Colleges Not Teaching Pro-Israel Views To Lose Funding

Subject: Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel Views To Lose
Funding 

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Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel 
Views To Lose Funding 
Congress To Pass 'Ideological Diversity' Legislation 
By Michael Collins Piper 
American Free Press 
americanfreepress.net 
4-21-3

Republican members of the Senate are planning to
introduce 
police-state-style "thought control" legislation
designed to 
prohibit criticism of Israel on American college
campuses. 

The third-ranking Republican member of the U.S.
Senate, conservative 
Rick Santorum (Pa.), plans to introduce so-called
"ideological 
diversity" legislation that would cut federal funding
for thousands 
of American colleges and universities if those
institutions are 
found to be permitting professors, students and
student 
organizations to openly criticize Israel, which
Santorum considers 
to be an act of "anti-Semitism." 

Santorum wants to rewrite the federal funding formula
under Title IX 
of the Higher Education Act to include "ideological
diversity" as 
well as sexual equality in education as a perquisite
for federal 
funding. 

Joining Santorum is another Senate conservative GOP
stalwart -- and 
a leading pro-Israel ideologue -- Sen. Sam Brownback
(Kan.) who has 
his own scheme to call for a federal commission --
critics call it a 
"tribunal" to be established under Title IX to
"investigate" anti-
Semitic incidents on American campuses. 

This is no "conspiracy theory." It's a fact -- but not
one that is 
getting much attention except in a few high-level
circles. Although 
the average American student or college professor has
not heard of 
the Santorum-Brownback scheme, Wayne Firestone,
director of the 
Center for Israel Affairs for the Hillel Foundation,
says 
that "Everywhere I go, this is the lead topic. This is
drawing a lot 
of interest." 

In fact, it was Firestone's organization, Hillel --
which has units 
on campuses across America -- that first leaked word
of Santorum's 
scheme. Further details appeared in a circumspect
report on April 15 
in the small- circulation New York Sun, a stridently
pro-Israel 
"neo-conservative" daily published in Manhattan. 

Hillel told its supporters that Santorum, along with
several other 
members of the Senate, had invited representatives of
a number of 
powerful Jewish organizations to attend a private
meeting on Capitol 
Hill in order to discuss the senators' concerns about
growing 
criticism of Israel on American college campuses. 

The senators in question -- all Republicans -- were:
Santorum, 
Robert Bennett (Utah), Sam Brownback (Kansas), and
newly-elected 
Norm Coleman (Minnesota). 

In addition, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill
Frist (Tenn.), 
and his GOP colleagues, Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
and George 
Voinovich (Ohio) sent staff representatives. 

Jewish organizations represented at the private
meeting were the 
Anti- Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, the
Zionist 
Organization of America, the American Jewish Committee
and Hillel, 
represented by the aforementioned Firestone and his
college Jay 
Rubin, Hillel's executive vice president. Louis
Goldstein, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of
Education, Office for 
Civil Rights, represented the Bush administration. 

During the private Senate session -- of which there
are no 
transcripts available to the taxpayers who footed the
bill for the 
enterprise -- an ADL representative reportedly claimed
to the 
gathering that the ADL's "annual audit" of
anti-Semitic activity in 
America had detected an increase by 24% of
anti-Semitism on U.S. 
college campuses in the year 2002. That 24% increase
-- even by the 
ADL's own admission -- constituted only 21 actions. 

However, the ADL definition of "anti-Semitism" is so
broad that it 
largely includes even the mildest criticism of Israel
that doesn't 
happened to be framed in the particular parameters
that the ADL 
determines to be acceptable. In the meantime, word of
the 
Santorum-Brownback initiative is spreading among
leaders of the 
educational community. 

However, spokesmen for universities and educational
organizations 
are being quite circumspect about commenting too
quickly or too 
loudly, recognizing that they, too, could be accused
of encouraging 
"anti-Semitism" if they dare to speak out against the
thought 
control mechanism that Santorum, Brownback and their
allies want to 
set in place. 

Santorum is rapidly emerging as one of Israel's
leading Senate 
spokesmen. He is one of the chief co-sponsors of the
so-called 
Syrian Accountability Act that accuses Syria of
supporting terrorism 
and developing weapons of mass destruction and demands
that Syria 
withdraw from Lebanon. Forces now clamoring for war
against Syria 
are using these allegations as the foundation for
launching a war 
against the Arab republic. 



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