Student radicals at York U.

“Fanatical students don’t see racism.” –Rosie Dimanno, The Star, March 2n/09.

You tell them, Rosie!

If Palestinians have achieved one thing in their anti-Israel campaign of murder and mayhem, it is to achieve an acceptance of neo-anti-Semitic vitriol among people so inclined in other parts of the world, including Canada. The fact that Israel now can defend its people is seen as justification for bigoted and anti-Semitic behaviour. Palestinians lobbying rockets into Israeli neighbourhoods are “freedom fighters”; Jews defending themselves are racists and jackbooted Nazis! Anti-Semites and bigots of all sorts can now safely attack “Zionism” without fear of being disparaged or rejected for their extremist views.

I too, must, albeit reluctantly, applaud Prime Minister Harper for taking a stand, ahead of the US, against the travesty called Durban ll. As to the students of York University et al, they should be censured for their stupidity. Not that it would do much good. I was a student of the aforementioned institution in the early seventies, and remember being chastised by a teaching assistant in Humanities 101 for daring to refer to a Time Magazine article in one of my essays. Time, she said, was a “capitalist rag”! And a professor of Political Economy was the leader of the “Waffle Group” that operated on the lunatic fringes of the NDP left.