Jew-bashing grows in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn College, a once-esteemed campus in the City University system, this week joins a long list of enemies — from lefty denizens of the Park Slope Food Co-op to Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — who crave wiping the state of Israel from the map.
The Political Science Department is co-sponsoring a forum Thursday that leaves no doubt about the depravity lurking within Israel-haters’ hearts and souls.
It’s called “BDS Movement Against Israel.” For the uninitiated, “BDS” stands for boycott, divestment and sanctions, a pernicious plot that calls for the shunning of Israeli scholars and the removal of funding and investment from Israel.
I say it promotes ethnic cleansing.
The two speakers slated for the hate fest are big guns in the anti-Israel alliance: Omar Barghouti, founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel — who once compared Jews to Nazis. Also, Professor Judith Butler, of the University of California, Berkeley, who’s planted her allegiance to the garden of Jew-killers, Hamas and Hezbollah.
College President Karen Gould declared that the event is meant to foster “academic freedom.”
It should surprise no one that the freedom to defend Israel is not on the menu.
Since The Post’s Susan Edelman first reported on the evil forum, the campus has been riven in two. An online petition urging the poli-sci department to dump the madness delivered at least 1,760 signers. The college ignored it.
“In endorsing a divisive, controversial event,’’ read a statement by student government President Abraham Esses, “the Political Science Department has failed its students miserably.’’
No response.
Mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson said a public institution is no place for such hatred.
Ignored.
The kill-Israel frolic also drew the ire of Brooklyn College’s most esteemed alumnus: Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.
“I’m not trying to censor the event. If students want to believe Elvis is alive or we never landed on the moon, go ahead,” Dershowitz told me. But the poli-sci department has “no right to sponsor the event.’’
“It denies academic freedom. I think boycotting Jewish professors from Israel is illegal, immoral and anti-Semitic.”
Dershowitz called poli-sci chair Paisley Currah six times, but Currah did not respond to questions.
Currah’s area of scholarship, incidentally, isn’t government or politics. His specialty is transgender rights.
What the hell kind of political correctness are they pushing at Brooklyn College these days?
College spokesman Jeremy Thompson told me he’s received “a few’’ calls of protest, and 300 to 400 e-mails supporting the forum, whose cost, he said, is to be borne by the Students for Justice in Palestine group.
In response to the brouhaha, Students for Justice sounded suspiciously like Jimmy Carter, the ex-president who famously compared Israel’s government to South Africa’s former racist regime.
“SJP will continue with our efforts to educate the public about Israel’s grave and systematic abuses of Palestinian human rights and the racist, apartheid regime Israel has instituted in the territories it controls.’’
Nothing about Palestinian atrocities against Jews.
Engineer Barbara Mazor fought successfully last year against a move by some members of the Park Slope Food Co-op to ban Israeli-made products from the store. She wants to attend the sold-out extravaganza, and speak if she can.
Finance Professor Hersh Friedman is appalled that a public college would host such an event.
“Among the key goals of education are critical thinking, an understanding of the importance of diversity/inclusion, and the ability to make ethical judgments,’’ he e-mailed.
“I do not see how inflammatory, one-sided so-called ‘debates’ infused with hatred serve these goals.”
Accountancy Professor Frimette Kass is torn about attending.
“It’s tai chi night,” she chuckled.
Better to skip hate night. Don’t give legitimacy to this monstrosity.
Proof: Mom’s ‘Rock’
So that’s what feminists secretly want!
During the finale of NBC’s “30 Rock,’’ Tina Fey, who executive-produced and starred as superwoman Liz Lemon on the show, prepared herself for stay-at-home mommyhood for her two adopted kids. Lemon feared playing a parent would be boring. And, in a bit of scripted emasculation, her husband Criss Chross (James Marsden) wept that he misses the kids while at work.
In the end, Lemon was again producing a crummy sitcom, with her two kids in tow. This is success? The show crashed to a finale with Lemon’s biracial great, great-granddaughter taking a meeting with the NBC president, ageless former page Kenneth (Jack McBrayer), proving that, when TV is forgotten, kids, grandkids and so on are our greatest legacy.
A real-life married mom-of-two, Fey revealed more about women in an hour than in seven seasons of “30 Rock.’’ Being a wife and mother is something to aspire to, ladies.
Straight-shooter Koch
Former Mayor Ed Koch was fearless. A Democrat, he endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election, because it was right. He proudly used an expletive to describe his rival, ex-Gov. Mario Cuomo. People who inquired about Koch’s love life were told “f–k off!’’ Good show.
Ed told Playboy in 1982 that living upstate required driving 20 miles in a pickup to buy “a gingham dress or a Sears . . . suit.’’ He was kidding. Maybe. He never became governor. Truth hurts. Ed gave it to us straight.
Spring? Brrring it!
Two groundhogs can’t be wrong. Staten Island Chuck and Punxsutawney Phil failed to see their Groundhog Day shadows, signaling an early spring.
I’ll take it.
Blame global warming if you must, but I think the rodents are just sick of these frigid, arctic temperatures.