[Peace-discuss] Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel Views To Lose Funding

[David Green]

>   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 
  > 
  > 
  >   >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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