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Left-Wing Anti-Semitism Is Insidious, Therefore Dangerous by Karen Lehrman Bloch Jewish Journal April 16, 2020 Professor Ruth Wisse explains how slavish and literal adherence to some aspects of liberalism turned liberals against Israel. "If liberals expect all conflicts to be resolved and trust that international organizations can mediate between adversaries, and if the war against Israel proves the opposite, then one of the two must be wrong. “One either fights evil to stop the anti-liberal war against the Jews or betrays the Jews by insisting on the liberal paradigm.” This cognitive dissonance was resolved by persuading liberals that Israelis, not Arabs, stand in the way of peace: Israel began to be blamed for the aggression against it." |
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Hamid Dabashi Proves Bollinger Wrong! April 14, 2020 On March 6, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger delivered a statement before the Senate Plenary condemning antisemtism at Columbia . "I plead with everyone on our campus to be careful and vigilant against legitimate debate turning into anger, then to hatred and demonization, and invidious discrimination," said President Bollinger. Unfortunately, it appears that some members of his own faculty have not been listening. On April 8th, Professor Hamid Dabashi, a vituperative critic of "Zionists" and a coddled Columbia antisemite with a tenure published a rant about Bernie Sanders quitting the presidential race. This event, seemingly unrelated to Israel, nevertheless provoked Dabashi into another conspiratorial diatribe against Kushner and other vile "Zionists" that have taken the Trump administration hostage to serve Bib and advance their nefarious plans against Palestinians... |
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Petition to President Lee Bollinger Despite President Bollinger's condemnation, Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) plans to have the BDS referendum during the Fall semester. Demand that Columbia University president Lee Bollinger acts on his condemnation of antisemitism! Please sign our petition to President Lee Bollinger to turn his words into actions! | | |
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Book Talk: The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge On March 3, 2020, Middle Eastern Institute (MEI) at Columbia University presented a book talk arguing that transnational jihadists are engaged in their own form of universalism: these fighters struggle to realize an Islamist vision directed at all of humanity, transcending racial and cultural difference. |
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Colleges and Title VI: Stopping Anti-Semitism by Sarah Stern, Jewish Policy Center Spring, 2020 ...Today, Rashid Khalidi occupies the Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies at Columbia University. He is also dean of Columbia’s School of International Studies. It doesn’t seem to faze anyone at Columbia that Khalidi served as a spokesman for Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization when the PLO was one of the world’s leading terrorist organizations. Khalidi has led the boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) movement at Columbia. He has made statements to the press, including one to Chicago’s National Public Radio station in January 2017, using Nazi-like allusions to Jews, saying “supporters of Israel in the Trump administration infest the U.S. government. ”Prof. Joseph Massad, in his convoluted logic, has called Zionism “anti-Semitic.” The 2004 film Columbia Unbecoming, exposed Massad’s academic malpractice, telling a Jewish student in his class who tried to defend Israel she has “no bone in this fight” because she has “green eyes” and is not a “true Semite.” Hamid Dabashi is yet another Columbia professor. Dabashi teaches Iranian studies and comparative literature. He wrote two Facebook posts on May 8, 2018 defaming Israel and Zionists. In one, he calls Israel a “key actor” in “every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world.” He also criticizes “diehard Fifth Column Zionists working against the best interests of Americans.” Columbia University, which has long been a recipient of Title VI funding, has been a particularly prominent defender of unapologetic promoters of anti-Semitism, hiding under the guise of academic free speech. In September 2019, the university hosted Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has called Jews “hook-nosed people who rule the world by proxy.” In 2007, Columbia rolled out its red carpet for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who infamously said that the Holocaust was “a myth” and that “Israel should be wiped off the map.” Of course, Columbia would not apply such a standard of academic freedom and free speech to faculty or speakers bigoted against black people, women, Latinos, or homosexuals.... |
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How can we teach antisemitism more efficiently? by Manfred Gerstenfeld Jerusalem Post April 11, 2020 "All that is required is for one Jewish organization that values the truth more than political correctness to hire some experts to turn this and a number of other items into a usable package." |
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