Anti-semitism, or something worse? .

Anti-semitism, or something worse?. There is an interesting move afoot in some US universities. Vocal faculty and students, by no means a majority, are calling for their institutions to divest their endowment portfolios of stock in companies that do business with Israel. The movement compares itself to the divestment strategy used to put pressure on the Apartheid government of South Africa. In that case, the goal was to combat obvious oppression of the black population by a white minority. The case can be made, whether one agrees with it or not, that the Israelis’ behavior toward the Palestinians is comparable. The movement has been dubbed anti-Semitic by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, and the proponents vilified as racist. Why, the question is asked, aren’t they agitating for pressure against countries like China, or several African nations, or any number of places where a specific ethnic population is being severely oppressed by those in power. Why indeed? [kuro5hin.org]

The author theorizes that the attacks on Israel are motivated by rascism, because the Israelis (like the former South African government) is made up of white “Europeans.” An interesting theory, but I don’t think that’s quite it. I think the leftists attack Israel because Israel is friendly to America. In other words, “the friend of my enemy is my enemy.”