The famous Buridan’s ass that is dying due to its inability to choose between two equally succulent and equidistant stacks of hay* has nothing on a rabid anti-Zionist**, one professor Francis Boyle.
You have, most probably, observed at least once in your life, a baby unable to choose between two different toys and unable to hold or play with both at the same time. The situation frequently creates some hilarious scenes and memorable snapshots to proud parents.
Here we have a case that, while hilarious, could hardly make the institutions of higher learning in United States of America proud. It rather shames the august Harvard University, where Boyle received a J.D. degree magna cum laude and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in political science.
Professor Boyle doesn’t like Israel. OK, you might say, many people don’t like many countries or nations. With professor Boyle, however, this dislike is more of an obsession. So much so that when he starts venting his dislike, his whole education and cutting edge intellect, honed by Harvard and his exemplary experience, seem to go down the drain. So much so that, even when rehashing the usual conspiracy theory about us Elders owning the world, he is unable to keep the thread of his logic (yep, even a conspinut usually has a kind of warped logic). And, like that above mentioned baby, he can’t choose between two different kinds of blame to assign to his much hated Zionists. Here he starts:
In fact, when it comes to US foreign policy to oppress the Palestinians, nothing has changed. Obama was bought and paid for by Zionists.
And here he continues:
As you well know, all the major US news media sources are Zionist – every one of them. Likewise, higher education, here, in America, has become predominantly Zionist in its orientation, since I entered college in 1968. As a matter of fact, if I were trying to become a professor today, the Zionists would make sure I could not become a professor – exactly as they did to my friend Norman Finkelstein at DePaul University.
By now, I hope, you have starting to get the general drift and the usual grim picture of the Zionist octopus holding the world in general and America in particular where it hurts and having its way with the said world. And you are relaxed in your armchair, seeing as how the learned professor is telling it all.
And suddenly professor sees and seizes a different toy:
We have to understand that historically, Israel has always been nothing more than a Jewish Bantustan, set up by the Western colonial powers, in the Middle East, to control and dominate the Middle East at their behest. It is that simple. Israel does now what the United States tells it to do.
Oops…
I don’t know how you are going to sleep tonight. No, really, what with professor Boyle showing you two completely different evils, how would you know which one is real and which one is not? How do you know whether to watch for the monster under your bed or for the boogieman in your closet?
Are you confused? Even an Arab watcher, Professor Shibli Talhami, from Maryland University (and no great friend of Israel), is confused:
First he says that the Zionists control the US and its policies, and then he says that the US controls Israel, so I’m not sure what his position is.
But I think that I have explained this behavior in the beginning of the post. When professor Boyle grows up a bit more, he will definitely decide which one of the two toys is more suited to his needs. I am sure of that. Are you?
Cross-posted on SimplyJews
There’s an old midrash in which Hadrian, the Roman Emperor known for his hatred of Jews, first executed a Jew for greeting him and then another for not greeting him. When asked by his advisors to explain, he responded “That’s how I deal with my enemies”.
Mark Steyn once wrote that a Muslim writer explained to him about how 9/11 was a Zionist plot and then concluded that the attack was a great victory for Islam.
At any rate, this contradiction is easily explained. International Zionism controls the US. The US, at its behest, controls Israel. ‘Nuff said.
The esteemed Manny Theiner – in his dealings with *some* Leftists – has asked point-blank *why* all the focus on Israel (as “unjust” nation) and Palestinians (as a “dispossesed people”) when the world is full of state-sponsored injustice and dispossession, some of it as tightly bound to Washington as Israel is *perceived* to be. The modern day employment of “Zionism” by its self-appointed critics is almost laughably nostalgic .. if not for the fact that the rest of the trinity of 70’s-era bugaboos is conveniently left out: OPEC and the Rockefellers. I mean, the side-effects of a petrol-based economy are only growing worse, yet many self-styled Progressives want to focus on Israel? A nation that has nothing at all to do with the problem? Are there anti-Semitic attitudes at work? You bet, but there’s something else as well, something I’m still trying to figure out. Perhaps the tendency by some on the Left to ignore problems/issues they’d rather not confront (eg, stepping over the homeless in their own town to race to a meeting of Save the Tibetan Whales). But again, why must it be “anti-Zionism” as opposed to, say, a general program of anti-nationalism? One either believes in nations or doesn’t. As for deciding who and who ought not be allowed to organize a nation, that is only slightly less elitist than .. deciding who lives and who dies.
I don’t have a problem with us controlling the US media and government per se, but we seem to be doing a poor job of it if we are.
Garnel, you are right, it’s the same baby with the same two toys syndrome.
‘But again, why must it be “anti-Zionismâ€?’
I would say, Pablo, that the so called “anti-Zionism†allows its sponsor to kill two birds with the same stone. Both looking progressive and humanitarian to him/herself and sticking it to the Jooz at the same time. One can’t lose…
Alex, I respectfully disagree. If we’ve succeeded to bring a professor of international law, graduate of Harvard to a state of advanced idiocy, we are doing quite well.