Just recently I pointed out how the Obama administration’s prosecution of Dinesh D’Souza was an example of how Obama is using U.S. government and law enforcement agencies to hound his political opponents. While that is true, it doesn’t remotely mean that D’Souza is right about everything, or much of anything. When he and I debated at CPAC 2007 and on several radio shows, he stuck steadfastly to the dogma that Islam was a religion of peace, without remotely succeeding in establishing it, or being able to specifically name any of the “conservative Muslims” with whom he was advocating an alliance.
D’Souza embodies the abysmal and truly dangerous ignorance of the mainstream Right about Islam, jihad, and related issues — including, as you can see here, Israel. He hasn’t the faintest idea that Israel is on the front line of the global jihad or that the claim that it is an apartheid state is an invention of pro-jihad propagandists designed precisely to bamboozle and intimidate people like D’Souza into thinking that Israel is tainted and that his support for the Jewish State should be tentative at best.
There are far too many people who think like D’Souza, or worse, in the leadership of the Republican Party — which is why that party has been so spectacularly feeble and clueless in its response to Obama’s increasingly open support for Islamic supremacist forces both at home and overseas.
“Dinesh D’Souza Gets Israel Wrong in Acclaimed Debate with Bill Ayers,” by Sam Levine in PJ Lifestyle, February 3:
After their anticipated debate at Dartmouth College, Dinesh D’Souza and Bill Ayers took questions from the audience.
D’Souza’s answer to an audience member’s question about Israel was unfortunate (see 1:31:31 of the debate).
The audience member libeled Israel as an apartheid state, accused it of codifying into law discrimination against Arabs, then asked the debaters why the United States supports such a country.
The answer to this question is obvious.
Israel is not an apartheid state.
More than 1 million Arabs live in Israel and have full civil rights. Arabs constitute 10 percent of the Israeli parliament, and one sits on the Israeli Supreme Court. Arabs make up a large portion of the student population at elite Israeli universities where Arabs teach and have full tenure. The only place where Arabs have freedom of speech and association is in Israel.
Hundreds of gay Palestinian Arabs have actually fled to Israel because of fear for their lives due to their sexual orientation.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Abbas states openly that not a single Jew will be allowed in a future Palestinian state. In Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive. In Iran gays are hanged. There is plenty of apartheid in the Middle East, but it is not happening in Israel.
But did D’Souza mention any of this? Nope.
Instead, he tacitly agreed that Israel is an apartheid state by not challenging that accusation in his answer, and ranting on about how much different Israel is than the United States.
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