JEWS ARE FEEDING YOU CRAP IN ORDER TO ENSLAVE YOUR BEING
A long-standing scheme instigated by the Israeli lobby to censor American
university professors who are critical of unqualified U.S. support for
Israel has once again reared its ugly head on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R-Ohio), joined by thirteen of his colleagues-nine
Republicans and four Democrats-has introduced a measure that will set up
what is nothing more than a "thought control" mechanism to satisfy Israeli
lobby concerns about growing opposition to Israel on American campuses.
Tiberi's bill-which is numbered H.R. 509-is nothing more than a revamped
version of an earlier controversial measure, H.R. 3077, which died in a
previous Congress as a result of widespread opposition, much of it generated
by news reports first published in American Free Press and then widely
circulated (via the Internet) throughout the American academic community.
Essentially, H.R. 509, which is innocuously entitled "To Amend and extend
title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965," would set up a federal review
board in the U.S. Department of Education designed to curtail academic
dissent against U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the realm of American
policy in the Middle East.
The pro-Israel lobby, represented by groups such as the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, the Zionist Organization of America, the
American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and Hillel-among
others-have time and again complained over the past several years in a
variety of venues about the fact that American universities receiving
federal funding for international studies programs have included professors
who have been allegedly "anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish and
pro-Palestinian."
Now, Tiberi's measure is precisely designed to satisfy the Israeli lobby's
demand that federal controls be established to censor such points of view on
campuses which receive federal funding.
Although there is nothing in the legislation which makes the political and
ideological intent (and origins) of the bill so blatantly obvious and indeed
the language of the bill-like much congressional legislation is draped in
bureaucratic euphemisms disguising the actual agenda at work-the truth is
that any serious inquiry into the history of such legislation demonstrates,
beyond any question, that it is the brainchild of the aforementioned Israeli
lobby pressure groups.
And while the bill's sponsor, Tiberi, has been quite open in touting his
legislation, there has been little-if any-news coverage of the proposal
outside news alerts issued by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA), which
describes itself as "an international news service that provides
up-to-the-minute reports, analysis pieces and features on events and issues
of concern to the Jewish people." As such, JTA's reportage on the Tiberi
proposal has largely only been publicized in Jewish community newspapers
across the United States (and presumably around the world).
One JTA report on Tiberi's bill says that supporters of the bill say that
"universities often promote anti-American and anti-Israel biases and do not
merit funds that were intended to serve American interests," but admits that
"many academics worry that restrictions will violate academic freedoms."
Tiberi claims, in grand language, that, if approved, his measure will
strengthen international and graduate programs in higher education, saying
that America's competitiveness and security needs are linked to a better
understanding of other nations and cultures; that all of this, taken
together, will help defend America in a dangerous post-9/11 world.
The bill was introduced in the House by Tiberi on February 2, 2005 and the
following members of the House of Representatives have signed on as
cosponsors. . John Boehner (R-Ohio); . Eric Cantor (R-Va.); . Luis Fortuno
(R-Puerto Rico); . Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.); . Howard (Buck) McKeon
(R-Calif.); . Jim Saxton (R-Mich.); . Joe Wilson (R-S.C.); . Dan Burton
(R-Ind.); . Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.); . Ruben Hinojosa (D-Tex.); . Steve
Israel (D-N.Y.); . Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.); . Anthony D. Weiner (D-N.Y.)
According to a press release from the U.S. House Education & the Workforce
Committee (dated June 16, 2005), chaired by the bill's cosponsor, Rep. John
Boehner (R-Ohio): "The bill establishes an International Education Advisory
Board to increase accountability by providing advice and recommendations to
the Secretary of Education and the Congress on international education
issues for higher education."
Although the press release goes on to make the claim that Tiberi's
legislation "expressly prohibits the board from influencing curriculum,
disseminating regulations, or awarding grants," a review by American Free
Press of the legislation has found no such prohibitions, despite the claims
made in the press release which was generated by Boehner's committee office.
Note, too, that one of the cosponsors is Rep. Hoekstra (R-Mich.) who was the
sponsor of the similiarly-intended H.R. 3077, a bill which, in and of
itself, was initially inspired by an even earlier proposal by two Republican
Senators, Rick Santorum (Pa.) and Sam Brownback (Kan).
After American Free Press learned of the scheme by Santorum and Brownback
and focused on their intention of introducing so-called "ideological
diversity" legislation designed to curtail criticism of Israel on American
college campuses, the resulting negative publicity forced the duo to back
off.
Angry that the scheme had been derailed, the New York-based Jewish Week
published a story about the controversy generated by AFP's reportage saying
that AFP's revelation of the Santorum-Brownback scheme was "a dangerous
urban legend, deliberate disinformation at worst" concocted by "several
leading conspiracy theorists and Holocaust revisionists," which had become
"an article of faith throughout the Arab world and in some U.S. left-wing
circles,"
In fact, the first (and little-noticed) report about the Santorum-Brownback
scheme (which later spawned H.R. 3077 and now H.R. 509) was first mentioned
in the April 15, 2003 in the small-circulation New York Sun, a stridently
pro-Israel "neo-conservative" daily published in Manhattan which revealed
that the two senators and several of their colleagues had discussed such
legislation in the company of representatives of a number of powerful
pro-Israel organization at a private meeting on Capitol Hill.
In any event, the Santorum-Brownback proposal has-like the proverbial "bad
penny"-popped up again, now in the guise of Rep. Tiberi's H.R. 509. Those
who are concerned about freedom of speech on the campus would be wise to
contact their representatives in Congress and urge that this legislation be
put to rest once and for all. The U.S. Congress switchboard can be reached
at: (202) 224-3121. Operators will be able to connect callers to their own
representatives.