Charles Asher Small sounds a warning

Charles Asher Small is a scholar of renown. His list of academic achievements are too many to list here.

A short sampling: over his long career, Small has been associated with Oxford University, Yale University, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, the Université de Montreal, and McGill University.  He’s written or edited no small number of books and academic papers.  Along the way, he founded the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and - he notes, proudly - he’s a Montreal boy.

Went to McGill, got a B.A. there, then went on to do great things. ISGAP is one of them.

There are lots of organizations which fight antisemitism and prejudice. But Small’s ISGAP has done some important things that others have not. Just recently, for example, ISGAP revealed that a number of prestigious American universities were secretly receiving millions under the table from the Hamas-friendly regime in Qatar. That’s against U.S. law.

When Small revealed that fact, there were consequences aplenty - including the closure of engineering programs that were seemingly aiding and abetting the development of nuclear weapons technology. And Qatar-funded antisemitism at Ivy League universities was finally exposed for all to see.

This week, Small was in Toronto to meet with Canadian friends and supporters. As happy as he was to be back home, he had unhappy facts to share.

“The Jewish community of the diaspora,” he says. “And people who care about democratic principles: we've all been sleeping through a revolution. The revolution has been taking place right under our noses - in our institutions, in our schools, in our universities, in the media. And we’ve accepted it.”

He pauses. The revolution, he says, started many years ago, and can be summed up in this way: Holocaust inversion. Jews are now being openly depicted as the new Nazis - and the Palestinians, as their victims.

He goes on: “Years later, this is exactly the discourse in the best universities in the Western world. If Israel is a Nazi state, if the Jewish community represents a Nazi state - an occupying state, an apartheid state - well, then from a liberal human rights perspective, you are obligated to dismantle the entity. To wipe Israel off the map.”

And that, he says, is what is happening - as he says, right under our noses.

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