I'm Salutin' You

Rick Salutin argues in the Globe this morning that ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK playing at a Canadian University near you right now is not anti-Semitic.

"Israel is now a state among nations and must be held to account, not absolved for fear of igniting a new Holocaust. Israel Apartheid Week should be gauged on its critique of its subject, not anathematized due to shadows and terrors from another time," he concludes.

Of course, this is an old writer's ploy.

I am the bravest and most fair person on earth because I can write truthfully and openly about legitimate criticism and everyone knows I am a good guy and would never harm a fly.

Right.

So, students breaking down the glass doors of Hillel House of York University recently, while screaming, "You filthy fucking Jews!" How does Mr. Salutin explain that?

He doesn't, because he cannot.

Israel is a sovereign nation and it is open to criticism as much as Canada or Vietnam.

But so much of this annual campus hate fest called ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK is Jew-hating and it should be clearly seen for what it is.

To apologize for this in a national newspaper is too clever by half.