Column One: As Europe self-destructs
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 31, 2007
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Wednesday's decision by Britain's University and College Union to call for a
boycott of Israeli universities and colleges was not only hypocritical. It
was suicidal.

It is not simply that the British prefer to boycott Israeli universities
than say, Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iranian, Saudi and Jordanian
universities where students are indoctrinated to seek the annihilation of
the Jewish people and the subjugation of Christianity through the
destruction of Western civilization.
It is not merely that they ignored the poor, brave Iranian students who just
three weeks ago were brutally attacked by regime forces as they sought to
hold elections for their pro-democracy campus organizations.

By calling for a boycott of Israeli universities, Britain's academic
establishment is turning its back not only on Israel, but on Britain. When
Britain's professoriate rejects Israel's right to exist as a Jewish,
democratic nation-state and glorifies Palestinian society which supports
global jihad and the destruction of Western civilization, it is rejecting
the British state.

They are embracing a culture founded on a rejection of the culture and
traditions that have formed Britain since the Magna Carta was issued in
1215. For the past 800 years, Britain has stood for individual liberty and
freedom of inquiry - at least for the British themselves. In universities
like Oxford and Cambridge, it was this humanist spirit and the justified
national and cultural pride it nurtured which facilitated Britain's rise to
international power. By boycotting Israel, which itself embodies these
British ideals, the British are abrogating their own traditions of openness.
Consequently, they are destroying themselves.

AND BRITAIN is not alone in its self-destruction. Britain's rush to oblivion
is part of a wider trend overtaking all of Western Europe. Take Sweden for
example.

Sweden is upheld by leaders of the Israeli left like former foreign minister
Shlomo Ben-Ami (who now devotes himself to attacking the US and Israel from
his academic perch in Toledo, Spain), Education Minister Yuli Tamir, Defense
Minister Amir Peretz, Meretz chief Yossi Beilin and former Labor chairman
Avrum Burg. They extol Sweden as a social democratic wonderland which Israel
must emulate.

Some 12.5 percent of Swedes are immigrants and around half of Sweden's
immigrants are Muslims. Muslims will soon comprise the majority in many of
Sweden's cities.

The intrepid Scandinavian blogger 'Fjordman' recently penned an essay,
"Jihad and the collapse of the Swedish model" in the on-line Brussels
Journal. In it he relates the significance of Sweden's Integration Act of
1997 to Sweden's national self-destruction. The act officially proclaimed
Sweden "a multicultural society."

Notes to the act stated, "Since a large group of people have their origins
in another country, the Swedish population lacks a common history. The
relationship to Sweden and the support given to the fundamental values of
society thus carry greater significance for integration than a common
historical origin."

As 'Fjordman' explains, the act was nothing less than national suicide.
"Native Swedes have. been reduced to just another ethnic group in Sweden,
with no more claim to the country than the Kurds or the Somalis who arrived
there last Thursday. The political authorities of the country have erased
their own people's history and culture."

Fjordman cites authors Jonathan Friedman, Ingrid Bjorkman, Jan Elfverson and
Ake Wedin who explained in their 2005 book Exit the People's Home of
Sweden - The Downfall of a Model of Society, that multiculturalism, as the
"dominant ideology in Sweden, which has been made dominant by powerful
methods of silencing and repression, is a totalitarian ideology, where the
elites oppose the national aspect of the nation state."

The authors explained that "the problem is that the ethnic group. described
as Swedes implicitly are considered to be nationalists, and thereby are
viewed as racists."

Like the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, multiculturalism
identifies the Jews and the Americans as its chief enemies. Both must be
defeated for their refusal to destroy themselves and merge into the
post-national thought stream. And like their 20th century predecessors, the
multiculturalists of today embrace radical Muslims who share their rejection
of Judaism and Americanism.

The multiculturalists convince their societies to accept their own
destruction by indoctrinating their fellow citizens through their education
systems and media. A recent poll of Swedes between the ages of 15-20 showed
that 90% had never heard of the Soviet gulag.

NEEDLESS TO say, the consequences of this state of affairs are not localized
to Europe. As they do towards their own people, the European elites work
tirelessly to subvert American and Israeli cultural confidence and to
undermine every action the two nations take to combat the forces of global
jihad.

Whether by condemning the US incarceration of jihadists at Guantanamo Bay,
claiming that Zionism is racism, attacking the US campaign in Iraq,
financing Israeli anti-Zionist pressure groups and the Palestinian
Authority, or insisting that Iran should be negotiated with, the EU works to
compel the US and Israel to stand down rather than defend themselves and to
convince American and Israeli societies that we are unworthy of being
defended.

Disturbingly, rather than face up to Europe's self-destruction and give it a
wide berth, led by our own post-national elites, Israel and the US are
adopting the European model of cultural collapse.

