FOREIGN AGENTS RECRUIT ON CAMPUS:
HILLEL CLUB VIOLATING THE LAW?
By: Paul Fallavollita
Many colleges in the United States charge all students a "student activities fee," the proceeds of which are divvied up by the elected student government to recognized clubs. These clubs, once the student government approves their operations on campus, present their budget requests and make their respective sales pitches about what extracurricular activities they plan to offer the students, such as water skiing or the chance to volunteer for community service projects. North of the border in Montreal, a campus Hillel club offered Concordia University students—or an admittedly small fraction of students who would be interested—the opportunity to fight in a foreign military: the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Concordia determined that these recruiting activities were a violation of Canadian law, specifically the Foreign Enlistment Act. This revelation recently caused the Student Union of Concordia to vote 8-1 to revoke Hillel’s status as a recognized campus organization, suspending its funding and rescinding its privilege to hold on-campus events.
Hillel’s webpage calls its group "the largest Jewish campus organization in the world," whose mission is to "maximize the number of Jews doing Jewish with other Jews." Part of what this mission means for students to "do Jewish" (an actual phrase used repeatedly) according to the site, is:
"to provide them with opportunities to do Jewish that are meaningful and appealing to them. Students are empowered to take responsibility for their Jewish identity, whether they wish to participate in a community service project, express themselves artistically, participate in a social event, engage in informal Jewish learning or attend religious services."
Like many student organizations that receive subsidies from the university, Hillel received $3000 annually from Concordia. When the Hillel at Concordia was caught violating Canadian law by distributing a recruiting flyer for Mahal 2000—a volunteer program run by the Israeli military aimed at overseas students—that funding was rightly cut off. Mahal forces often guard Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Canada, along with most nations, prohibits recruitment for foreign militaries on its soil.
Hillel claims that a student activist, not the Hillel staff, placed the offending Mahal flyer without official authorization. The distinction is a truly Talmudic one, as hair-splitting as it is convenient. The Hillel site reveals some interesting statistics and underlying assumptions about the students it serves and their place in the world, noting that:
"80 percent of college-age Jews—approximately 400,000 individuals—attend some form of institution of higher education. The Jewish community believes that the college years offer the last opportunity to provide Jewish content to young people before they disperse to the working world...at a time when young people are searching for meaning in their lives and are in danger of assimilating into the community around them" [emphasis mine].
The language quoted above suggests that Hillel rejects the much-touted idea of "assimilation" when it comes to the continuity and integrity of the Jewish community. Instead, a picture emerges of a small, tightly knit group with a high degree of self-awareness and a strong sense of destiny as a distinct people acting in concert. Indeed, Hillel’s perception of the process of assimilation as a "danger" is a clear and accurate assessment; assimilation is another word for submergence or disappearance. No one can fault the Jews, or any other group, for seeking to survive and ensure that their ancestors will remain recognizable to their descendants—that is what it means to be related, after all, to bear a family resemblance. It comes as no surprise to learn that feeling "empowered to take responsibility for their Jewish identity" can lend itself to a response such as joining the IDF to further Israeli expansionism. Hillel and Mahal may maintain an organizational separation, but they both issue from, and remain wed to, the same ideological and biological source. They also carry on reciprocal relations in cyberspace; Mahal’s website links to Hillel’s. For that matter, Mahal also links to the leading American Likudnik pundits Joseph Farah and Daniel Pipes.
Hillel clubs operate on many American campuses as well, which raises the obvious question of the hour: could Hillel also be here recruiting Americans for service in a foreign military? The United States has several laws that may be applicable to such activities, if they are indeed occurring, such as the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and the Neutrality Act. Mahal’s website warns potential recruits about these legal possibilities that:
"Serving in the IDF may jeopardize the citizenship of certain countries. However, in recent years, no cases are known of someone's citizenship being revoked. Concerned volunteers ought to clarify this matter in their country of origin."
In "Contradictions of Dual Citizenship," Robert G. Hazo of the Middle East Policy Association writes that nations have an interest in forbidding their citizens to serve in foreign armies. He argues that "however friendly two countries may be, their interests are not and cannot always be identical." Hazo points out that this problem particularly arises when Americans decide to serve in the Israeli military, recounting disturbing information how:
"It is, therefore, entirely possible that, as some investigators claim, an American citizen who learned to fly in U.S. military service was among the pilots of Israeli aircraft which, along with Israeli torpedo boats, attacked the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967, resulting in the death of 34 American sailors and the wounding of 171 more. American citizens serving in the Israeli forces have boasted on some radio and T.V. talk shows of participating in the invasion of Lebanon, an action condemned by the U.S. government in the United Nations."
Of course, few will sound the alarm about these potentially unlawful, dangerous, and maybe even treasonous Hillel activities in America, because the threshold is set so ridiculously low for inviting potentially career-damaging accusations of "anti-Semitism." This isn’t about anti-Semitism, though, it’s about fairness, and what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? The role of alternative media is to make connections and comparisons that the "mainstream" will not dare, searing sacred cows, revealing "ugly" truths, and reminding readers of events buried in the back pages and beneath the fold, if printed at all. Therefore, in the case of this Hillel story, the "rest of the story" is that Organized Jewry did not object when the American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP) found itself in a similar position on the hot seat.
Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) headed by Morris Dees hammered away at the AFBNP, accusing it of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires bodies working on behalf of foreign interests to register with the government. The SPLC contended that the AFBNP was sending donations made by Americans to England to fund the campaign efforts of the British National Party (BNP), a rising nationalist Right political party. In the face of this politically motivated harassment, the AFBNP retroactively registered under the FARA and then closed down.
The AFBNP advocated the preservation of British, and ultimately Western, identity, just as Hillel promotes and defends Jewish identity. The AFBNP sought to help Americans organize to defend American interests, in an attempt to replicate the successes the BNP was having across the pond. The AFBNP participated in functions with the Council of Conservative Citizens, for example. Yet, it would seem Hillel’s fellow travelers condemn that same survival impulse in Europeans and European-Americans. And the AFBNP was not recruiting Americans to serve in the British military, either.
Now that Hillel has been exposed, the deans of students and student unions at American universities should launch investigations of their local Hillel clubs to discover if similar illegal recruiting is taking place on their campuses. Failing that, a re-constituted House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) might be right for this assignment—and it could profitably add other notorious globalist, socialist, and Zionist organizations to its watch list, including the Council on Foreign Relations. Such inquiries need not take place exclusively at the federal level, but at the level of the several states and municipalities as well, in the true spirit of the Tenth Amendment. Of course, the government is currently in the hands of the globalists and their sympathizers (as well as their "useful idiots"), so perhaps it is best to shelve the HUAC option temporarily until the ascendance of a patriotic government of national restoration. Perhaps it is better that vigilant citizens pursue the matter privately instead.
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