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		<title>UCLA’s Palestine Awareness Week: Students for the Extermination of Israel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author paid a visit to the UCLA campus last week to cover the Muslim Student Association's Palestine Awareness Week. He came away with the experiential knowledge that our premiere public universities are aiding and abetting Islamist jihad and the global neo-communist campaign for the extermination of Israel.]]></description>
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<p>I paid a visit to the UCLA campus last week to cover the Muslim Student Association&#8217;s Palestine Awareness Week. I gathered together an initial report featuring an interview with UCLA&#8217;s campus organizer Hamzah Baig, as well as photos from the student demonstrations: &#8220;<a href="http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/israeli-apartheid-week-students-for.html" >Israeli Apartheid Week, Students for Justice in Palestine, UCLA, February 23, 2011</a>.&#8221; Upon additional reflection, the day&#8217;s events formed an essential learning experience for me. This was my first time attending Israeli Apartheid Week at any of the California campuses. Not knowing what to expect, I mainly hoped to gather some information for a couple of blog posts. I did that, and more: I came away with the experiential knowledge that our premiere public universities are aiding and abetting Islamist jihad and the global neo-communist campaign for the extermination of Israel.<span id="more-120698"></span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the quote from <a href="http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/israeli-apartheid-week-students-for.html" >my earlier entry</a>, on my interview with UCLA&#8217;s Hamzah Baig, the lead organizer for Students for Justice in Palestine. After arriving and saying hello to the young students from Bruins for Israel, I approached the Muslim activists:</p>
<blockquote><p>I said hello to a couple of the young ladies, and I asked if I could speak with their lead organizer. I was pointed in the direction of a burly young man named Hamzah Baig. I introduced myself and asked if he&#8217;d take questions. He asked &#8220;Who&#8217;s this for&#8221;? And I told him I was a blogger with David Horowitz&#8217;s NewsReal Blog. That didn&#8217;t seem to phase him at first, so the interview started out pretty casually. I asked him what the goals were for Palestinian Awareness Week. He said that the group wanted to stop Israeli settlements of Palestinian lands and to &#8220;end the occupation.&#8221; Then I asked, &#8220;what occupation&#8221;? And he said &#8220;the West Bank.&#8221; Okay, I thought, hmm, how about a couple of more challenging questions? So I said &#8220;Does your group support terrorism against Israelis?&#8221; And Baig practically choked on his Arafat scarf. He told me he wanted to be quoted precisely, and then enunciated very slowly, &#8220;<strong><em>our group provides no support for terrorism whatsoever</em></strong>.&#8221; And I said, oh yeah? What about Hamas? Do you support them? He said, &#8220;yeah, sure.&#8221; And I said, but Hamas is a known terrorist organization. I then mentioned David Horowitz&#8217;s confrontation with Jumanah Imad Albahri at UC San Diego. And I noted that she wouldn&#8217;t denounce Hamas and called for the extermination of the Jews. But by this time Baig was getting uptight. He said that &#8220;our group has nothing to do with the MSA at UC San Diego. They&#8217;re totally separate for us.&#8221; And I said, but aren&#8217;t you guys MSA here at UCLA? And he said, &#8220;yeah, sure, were MSA, but we&#8217;re separate.&#8221; I said fine, &#8220;will you renounce Hamas right now, will your reject Hamas&#8221;? He said &#8220;we support Hamas programs of education, food and medicine.&#8221; &#8220;What about terrorism&#8221;?, I said. And he again hesitated to respond. I thanked him and asked him if I could take his picture, but he refused. By now he was getting hostile at the questioning and wanted to be away from me. I said, &#8220;Why&#8221;? &#8220;This is a public event, at a public university &#8212; why don&#8217;t you want to be photographed&#8221;? And he just waved me away with his arms and said &#8220;no pictures.&#8221;</p>
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<p>As I detailed <a href="http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/israeli-apartheid-week-students-for.html" >previously</a>, the discussion turned from an interview to a confrontation. Hamzah Baig became angry as I took more pictures of the Students for Justice in Palestine. Mr. Baig said &#8220;You are harassing my people.&#8221; I told him he was harassing me and trying to suppress the truth. I was calling out his pro-terror racket.</p>
<p>I thought about this later, how the Muslim students were not only hostile to scrutiny, but extremely belligerent as well. Clearly the group has much to hide. And noticing how Mr. Baig was so emphatic in denying his group&#8217;s ties to terrorism, I decided to do a little research. It&#8217;s well-known, of course, that the Muslim Students Association is a front-group for the Muslim Brotherhood (see the entry at <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6175" >Discover the Networks</a>, for example). But the UCLA cell downplays MSA, using the newer title, &#8220;Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA.&#8221; Well, I found a report from the <a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/backgrounder_sjp.htm" >Anti-Defamation League</a> with additional background. It turns out the Students for Justice in Palestine are being organized by Americans for Muslims in Palestine, which is another Muslim Brotherhood front group:</p>
