Moles Infiltrating Hillel?

Moles inside Hillel? This is a very real prospect to consider after reading the Dafka report, How Some Pro-Israel Groups Get Silenced at UC Berkeley Hillel, which urges us not to donate funds to Berkeley Hillel. Hat tip to Chuck Minning for the link in an email where he asks the question: “Is it possible that Yael Richardson is but one more example of the infiltration of this insidious group of Jewish Jew-Haters into campus Hillel organizations?”

This was in response to my recent blog, Hillel at Brown U. Acquiesces to MSA, where I revealed the disgraceful complicity of Yael Richardson, president of Hillel at Brown University for allowing herself to be persuaded to cancel Hillel’s pro-Israel speaker by objections from MSA.

Dafka revealed Hillel's growing tendency to welcome anti-Israel viewpoints to the exclusion of the more conservative pro-Zionist side. Hillel at Berkeley has embraced and cooperated with such groups as Students For Justice In Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice For Peace (JVOP), which seek to dismantle the state of Israel and promote divestment from Israel on campus. Concern is being raised that operatives from these groups are infiltrating Hillel acting as a fifth column showing ostensible support for Israel and then shifting gears in compliance with Muslim and pro-Palestinian groups.

Rather, more likely I think Yael may be an agent of a cardinal humanistic tenet of Jewish tradition, that in an effort to appear as sensitive and amicable as possible, is actually sanctioning the enemy and doing the most damage to ourselves as a people and to the state of Israel.

I received the following email on the subject from an Israeli, Ori Cohen who puts it more bluntly:

We are finished by our own doing, Jews with their sympathy and guilt, to their own enemy and destroyers, will bring the end to Israel and the Jewish race, it is just a question of time.

We need to wake up and heed Ori's advice and keep silent no more.