commonly considered to be Amalek’s descendants…
Though the definite origins of the word “Palestine” have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. Roughly translated to mean “rolling” or “migratory,” the term was used to describe the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of Egypt – the Philistines. The Philistines were an Aegean people – more closely related to the Greeks and with No Connection Ethnically, Linguistically or Historically with Arabia – Arabia who conquered in the 12th Century BCE the Mediterranean coastal plain that is now Israel and Gaza.
A derivitave of the name “Palestine” first appears in Greek literature in the 5th Century BCE when the historian Herodotus called the area “Palaistinē” In the 2nd century CE, the Romans crushed the Jewish revolt against Roman rule (132 CE), during which Jerusalem and Judea were regained by the Romans and the area of Judea was renamed Palaestina in an attempt by Rome to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel.
In Arabic, the corresponding term for the Amalek is Imlīq, whose descendants Al-Amālīq were early residents of the Haram at Mecca, later supplanted by the Banu Jurhum.
While considerable knowledge about nomadic Arabs have been recovered through archeological research, no specific artifacts or sites have been linked to Amalek with any certainty
The PLO seems to be the ones to have made the name Palistinian stick on These People…which are mainly in Jordan and in Israel…there are very many of them who will Never Accept Being Good Settled Citizens…It seems to be the Amalekite Way…and just like all the humans on this planet…they will see themselves right and the others wrong…The Nation of Israel has not taken anything from These People…Israel instead Wants Things These people Don’t Want…National Organized Law and Rule by a Democratic People…National Boundaries and the Willingness to keep them…To Prosper Through Hard Work Which Allows Anyone Participating in It to Grow and move on with Their Own Lives…and last but not least Israel just will not be Amalekite…how dare them…Jews!
Arabs who desire to control the Temple Mount in Jerusalem often deny that Israelite presence there predates Muslim presence that first appears about 700 AD…Yet…recent archaeological evidence counters the Arab claim…A 10-year-old Russian boy…recently made an extraordinary discovery in Jerusalem…Working as a volunteer in the Temple Mount Sifting Project…he found a 3,000-year-old seal…engraved limestone about the size of a thimble…with a hole at one end so it could be hung from a string…from the time of the kings of Israel [about 1000 BC]…The artifact was nestled in the hundreds of tons of earth and rock that had been illegally excavated from below the Temple Mount in the late 1990s by the Muslim Waqf… the seal confirms the ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem—more than a millennium before the Muslim Dome of the Rock was built.
The Bible places Israelites on the Temple Mount at the time of kings David and Solomon (see 1 Kings)…This new “hard evidence” supports the biblical claim.
Kepha says
You don’t need to convince me that the Jews were in the land between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea back around 700 B.C. You’re preaching to the proverbial choir. If they’ve found a seal with the names of the Israelite kings while excavating around Temple Mount, it’s just one more artefact to add to a collection that is already extensive that gives aid and comfort to those of us who accept the Bible. Frankly, I’m much more impressed by the Lachish Letters and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
But please don’t label the Falastin Arabs Amalkites. The last clear reference we have to that tribe is mention of Haman in the Book of Esther. That the Amalekites haven’t been erased by God’s providential direction of history is a falsehood as risable as the assertion that Augustine of Hippo fired up the “Araabs” of North Africa at the Pope’s bidding some four centuries before the Arabs every got out of the Arabian Peninsula.
Mathew Solo says
The Amalekites were a tribe first mentioned during the time of Abraham (Genesis 14:7). Though the Amalekites are not mentioned in the table of nations in Genesis 10, in Numbers 24:20 they are referred to as “first among the nations.” Genesis 36 refers to the descendants of Amalek, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau, as Amalekites (verses 12 and 16). So, the Amalekites were somehow related to, but distinct from, the Edomites.
Scripture records the long-lasting feud between the Amalekites and the Israelites and God’s direction to wipe the Amalekites off the face of the earth (Exodus 17:8–13; 1 Samuel 15:2; Deuteronomy 25:17). Why God would call His people to exterminate an entire tribe is a difficult question, but a look at history may give some insight.
Like many desert tribes, the Amalekites were nomadic. Numbers 13:29 places them as native to the Negev, the desert between Egypt and Canaan. The Babylonians called them the Sute, Egyptians the Sittiu, and the Amarna tablets refer to them as the Khabbati, or “plunderers.”
The Amalekites’ unrelenting brutality toward the Israelites began with an attack at Rephidim (Exodus 17:8–13). This is recounted in Deuteronomy 25:17–19 with this admonition: “Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind [typically women and children]: they had no fear of God. When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!”