<blockquote><p>Since June 2010 &#8230; a national organization called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a group that promotes extreme anti-Israel views, has decided to focus specifically on Palestinian advocacy on college campuses and targeted SJP for this effort.</p>
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<p>Looking further, I found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eKJIgSIQbQ&amp;feature=player_embedded" >the video clip</a> for &#8220;SJP at UCLA &#8211; Teachin for Palestine Awareness Week 2011.&#8221; At the screencap from the video is Hamzah Baig introducing Taher Herzallah, the president of UC Riverside&#8217;s Students for Justice in Palestine and a National Campus Coordinator for <a href="http://www.ampalestine.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1462:amp-welcomes-new-staff-members&amp;catid=96:articles&amp;Itemid=552" >American Muslims for Palestine</a>:</p>
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<p>Taher Herzallah is also one of the original &#8220;Irvine 11&#8243;, the group of militant Islamists who shouted down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at UC Irvine last year. Herzallah published a widely-circulated defense of the group at the <em>Orange County Register</em>, &#8220;<a href="http://articles.ocregister.com/2010-03-05/opinion/24628004_1_commencement-speech-israeli-actions-uci" >Heckling Israeli Ambassador at UCI Was Right</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, it doesn&#8217;t take a lot of research to find ties between Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA and the Muslim Brotherhood. The group&#8217;s <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111577548918923" >Facebook page</a> indicates that Amir Abdel Malik was the featured speaker at UCLA on February 23rd. But recall earlier this month Abdel Malik was <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/02/16/video-muslim-student-association-pledges-allegiance-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/" >captured on video</a> at the MSA West regional conference leading the organization in a pledge of allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood. His racist diatribes are legendary, and his frequent anti-Semitic campus lectures have even been <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/fall/anti-semitism-goes-to-school" >repudiated</a> by the far left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (a group that&#8217;s no friend to the counter-jihad movement).</p>
<p>There was another thing that stayed with me from my visit to UCLA. The Apartheid Wall was perhaps the most grotesque monument to propaganda I&#8217;ve ever seen. The lasting image I have is of the panel featuring Leila Khaled, who is member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) &#8212; and was thus a key militant of the Palestinian Black September movement in the years before the Munich Olympics. At the time she was famously photographed holding an AK-47 rifle and wearing a kaffiyeh, which is the picture from the Apartheid Wall at the top of this essay. Khaled was one of terrorists who hijacked TWA Flight 840 in 1969, and her photogenic beauty earned her the reputation as the &#8220;poster girl of Palestinian militancy.&#8221; And while those events were over 40 years ago, Khaled to this day remains committed to armed struggle against Israel. In <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4047.htm" >an interview</a> featured at the Middle East Media Research Institute, she declared her commitment to the Palestinian right of return, and the cause of Islamist jihad against Israel&#8217;s right to exist:</p>
<blockquote><p>We will set the streets ablaze &#8230;</p>
<p>The ultimate goal of the struggle is the establishment of a Palestinian state on the land of Palestine, within the 1967 borders, including Jerusalem &#8230;</p>
<p>But this is just one stage – not everything. Ultimately, we have the right to return to Palestine – all Palestine &#8230;</p>
<p>If you use force, the enemy withdraws. When the occupier begins to feel that the occupation is costly, what does he do? He withdraws.</p>
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<p>A terrorist who wants to set Israel ablaze and return all of Palestine to her people.</p>
<p>So, as the image of Leila Khaled&#8217;s armed resistance appeared prominently during Palestine Awareness Week, along with the other documentation provided in this report, perhaps folks might want to reexamine Hamzah Baig&#8217;s claim that Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA &#8220;<em><strong>provides no support for terrorism whatsoever</strong></em>.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>When Defeat is the Answer – by Donald Douglas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International ANSWER roots for American defeat in Afghanistan. ]]></description>
