LEFTISM AS ANTISEMITISM ALERT

I) The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is slated to play host to a national student conference late next week, one of whose "guiding principles" is that it "condemns the racism and discrimination inherent in Zionism", the Jerusalem Post has learned.

In the conference's promotional material, organizers refer to "apartheid Israel", and refuse to condemn Palestinian terrorism, stating, "As a solidarity movement, it is not our place to dictate the strategies or tactics adopted by the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation."

II) New Jersey's poet laureate Amiri Baraka, who wrote a poem blaming Israel for the September 11 attack, is refusing to resign despite calls from the governor, James McGreevey, and charges of "anti-New Jersey, anti-American and anti-Semitic venom" by the local Anti-Defamation League.

The 226-line poem reads, in part, "Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed/ Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers/To stay home that day/ Why did Sharon stay away?"

Another stanza reads, "Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion/ And cracking they sides at the notion."

As a citizen of New Jersey I am appalled that this guy was appointed in the first place. This is hardly his first anti-Semitic poem, according to a comment by Josh Chafetz to this post at PejmanPundit:

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you
love me, jew. I got
something for you now though. I got
something for you, like you dig,
I got. I got this thing, goes pulsating
through black everything
universal meaning. I got the
extermination blues, jewboys. I got
the hitler syndrome figured.

Josh also points to this article about Baraka from TNR. What was the person in charge of appointing him smoking?

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