FREEDOM OF SPEECH DEAD ON THE AMERICAN COLLEGE CAMPUS / NO JEWS ALLOWED... WHO'S NEXT?
Vol. II | Issue. 121 | October 6, 2022
The Religious Left is now in control of the American Cultural Narrative. The so-called "Center-Left" is dead, buried, and unlikely to return, while the "Left of Center" Liberals were largely left to believe that they shared common ground with "Right of Center" Conservative Democrats or "Rockefeller Republicans".
Once upon a time, not too long ago, the foundational element of being an American was the inalienable right to Free Speech as guaranteed under the First Amendment. The basic American ethos was: “I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"… Now, on American College Campuses and echoing through the land, it is: "I'll decide what you can say, and if you don't tow the line… I will ban you, cancel you, rough you up, or maybe kill you if you dis the Prophet.”
Jew-Hatred, commonly known by its less acerbic academically accepted term “antisemitism” has become increasingly popular for the past several decades on the American College Campus. Once again, the "Elites” have been trendsetters in that regard. Just like the “Hatred of America” Movement that started in the Halls of Ivy roughly 60 years ago, so did the “Hate Israel” Movement.
In its salad days, the “Hate Israel” Movement on the American Campus started with the Free Nelson Mandela movement in 1964. Although virtually every Western Nation, at the time, had diplomatic relations with South Africa, Israel alone was branded as a racist pariah state subject to formal and informal sanctions by the then "Radical Left" which has morphed into just the Left.
Between 1964 and roughly the early 1990s, the “Hate Israel” Movement on American College Campuses wasn’t ubiquitous, but largely an outlier to the acceptance by most institutions of Higher Learning that Institutional support for the Jewish State was the status quo, along with Study Abroad programs in Israel, Israeli Exchange Students, Investments in the Jewish State, and Israeli Speakers on Campus, etc.
Then things changed radically…
In 2001, the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) Movement was officially launched with the unsavory alliance between “Hate-Israel, Hate-America”, Academics, NGOs, Traditional “Israel-America Hating” United Nations, and other “Haters of Democracy and Jews”. The BDS Movement against Israel mimicked that which was used successfully to bring down the Apartheid Government of South Africa and led to the release of Nelson Mandela in 1991. The haters, of course, never tell you that Mandela’s greatest advocates, and those most directly responsible for his release, were Dennis Goldberg and Helen Sussman, two South African Jews.
Now the BDS movement is in full bloom... This criminal movement is used by the Left as a tool, not only to strangle the Jewish State out of existence, but to ban any and all speech, speaker’s advocacy, and opinion that is considered by the College Campus speech enforcers to be "pro-Zionist". The real intent is "to create a campus environment violently hostile to Jewish Students and for anyone they construe to be "pro-Zionist”.
Tragically, they are succeeding…
Last week, a bylaw was passed by Berkley Law Students of Justice in Palestine (LSJP) banning "Zionist" speakers from appearing at events on Campus. Sadly and sickly, the Berkeley Law School Dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, himself a Jew, stated, "Taken literally, this would mean that I could not be invited to speak because I support the existence of Israel, even if I condemn many of its policies."
Obviously, just like most academics, Chemerinsky is a sickeningly weak man, whose tepid protest gives the Fascist Left a green light to stop Jews, and ultimately all Americans, from exercising their sacred right to assemble and advocate for free speech, both on and off campus. Chermerisnsky’s response was additionally nauseating because it contained his personal reservations regarding "Israel’s policies” rather than what should have been his unconditional rejection regarding the banning of free speech at UC Berkley Law School.
The disease of the Religious Left has taken an ironic twist regarding First Amendment Rights…
Zechariah Chafee was perhaps America’s greatest First Amendment Scholar of the 20th Century, and the most ardent advocate of his time regarding Free Speech and the First Amendment. Chafee was widely respected, quoted, and consulted by Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, and others. Regardless of the fact that Chafee was a Radical Leftist professor at Harvard Law School, he devoted his career as a champion of Free Speech regardless of political context or content.
Today’s Left hates America, Democracy, Israel, and Western Civilization. They will do anything to suppress and destroy the expression of ideas that conflict with their worldview of Marxist Totalitarianism. Always remember, that those who Hate Israel, Hate America, and Hate Jews… HATE FREEDOM.
Shame on Berkley and every other College Campus in America that has instituted and enforced Israel and Jew-Hatred on their campuses.
The Berkley example is just the most recent of many heinous policies that have been allowed to sit and destroy Freedom of Speech at our colleges and universities, and that is not The American Way.
Now it’s the Jews, whos next???
-Emes