The Amalekites later joined with the Canaanites and attacked the Israelites at Hormah (Numbers 14:45). In Judges they banded with the Moabites (Judges 3:13) and the Midianites (Judges 6:3) to wage war on the Israelites. They were responsible for the repeated destruction of the Israelites’ land and food supply.
In 1 Samuel 15:2–3, God tells King Saul, “I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them, put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
In response, King Saul first warns the Kenites, friends of Israel, to leave the area. He then attacks the Amalekites but does not complete the task. He allows the Amalekite King Agag to live, takes plunder for himself and his army, and lies about the reason for doing so. Saul’s rebellion against God and His commands is so serious that he is rejected by God as king (1 Samuel 15:23).
The escaped Amalekites continued to harass and plunder the Israelites in successive generations that spanned hundreds of years. First Samuel 30 reports an Amalekite raid on Ziklag, a Judean village where David held property. The Amalekites burned the village and took captive all the women and children, including two of David’s wives. David and his men defeated the Amalekites and rescued all the hostages. A few hundred Amalekites escaped, however. Much later, during the reign of King Hezekiah, a group of Simeonites “killed the remaining Amalekites” who had been living in the hill country of Seir (1 Chronicles 4:42–43).
The last mention of the Amalekites is found in the book of Esther where Haman the Agagite, a descendant of the Amalekite king Agag, connives to have all the Jews in Persia annihilated by order of King Xerxes. God saved the Jews in Persia, however, and Haman, his sons, and the rest of Israel’s enemies were destroyed instead (Esther 9:5–10).
The Amalekites’ hatred of the Jews and their repeated attempts to destroy God’s people led to their ultimate doom. Their fate should be a warning to all who would attempt to thwart God’s plan or who would curse what God has blessed (see Genesis 12:3).
Xero_G says
The Islamists don’t need no stinkin’ reason, logic, facts, or supporting evidence. They don’t want to know legal precedence, world history, or anything else about modern civilization that is not included in their 7th century war manual. They simply and predictably just react to their brainwashing, which convinces them that the Koran is the beginning and end of all valid human knowledge. Pathetic, but true.
Wellington says
Canada and California———-where apathy about true evil abounds, where fools aplenty who are free make common cause nonetheless with those who would destroy freedom if only given the chance, and where the bravest nation on earth, Israel, is regularly excoriated. Oh yeah, an unholy trinity if ever there were one.
Something else: Western leaders like Obama, Trudeau, Merkel and Cameron feed this evil idiocy regularly. The sin upon their heads———–forever.
Xero_G says
Previously, I was proud to live in Canada while Stephen Harper was Prime Minister. He had no reluctance saying, “Radical Islamic terrorists” when the Ottawa Parliament was attacked last year by a Jihadist. But now, the former drama teacher, Prime Minister Trudeau has appointed Muslim Brotherhood members as advisers and then announced that 60,000 Syrian “refugees” would be admitted into Canada this year.(equivalent to 600,000 refugees entering USA) If you complain about the lack of effective vetting, you are surely a hateful bigot who needs re-education, perhaps from his Muslim Brotherhood advisers.
Last week in my hometown, Calgary, two guys, both named Mohammad, drove up to a late-night club, one exited the vehicle and randomly fired his gun through the front door, injuring patrons inside. They were arrested and now, one week later, the officials are still baffled as to what motive could have possibly caused these guys named Mohammad to shoot into a crowd of innocent Canadians!?
Wellington says
Yes, It’s madness, Xero_G. I know of no example in history when such willful ignorance about evil (which the entire Islamic faith is) has been so prevalent. By comparison, what Chamberlain did at Munich was a delaying procedure and nothing more. Those presently leading my country, America, and yours, Canada, are worthy of opprobrium of the first order. By now one ether knows this or should know it.
RonaldB says
The real question is, what is there about the political systems and governments in countries that promote these types of leaders?
Obama, Trudeau, Cameron, Merkel: all achieved power through means considered to be democratic, or at least representative. The fact that the leadership of the West is uniformly blind to the dangers of Islam and the pending destruction of countries and cultures, seems to indicate there is a systematic influence that is not limited to one country. I’m thinking that our political structure of choosing leaders is deeply dysfunctional, and not likely to get better in the future without structural changes.
Kepha says
Xero–I have fond memories of a boyhood vacation in western Canada. Be assured that the city of Calgary has Kepha’s sympathy in the wake of the shooting. I’ll even add that Mr. Harper made me proud to be a North American when he was leading your country.
