…This tolerance for the most outrageous ideas, the resurfacing of the most crackbrained ideas about Jews, the glorification of sexual deviance, has also led, curiously, to the opposite phenomenon of unleashing a drive by those with these crackpot ideas to silence all those who disagree with them.

This has been behavior directed at Jewish speakers on campuses for some years now. It seems that every attempt at holding a lecture on Israel given by pro-Israelites is disrupted by Muslims whose culture everywhere is dictatorial.

It is Israel Apartheid Week on campuses around the world, hundreds of campuses I assume, in which the lie of “Zionism equals racism” remains alive and well. At Columbia, my alma mater, it was reported today, a counter-display by pro-Israel students was shut down by the authorities. Since the reign of the late unlamented Edward Said, Columbia has paid a crew of antiJew Muslims and Arabs to teach Middle Eastern subjects. It was Columbia too a decade ago under its dejudaized president Lee Bolinger who invited the lunatic Ahmadinejad to speak on campus.

This would have been the equivalent in the 1930s of allowing Joe Goebbels to address the student body…