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Steven Brizel's avatar

What we need is a recognition that the academy is a metastazing tumor called anti Semitism and finding ways to recognize that fact-whether by not giving as an alumnus, seeking higher education in other universities and ensuring that the next generation of American Jews are sufficiently educated in their traditions to know how vital the Land and State of Israel are to their Jewish identity

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"The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past forced their way into it. They were not particularly outraged at the monstrous forgeries in historiography of which all totalitarian regimes are guilty and which announce themselves clearly enough in totalitarian propaganda. They had convinced themselves that traditional historiography was a forgery in any case, since it had excluded the underprivileged and oppressed from the memory of mankind.

The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability."

"The Origins of Totalitarianism" Hannah Arendt

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