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Helping the Terrorists: The Anti-Divestment Campaign By: David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, February 10, 2003


The following is the text of an ad David Horowitz has scheduled to run in hundreds of college newspapers across the country.  Click here to help him fight the leftists on campus.

HELPING THE TERRORISTS:
THE ANTI-ISRAEL DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGN:

The hate America left, which has formed a fifth column in this country to betray us from within, is also targeting Israel as America's ally in the Middle East. Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to this small, vulnerable nation will eventually happen to America itself. Yasser Arafat was Saddam's staunchest ally in the first Gulf War. Arafat built the first terrorist training camps. Palestinian terrorists were involved in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 and the attack on the Khobar Towers which killed 19 U.S. servicemen in 1998. Suicide bombing began as a tactic of leftwing terrorists against Israeli civilians. It reached its culmination on 9/11 in Washington and New York.

Now the left has launched a new campaign to destroy Israel's economy and align Americans with the terrorist enemy. It is called the "Divest From Israel Campaign" and is active on college and university campuses nationwide.

The campaign falsely links Israel with South Africa's apartheid policy - in order to evoke the same passionate hatred for Israel that college students and faculty used to hold towards the white government of South Africa. This is a lie of Hitlerian proportions.

Apartheid was the morally repugnant practice of racial division and racial supremacy. Israel is a democracy. Despite the fact that the Arab states declared war on Israel and have maintained a state of war for more than fifty years, Israel's Arab citizens have more rights than the citizens of any Muslim or Arab state anywhere. In particular they have more rights than the Arabs of the West Bank who live under the brutally despotic and corrupt regime of the Palestine Authority.

According to Edward Said, once a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Council, there is, "a total absence of law or the rule of law in the Palestinian autonomy areas." Said has spoken of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as "our Papa Doc," a reference to the former butcher of Haiti.
In contrast, Arabs enjoy civil liberties and civil rights including the right to vote in Israel's democratic system. Arabs have their own political party in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, with ten percent of the seats. They've served in high-level government positions. They have the rights and protections of the citizens of any democracy - rights that are systematically denied to the citizens of all the Muslim, Arab and terrorist states, without protest from the anti-divestment movement.

The Arabs who live in refugee camps in the West Bank do so because of the refusal of the Arab states to relocate them. (Israel by contrast has relocated hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from the Arab states during Arab-Israel wars.) But Palestinian Arabs are not allowed to become citizens of any Arab country except Jordan. Sixty percent of the Palestinians have endorsed suicide bombings and the goal of destroying the Jewish state. Yet, the divestment movement wants all 5 million of these declared enemies of Israel to have "the right of return" to the state they hate.

The goal of Palestinian terrorism and of the divestment movement is to destroy Israel and to push the Jews into the sea.

The divestment campaign is not a movement of individuals concerned about the rights of Palestinians. It is part of the same international leftist cause that regards America as "the Great Satan," whose goal is the destruction of democracy and the West.


David Horowitz is the founder of The David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of the new book, One Party Classroom.


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