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<p>President Obama is still dithering over the war in Afghanistan, but his hard-Left base has increasingly decided to break with the administration to cheer for American defeat overseas.</p>
<p>The latest sign of the Left’s defection over the war comes from the Los Angeles chapter of the anti-war group <a href="http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANSWERLA" target="_blank"><strong>International A.N.S.W.E.R</strong></a>. On Sunday, ANSWER sponsored an antiwar &#8220;teach-in&#8221; on Afghanistan at Los Angeles City College. The event was the group&#8217;s latest &#8220;local action&#8221; in its self-described &#8220;struggle&#8221; against alleged U.S. imperialism in &#8220;Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, the Philippines, Latin America and beyond.&#8221; All this is standard fare for the radical group, with one notable exception: It now considers the Obama administration the enemy.</p>
<p>To that end, ANSWER is accelerating its calls for grassroots resistance to the administration. In particular, ANSWER organizers claim they are seeking to block U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal&#8217;s recent request for an additional 40,000 troops. But ANSWER&#8217;s ultimate goal is to support the insurgency seeking to topple the Hamid Karzai government in Kabul. According to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=761" target="_blank"><strong>Richard Becker</strong></a>, ANSWER&#8217;s West Coast Regional Director, and a keynote speaker at this weekend’s teach-in, a defeat for the current American mission in Afghanistan would strike a blow to the American &#8220;empire&#8221; in South Asia.</p>
<p>ANSWER&#8217;s anti-American agenda was well-represented by organizers and activists at this weekend&#8217;s teach-in in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>The first speaker was Muna Coobtee. An organizer with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6715" target="_blank"><strong>the National Council of Arab Americans</strong></a> (an ANSWER front group), she was emcee for the organization&#8217;s recent <a href="http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/code-pinks-jodie-evans-no-rethink-on.html" target="_blank"><strong>Westwood protest</strong></a> marking the 8th anniversary of the war. Coobtee claimed that the Afghan mission was in fact a doomed neo-colonial war. Denouncing the &#8220;occupation,&#8221; she claimed that American military goals are exclusively to &#8220;avoid defeat &#8230; or to avoid the perception of defeat.&#8221; Following the script in ANSWER&#8217;s communist pamphlet,<em> </em>“<a href="http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=12895&amp;news_iv_ctrl=1261" target="_blank"><strong>Afghanistan and Iraq Will NEVER Accept U.S. Colonialism</strong></a>,” she implored activists to mobilize against the war. Pentagon warmongers can&#8217;t tell new recruits the truth about their mission, Coobtee insisted, since &#8220;then more soldiers and marines and their families would hesitate to continue to act as bait and cannon fodder.&#8221;</p>
<p>Coobtee was followed by ANSWER&#8217;s Peta Lindsay and Blase Bonpane (of the <a href="http://www.officeoftheamericas.org/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Office of the Americas</strong></a> and <a href="http://kpfk.org/" target="_blank"><strong>KPFK Los Angeles</strong></a>). Lindsay had just returned from a mission to Japan. She attacked the U.S. military presence there, conspiratorially denouncing nuclear-powered warships for widespread radioactive &#8220;contamination.&#8221; She also decried American sailors, who she claimed were &#8220;murdering Japanese women and taxi drivers.&#8221; In turn, Bonpane, who is something of an alternative media-celebrity, excoriated American neo-imperialism and argued that &#8220;the art of revolution is the art of organizing the majority of Americans to end the warfare state.&#8221;</p>
<p>An especially militant talk was delivered by Corporal Michael David Prysner, an Iraq war veteran and radar specialist who was honorably discharged from service June 15, 2005. Prysner is a key organizer for ANSWER&#8217;S military resistance cell, <a href="http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=VSMTF_aboutus" target="_blank"><strong>March Forward!</strong></a> According to <a href="http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=9020&amp;news_iv_ctrl=0&amp;abbr=VSMTF" target="_blank"><strong>his personal statement</strong></a> at the website:</p>
<blockquote><p>I left this Army with a new understanding of the system under which we all live, and the nature of U.S. foreign policy. But, I still had the same drive to fight for freedom, justice and equality as I did when I joined, and I understood that fighting for those things meant fighting against the U.S. government, not on behalf of it.</p></blockquote>
