Law professor Alan Dershowitz is very hot in recent days. His passionate defense of Israel during an address in the heart of anti-Israel Cal-Berkeley is very worthwhile, in particular his comments on the virulence of Noam Chomsky and others.
There is a clear effort on the part of those who want to demonize and de-legitimize Israel to win a struggle for the hearts and souls and minds of the next generation of American leaders. The generation educated at Berkeley, at Stanford, at the University of San Francisco, today's students at UC Santa Cruz. Students from all over the state of California and all over the United States. Fifteen to 20 years from now these will be the congress people, the senators. These will be the judges and business leaders. The President of the United States and international leaders as well. The goal is to make these people so knee-jerk anti-Israel that they will resemble typical French or most Western European leaders of today. That's the goal of the divestiture campaign. The leaders of the divestiture movement knew it couldn't work. Noam Chomsky knew it. He said he never believed in divestiture, yet he supported it. Why? Because it would cause students to be misled by the context of the petition, to believe Israel deserved to be singled out as a great human rights violator of the world.Posted by Alan at June 2, 2004 09:25 PMSo it is a struggle for the hearts and minds of the students.
Tip via Melanie Phillips