Why hasn't Noam Chomsky, for example, been drummed out of academia? Because "academia" in the United States, to paint it with large brush strokes, is leftist, quite sympathetic to Marxism, and "hates" the culture - American culture - on which it lives.
Add to this that Israel, because of its history and purpose, is naturally identified with the Jewish religion, regardless of the personal beliefs of this or that individual Israeli. Marx was for the elimination of religion. He wrote that only with the elimination of Judaism can Jews be "free" (see Marx's "On the Jewish Question"). Indeed, he believed that no religion had any proper place in public life. This would explain academia's acceptance of Chomsky, and some of the Left's hostility to Israel.
Paradoxically, the Left has embraced Islam - not in a personal, religious sense but as a convenient tool to help with the deconstruction of Western culture. According to Marxism, before a society or a nation can become communistic, it must be broken down, leveled. Only then will it be ready for the construction of the communist edifice.
Islam's ultimate goal for America is different, of course - namely, the construction of an Islamic state. On the way to this goal, however, they can be useful to the leftists by upsetting current social norms and alienating non-Muslims from their society.
One would hope that Muslims in the West would recognize that their common interests with Christianity and Judaism far outweigh their differences, when considered against the leftist goal of a completely secularized society where religious practice is looked down upon if not forbidden entirely.
Thanks for the comments.
The irony of "Jewish" anti-Semitism is addressed briefly in a later article.
Stay tuned.
Hank