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Criticizing Israel will be a taboo in United States.
by Hijexx at 11:17 am EDT, Apr 25, 2003

WASHINGTON: A new law being proposed by Republican senators will serve [to] prohibit criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
The police-state-style "thought control" legislation is to be introduced by third-ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate, conservative Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
His so-called "ideological diversity" legislation suggests cutting federal funding for 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."
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The report said that during the private Senate session - of which there are no transcripts available to the taxpayers who paid for the project - 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.

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Another example of the thought police at work. For the record, criticism of Isreal does not equal anti-Semitism, no matter how hard they try to make it seem that way. I've always though the word anti-Semitism was a misnomer anyway.

Your tax dollars at work for our proxy state in the mideast.

RE: Criticizing Israel will be a taboo in United States.
by flynn23 at 6:43 pm EDT, Apr 28, 2003

Hijexx wrote:

] Another example of the thought police at work. For the
] record, criticism of Isreal does not equal anti-Semitism, no
] matter how hard they try to make it seem that way. I've
] always though the word anti-Semitism was a misnomer anyway.
]
] Your tax dollars at work for our proxy state in the mideast.

Repeat after me:
"We hate all terrorists except for those who are our friends and allies."