Why doesn't the virulence of Islamic anti-Semitism raise eyebrows and voices in a huge chorus of protest? How is it that Islamic anti-Semitism thrives as a protected attitude amongst the politically correct elite ? Why isn't Islamic anti-Semitism denounced in the strongest of terms? What kind of insidious twisting of people's minds allows such hate to go unchallenged?
Islamic anti-Semitism in my opinion ranks as one of the Big Stories of this century, its end still waiting to be played out.
Here is a story of a Dutch University professor who was censored from delivering a speech on the prevalence of anti-Semitism throughout history and culminating
in Islamic anti-Semitism. An excerpt:
After almost 40 years of lecturing at Utrecht University and with his eyesight failing, professor Piet van der Horst was looking forward to delivering his retirement lecture last summer. He decided to talk on the myth of Jewish cannibalism, a perennial anti-Semitic theme, and part and parcel of his field of expertise, Judaism in the Hellenistic period. As is customary in the Netherlands, he also decided to add a timely twist to his farewell lecture: the resurfacing of the myth of Jewish cannibalism in contemporary Islamic society.
Van der Horst wanted to trace the myth of Jewish cannibalism from the Hellenistic period through the Middle Ages to the Nazi-era. He then wanted to point to the proliferation of anti-Semitic cartoons, TV-shows, sermons and the like in Islamic societies, particularly in Iran, Syria and the Palestinian territories.
The departing professor wanted to conclude his lecture by saying that “the Islamic world has taken up the cause of senseless Jew hatred from the Nazis and is doing so with great gusto. The Islamization of European anti-Semitism is one of the most horrifying developments of the last decades.”
However, Van der Horst was not to deliver his lecture. Flanked by three tenured professors, the university’s dean told Van der Horst that his lecture was academically sub-standard and would, if delivered, create an immediate security risk.