If you go out on the campus today...

Hot on the heels of the campus Howardistas/Horowistas come the campus Zionistas. Just a few posts back I dealt with the Young Liberal Dob-in-a-Don campaign (From Howardistas to Horowistas). Now the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has announced the appointment of Joel Burnie, a 23 year-old Monash University arts-law student and former president of the Australian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) as its "first campus co-ordinator to promote Israel and Jewish culture." (Pro-Israel lobby appoints first campus watchdog, The Australian, 16/4/08).

As with our Howardista-Horowistas, AIJAC's campaign, like graffiti vandalism and SUVs, is a US import, "a joint venture with the US campus movement StandWithUs, which advertises itself as 'the next generation of Israel advocacy'."

AIJAC director Ted Lapkin had reportedly declared in Quadrant in 2006 that "Australian academe was a 'rogues' gallery of anti-Zionists'." Mr Burnie, however, was keeping Ted's hyperbole on a tight leash - at least until he's on his feet: " 'I'd like to do some proper investigation to see if there is a systemic problem [of academic bias against Israel], but I do not believe there is... we need to make sure that all academic opinions are being expressed equally on campus'... Asked if his role had been created to counter anti-Israel bias or anti-Semitic activity, Mr Burnie said: 'This position has not been created out of an emergent necessity'. Rather, he would be 'an on-campus advocate for Israel and Jewish culture'. 'The role involves promotion of Israeli culture and promotion of Israeli speakers that may come out to Australia. It will give students access to these people so they can listen and be educated'."

Watch this space as the faux sceptical Joel trumpets the faux findings of his "proper investigation." Something along the lines of Australian Academe a Rogue's Gallery of Anti-Zionists! perhaps?

Just as David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com is holy writ for our Horowista campus vigilantes, StandWithUs.com is the inspiration for their Zionista comrades. So let's take a peek:-

1) The Suicide Terrorism Industry's first production, you may remember, was the carcass of an exploded Jerusalem bus hawked to strategic venues around the world. Its second production, Inside Terrorism: The X-Ray Project, is currently doing the rounds of US campuses. X-Ray is described as an exhibition of "X-rays and CT-scans of patients who survived suicide bombings in Israel, displaying nuts, bolts, and nails, lodged into victim's bodies by the force of the bomb... [designed] to explore the most important social issue of our times, the effects of terrorism on a civilian population." An exhibition of Palestinian IBM fragments from Zionist pilgrimage site Sderot is no doubt lurking just around the corner. (See my post Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening, Gareth, 6/4)

Despite the constant calls of Zionist propagandists for 'balance' whenever a half-way objective story on the Middle East conflict manages to sneak into the mainstream media under Zionist radar, don't expect X-Ray to include any pics of slivers and chunks of Made in America/Israel ordnance in Palestinian victims of Israeli state-terrorism. But, hey, let's be charitable here. Surely the only reason for their absence is logistic. After all, while you can fit all the Israeli pics in one room, the Palestinian ones would need a venue as large as the Louvre.

2) As well as exploiting the pain and suffering of Israelis to score propaganda points, the US Zionistas are doing their bit to relieve 'offending' academics of their jobs. Clicking on "Activism & Action Alerts" takes you to "'Deny Nadia Abu El-Haj Tenure from Barnard/Columbia'." Nadia's crime? "Alleging that archaeologists have 'created the fact of an ancient Israelite/Jewish nation', where none actually existed. She asserts that the ancient Israelite kingdoms are a 'pure political fabrication'." Hm, that kind of straying from the straight and narrow should be reason enough for a retrospective campaign against self-hating Jews George and Ira Gershwin, who penned those non-pc lyrics "De things dat yo' liable to read in de Bible/It ain't necessarily so." Thankfully, the 'Deny El-Haj Tenure' campaign hasn't so far succeeded, but here's one that has: "'Deny Norman Finkelstein Tenure' - This petition was affective [sic*] and instrumental in Chicago, where DePaul University denied Finkelstein tenure in June 2007."

*You can see that playing Spot the Current Campus Existential Threat to Israel does wonders for the Zionistas' spelling.

