Hot on the heels of the Jenna Delich affair, yet more leaks from the UCU’s activist list have made it into the blogosphere, allowing those of us who are not members to gasp and marvel at the increasingly bizarre state of debate inside the UK’s academic union.
Modernity carries a detailed article about the remarks of one Keith Hammond of the University of Glasgow. Here’s a taste:
- Nazi analogies - “The conditions in the Aida camp square with the conditions of the Warsaw ghetto.”
- Israel as an inculcator of evil from cradle to grave - “The whole Israeli education system - from nursery to university - is embedded in the Israeli obsession with war as some sort of ‘defence’ against who knows what … The minute I tried to probe the fears of the Israelis I met the conversation moved into something that I can only describe as a dreadful mix of possibly real and totally unreal anxieties about Europe in the past, Biblical history, contemporary Judaism, work, land and the American dream … These conversations were a gush of insecure and often irrational stuff that I tried to understand. But I could not.”
- On the “Zionist Lobby” - “It is all about scoring points for Israel and not looking at the situation out there. It is racist right down to its core. It is the aim of those supporting Palestinian academics to expose this rotten Zionist. Why is that so difficult to understand?”
This may sound very strange, but I believe that God or perhaps an angel told me yesterday to find you. During my prayers I heard the voice, clear as day, “What does the Z-Word say to you?” I had no idea what Z-word stood for or what it meant. But lo and behold here it is on the web. So now I pass the question on to you. What do you have to say to a man who seeks to do the will of God and bring about peace in the world?