The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews: An Alarming New Book Reveals How the 'New' Anti-Semitism is Being Fomented on College Campuses

BOSTON, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews, by Dr. Richard L. Cravatts, explores the growing phenomenon of Israel-hatred and covert anti-Semitism on college campuses. Promoted by extreme Left-wing institutes, funded by Saudi dollars, and led by professors with a barely-hidden intolerance for even the continued existence of the Jewish state, the new anti-Semitism—parading as anti-Zionism—poses dangerous threats to Israel and those who recognize the viability of this Western-style democracy in the Middle East.

Tracing the birth of this new strain of virulent anti-Israelism to the Left's obsession with "Palestinianism," Cravatts also reveals how a destructive "unholy alliance" has been formed between those liberals who seek social justice for the Palestinians, and Islamists, who now find the Left as an ally against a common enemy: Israel.

"Many of us have been concerned for some time with the relentless, deceptive, and dangerous attacks against Israel emanating from college campuses," said Dr. Cravatts, "particularly because academia was always thought to be a place where honest debate and scholarly inquiry could flourish. But at least with regard to Israel, that no longer is the case. In fact, what I characterize as an intellectual jihad against Israel is taking place right now on campuses everywhere, characterized by such vile contortions of history and fact, and driven by such moral imbecility and double standards on the part of its adherents, that is has few parallels as a campus movement."

The manifestations of these on-campus hatreds have been obvious and ugly: ripped Israeli flags drizzled with blood; Stars of David juxtaposed with swastikas; charges of apartheid, racism, and genocide leveled against Israelis and assigned also to their proxies, American Jews; physical threats against Jewish students; and blood libels which attempt to portray Israelis as murderous, subhuman oppressors.

In Genocidal Liberalism, Dr. Cravatts exposes the threat posed by the new anti-Semitism in detail, and then offers some concrete solutions to help bring American and Canadian campuses back to a balanced and level-headed discussion of Israel and to expose the dangerous agenda of campus radicals.

About the Author

Richard Cravatts, Ph.D., is Professor of Practice and Director of the Master's Program in Communications Management at the Simmons College School of Management. Cravatts is also President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a grassroots community of nearly 55,000 academics on more than 3500 campuses worldwide.

Dr. Cravatts has published over 350 articles, op-ed pieces, columns, and chapters in books on anti-Semitism, anti-Israelism, higher education and campus free speech, terrorism, Constitutional law, politics, and social policy. In addition to speaking engagements, he is also a frequent guest on radio programs on the topic of anti-Israel sentiment in higher education.

Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews

• Paperback: 317 pages
• Publisher: David Horowitz Freedom Center
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615566383
• ISBN-13: 978-0615566382
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches

Available at Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0615566383

Advance Praise for Genocidal Liberalism

". . . Richard Cravatts is one of this rare breed of scholars who must be taken seriously and who are thankfully not yet extinct [and this book] makes for indispensable reading. . .Cravatts pulls no punches, relentlessly anatomizing the pedagogic bias currently in place ..."

--DAVID SOLWAY, FrontPage Magazine

"If you are only going to read one book on the rampant anti-Semitic and anti-Israel campaign on American campuses, this is it."  

--EFRAIM KARSH, Director, Middle East Forum

"Richard L. Cravatts has recently emerged as a leading voice against the resurgence of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism on American college and university campuses. In Genocidal Liberalism, Cravatts details the darkest problems facing Jewish students today and provides specific solutions for how the worst universities can be turned around. Most readers will be shocked by the stories that Cravatts has to tell."

--KENNETH L. MARCUS, President, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former Staff Director, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

"Cravatts vividly documents the jihad against Jews and Israel on the American campus. His important study should inspire the necessary counter-jihad.

--DANIEL PIPES, President of the Middle East Forum and founder of Campus Watch

"Richard Cravatts' . . . words are a difficult lesson, but an important education. The book is so important that it should be required reading for all North American university administrators."

--MERYLE KATES, Executive Director, Advocates for Civil Liberties, Toronto

SOURCE Scholars for Peace in the Middle East