Here again, I find myself breaking the promise I made to
myself that I shall not respond to something Bret Stephens writes for at least
two months no matter how offensive will be what he writes from now until then.
The thing, however, is that while the intent behind what he wrote in his latest
column may have been to offend some people – as he makes it clear – it did not
offend me. The column comes under the title: “To the Class of 2014” and the
subtitle: “Students who demand emotional pampering deserve intellectual
derision.” It was published on May 20, 2014 in the Wall Street Journal.
Let me begin by telling a story that will explain where I
stand with regard to being offended by one thing or another. I was taking a
part-time course in the decade of the nineteen sixties with a professor who was
also running to be a member of parliament. He had a thirteen year old son who
let his hair grow to the shoulders, and would not trim it despite the fervent
pleas from his parents who worried that his appearance may sink the chances of
the father to get elected. Of course, boys, even grown men let their hair grow
to the shoulders nowadays, and no one gets offended by their appearance. The
moral of this story is that what is offensive today may not be tomorrow.
Having lived through many cultural changes where the
bearable became offensive, and the offensive became bearable, I learned to
tolerate many of the things that other people find offensive. Thus, none of the
insults that are thrown at the country of my birth or the one I have adopted
bother me unless the insults are meant to distort the truth for the purpose of
advancing an illegitimate agenda. For example, an insult that tells a lie about
Egypt
for the purpose of punishing the country would anger me. Likewise, an insult
that tells a lie about the healthcare system in Canada
for the purpose of attacking the system in America would also anger me.
It is for similar reasons that I get angry at the Jewish
moves by which they make a cottage industry of being offended by the things
that diminish the gains they make at the expense of the gullible entities they
court. For example, they will call you antisemitic if you criticize Israel ; and they will explain that to say Israel is to say Jewish, therefore to criticize Israel
is to insult the Jews for who they are … and this is antisemitic. But then if
someone they don't like runs for office and speaks of the Jewish lobby instead
of the Israeli lobby, they call him antisemitic because he stands accused of
not differentiating between Israel
and the Jews. The truth is: these people get offended coming and going because
they plan to get compensated coming and going. This is how they live; it is
what they do to earn a living.
Over a period of four decades, they meticulously put
together a comprehensive roster of Jewish sensitivities, and built a network
with which to infiltrate the North American institutions of higher learning.
Using these two as tools to implement a heretofore hidden agenda, they went
after the Jewish and non-Jewish professors who rejected their roster of
sensitivities, and shunned their network. They purged many of them, denied
tenure to others and convinced a number of university administrators to ban the
use of expressions like Israeli apartheid on campus.
This done, they took their success to Europe, mostly Britain , where
they tried to duplicate the success there too. Luckily, they made the mistake
of appointing the notorious Alan Dershowitz to lead the drive to conquer Britain . Once
over there, the locals – Jews and non-Jews alike – took one look at him, and
told him to turn around and get the hell out of there before someone decides to
do serious damage.
The word spread in North America as to what happened in Britain , and those
who did not know how to handle the situation previously knew what to do now.
They told the likes of Dershowitz and the administrators who banned the use of
the expressions that offended the forever-displeased Jews to go to hell because
they now have their own agenda ... though not a hidden one; and they have a
roster of sensitivities they want the whole world to know about.
And no one is going to stop them because to do so means to
stop the likes of Dershowitz and the administrators who would ban what offends
the Jews … which is what they themselves are doing now. Neat huh!