[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:10725] ideological diversity???

[Alfred Kagan]

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>  >Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel
>  >Views To Lose Funding
>  >Congress To Pass 'Ideological Diversity' Legislation
>  >By Michael Collins Piper
>  >American Free Press
>  >americanfreepress.net
>  >4-21-3
>  >
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>  >
>  >Republican members of the Senate are planning to
>  >introduce police-state- style "thought control"
>  >legislation designed to prohibit criticism of Israel
>  >on American college campuses. The third-ranking
>  >Republican member of the U.S. Senate, conservative
>  >Rick Santorum (Pa.), plans to introduce so-called
>  >"ideological diversity" legislation that would cut
>  >federal funding for thousands of American colleges and
>  >universities if those institutions are found to be
>  >permitting professors, students and student
>  >organizations to openly criticize Israel, which
>  >Santorum considers to be an act of "anti-Semitism."
>  >Santorum wants to rewrite the federal funding formula
>  >under Title IX of the Higher Education Act to include
>  >"ideological diversity" as well as sexual equality in
>  >education as a perquisite for federal funding.
>  >Joining Santorum is another Senate conservative GOP
>  >stalwart -- and a leading pro-Israel ideologue -- Sen.
>  >Sam Brownback (Kan.) who has his own scheme to call
>  >for a federal commission -- critics call it a
>  >"tribunal" to be established under Title IX to
>  >"investigate" anti-Semitic incidents on American
>  >campuses. This is no "conspiracy theory." It's a
>  >fact -- but not one that is getting much attention
>  >except in a few high-level circles. Although the
>  >average American student or college professor has not
>  >heard of the Santorum-Brownback scheme, Wayne
>  >Firestone, director of the Center for Israel Affairs
>  >for the Hillel Foundation, says that "Everywhere I go,
>  >this is the lead topic. This is drawing a lot of
>  >interest." In fact, it was Firestone's organization,
>  >Hillel -- which has units on campuses across America
>  >-- that first leaked word of Santorum's scheme.
>  >Further details appeared in a circumspect report on
>  >April 15 in the small- circulation New York Sun, a
>  >stridently pro-Israel "neo-conservative" daily
>  >published in Manhattan. Hillel told its supporters
>  >that Santorum, along with several other members of the
>  >Senate, had invited representatives of a number of
>  >powerful Jewish organizations to attend a private
>  >meeting on Capitol Hill in order to discuss the
>  >senators' concerns about growing criticism of Israel
>  >on American college campuses. The senators in
>  >question -- all Republicans -- were: Santorum, Robert
>  >Bennett (Utah), Sam Brownback (Kansas), and
>  >newly-elected Norm Coleman (Minnesota). In addition,
>  >Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.),
>  >and his GOP colleagues, Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
>  >and George Voinovich (Ohio) sent staff
>  >representatives. Jewish organizations represented at
>  >the private meeting were the Anti- Defamation League
>  >(ADL) of B'nai B'rith, the Zionist Organization of
>  >America, the American Jewish Committee and Hillel,
>  >represented by the aforementioned Firestone and his
>  >college Jay Rubin, Hillel's executive vice president.
>  >Louis Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the
>  >U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights,
>  >represented the Bush administration. During the
>  >private Senate session -- of which there are no
>  >transcripts available to the taxpayers who footed the
>  >bill for the enterprise -- an ADL representative
>  >reportedly claimed to the gathering that the ADL's
>  >"annual audit" of anti-Semitic activity in America had
>  >detected an increase by 24% of anti-Semitism on U.S.
>  >college campuses in the year 2002. That 24% increase
>  >-- even by the ADL's own admission -- constituted only
>  >21 actions. However, the ADL definition of
>  >"anti-Semitism" is so broad that it largely includes
>  >even the mildest criticism of Israel that doesn't
>  >happened to be framed in the particular parameters
>  >that the ADL determines to be acceptable. In the
>  >meantime, word of the Santorum-Brownback initiative is
>  >spreading among leaders of the educational community.
>  >However, spokesmen for universities and educational
>  >organizations are being quite circumspect about
>  >commenting too quickly or too loudly, recognizing that
>  >they, too, could be accused of encouraging
>  >"anti-Semitism" if they dare to speak out against the
>  >thought control mechanism that Santorum, Brownback and
>  >their allies want to set in place. Santorum is
>  >rapidly emerging as one of Israel's leading Senate
>  >spokesmen. He is one of the chief co-sponsors of the
>  >so-called Syrian Accountability Act that accuses Syria
>  >of supporting terrorism and developing weapons of mass
>  >destruction and demands that Syria withdraw from
>  >Lebanon. Forces now clamoring for war against Syria
>  >are using these allegations as the foundation for
>  >launching a war against the Arab republic.
>  >
>  >
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