The most recent example of the Israeli elites' subversion of their country
is Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz's assault on the Jewish National Fund.
Since it was chartered by Theodor Herzl in 1901, financed by donations from
Jews throughout the world, the JNF has purchased land to promote settlement
of the land by the Jewish people. The JNF owns some 2.5 million hectares of
land.

In 1961, the JNF signed an agreement with the Israel Lands Authority which
authorized the ILA to manage JNF lands in accordance with the JNF charter.
In 2004, the anti-Jewish Arab Israeli pressure group Adalah petitioned the
Supreme Court demanding that the ILA enable non-Jews to settle on JNF lands.
Adalah alleged that by acting in accordance with the JNF charter, the ILA
discriminates against Arabs.

Rather than reject Adalah's claim on its face, or at a minimum cancel the
1961 agreement and enable JNF to manage its own lands, Mazuz sided with
Adalah. Last week he ordered the JNF to stop operating in accordance with
its charter. That is, Mazuz effectively and with no legal authority
expropriated the property of the Jewish people.

In so doing, the attorney-general of the Jewish state essentially decided
that Zionism is a form of racism and that the Jewish people have no special
rights to the Land of Israel. No doubt the Swedes are proud of him.

The Olmert government has likewise embraced the European model of national
collapse. Rather than defend Israel's citizens from our enemies and
cultivate the Jewish character of the state, the government seeks to appease
the Palestinians, the Syrians, the Egyptians and the Europeans at the
expense of Israel's citizenry.

At the invitation of successive Israeli governments, Europeans forces are
deployed today in Hebron, in Gaza and along Israel's northern border with
Lebanon. These European forces have done nothing to prevent the Palestinians
from arming, training and attacking Israel. Along the Lebanese border, since
last summer's war, the Europeans have similarly done nothing to prevent
Hizbullah from rebuilding its arsenals and reasserting its control over
southern Lebanon.
And this is to be expected. As Europeans perceive their interests, they are
better off appeasing the Arabs and the Iranians and condemning Israel and
the US for every step we take to combat the forces of global jihad committed
to our destruction.

Rather than acknowledge this reality and work to remove the Europeans from
our midst, the Olmert government is exacerbating the problem. In recent
weeks, the government has asked the Europeans to increase the size of their
forces along the Gaza-Egypt border. Thursday, Minister for Strategic Affairs
Avigdor Lieberman recommended that NATO forces be deployed in Gaza.
Similarly, Minister Rafi Eitan and far-left Meretz MKs Zehava Gal-On and
Avshalom Vilan are calling for Arab League forces to be deployed to Gaza.
Gal-On and Vilan envision the Arabs and the Europeans jointly taking control
over Gaza. For his part, Eitan is recommending that Arab armies deploy to
Judea and Samaria as well.

IN THE US, the situation is depressingly similar. At leading universities,
professors and students who openly support Israel and the US campaign in
Iraq are hounded and isolated. In keeping with the general anti-American and
anti-Israel gestalt on college campuses, last year Harvard University
invited former Iranian president Muhammad Khatami to speak on campus.
Harvard ignored Khatami's stewardship of the Iranian nuclear program during
his tenure. His role in violently quelling the student democracy movement in
1999 and 2003 was similarly overlooked.

The Bush administration's foreign policy has likewise been Europeanized.
Five years after President George W. Bush placed Iran and North Korea firmly
in the axis of evil, the State Department is working overtime to appease
them both. In line with this policy, on Tuesday, Iran's announcement that it
had arrested five US citizens and is charging them with espionage was
greeted by embarrassment and paralysis in Washington. Just the day before
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had dispatched the US ambassador in
Baghdad to meet with his Iranian counterpart.

The US's treatment of North Korea is perhaps even more dramatic. Rather than
abandon its appeasement policy towards Pyongyang after the North Koreans
breached their commitment to close their nuclear facility at Yongbyon in
April, the Bush administration has redoubled its efforts to placate the
Stalinist dictatorship. Not only did the US have little to say about the
North Korean short-range missile tests over Japan last week. It sent its
emissaries to Beijing this week to attempt to buy North Korean compliance
with its breached commitment by unfreezing Pyongyangs's bank accounts in
Macau. The US treasury froze those accounts when it discovered that they
were being used to launder profits from counterfeit US currency and drug
deals.

Then there is the US's refusal to abandon pressure on Israel to appease the
Palestinians. At a time when jihadists from Iraq have panned out to Lebanon
and
Algeria and are actively working to overthrow those countries' governments,
Tuesday Rice claimed that the Palestinian conflict with Israel is "at the
core of a lot of problems in the region."

During the Cold War, protected by the US military, Europeans could embrace
cultural and national suicide without fearing the consequences of their
actions. Now faced with those consequences, the Europeans have embraced
their own destruction rather than abandon their multicultural model and its
concomitant anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism.

Israel and the US do not have anyone else to defend them. And in spite of
the rantings of their cultural, media and academic elites, the Israeli and
American people have no interest in committing national suicide. In light of
this, both countries must move swiftly to end the Europeanization of their
cultures and policies.