Volume 4 No 1 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

A Promising Start
Richard L. Cravatts’ Genocidal Liberalism:
The University’s Jihad against Israel and Jews
(Sherman Oaks, CA: David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2012).
306 pp. $15
Manfred Gerstenfeld*
In his book Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad against
Israel and Jews, Richard Cravatts analyzes a number of key issues of anti-
Israel activity on university campuses, mainly in America. In doing so, the
author offers much information, provides many sources, and makes a number
of valid points. From this rather general perspective, the book gives an
overview of the broad issues concerning the delegitimization of Israel and
antisemitism on campus.
The book’s title, however, is poorly chosen. One has to be more precise
to be effective in public debate about false humanitarians and liberal
indirect supporters of ideological delinquency. Such crimes, going as far as
incitement to genocide and often based on religious doctrine, have profoundly
permeated many Muslim societies, including the Palestinian culture.
Anti-Israeli liberals on campuses in the Western world, however, are
usually not direct inciters to genocide. Most of them do not call for the
destruction of Israel.
The key perpetrators of a potential second Holocaust—this time
against Israel—will most likely originate in the Islamic world. The
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