Fascism Grips Israel | Global Research
“By intellectuals I mean professors and journalists. The intellectual bankruptcy of the mass media in this war is total.”
“It’s not easy to go against the herd. You can easily be trampled. But the role of the intellectual and the journalist is not to applaud the government.”
“Democracy crumbles when the intellectuals, the educated classes, toe the line of the thugs or look at them with a smile.”
“People here say, ‘(i)t’s not so terrible. It’s nothing like fascism. We have free elections and parties and a parliament.’ ”
“Yet, we reached a crisis in this war, in which, without anyone asking
them to do so, all kinds of university bodies are suddenly demanding
that the entire academic community roll back its criticism.”
