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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (16308)12/12/2005 11:32:58 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
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Jonathan Tobin looks at the attempts to make sure that the federal government does not continue to finance clearly biased antil-Israeli programs in universities.

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Those who oppose the more stringent measure worry about government interference in curricula and the heavy-handed use of the power of the purse. Some academic Arabists go further — and allege that the result of this legislation would be a form of "McCarthyism," in which independent voices would be squelched in a pro-Israel witch-hunt.

But the bill's opponents have it backward.

If there is any danger of a "thought police" running amok in academia, it is under the present system, where anti-Zionist professors reign unchallenged and enforce a new anti-Western orthodoxy that stifles both the truth and any hope of creative scholarship.

And lest anyone think this is a purely esoteric controversy, the influence of the Middle Eastern-studies industry is not to be underestimated. The pernicious influence of these academics now extends into American high schools, where textbooks and teacher education have been co-opted by the anti-Israel crowd. It's high time that the tenured radicals who see America and Israel as the source of all evil in the world and rationalize if not excuse the Islamo-fascist enemies of our civilization stop feeding at the public trough.
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Once again, this is an expense that I would be quite happy to cut from the federal budget.

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