3) So much for academics who buck the party line. Just as much fun can be had silencing the Palestinian voice on celluloid. Click on "Students 'solve' Mideast crisis," and you can read about the stink the Zionistas kicked up at Canada's University of Windsor over a Muslim Students Association (MSA) proposal to screen Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority, a film described schizophrenically by Zionista Dario David Hunter as both a "documentary... depicting Palestinians recounting abuse at the hands of Israeli soldiers" and "basically 90 minutes of indoctrination." Another Zionista, Pamela Goldstein, is hilarious in her faux outrage: "'I watched it on YouTube last night', she said. 'I just found it... very dramatic, and almost hysterical. It was an incitement to hatred. I mean, you watched that film and you wanted to hate every single Jew that ever lived'."

Faux outrage was followed by faux bon-homie as the MSA's attempt to shine a bit of light into a dark and nasty corner was eventually foiled by a Zionista charm offensive: "Along with the film, the event was to include a lecture by Abdel Qadir Tayebi of the Windsor Islamic Association -described by [Osama] Iqbal [president of the MSA] as the MSA's chaplain or spiritual adviser. On the day of the event, Iqbal said he was approached by the university's international students adviser, and he made the decision to cancel once he realized how Jewish students felt. Following the cancellation of the event, Iqbal met with Hunter, Goldstein and former WJSA president Erin Glatter to discuss their concerns. 'I think that the issue is not with the Muslim students presenting their point of view which members of our community may not necessarily agree with', Hunter said. 'I think... the rather aggressive way it was presented [Say NO to these atrocities NOW and learn the FACTS] was problematic'. Goldstein said she intends to have Iqbal and Hunter on her radio program to talk about what happened [Don't call us, Iqbal, we'll call you], and she's looking forward to more joint events by Muslim and Jewish students. 'So we've decided we are going to solve the Middle East crisis', said Goldstein to laughter. 'And we feel confident that we can do it'."

And why wouldn't Goldie be laughing? Step back a bit and see how it's done:-

a) Israel, presenting as a Jewish state representing all Jews, everywhere, abuses the Palestinian inhabitants of a territory it occupies in violation of international law, while misrepresenting such abuse as self-defence against an alleged generic Jew-hating Muslim threat.

b) Someone makes a film about the Palestinian victims which gives them a voice to reveal what the self-proclaimed Jewish state is doing to them.

c) A Muslim student grouping, concerned that fellow Muslims are under attack, decide to screen the film.

d) Zionista foot soldiers on campus scream that it is anti-Semitic and will incite hatred of all Jews, everywhere.

e) The Muslim students, on the defensive since 9/11, perhaps influenced by Zionist propaganda misrepresenting the Middle East conflict as a clash between Judeo-Christian 'civilization' and Muslim 'barbarism', possibly confused about the elementary distinction between Judaism, the faith, and Zionism, the political ideology and program, and unable to see that the wool is being pulled over their eyes by the Zionistas, who deliberately misrepresent all criticism of Israel's abuse of Palestinians as an attack on all Jews, everywhere, are spooked into pulling the film and sucked in by Zionista blandishments.

f) Result: the voices of the abused Palestinians are once again silenced, the current Campus Existential Threat to Israel is neutered, the Zionistas are laughing, and Palestinians continue to be abused. Bingo!

Tellingly, The Australian's article on AIJAC's new campus crusader reported him saying that he "would continue the inter-faith work he did through [the AUJS] talking with Muslim and Christian student groups."

And speaking of touring exhibitions, even those organized by Zionists of the wrong kind will be targeted by the Zionistas. Judging by this particular "Activism & Action Alerts" notice -"'IDF Sign Against 'Breaking the Silence' - Only to be signed by former IDF soldiers " - I assume (I say 'assume' because the information sought by clicking on it cannot be accessed) that an exhibition of photographs by former IDF whistleblowers on the crimes of the Israeli occupation is being picketed. Certainly, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has accused the organizers of BTS of encouraging anti-Semitism and making Jewish students "feel threatened personally."

What with Horowistas and Zionistas crying foul, playing 'I spy', or otherwise involved in hosing down dissenting views and enforcing the party line, does one dare to venture out into the campus woods today?