Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews [Paperback]

Richard L. Cravatts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2012

Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews, a major work of investigative reporting and analysis, explores the growing phenomenon of Israel-hatred and covert anti-Semitism on college campuses. Fomented by extreme Left-wing institutes, funded by Saudi money, and led by professors with a barely-hidden intolerance for even the continued existence of the Jewish state, the new anti-Semitism, parading as anti-Zionism, poses deep and worrying threats to Israel and those who recognize the viability of this Western-style democracy in the Middle East. It also constitutes a rising threat to the United States: for the most devious of the new anti-Semites, including radical Muslim student groups, have, as their main agenda, critiquing Israel as a way of destabilizing the Middle East and reducing the power and positive influence of the United States and undermining Western institutions.

Tracing the birth of this new strain of virulent anti-Israelism to the Left's obsession with "Palestinianism" and a corresponding loathing of Israel as a colonial oppressor, the book also reveals how a destructive "unholy alliance" has been formed between those liberals who seek social justice for the Palestinians, and Islamists who seek to destroy Israel as part of a broader jihadist strategy and now find the Left as an ally against a common enemy: Israel.

On campuses worldwide the result has been a corruption of true scholarly debate about the Middle East and an intellectual rot that has settled in as a result of politicized scholarship in Middle East studies programs, and anti-Israel bias in publications, conferences, and annual hate-fests sponsored by radical groups for the purpose of vilifying, demonizing, and eventually eliminating Israel from the community of nations.

Genocidal Liberalism exposes the threat posed by the new anti-Semitism in detail, and then offers some concrete solutions to help bring American and Canadian campuses back to a balanced and level-headed discussion of Israel and to expose the dangerous agenda of campus radicals. Only by knowing the dangerous threat that has been growing in intensity on campuses can the tide be turned, and will the next generation of students be able to understand, in a fair and accurate way, the unfolding dynamics of one of the world's most explosive regions.


CONTENTS
Chapter 1:   How the Academic Left Came to Hate Israel  
Chapter 2:   Liberal Academia's Embrace of 'Palestinianism'  
Chapter 3:   Israel's Academic Ideological Detractors  
Chapter 4:   Distorting Scholarship To Discredit Israel: The Israel Lobby & Facts on the Ground
Chapter 5:   Criticism of Israel or Anti-Semitism? The Academic Free Speech Debate  
Chapter 6:   Intellectual Rot at Columbia's MEALAC & Other Programs  
Chapter 7:   The Radicalization of California Campuses  
Chapter 8:   Radical Student Groups, Israel Hate-Fests, & Demonstrations
Chapter 9:   Divestment, Boycotts & Petitions  
Chapter 10: How To Reframe The Story & Why We Must: A Prescription For Change  
Appendix:    Resources

Editorial Reviews

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". . . Richard Cravatts is one of this rare breed of scholars who must be taken seriously and who are thankfully not yet extinct [and this book] makes for indispensable reading. . .Cravatts pulls no punches, relentlessly anatomizing the pedagogic bias currently in place ..."

--DAVID SOLWAY, FrontPage Magazine
  

"If you are only going to read one book on the rampant anti-Semitic and anti-Israel campaign on American campuses, this is it."  

--EFRAIM KARSH, Director, Middle East Forum

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"Richard L. Cravatts has recently emerged as a leading voice against the resurgence of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism on American college and university campuses. In Genocidal Liberalism, Cravatts details the darkest problems facing Jewish students today and provides specific solutions for how the worst universities can be turned around. Most readers will be shocked by the stories that Cravatts has to tell."

--KENNETH L.MARCUS, President, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former Staff Director, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 

                                                                                                                                             

"Cravatts vividly documents the jihad against Jews and Israel on the American campus. His important study should inspire the necessary counter-jihad.

