Harvard University almost became the latest American institution of higher learning to become a forum for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views. Its English department invited Tom Paulin - an Oxford poet who has called for the slaughter of American Jews living in Judea and Samaria - to deliver an important lecture today, Nov. 14. Earlier this year, Paulin told the Egyptian weekly al-Ahram what he thinks of those he described as "Brooklyn-born" Jewish settlers: "They should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them... I can understand how suicide bombers feel... I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale." Paulin has written poems such as "Killed in Crossfire," in which he suggests that the "Zionist SS" deliberately gunned down "little Palestinian boys." It was abruptly announced today, however, that the lecture was, in fact, canceled.
The above incident is the latest of several leading many to believe that North American college campuses are growing increasingly anti-Semitic. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor hosted an anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian national student conference last month. This past May, an angry crowd of Arabs and their sympathizers surrounded a group of 50 Jews at San Francisco State University and threatened them with violence until an armed police guard escorted them out safely. Two months ago, hundreds of pro-PLO demonstrators forced the cancellation of a talk by Binyamin Netanyahu at Concordia University in Montreal; their methods included tossing chairs at police, breaking lobby windows, and physically threatening Jews who came to hear the talk.
A program sponsored by Aish HaTorah is geared to deal with this problem. With the slogan, "Ready to Take Our Campuses Back??!!," the program offers Jewish college students an opportunity to learn how to be an "effective Israel activist on campus."
The above incident is the latest of several leading many to believe that North American college campuses are growing increasingly anti-Semitic. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor hosted an anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian national student conference last month. This past May, an angry crowd of Arabs and their sympathizers surrounded a group of 50 Jews at San Francisco State University and threatened them with violence until an armed police guard escorted them out safely. Two months ago, hundreds of pro-PLO demonstrators forced the cancellation of a talk by Binyamin Netanyahu at Concordia University in Montreal; their methods included tossing chairs at police, breaking lobby windows, and physically threatening Jews who came to hear the talk.
A program sponsored by Aish HaTorah is geared to deal with this problem. With the slogan, "Ready to Take Our Campuses Back??!!," the program offers Jewish college students an opportunity to learn how to be an "effective Israel activist on campus."