In American academia, the campus war against Israel and the Jews is led by a group of anti-Semites, many of them faculty members, who have made careers for themselves by traveling from one university to another supporting Arab terrorism and Jew-hatred. They invariably pretend that they are promoting peace. But in the Orwellian bubble where these anti-Semites live, Arab aggression and terror are reframed as self-defense, while Israeli self-defense is cast as aggression and terror. Israeli democracy is portrayed as apartheid, while Arab genocide is depicted as liberation.

One of the most bizarre aspects of this campus war against the Jews is the presence of numerous self-hating, anti-Semitic Jews in the ranks of a movement whose ultimate goal is to achieve the annihilation of Israel. These people use their birthright to give authenticity to the campaign of delegitimizing and demonizing Israel. Today the leading promoters of “divestment” and boycott campaigns against Israel are academic Jewish leftists, some of them from Israel itself. In a few extreme cases, this detestation of Israel is combined with a fawning courtship of Islamic terrorists, American and European Neo-Nazis, and even Holocaust deniers.