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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Fwd: JEWISH PROFESSOR HOUNDED AT CALIFORNIA
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Subject: JEWISH PROFESSOR HOUNDED AT CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE CAMPUS FOR
HOLDING PRO-ISRAEL VIEWS
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 20:30:53 -0000 (UTC)
From: Joe Cooper
Organization: Mostly None
Newsgroups:
soc.culture.usa,alt.politics.democrats,alt.california,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.israel
Dr. Denise Dalaimo Nussbaum was smeared, shunned, and assaulted
for having opposed pro-BDS, anti-Zionist speaker Miko Peled.
Dr. Denise Dalaimo Nussbaum, Chair of the Sociology Department,
distinguished author and professor, is suing the Governing Board of Mount
San Jacinto Community College for 9.5 million dollars for assault,
battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional
distress, negligence, gender discrimination, failure to prevent
discrimination and harassment, violation of constitutional and statutory
rights of free speech and political activities, retaliation, tortious
interference with law enforcement investigation, and breach of fiduciary
duty.
I think she should sue for morefar moresince this long-time tenured
professor now faces a potentially dangerous and hostile work environment.
Her crime? She is a Zionist and proud of it. More importantly, she is a
great believer in objective truth. This is currently out of fashion on so
many American campuses when the subject of Israel, Palestine, and Islam
are discussed. Dr. Nussbaum is also a feministand this figures in this
story as well. Her love of truth, love of Zion, and love of freedom for
women and minorities are anathema to those who have attacked her.
What is going on?
Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel Brownshirts are growing more and more
aggressive on North American campuses. They support hate speech and
blood libels but in the name of free speech. They claim academic
freedom to do so. But they behave in absolutely uncivilized ways.
They glare, stare, yell, march, chant, intimidate and bully, even as they
conduct intense internet and campus-wide smear campaigns. They interrupt,
challenge, and walk out on outside speakers who hold false ideas. If a
faculty member shares such ideas, the Brownshirts create a hostile, even
a dangerous work environmentall the while accusing their (usually)
single opponent of having done so.
Such Brownshirts (students, faculty, administrators), are both actively
and passively involved in destroying, one by one, all those who hold
false ideas. They advance onor refuse to stop such an advance onthe
politically incorrect professor like a swarm of killer bees. For years,
I have called this phenomenon Gaza on the Pacific or Gaza on the Hudson.
Otherwise good people fear them and do not want to get involved.
I have been writing about this danger for fifteen years now; as I feared,
matters have worsened. Senior, competent, beloved professors are being
forced to flee for their lives by mobs of vicious haters, often led by
one or two Islamists who are always, always pro-Palestine and anti-
Zionist.
For example, in 2002, a riot took place at Concordia University in
Montreal. Dear friends were bruised, knocked down and beaten bloody. This
is hardly constitutes a free exchange of ideas.
Also in 2002, at San Francisco State, students had to walk a hostile
gauntlet attacking Israel and Jews. Posters read: Zionism=Racism and
Jews=Nazis. At one point, Jewish students had to be escorted by campus
police away from a hostile, near-rioting mob.
In 2003, I experienced one of the earliest near-riots in academia in
America when I told the truth about Islam and Israel at a free-standing
conference that had rented space at Barnard. I had to be hustled out for
my safety. I wrote about that experience in these pages.
In 2009, at York University, another pro-Palestine/anti-Israel riot took
place. Nora Gold fictionalizes this in her award winning novel Fields Of
Exile. Her heroine is badly wounded in just such a riotbecause she is
known as being pro-Israel.
In 2011, while Charles Small was not physically assaulted, he was
psychologically and verbally assaulted by those who forced him out of
Yale, actually who punished him, for daring to tell the truth about
contemporary Jew-hatred in both the Islamic world and in the West.
In 2015, Philosophy Professor Andrew Pessin had to take a medical leave
of absence due to the swarm of vicious propaganda that circulated against
him on campus as well as the death threatsall because he was known to be
pro-Israel. This campaign was led by a pro-Palestinian religious Muslim
female student.
