Dr. Ghada Karmi is a research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England, and she’s published a “post-Zionist” screed (in other words, promoting the destruction of Israel) at an anti-Israel web site registered in Jerusalem. Dr. Karmi’s hatred for Israel just drips from every paragraph of this rant, in which she uses (and distorts) the words of Israeli historian Benny Morris: Zionism is Still the Issue.

Thus he eloquently shows why Zionism is a dangerous idea: at its root is a conviction of moral righteousness that justifies almost any act deemed necessary to preserve the Jewish state. If that means nuclear weapons, massive military force, alliances with unsavoury regimes, theft and manipulation of other people’s resources, aggression and occupation, the crushing of Palestinian and all other forms of resistance to its survival, however inhuman - then so be it. The Zionist idea has lost none of its force today; it is deeply implanted in the hearts of most Jews, whether Israelis or not. No Arab should be under any illusion that it is a spent force, no matter what the currently fashionable discourse about ‘post-Zionism’ or ‘cultural Zionism’ may be. No region on earth should have been required to give this ideology houseroom, let alone the backward and ill-equipped Arab world. It is perhaps a measure of this backwardness that some Arabs, governments and people, believe that an accommodation with Zionism is possible. We owe a debt of gratitude to Benny Morris for disabusing them of such a notion. The Zionist project has no long-term future, the fact that it has got this far is remarkable but that holds out no guarantee of survival. As he himself says, “Destruction could be the end of this process.”

What a bizarro thing to argue: that Arabs who try to reach an accommodation with Israel and stop the senseless hatred and bloodshed are “backward!”

This is what’s being taught in Arab-Islamic studies in Britain.