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(IsraelNN.com) Canadian Member of Parliament Irwin Cotler, a Liberal party representative, has stated that the Palestinian Authority, including its Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, is guilty of purveying hatred of Jews. He also lamented that the official PA incitement is being ignored by Western governments and media outlets.
He also met with PA officials and told them that “hate breeds hate.”

Saying that Hamas, with their charter’s “genocidal objective, anti-Semitic ideology and terrorist instrumentality,” is not alone in its incitement in the PA public sphere. “I’m talking about the Palestinian Authority,” said the Mount-Royal MP at a press conference this week. He added that the “culture of incitement” harms not only Israel, the PA Arabs themselves.

Cotler recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Israel, where he also met with PA officials and told them that “hate breeds hate. If you have a culture of incitement and hate, you’re going to create a culture of hate that is pervasive in a Palestinian society itself.”

Cotler cited several examples of anti-Jewish incitement in the PA. Among the most egregious offenses, he noted, were those promoted by official PA government outlets and officials, as well as by Arab …

Aren’t we glad we don’t have that problem here at UNM? But still, we should be aware of the trends at the larger universities…

The Washington Times
August 4, 2008
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5433
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/04/in-academia-hiring-token-jews/
[This version is slightly longer than the Washington Times version.]

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict long ago spilled over into America’s departments of Middle East studies. In an attempt to appear balanced in the face of charges of anti-Israel biases, some departments or programs of Middle East studies have added Israeli scholars to their ranks—a move that at first glance appears welcome.

Yet many of these Israeli academics have built their reputation on scholarship that is harshly critical not only of Israeli policy, but of Israel’s very existence. Anti-Israel scholars who hail from Israel are cited favorably by the entire range of Israel’s critics, from pro-Palestinian groups like PSM, the Committee to Stop Demolition of Houses in Palestine, the Committee to Stop Torture, and Breaking the Silence to Jewish anti-Zionist groups like the American Council for Judaism, from neo-Nazis to Islamists.
The international standing of such scholars received a boost in the mid-1980s with the rise of the so-called “new historians” in Israeli universities. These scholars sought to debunk what they claim is a …