Thursday, May 09, 2002

Anti-Semitic University of California at Berkeley

Let's hear it from the University of California at Berkeley. First, anti-Semitic signs are posted around campus. Then, a Palestinian rights activist delivers a speech accusing Jews of trying to control the university. Now, this. This fall, a course is being offered in The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance. Innocent course about current events and art? Think again. To quote the course description,

Since the inception of the Intifada in September of 2000, Palestinians have been fighting for their right to exist. The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has been ongoing since 1948, has systematically displaced, killed, and maimed millions of Palestinian people. And yet, from under the brutal weight of the occupation, Palestinians have produced their own culture and poetry of resistance. This class will examine the history of the Palestinian resistance and the way that it is narrated by Palestinians in order to produce an understanding of the Intifada and to develop a coherent political analysis of the situation. This class takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination. Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.

We should exile all these folks to France.