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Source: http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001643.html
The Graves of Academe
Melanie Phillips (melaniephillips.com) - * The authors try to wrap themselves in the mantle of heroic fighters against the attempt by the "Israel lobby" to stifle them. But open the Guardian or Independent any day of the week, and these "stifled" claims of the Israel/Jewish/neocon global conspiracy/world evil pour from their pages in an unstoppable torrent of bile. * The fundamental misrepresentations and distortions in this paper are quite astonishing. Take this claim, for example, that Israeli citizenship "is based on the principle of blood kinship." This is totally untrue. [More than a million] Arabs and other non-Jews are Israeli citizens. * This is but the latest example of a poisonous pathology which has gripped the intelligentsia of the West, centered around a visceral loathing of America, Israel, the neocons, and the Jews. The intelligentsia have become the fifth columnists of the West, an engine of war that is being deployed by the enemies of life and liberty to sow terminal confusion, self-loathing, and demoralization that are progressively sapping the ability of the free world to defend itself. * The university world is not a disinterested bystander at the current struggle between freedom and genocidal clerical fascism. It is instead an active player - and on the wrong side.