Jew-haters in academia are not all cut from the same cloth. Noam Chomsky, for instance, most likely, hates Jews because they remind him of his parents. Paul Hamel appears to be a compulsive groupie. He likes to hang with exciting people who happen to be Antisemitic terrorist enablers.
Neve Gordon believes that he has a calling, from whatever secularist gods he worships, to bring about the destruction of Israel, whose Jewishness he regards as a personal affront, a stain on his resume. He does not want to live in a Jewish democratic apartheid state. The alternative, a shariah state in which Jews are subservient to Muslim supremacists, suits him just fine. This pompous know-it-all academic is like a man who walks into a fifteen round no-holds-barred extreme fight just in time to see one fighter beating the other mercilessly. He concludes that the fight is unfair; one side is clearly over matched. As it happens, the fighter doing the beating in round fourteen barely escaped certain death in the earlier thirteen rounds. Once he gains the upper hand, he desperately keeps pummeling his opponent, knowing that if he stops, for even a moment, the bigger opponent will recover and very likely kill him.
Muslims have been oppressing, beating, taxing and killing Jews for thirteen centuries before the re-birth of the state of Israel. One of Muhammad’s earliest atrocities was the murder and exile of the Jews from the town of Yathrib (today’s Madinah, Saudi Arabia). It was but the first of many attempted genocides of Jews by Muslims. On his dying bed Muhammad decreed eternal animosity for Jews (and Christians). Muslim Arabs (as in “from Arabia”) conquered the Holy Land for the first time in 639 AD and have been tormenting Jews there ever since.
The six million Jews of Israel know that weakness will result in their extinction. Just like Southern slave owners never accept freed slaves as equals, the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims do not accept that Jews, whom they have ruled for centuries, deserve of a state of their own.
Here is what Neve Gordon would have written if he knew history and really wanted his boys to be free. Read more >