Today is Israel Independence Day, and I’m going to Vassar

By William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
"It wasn’t planned this way. It’s just a coincidence. Really.

"By the time you read this, I’ll probably be in the car driving to Poughkeepsie, NY, where I will appear tonight at 7 p.m. to give a speech in support Israel and academic freedom.

"And against the Open Letter signed by 39 Vassar faculty members — none of whom took up my debate challenge — who support of the American Studies Association boycott of Israel.

"Maybe I’ll play this recording of David Ben-Gurion reading the Israeli Declaration of Independence: 

 

"Things have been tense lately at Vassar when it comes to Israel.

"While I’m not expecting “trouble,” I thought you like to see what trouble for pro-Israel speakers on campuses looks like, in the video below taken at UC Davis in February 2012:
 

 

More demagoguery from the left, whose tyranny wants to shut off all speech by those who want to resist socialist, pro-Islamist doctrines. The armchair demagogues usually sit at home responding to conservative articles such as this (that they have not read) with remarks like "moronic post", "delusional", and the like. They respond to reasoned argument with little more than shallow invective.

There are Muslims in Israel whom I feel are more decent than the anti-Israel leftists we see too much of on America's streets and campuses. To wit:

 

Arab, Jewish youth combat ‘price tag’ with paint

Young residents of Shfaram repair the town's ancient synagogue,

 in what residents say is a response to the 'price tag' attacks
 of Jewish extremists in the region.

“ 'Price tag” is a term used to describe acts of vandalism and violence associated with extremist elements of the Jewish settler movement in retaliation for Palestinian attacks and to protest what they perceive as the Israeli government’s “pro-Palestinian” policies. Mosques, churches, dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases have been targeted in such assaults."