--DANIEL PIPES, President of the Middle East Forum and founder of Campus Watch

 

"Richard Cravatts' insightful book graphically illustrates the double-standard that dominates so much of today's rhetoric surrounding the Middle East. Just as the United States can be rightfully accused of being less than even-handed in the region because of its strategic relationship with Israel, so too can Arab leaders be similarly accused - who complain mightily of perceived Israeli mistreatment but then turn a deaf ear to Palestinian pleas for humanitarian assistance. While most of this can be attributed to the politics of national self-interest, academe should be held to a higher standard in which it provides a detached platform to facilitate the kind of thoughtful exchange that gives all sides their just due."

--DR. DOUGLAS M. JOHNSTON, President, International Center for Religion & Diplomacy and author of Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement

 

"Richard Cravatts' . . . words are a difficult lesson, but an important education. The book is so important that it should be required reading for all North American university administrators."

--MERYLE KATES, Executive Director, Advocates for Civil Liberties, Toronto

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Product Details

• Paperback: 317 pages
• Publisher: David Horowitz Freedom Center (January 20, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615566383
• ISBN-13: 978-0615566382
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,319,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard L. Cravatts, PhD, Professor of Practice and Director of the Communications Management master's program at Simmons College in Boston, has published over 350 articles, op-eds, and book chapters on topics including anti-Semitism, Israel, higher education, academic free speech, and Consitutional law. He regularly lectures at universities on the topic of academic anti-Israelism, as well as being a guest on radio talk shows on this subject. Dr. Cravatts is the current President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, and a board member of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, the Investigative Taskforce on Campus Anti-Semitism, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A dismaying portrait of the violation of University integrity February 26, 2012

By Shalom Freedman HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER

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There is a certain set of ideals inherent in the university system. First,the idea of objective scholarship.Second,the value of free and unfettered inquiry which opens all opinion to doubt, test and question. Along with this is the ideal of honest dialogue and debate in effort to achieve the truth.
This book gives a shocking picture of the violation of these ideals, of bias and intimidation, including physical intimidation prevalent in areas of the university today.These violations come from a new most unholy alliance of radical Islamic campus groups with those who on the surface are their ideological opponents, those on the liberal Left. This book focuses on how the Liberal Left has become radicalized and come more and more to focus on demonization of Israel.
It is disheartening to learn from this book how many of the finest institutions of higher learning in this country have taken huge grants from Saudi Arabia and other Arab sources to institute and control anti- Semitic Middle East Studies Departments. It is dismaying to see the way contradictory opinions have been marginalized and given no fair hearing. It is disgusting to see how ideologically totalitarian scholars have made factual reality their enemy.
Certain lesser known universities like UC Irvine, San Francisco State, Canada's York University have been particularly vicious centers of anti-Semitic intimidation but NYU , Columbia Harvard , among others have seen disturbing incidents.
Much of this is done under the guise of a phony human rights agenda which always
singles out one state and one people. This has been done with far less than adequate outcry by university officials. It has been done too without adequate Media reporting of the kinds of terror-tactics used by the extreme Leftist groups.
This present volume reports on an evil which is dangerous not only to the Jews and Israel, but to the integrity of a central institution of Western democracy.
It provides a vital warning, and also concludes with recommendations of steps which can be taken to combat this reprehensible desecration.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars All academics should read this book March 12, 2012

By Edinburgh reader.

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This book explains why so many academics have lost their way and blame Israel for all the problems in the Middle East - whether it is the Israel/Palestine argument or the failures of the 'Arab Spring'. Some academics are anti-Zionist for acceptable reasons but too often anti-Judaism comes to the surface of many of the criticisms of Israel. The book attempts (and succeeds) in determining why this has happened, and is a warning to academics that they must examine all the facts before coming to a reasoned decision. This is an important book and should be read by all academics and the general public who want to know what is happening in universities and colleges.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Study March 24, 2013

By Marigold

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I was very impressed with this thorough study of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment on college campuses. I highly recommend this book.