Yippeeee! Campus Blood Libels! The multiculturalist moment has reached its apogee!

Need proof? The Weekly Standard’s Claudia Winkler finds unhinged editorial lunacy at Rutgers’ Daily Targum:

On April 5 the Daily Targum, campus newspaper of Rutgers University, published a front-page report on a pro-Palestinian student rally. It quoted one protester, a fourth-year pharmacy student, as claiming that the media portray Palestinians as terrorists, ‘but when the Israeli government went into an all-female hospital and randomly selected 30 women, called them terrorists and executed them, you don’t hear about it.’ She added, ‘We must educate where the media has failed.’

Now, no one would look to student demonstrators for dispassionate scrupulousness about facts — or expect student editors to exercise infallible judgment. Still, it’s disappointing that the Daily Targum, while willing to recycle this unsourced allegation of atrocity, has thus far failed to publish any of the responses it received.

“Responses”? Hah! The Truth needs no response! Debate is the refuge of the weak! Right Jak…?

One reply, submitted by Leslie Fishbein, associate professor of American Studies and Jewish Studies, placed the hospital allegation in the context of the fantastic lies circulating in the Middle Eastern press, both ancient libels and current fabrications — you know, the real attacker of the World Trade Center was Israel.

‘These false charges,’ wrote Fishbein, ‘have fueled anti-Semitic instances worldwide, leading to the torching of synagogues and the beatings of innocent Jews. They also detract from the sympathy Israel deserves for the terrorist outrages that Palestinian homicide bombers have committed upon an equally innocent civilian population. The Daily Targum has no right to publish unsubstantiated lies that can promote anti-Semitism and that can corrupt its readers’ understanding of the current violence in the Mideast.’

Tell us not of our “rights,” Jewess! We’ll publish whatever we like, we’ll withhold whatever we like! Truth is relative! He who shouts the loudest, wins! Have you not witnessed like-minded talking heads on the tv news programs? We broach no dissent!

You’d have thought it couldn’t do the Targum’s readers any harm to be exposed to Prof. Fishbein’s point of view.

…on a college campus, Claudia? C’mon. A bit naive of you, I’d say. The modern American university, after all, is where free speech goes to die….

Rutgers, of course, is not alone in being the site of strident pro-Palestinian rallies. The University of Michigan and campuses in the San Francisco Bay Area have been especially active. The Associated Press reports that at Berkeley ‘in recent weeks, vandals heaved a cinder block through a window of a campus Jewish center and scrawled anti-Semitic obscenities, and Jewish students say they’ve been pelted with eggs while leaving services.’

…And sadly, many in the humanities rejoiced…

Not all of this is new. Jeffrey Ross, director of the department of campus and higher education affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, recalls hearing an Arab student inform a campus forum last year that Israeli soldiers are trained to shoot Palestinians’ eyes out — and regularly do so.

Uh huh. Maybe you should’ve gone for the tongue, boys….

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