By Steven Salaita
How Zionism grew to become a superb ideology within the eyes of the West
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In many ways, the promotion of multiculturalism is a diversion or a delusion, or perhaps simply a safe outlet for anybody who is marginalized to direct energy at symptoms rather than structures of problems. The evidence for this assessment is the deep-seated racism that still exists in the institutions wherein the idea of multiculturalism was invented. It may be optimistic to imagine that multiculturalism can or was intended to be an antidote or challenge to racism. ”15 I have scanned the websites of multicultural offices at over a hundred universities ranging from research extensive to liberal arts to four-year colleges to regional comprehensives, and all of their mission statements are similar, almost uniformly focused on climate, awareness, and dialogue.
Palestinians and other Arabs cannot access the resources of the multicultural office without Zionist supervision, but they are powerless to challenge the preponderance of Zionism in the multicultural office. Aside from the institutional auspices of universities and corporations, Palestinians and other Arabs are made to justify the very existence of their cultural and political narratives. To oppose Zionism in the United States is to immediately enter into the abstract but consequential realm of irresponsible, radical, terroristic, extreme, or whatever other term can be used as an automatic invalidation.
These two maturations are causal: it is the ADL’s expanded range of activity that has engendered its substantial power. The ADL’s success, however, has generated questionable commitments. After 1967 the ADL started to gradually emphasize sustenance of Israeli state policies in addition to battling anti-Semitism and thereby conflated the battle against anti-Semitism with ardent support for Israel. The ADL’s support for Israel has not been conditional. It has been thoroughgoing. As a result, serious questions arise about the ADL’s ethical, strategic, and political alliances.