March 22, 2006

RUTH WISSE FOR PRESIDENT OF HARVARD

        Harvard Professor Ruth Wisse writes of Walt and Mearsheimer's (see previous posts) anti-semitic screed, disguised as scholarship: "..Their tone resembles nothing so much as Wilhelm Marr's 1879 pamphlet, "The Victory of Judaism over Germandom," which declared of the Jews that "There is no stopping them . . . German culture has proved itself ineffective and powerless against this foreign power. This is a fact; a brute inexorable fact." A parallel edition of these two texts might highlight some American refinements on the European model, such as the anti-Semitic lie that "Israeli citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship." In fact, unlike neighboring Arab countries, Israeli citizenship is not conditional on religion or race..."
See the rest here.

        Harvard could redeem itself from the Summers fiasco by offering Professor Wisse the Presidency of the University. She showed the kind of courage in defending him, and the principles of academic freedom, that Larry Summers himself failed to show. Now that the leftist faculty are feeling free to resume their attacks on Israel and America, why not a defender of both, and someone who understands the difference between scholarship and propaganda?