Early this year, Dr. Nussbaum, became the next, known victim of a
similar four-month campaign in which she was bullied, harassed, shunned,
shamed, turned on by her colleagues, betrayed by her own
administrationand physically assaulted by a more junior faculty member.
Unbelievably, infuriatingly, her administration is now paying for her
attackers lawyers.
How and why did this happen?
Observing due process, Dr. Nussbaum persuasively objected to the lecture
invitation extended to a known non-academic Israel-hater, Miko Peled, an
Israeli Jew. She went through channels. Most of the involved faculty
agreed with her. But two, perhaps only three faculty members who wanted
Peled to speak bypassed all appropriate channels and used their own
faculty turf to pay him $2,500.
Peleds March 23rd speech consisted of a series of inflammatory,
ahistorical, out-of-context Blood Libels. Dr. Nussbaum herself did a
content analysis of it.
In Miko Peled's speech on March 23, 2015, he made more than a dozen
references to Israeli occupation and Israeli occupiers; 19 references
to ethnic cleansing (of) Palestinian refugees; depicted Israelis as
racists nine times and as oppressors 17 times. Peled compared Israel
to South African Apartheid five times; and portrayed Hamas as
resistance fighters nine timesbut called Israelis terrorists three
times. Peled demonized Israel constantly, referred to Jewish
conspiracies resorted to double standards as a way of
deligitimizing Israel. He did not mention the Holocaust or the
historical fate of Jews in Muslim countries.
Here are just some of Peleds statements. According to Dr. Nussbaum:
Peled described Gaza as an open air prison (with no mention of Egypt).
They have no clean water, are food deprived, no power, no sewage.
Is Peled unaware that Israel left Gaza? And that Egypt has taken pro-
active steps against Hamas which rules Gaza?
Israel dropped millions of tons of bombs on Gaza. (No mention of the
terror tunnels and the constant rocket barrage launched from Gaza into
southern Israel).
There has never really been a threat to Israel from Gaza
EVER. So
whats the problem? Why are they attacking on a regular basis?
My theory is, that the threat from Gaza is not to Israels security, it
is to Israels legitimacy.
Now, these are Palestinian children living in a refugee camp. No more
than minutes away drive from a city where you would never dream to see
something like this
You will never see Israeli kids looking like this,
living like this. No electricity, no sewage, no running water, no
healthcare, no proper nutrition, nothing at all. No possibilities. The
only reason there are 4 million Palestinians living like this, most of
them children, is because Israel keeps them like this. Every dollar of
our tax dollars that goes to Israel KEEPS THEM LIKE THIS! We are all
participating in this crime of keeping these kids living like this when
we support Israel.
Recently in Gaza, this summer, Israel bombed and killed over 2,000
innocent civilians
but it was ok morally, because Hamas is in Gaza, and
Hamas is some sort of a devil. So its okay to kill children. The Israeli
story always ends up morally on top.
The vast majority of Palestinian prisoners have never been charged with
acts of violence
they are not terrorists, they are political
prisoners.
If Israel does not like rockets flying out of Gaza, Israel the occupier,
Israel the oppressor has the ability to stop it right now, and its had
that ability for decades. We cant blame the oppressed for resisting. We
cant. Its wrong. If you want to see an end to the resistance you have
to call on the oppressor. You have to call on the occupier.
Two-state solution is code for doing nothing.
If we accept the Jewish State, if we accept the State of Israel, we have
to accept this racist, oppressive reality.
We have to realize that speaking out against Israel is not anti-
Semitism. It is anti-Colonialism. It is anti-racism, its not anti-
Semitism. There are countless of Jewish people who oppose the State of
Israel and speak like I do. And its important for people to get
involved.
Supporting Palestine is supporting justice. Free Palestine will be good
for Palestinians and Israelis. I encourage all of you to get involved; I
encourage all of you to get active on this issue; I encourage all of you
to study about the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement which is
going on, which has helped South Africa and now its helping Palestine
and just see what you can do. A free Palestine will help Israelis AND
Palestinians.
Source: http://bit.ly/1RiNnsV
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"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who arent and to impose their will on those who
didnt ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"Liberals never argue with one another over substance; their only dispute
is how to prevent the public from figuring out what they really
believe." (Ann Coulter)
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