I guess I’m just disgusted at having heard the Left whine about how the mean ole system “dehumanizes” their clients of the hour, and then turn around and yell “fascist insect” (a “dehumanizing” epithet if ever there was one) at anyone who refuses to march lockstep with them. I admit that while a Christian fundamentalist (towards the Bible and person of Christ), I’m a little lukewarm towards Zionism (even if I accept Israel’s right to exist, even within post-1967 borderss). Still, my disgust with Leftist and Islamic behavior has prompted me to use ‘Eretz Yisroel as the general term when speaking of the land between the Jordan and the Med.
gravenimage says
Virulent Anti-Semitism Passed Off as Mild Dissent on Campus
……………………
This is Jew hatred, plain and simple–and has only gotten worse since I attended university in the ’80s.
Angemon says
Trudeau just started – in a few years, it’ll be the official doctrine…
Jay Boo says
Muslim Student Association = Satan
Kolga says
The world has gone mad,gradually being infected by a hideous, blood lusting ideology whose barbarity knows no bounds.
We who recognise it are hamstrung by the politically correct progressive liberals who refuse to see what’s going in front of their eyes, enabling the infection to become more virulent.
God help us.
Mark says
Please view share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary, https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y. It reveals how treacherous Islam is.
If western governments collapse, the only people with any hope of a comfortable retirement are the ones with enough children to take care of them. Children use to contribute to the family income. Now they are an expensive time consuming hobby and are getting replaced with gadgets and toys.
Dean says
Leftists and Islamists on campus (supported fully by the “Human Rights” offices, the university Presidents and the Muslim Brotherhood operatives on campus) have a mission and no reasonable arguments will get in the way of their quest for dominance, supremacy and for the advancement of the Israel-destruction project.
The beast the universities support will swallow the university whole along with the freedoms they now protect by suggesting that criticism of Israel, true or not, must be preserved (free from the voices and responses opposing such intolerance).
Freedom on campus will be an exclusive freedom for Islamists only: to implement jihad and to decide who can speak and who cannot. I wonder what the well-off, pampered leftist academics will get from their bargain with the devil. The only thing I can think they will gain is the satisfaction that they derive from exercising their primitive antisemitism under the false flag of concern for “Palestinians” which is the modern cause célèbre of a left-wing that uses Islamists for the same common cause – the destruction of Western society and the end of Judeo-Christian mores that they both abhor.
The left-wingers are willing to become dhimmis and servants for Islam to satisfy not only their antisemitism but also their deep self-loathing of the society that sustains their freedoms and gives them unearned prosperity.
Mark Swan says
There is a calculated popular ploy being played on the minds of the general public…
to cause some to be viewed as victims…when they are not…at the expense of others
who can then actually be made unsuspecting victims themselves…accomplished by people who make their living by claiming a cause for an invented victimization…when done using deceit and misinformation….many do respond thinking them to be a needed cause…donating to these professional panhandlers…helping them grow in profits and increase in propaganda…which is how they keep up the good work.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The so-called Palestinians, Arabs, are the victims, yet it was 6 million Jews who were mass murdered. With the advice and encouragement of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Yasser’s uncle, an Arab, a Moslem. Go figure.
Mae says
Canada is already seeing jihadist attacks. With the anti-Israel, anti-Jew, anti-freedom, anti-democracy forces taking their cues from the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS–their “faith” brother, and with Trudeau The Dhimmi offering freebies to un-vetted Syrians who bring their hatreds with them, our great friend to the north is heading for increasing bad times.
No diplomacy, no return of frozen monies, no kiss-up by Obama/Kerry, and no return of captives is going to change the jihadi culture. Canada and America are now the weak horses on the trail. The enemies of freedom know it, exploit it, recruit with it. Lovers of liberty will have to do all possible not to be destroyed by it.
Thanks, Jihad Watch, for keeping us informed and updated. You are doing the work of freedom.
Larry A. Singleton says
Letter to Algemeiner Comments 1-17-16
Regarding:
Israeli Mother Stabbed to Death in Front of Daughter in West Bank Home; Manhunt Underway for Escaped Palestinian Terrorist by Ruthie Blum 1-17-16
https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/01/17/israeli-mother-stabbed-to-death-in-front-of-daughter-in-west-bank-home-manhunt-underway-for-escaped-palestinian-terrorist/
Scum. I’m just finishing up Palestinian Media Watch’s report Palestinian Authority Education: A Recipe for Hate and Terror.
About a year ago I read The 4th Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research: Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel. Sept. 1968. Translated by D.F. Green/David G. Littman.
I hate Muslims. People have asked me “Have you ever met a Muslim?” My response is “No. And I don’t care if I ever do.”
And I don’t say that in the same way that I would say “I don’t care if I ever meet a Hindu, or a Mormon, or a Buddhist”.
