There’s an excellent piece in the Jewish Chronicle by an unnamed academic who has the job of being the second marker for university degree courses. They’ve had to mark stuff that would have made old Goebells blush so steeped in Islamic Jew-hatred are some of the essays that have come before them.
This academic is not Jewish, this person has no communal or religious axe to grind here, they could quite easily just do their job and say sod all until the time comes to retire. But thankfully not only has this academic noticed that there’s Islamic Jew hatred going on in academia, but the existence of appalling double standards in academia. British academia has become a place where it is permitted to say the most awful things about Jews but at the same time is an environment where it is forbidden to say anything awful, even if the awful thing being said is true, about Islam. This is not free speech, this is one side, the Islamic and the Leftist side, controlling everyone’s speech.
The Anonymous Academic said:
Teaching people that “Palestine” was originally Muslim until it was colonised by Jews is so wrong, factually and historically as well as morally, that even as a non-Jewish academic, I can no longer keep quiet.
Not only does it fan the flames of resentment and hostility that lead to violence, but it perpetuates the grievance industry that keeps that part of the world locked in a cycle of bloodshed. There’s nothing glamorous about fuelling this conflict, no matter how edgy students might think it makes their writing, nor how much money there is to be siphoned from the kamikaze culture-destroyer that is Arts Council England.
However, it is not just the blatant untruthfulness of the position that is unacceptable, but the glaring double standards. A piece in which a student speaks on behalf of a “colonised” people from the safety of a university place in the UK would be condemned as “cultural appropriation” in any other context.
A book I recommend to people if they can get it is ‘The Rape Of Reason’ which is all about the student and faculty revolt at the North London Polytechnic in the 1970’s. In that case the far Left in its various forms destroyed or damaged the education of all those students who didn’t want to be taught Marxist bollocks or who just wanted to get their heads down and get their degree. That situation was eventually resolved in large part by better management of the Poly but the sort of disease that afflicted North London Poly in the 70’s has metastasised and is not to be found right across the academic and educational sector. We do have a situation in the UK, from Primary to Tertiary I’m afraid, where Jew hatred is either acceptable by the left leaning educational settings or excused or ignored or just not seen, whilst any criticism of Islam or any pushback against other forms of identitarianism such as the cult of trans, is forbidden and sometimes harshly punished.
I’m glad that this academic has decided to speak out. Maybe one day things will be better and those who point out obvious wrongs with our educational system and our society can speak openly and freely.
