The Father of Daniel Pearl Speaks Out
It has been about three and half years since the horrific cold-blooded murder of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for teh Wall Street Journal who became a martyr in the war against Islamofascism. Pearl was kidnapped while he was on his way to interview a Muslim fundamentalist leader in Pakistan, ironically intending to allow the man to have a free say. Pearl's execution, horrible as it was, turned out only to be the first of a series of brutal murders by Islamic fundamentalists fighting the Allied campaign against Middle East terrorists.
Pearl, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, started his career in journalism 14 years ago at the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He quickly became a rising star, joining the Wall Street Journal in 1990. Following the murder, his family set up the Daniel Pearl Foundation, "to address the root causes of this tragedy, in the spirit, style, and principles that shaped Danny's work and character." Its president is Daniel's father, Judea Pearl, a professor of computer science at UCLA.
This week, Prof. Pearl has an article worth reading in "The Jewish Week" in New York. It is a bit long to be reprinted here in full. We recommend that readers open the link to read the entire piece, but here are some excerpts:
"Anti-Zionism As RacismJudea PearlIn the past two months, I have visited four "troubled" campuses -Duke, York (Canada), Columbia and UC Irvine - where tensions between Jewish and anti-Zionist students and professors have attracted national media attention. In these visits, I have spoken to students, faculty and administrators, and I have obtained a fairly gloomy picture of the situation on those and other campuses.
"First, Jewish students have been subjected in the past few years to an unprecedented assault on their identity as Jews. And we, the Jewish faculty on campus, have let those students down. We have failed to equip them with effective tools to fight back this assault.
"I would like to propose a remedy.Many condemn anti-Zionism for being a flimsy cover for anti-Semitism. I disagree. The order is wrong. I condemn anti-Semitism for being an instrument for a worse form of racism: anti-Zionism. In other words, I submit that anti-Zionism is a form of racism more dangerous than classical anti-Semitism. Labeling and fighting anti-Zionism as racism is precisely the weapon that our students need for survival on campus.
"Anti-Zionism earns its racist character from denying theJewish people what it grants to other collectives (e.g. Spanish, Palestinians), namely, the right to nationhood and self determination....
"As a form of racism, anti-Zionism is worse that anti-Semitism. It targets the most vulnerable part of the Jewish people, namely, the people of Israel, who rely on the sovereignty of Israel for physical safety, national identity and personal dignity. To put it more bluntly, Anti-Zionism condemns five million human beings, mostly refugees or children of refugees, to eternal statelessness,traumatized by historical images of persecution and genocide. Anti-Zionism also attacks the pivotal component of our identity, the glue that bonds us together-our nationhood and the right for self determination. And while people of conscience reject anti-Semitism, anti-Zionist rhetoric has become a mark of academic sophistication and social acceptance in Europe and in some U.S. campuses. Moreover, anti-Zionism disguises itself in the cloak of political debate, exempt from sensitivities and rules of civility that govern
inter-religious discourse."
1 Comments:
Prof. Pearl's comments are moving and right.
I ask myself a question. Why do so many Jews fail to see that excessive incompatible immigration, which the Jewish Communities of North American and European countries tend to endorse in furtherance of the dilution the traditional white-Christian ethnocultural majorities (majorities which Jews view as an irritant and/or potential threat to themselves) has played a big role, maybe a decisive one, in the rise of anti-Zionism, anti-Israelism, and overt anti-Semitism on campus? It's as if the goal of diluting white-Christian traditional majorities with non-whites and non-Christians through excessive incompatible immigration is so important to Jews they willfully blind themselves to its obvious role in the rise of anti-Jewish feeling in the West.
"Anti-Zionism also attacks the pivotal component of [Jews'] identity, the glue that bonds us together -- our nationhood and the right for self determination." ( -- quoted from Prof. Pearl in the log entry)
The excessive incompatible immigration being forced down the American people's throats right now, amounting to race-replacement immigration, does to this country's traditional white-Christian majority what Prof. Pearl rightly says anti-Zionism does to Jews: attacks central elements of group identity and "glue" that bonds the group together, its nationhood and the right of self-determination.
I wish more Jews would see the parallels between the wrong done to the West's traditional majorities whose weakening, displacement, and replacement Jews tend strongly to support by supporting open borders and the like, on the one hand, and on the other, the wrong anti-Zionism does to Jews.
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