WHO SUPPORTS ISRAEL?
by Daniel Pipes – National Post – September 5, 2003 ‘I have developed a habit,” writes Richard Ingrams, a columnist for The Guardian, a far-left British newspaper, “when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it.” This shameful passage raised a small storm in Britain over anti-Semitism. But what about Ingrams’ implicit assumption that Jews uniformly support the Sharon government? At first glance, this might seem accurate. Israeli Jews voted Ariel Sharon into power and the leading diaspora Jewish organizations generally take their cues from Jerusalem. But a closer look reveals the assumption to be nonsense, as Jews are among Sharon’s (and Israel’s) most vehement and vocal critics. The academic campaign to delegitimize Israel presents a striking example of this, for Jewish faculty have lead the effort. Noam Chomsky started and other Jews picked up the pressure on A