<p>During his talk, Prysner parroted the March Forward! <a href="http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=VSMTF_10pointprogram" target="_blank"><strong>talking points</strong></a>. For instance, he charged that American servicemen are being sent to further “the domination of U.S. corporations over other nations.” As for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they “serve only the interests of the rich.” And while the extensive and expensive nation building campaigns in both countries would suggest otherwise, Prysner assured his audience that American troops are being “sent over and over to repress people who have the right to determine their own destiny.”</p>
<p>This was not even Prysner at his most extreme. In the past, he has advocated insubordination and mutiny in the military’s ranks. Enlisted personnel should &#8220;fight the system&#8221; from the inside to sabotage the U.S. military&#8217;s neo-imperialist global campaign, according to Prysner. He has also urged disaffected G.I.s to join with the &#8220;entire nation&#8221; to repudiate the &#8220;criminal&#8221; deployments launched to fill the coffers of the hegemonic U.S. multinational corporations.</p>
<p>Where many of the speakers merely alluded to their hopes for a U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan, Richard Becker, ANSWER&#8217;s West Coast Representative, made it the main theme of his keynote address. Becker is a longtime U.S. communist hardliner. According to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=761" target="_blank"><strong>Discoverthenetworks</strong></a>, &#8220;Becker detests America and has written, &#8216;No one in the world &#8230; has a worse human rights record than the United States&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p>His lecture reflected these biases. Becker offered an extremely twisted defense of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Based on a single source (<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html" target="_blank"><strong>a 1998 interview</strong></a> with Carter NSA chief Zbigniew Brzezinski), Becker argued that the Soviet incursion was a strategic counter-thrust to U.S. imperial influence in Kabul. That is, the CIA had plans on tap for a U.S. colonial outpost in Afghanistan. The ultimate goal was, allegedly, to consolidate U.S. control over Caspian crude and to establish an oil pipeline to the Arabian Sea and the waiting arms of global capitalism&#8217;s &#8220;Big Oil&#8221; multinational tanker fleet. The Bush administration has exited the scene, but the “blood-for-oil” smear remains alive and well on the far Left.</p>
<p>As does its commitment to a U.S. military defeat. In his remarks, Becker explained that defeating the current American forces under General Stanley McChrystal would strike a blow to America&#8217;s neo-colonial project. A U.S. withdrawal from the region would strike at the heart of &#8220;empire&#8221; in South Asia. &#8220;Every empire falls, and this empire will fall as well,” Becker declared. The audience erupted in applause at Becker&#8217;s appeal for American losses.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-30891 aligncenter" title="Teach-InAfghanistan012" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Teach-InAfghanistan012.jpg" alt="Teach-InAfghanistan012" width="288" height="216" /><em>ANSWER man: Richard Becker calls for the defeat of the American &#8220;empire.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that, in addition to American defeat, the ANSWER event was also promoting Becker&#8217;s new book, <a href="http://www.pslweb.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PalestineBook" target="_blank"><strong><em>Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire</em></strong></a>. In the book, Becker writes that &#8220;The Palestinian struggle is a struggle against Western colonialism.” Perhaps this is why, as the <a href="http://www.adl.org/israel/answer.asp" target="_blank"><strong>Anti-Defamation League</strong></a> indicates, &#8220;ANSWER events, which often attract protestors by the tens of thousands, have openly supported terror groups targeting Israelis, as well as the &#8216;resistance&#8217; fighting American forces in Iraq.&#8221;</p>
<p>While its membership is small, ANSWER should not be dismissed as insignificant. It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that the Obama administration is stalling on Gen. McChrystal&#8217;s troop-surge request. And the president&#8217;s delay reflects in no small measure the influence of the antiwar Left. Interestingly, <a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/10/17/harman-shift-on-afghanistan-could-reflect-impact-of-progressive-primary-challenge/" target="_blank"><strong>netroots bloggers</strong></a> are backing socialist candidates in primary challenges against Democratic congressional incumbents in 2010. The administration can&#8217;t be indifferent to these trends politically, and of course electoral imperatives may well give safe-cover for the president to adopt a cut-and-run position on Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The greater strategic danger is not so much that Afghan redeployment risks a &#8220;blow to empire,&#8221; but that a precipitous withdrawal from the South Asian theater of the war will embolden America&#8217;s enemies on the ground, destabilize additional allies like India and Pakistan, and mark another surrender to the global forces of contemporary totalitarianism. In other words, it could fulfill every wish on International ANSWER’s extremist agenda.</p>
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