Entry: AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES PRONOUNCE SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL'S ILLEGAL OCCUPATION 6.23.2007


(Cal State Berkeley)

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn't put him back together again!  On June 14th 2007 the Cal State Berkeley University Chancellor, Robert J. Birgeneau pronounces his solidarity with Israeli academics and their institutions. Well if you don't believe me, read it for yourself (as an aside, left and right politically have nothing to do with certain subject matter, as is amply displayed here) HERE.

You might ask what brought on this sudden surge of solidarity, he says that he shares a "growing outrage" about a boycott proposed by Britain's University and College Union against these said Israeli academics and their institutions. He lifts high the tattered rags of "free Speech" (tattered by American Universities own clamp down on freedom of speech to those who oppose the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinians) in regard to these self same Israeli academics and institutions that support an illegal occupation of the Palestinians!


(Columbia University)

The chancellor at Berkeley is not alone in his outcry, he stands next to Lee C. Bollinger the president of Columbia University.  Here stands another champion of  the "fundamental values of the academy," read his screed HERE.  Mind you now, this is the same institution which took to task a professor in the Middle Eastern studies program for his strong disapproval of what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians in the illegal occupation.

President Bollinger, as a spokesperson for the university wax's eloquent about not holding "academic exchange hostage" like he has done in some departments at the University of Columbia. He pleads that it will squelch "cultural exchanges that will lead to enlightenment, empathy..." etc. ad nauseum. That what joining the British academics who deplore what is taking place in the illegal occupation will "hijack the central mission of higher education."


(Conformity by Alfred Gockel)

These universities in the past have had no problem with standing against man's inhumanity to man, in the tradition of the best precepts of the enlightenment. However, now we come to another fork in the road, so to speak, of something which the entire world abhors,  an ongoing atrocity in the same vein as Apartheid that has festered as the longest illegal occupation in modern history - but men like Bollinger dismiss it by saying "...we will not hold intellectual exchange hostage to the political disagreements of the moment." Of the moment!

Chancellor Birgeneau while pleading for "free speech" says that he stands proud that Berkeley is the birth place of the "Free Speech Movement." As if free speech has never been called upon to express itself with actions! As if free speech has never pushed itself to civil disobedience to be heard! As if the blood of the forefathers of this nation did not flow in revolutionary heat to gain the prize of free speech!



It is a known fact that Israeli academics and institutions lend a hand to the illegal and brutal occupation. They write the words which are placed in the mouth of the ruling elite, and the fodder that is fed to their indiscriminate supporter, the USA. They obscure the history of the ethnic cleansing of  the Palestinian people. They have confounded the political aims of a rapacious Zionism with their goals and aspirations. The very occupation itself is enhanced by the academics who are wed to the military enterprise, and special privilege is given those who serve to oppress the Palestinian people on a daily basis.

So why is it that the institutions in the United States find the proposal of the British academics so objectionable. First, I can tell you that it has nothing to do with what these two spokespersons for well known universities have written. can it be that the academics in the United States, for the most part, are the carbon copy of their Israeli counterparts? Yes, and in some ways even more so. Point for point the same objections made in regard to the Israeli academics and institutions can be made of American academics and institutions. The only difference being that academic institutions in the USA do it for a rapacious empire!



In fact, academia has been the first line of defense for the elite of any current day government franchise. Great pains are taken to make sure that the institutions of higher learning primarily do not disturb the status quo. They have become centers at the disposal of empire, mired in the military industrial complex - besmirched by the new "we the people," modern day multi-national corporations. In other words they are hardly the objective paragons which these two spokesmen (above) make them out to be, in fact, what they are saying is what they WANT you to believe.

So they say "make us the target of your boycott" also, how selfless of them. They stand beside such marvels of virtue like Tony Blair? They might have just as well said George Bush! No, rather than being outside government views and policies, they are the promulgators of what they decry.



So lets draw all of these things that have been written together for one final thrust.  Academia is on the front line of weaving the story of any nation, they are the domestic bodyguards of thought in a given society (one of many). Institutions of higher education, for the most part, are the promoters of the elite ideas that "those who know what's best for you" want you to embrace.

CAN YOU HEAR THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY TEARING? LET IT TEAR, LET THE SOUND REVERBERATE IN THE EARS OF THIS WANTON EMPIRE! WHAT THE BRITISH ACADEMICS HAVE SAID AND DONE IS TO STEP BACK FROM THE WILL OF THE ELITE, AND THEY ASK YOU TO JOIN THEM. THE EURO-AMERICAN CENTER OF INTEREST IS CURRENTLY ON THE MIDDLE EAST, AND CENTRAL TO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN CONFLICT. IF THE WILL OF WESTERN HEGEMONY, THE SUBJUGATION OF THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST, CAN BE BROKEN IN PALESTINE WHERE THE FOURTH MOST POWERFUL ARMED FORCES RESIDES, THAN THE REST FALL LIKE A HOUSE OF CARDS AND THE "NEW MIDDLE EAST" FADES LIKE A NIGHTMARE.  SURE, THE BRITISH IN THE PAST HAVE STOOD BY AND SUPPORTED THE VERY ESSENCE OF COLONIALISM - BUT NOW THEY HAVE SAID THAT THIS IS ENOUGH. THEY ASK THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY OF THE UNITED STATES TO JOIN THEM, THE BALL IS NOW IN OUR COURT, THE END GAME IS ON IF YOU CHOOSE!
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