ROBERT STEINBUCH: Antisemitism again |
Over two years ago, I wrote about the taxpayer-funded, Saudi-autocrat-denominated institute--the King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies--at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. As I repeatedly detailed, one of its professors, Mohja Kahf, posted on her office door vile invectives about Jews and Israel.
The first item reads: "Every time[,] you hear this: If we include a Palestinian speaker, then we have to include the Israeli point of view for balance; and yet you rarely hear this . . . If we invite an African-American speaker, then [do] we have to include the KKK point of view for balance."
So Kahf proclaimed that the Israeli point of view is equivalent to that of some of the worst racists in history. Ugh.
The second item--posted in both English and Arabic, I gather for that Arabic-only speaking contingency at the school--repeated the mantra promoting the destruction of Israel: "Palestine, from the river to the sea." This call for the elimination of the Jewish state and its replacement by a Palestinian one--as the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea mark the borders of Israel--mirrors the chants of "death to Israel" heard across the Middle East.
National Public Radio reported: "The phrase [Palestine, from the river to the sea] has become especially politically charged in the days since the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that killed 1,400 people in Israel. Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress have condemned the slogan, with one congressman referring to it as a 'thinly veiled call for the genocide of millions of Jews in Israel.'"
But wait. There's more. One month after the Oct. 7 Palestinian terrorist attack on innocent Israelis, Kahf published a piece seeking to delegitimize Israel, titled: "What I Need to Tell My........