PrintApril 26, 2005
Britain's new Treason of the Clerks
A dirty little secret is that totalitarian ideologies always empower intellectuals. The best name for all the bloody—minded professors of the last hundred years comes from a Frenchman named Julien Benda. It is the title of his book, The Treason of the Clerks. The treasonous "clerks" are the intellectuals of Europe, who directly inspired all of its mass—murdering ideologies, ever since Lenin and Hitler.
In light of this well—known history, it came as stunning news last week that the union bosses of Britain's colleges have decided to boycott Israel's university teachers — unless those teachers denounce their own country. The clerks of Britain are at it again.
The aim of the academic boycott is to dehumanize Israel, to turn it into the South Africa of the new century. This is now standard procedure. It is how the Left put African tyrants like Robert Mugabe into power. It is exactly why they slander America, day after day, in the...(Read Full Article)
