The Palestinianization of reality has become overwhelming. Wherever one turns, Israel is being solely and obsessively demonized, boycotted, and isolated. This is certainly true in the Islamic world, but it is also increasingly true internationally and in the West.
The recent World Economic Forum at Davos, where Divest-in-Israel literature was “accidentally” disseminated; the American Association of University Professors, which was about to meet at Bellagio, Italy, to focus on academic boycotts and which “accidentally” disseminated Holocaust denial literature to its invitees, nearly half of whom were academic activists in favor of boycotting Israeli academics; the British Anglican Church’s decision to divest in Israel; the decision by Georgetown University to host the fifth annual Palestine Solidarity Conference; the murderous rioting of Muslim mobs (organized and funded by both Iran and Syria) offended by the Danish cartoons whose three most incendiary examples were “accidentally” slipped into the mix by a Muslim mullah – are all just some of the recent examples of this phenomenon.
The fact that both Jews and Christians are routinely cartoonized in the Islamic media as apes, pigs, lice, and blood-drinking fiends does not seem to count, nor does the fact that Jews and Christians do not go on anti-Muslim rampages when their sensibilities are similarly offended.
Now, even British architects want to divest in Israel. In addition, anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist propaganda continues to permeate professional organizations and campus life in both North America and Europe. Websites, conferences, media coverage, and daily life at the United Nations all continue to romanticize and defend a country – Palestine – that does not exist and focus on only one group of refugees in the world – the Palestinians.
Both the illiterate and the educated remain transfixed by the Big Lies that Israel is the Nazi, apartheid, “settler” state; that America is the world’s most dangerous terrorist regime; and that Muslims are peaceful and are not the world’s largest practioners of gender and religious apartheid and jihad. Such non-thinking has infected billions of people in the Islamic world and millions in the West who, in a protest against reason, continue to call for a boycott against Israel.
Now, Arafat’s virus has infected the Tree People.
On November 21, 2005, the Green Party of the United States resolved to “divest from Israel.” The resolution (190) calls for a “boycott of Israel” and urges all governments, Green Parties around the world, and campus Greens to help implement an international boycott. The resolution describes Israel as “comparable” to the South African apartheid state and calls for the “serious consideration of a single, secular, democratic state as the national home of both Israelis and Palestinians.”
The Green Party is thus on record as calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.
Resolution 190 does not condemn the Palestinian serial suicide murders of Israeli and other civilians. It calls for East Jerusalem to become an open city for all faiths. Apparently its signatories are unaware that Muslim terrorists groups and Muslim governments in general have an abominable record regarding the practitioners of non-Muslim religions. In our time, Muslims burn churches, murder Christians, and behead Christian teenage girls.
New York State Green Party member and environmentalist Lorna Salzman was once a potential Green Party candidate for the U.S. presidency. She was recently “purged” by the National Women’s Caucus of the Green Party for having committed various Thought Crimes – e.g. she opposed Green Party support for Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who has stated that the American government had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
According to Salzman, “the U.S. Green Party has given aid and comfort to both anti-Semites and terrorist organizations” and has now “been taken over by leftists and radical Islamists.” Salzman also notes that Resolution 190 violates one of the USGP’s ten Key Values, that of “Grassroots Democracy.”