Editor,
In the last several weeks, a strong anti-Israel campaign has been conducted on campus by so-called peace and justice groups, and by UNM’s American Studies department and Peace Studies program. They screened “documentary” movies, brought Palestinian “journalists,” and even ran a forum aimed at boycotting Israeli academia.
Under UNM’s academic umbrella, lies, incitement, pornography of death and hypocrisy all ran without a hitch. It’s a shame that people haven’t learned to distinguish a hate speech from a legitimate critique; it’s even more shameful that UNM’s departments of American studies and “peace studies” are actively involved in propaganda.
It is needless to say that the speakers and the movies presented Israel as a bloodthirsty nation, the source of all evil and the cause for all atrocities in the region. Facts are not important for the propagandists and their fans. About 0.0006 percent of Arabs or Muslims who were killed since Israel’s establishment were Palestinians. More than half of them were terrorists, the lowest ratio in the entire world by far of civilian casualties while fighting terrorism.
Twelve million Arabs or Muslims were killed or slaughtered in the past 60 years. Millions of Palestinian refugees are intentionally not being rehabilitated by Arab nations. King Hussein of Jordan massacred 20,000 Palestinians in 1970. Twenty-five thousand were massacred in El Hama by the Syrian army in a single day. Every single uprising in the Arab world is treated mercilessly and brutally.
Which nation other than Israel has tolerated years of rockets shooting at its citizens without responding? Which other nation is risking its own soldiers’ lives in order to lessen civilian casualties within its enemy?
Israel has been fighting for its existence since its establishment. The Arab desire to destroy it and the Arab attempts to eliminate it are lessened solely due to its deterrent force. Those who live in denial or in the virtual reality the media has created need to abandon their false beliefs and face the facts. This anti-Semitic obsession with Israel is meant not only to demonize it, but to distract the world’s public opinion from the ongoing Muslim ruthlessness. Millions of voiceless Arabs or Muslims were brutally massacred in the past few decades by Arab or Muslim regimes and the world stood aloof.
Right now, each month, thousands of Arabs or Muslims are massacred by radical Islamists, and those “peace” and “justice” groups, and all other bleeding hearts are entirely apathetic. The honorable “peace studies” professors do not suggest boycotting Syrian or Iranian academia, but on the contrary, radical Muslim scholars are welcomed in open arms. In their upside down world, anyone who attacks Israel is on the side of the goods.
Yuval Carmi
UNM student
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