Islam has absolutely no virtues. It has nothing to redeem itself. I keep thinking of what Tocqueville said about the Koran: Notes on the Quran: “Everything that relates to war is precise, everything that relates to morals is general & confused. Muhammad concerns himself far more with making himself believed than with giving rules of morality. And he employs terror much more that any other motive.
“Reading the Koran is one of the most instructive things imaginable because the eye easily discovers there by closely observing all the threads by which the prophet held & still holds the members of his sect that the first of all religious duties is to blindly obey the prophet and that holy war is the first of all good deeds.
“All of these doctrines of which the practical outcome is obvious are found on every page and in almost every word of the Quran are so striking that I cannot understand how any man with good sense could miss them.”
To paraphrase Tocqueville, “I can’t understand how any man with good sense would choose Islam as a religion”. It makes absolutely no sense to me. Why would I be remotely interested in friendship or any other kind of relationship with an idiot? Other than to explain to him the error of his belief system.
Islam is inherently evil. Islam is a disease and Muslims are the symptom.
I’m not a religious scholar. As a matter of fact I usually preface my comments online by stating “I’m just a dumb-ass construction worker…but I’m a dumb-ass construction worker who READS.
I’v spent most of my life dealing with local issues. I “study” the issues. That’s how I know that I can’t be accused of any prejudice or bias when it comes to my ideas about Islam. For example the first words out of a liberal or a Muslim’s mouth when you criticize Islam is “racist!”. Let’s approach it from the ridiculous notion that you can be racist against an ideology: First of all “racism” is just another word for prejudice. And prejudice is simply judgement before investigation.
I’ve investigated Islam. For almost four years I’ve poured over books like the Koran: I’ve got A Holy Qur’an with Commentary by Maulana Muhammad Ali, a Pickthall edition and one by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. I’ve got a Summarized Sahih Al Bukhari and the full version of this and Sahih Muslim on CD. I’ve read SK Malik’s The Qur’anic Concept of War, Taha’s Second Message of Islam. I’ve got a copy of Reliance of the Traveller. A book on Theories of Islamic Law. (As a reference. I haven’t read it.) I’ve read most of Andrew Bostom’s Legacy of Islamic Antisemtism and Legacy of Jihad. Which brings me to my most important point:
In my Summarized Bukhari I found an interesting article: Jihad in the Qur’an and Sunnah by Sheikh Abdullâh bin Muhammad bin Humaid.
It eventually passed that I wrote something I call “Questions for Muslims” Regarding “Jihad” and the “religion of peace”. I use Sheikh Humaid’s article on jihad, and it’s place as an “Introduction” in my Summarized Bukhari as Exhibit A when it comes to refuting the “religion of peace” claim. “The 4th Conference…” could easily be Exhibit B.
In my “Questions” I’ve got “Part III Compare!” Where I ask people to Compare Muhammad to Jesus, compare Sheikh Abdullah bin Humaid’s article on Jihad to Emmet Fox’s book Sermon on the Mount and compare the Koran to the Bible. And compare the religion that promotes itself as “the religion of peace” with the religion that doesn’t have to.
I cite Edward Gibbon, Philosopher David Hume, Thomas Carlyle, Gerd Puin, Dhiyaa Al-Musawi, Dr. Wafa Sultan and as shown above, Alex de Tocqueville’s observations on the Koran to bolster my argument. Which I’ve found, along with all the other evidence in my Questions, the hundreds of Muslims I’ve sent this to have absolutely no defense. Indeed, the only response I ever get is name calling, silence or having my comments deleted and being blocked on their Facebook pages.
This morning I just read one of the most dynamite articles I’ve come across in a long time. And I’ve got two filing cabinets stuffed with articles, reports and essays:
Virulent Anti-Semitism Passed Off as Mild Dissent on Campus by Christine Williams.
One of my favorite parts was the one that begin with “When challenged to explain their positions, they could offer no explanation for their views beyond…”
And “…she implicitly accused me of being an ignorant evangelical who blindly supported what she portrayed as the criminal state of Israel, but gave no evidence when asked to explain and elaborate upon her thoughts.”
And “Given plenty of opportunity and encouragement to address exactly what in the points I had made that the “students” thought was flawed, they had no answer or even any desire to examine the issues fairly in search of truth, but instead persisted with a brazen display of raw anti-Semitism disguised as caring about the Palestinians. Not even one question was posed during the speech (or Question and Answer period)…”
Why would I want to give my “precious time” to someone who is largely responsible for our failing country and failed, Indoctrination Centers, Jew Hating, Israel bashing BDS promoting universities?
I hate em’. And that’s it.
Wellington says
You may be a construction worker, Larry, but you’re no dumb-ass. Sound post.