U.S. Grad Students Seen Hostile To Israel

[newyorican]

A new survey of attitudes toward Israel among graduate students at top U.S. universities offers a disturbing, if not frightening, picture of increasing sympathy for the Palestinian cause and blame on the Jewish state for the lack of peace.

The report being issued this week by The Israel Project, a Washington, D.C.-based group seeking to strengthen Israel’s image, finds that “tomorrow’s leaders … are hostile to the Jewish state,” a growing trend that could jeopardize American foreign policy toward Israel in the near future.

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Many of the students come from homes sympathetic to Israel, Luntz reported, but through exposure to university professors and mainstream media have grown “impatient” with Israel and emotionally connected to the Palestinian cause, to the point of rationalizing Palestinian suicide bombings and coming to see Israel as a “burden” to the United States rather than “an ally.”

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In arguing that Israel is losing the image war, Luntz said the graduate students do not talk about Mideast issues with their Jewish friends, who they perceive as “indoctrinated” and “emotional.”

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[newyorican]

1. Better call Campus Watch...

I expect someone around here has Pipes on speed dial...

[Coastie for Truth]

2. The same "elites" felt that way about "others" by the mid-1970's

. That's the tide of history.

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What’s more, Luntz found a thin line between anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment among “these young elites,” noting that “they may not be in the ‘Zionism is racism’ camp, but they’re not all that far away.” He said the students “view any U.S. support of Israel as generated by wealthy Jewish special interests rather than as a reflection of the national interest.”

Compounding the problem, the report said, is that the students, predominantly left-of-center politically, are so opposed to President Bush that his support for Israel is seen as a negative factor.

In arguing that Israel is losing the image war, Luntz said the graduate students do not talk about Mideast issues with their Jewish friends, who they perceive as “indoctrinated” and “emotional.”

In the eyes of the graduate students, Luntz said, “to support Israel as a Jew is to be narrow-minded and one-sided. To support the Palestinians is to be progressive and thoughtful.”
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Just change the names of the ethnic groups - and change the "demand" - and read the Bakke case -- "elites" always feel that way about "somebody" ---

[newyorican]

3. doesn't hold water...

Bakke was a so-called reverse discrimination case decided upon by so-called elites that were running the school and later by so-called elites that were sitting jurists.

This issue (not a case) is about the mindset of so-called elites attending and graduating from the school. So this is, obviously, a different set of so-called elites.

In addition, these so-called elites come from homes that were sympathetic to Israeli policies. Through a process called education wherein one is taught to think critically about the world around them, they appear to be having a some second thoughts about whom they choose to support.

It used to be a mind was a terrible thing to waste.

Now it appears that a mind is a terrible thing to some.

Well, those "old-fart progressives" are the ones that pushed critical thought in the education process. Now they will just have to live with the results.