Harvard professor Ruth R. Wisse is equating Harvard university’s legacy with slavery with its student newspaper the Crimson stance in support boycotting Israel for it’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967.
Wisse is using false analogy in comparing slavery with political opposition to Zionism, a nationalist political ideology. In Wisse’s WSJ opinion piece, she makes the argument that Zionism and Judaism is the same thing, therefore if someone argues against Zionism he or she is by definition against Judaism and Jews and is therefore an “anti-Semitic”. a great many Jews, however, oppose Zionism and speak out against it. Does that make them “anti-Semitic”?
Wisse is driven by her political ideology not academic honesty. Her arguments are anti-Palestinian as well as anti-blacks.
Wisse writes: “The 21 Arab countries occupy 640 times more land than Israel. The Arab League, not the Jews, refused to partition Palestine in 1947, the better to ensure their refugees were a permanent casus belli.”
Wisse chooses to obfuscate the truth and historical facts which speaks volumes about her academic integrity and moral character.
Her argument that Arab countries are 640 times bigger than Israel and therefore Palestinians can go and live there instead of living as refugees, is akin to saying that there are 30 European countries and Ukrainians, who are Europeans, have no right to defend their country against the Russian invasion and instead they should give up their country to Russia and stope being refugees and move on to live as Europeans in Europe. Read it in full in the WSJ
