Facebook is full of fanatics, you can join a group called I love Cheese. But this is too much…
I was reading the newspaper this morning, when I saw an article about a protest at a very local university, refer to the rurual Jews post if you need to, but I was upset to see that is was against a Jewish professor who posted an article to his facebook page. An article that he didn’t write. In fact it is from the Washington post, Haaretz, or the Jersualem Post or even Zionism today, though I don’t know if that last one even exsists.
In fact he is the exact link that was posted on his personal facebook page. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/red-cross-more-than-100-dead-in-nigeria-attacks/2011/11/06/gIQAYlHjsM_video.html?tid=sm_btn_fb
So what is the big deal? Apperently it so happened that Sunday was also a Muslim holiday, so that means it was attack against all muslim students who attend the university? I think not. Maybe I am the only one bad at keeping track of holidays but off the top of your head when is Purim? Or Serbian Christmas?
While I don’t like it that a Jewish man, kidnapped, murdered and dismembered a young Jewish child this summer, it happened. There are good people and bad people in all walks of life. It too is a sad fact that Muslims in Africa attacked and murdered Christians. A fact! So why the anger? Truth is always hard to face, and the one who brings it to light recieves the rath of the anger.
Jews in this area are a minority, even compared to the Muslim population in the area, and Professor Eisenstein makes no attempt to hide or conceal the fact he is a Jew. Kippah and all. It isn’t his tenure that protect him but rather the first amendment. I hate to pull the “Jew-card,” but if a Muslim professor or even an athiest professor had posted this same link there would be no protest no fuss, at most a nasty comment or two.
We have come a far way but anti-semitism is alive and well, even here in Nowhere, Indiana. Even if you don’t agree with what has been posted or reposted on someones facebook, you don’t have to right to attack the person, especially when there is a button that says unfriend.
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