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		<title>Harvard&#8217;s Reckless Sponsorship of Anti-Israelism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BDS legitimized at the Ivy League school. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/widener.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245524" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/widener-450x337.jpg" alt="widener" width="327" height="245" /></a><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/11/18/harvard-bds-panel-support/">Harvard Crimson</a>. </em></p>
<p>I never imagined that a day would come when some of the world’s leading corporations would fund calls for Israel’s destruction, let alone at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. But that is exactly what happened last week at Harvard.</p>
<p>My invitation to “Harvard Arab Weekend” promised to provide a “mosaic of perspectives and insights on the most pressing issues in the Arab world.” Many of the panels appeared worthy of the conference’s corporate support from McKinsey &amp; Co, The Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bank Audi, Strategy&amp;, and the energy giant Shell. And yet featured prominently on the conference agenda was a panel devoted to the destruction of Israel: “<a href="http://harvardarabweekend.org/panels/">The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Accomplishments, Tactics and Lessons</a>.”</p>
<p>The panel’s moderator, Ahmed Alkhateeb, began by noting that a primary goal of the BDS movement is “promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties” in what is today Israel. As President Barack Obama pointed out in 2008, this goal stands in opposition to a “two state solution” and “would extinguish Israel as a Jewish State.” And in an op-ed published in Al Akhbar newspaper, Cal State professor As’ad AbuKhalil, an outspoken advocate of the BDS movement,<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/angry-corner/critique-norman-finkelstein-bds"> affirmed</a> that “the real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel.” This is the “unambiguous goal…[and] there should not be an equivocation on the subject.”</p>
<p>He’s right. While Jews are the majority in the democratic state of Israel today, the BDS movement imagines and seeks a state in which Jews would ultimately become the minority, implying the end of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination.</p>
<p>Of course, students have a right to speak their minds freely, and corporate sponsors have a right to donate their money and institutional backing to any political view. But is it appropriate for Harvard University to lend its facilities to a group of activists who are working to eradicate the one Jewish state?</p>
<p>Not everyone at Harvard thinks so. Former Harvard president and current professor, Lawrence H. Summers, spoke out in 2002 against calls for Harvard to divest from Israel. When I asked him about last week’s panel, he told me that “promoting BDS is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind when I warned years ago about actions that were anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent.”</p>
<p>“Avoiding censorship, which is right, should not equal sponsorship, which is wrong,” Summers explained. “I am sorry that Harvard, not for the first time, has allowed its good name to be associated with calls to delegitimize Israel.”</p>
<p>The panel at Harvard was not a debate about the goals and merits of BDS—it was an endorsement. <a href="http://harvardarabweekend.org/panels/">Panelists</a> included a <a href="http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/EventDetails/i/46854">vocal supporter</a> of BDS who frequently accuses Israel of “apartheid,” a professor who initiated the American Studies Association academic and cultural boycott, a Presbyterian minister who led the Church<a href="http://www.ecclesio.com/2012/03/the-long-road-to-bds-by-jeff-deyoe/"> boycott</a> of Israel, as well as MIT professor Noam Chomsky.</p>
<p>Student organizers of the panel told me that Chomsky would provide the “anti-BDS” perspective, and he was introduced as the only voice on the panel to be critical of BDS “tactics.” But Chomsky would have none of it: “It’s interesting that I’m introduced as someone that has criticized BDS tactics; actually I have strongly advocated for BDS.”</p>
<p>Chomsky also encouraged anti-Israel activists to take a phased approach toward the annihilation of Israel as a Jewish state: “The one-state option is a good idea in the long run but there’s only one way that I can imagine we can reach it, and that’s in stages.”</p>
<p>The panel discussion left me with an overwhelming sense of sadness: I was sad to see firsthand how BDS encourages Palestinians to reject compromise in pursuit of the destruction of Israel; sad that the student organizers of the conference were unwilling to create a panel of diverse, honest views that would have led to true dialogue; sad that Harvard administrators allowed an event promoting an end to the national existence of the Jewish people to take place under Harvard’s auspices; and sad that the names and institutional prestige of major corporations were used to give legitimacy to the BDS campaign.</p>
<p>I sent inquiries to senior executives at every sponsor company before the conference, but the panel went on. After the conference, a senior McKinsey spokesman wrote to me to apologize for the firm’s involvement with the conference: “The firm does not knowingly associate its name with political issues and debates.” I believe it is likely that the other corporate sponsors also did not intend to have their funds used to promote the BDS movement.</p>
<p>Corporations and universities should not lend mainstream legitimacy to such a radical and odious movement, nor should they provide funding or resources to events that demonize Israel as this one did.</p>
<p>I hope Harvard and the corporations that sponsored Harvard Arab Week—and in doing so sponsored the BDS panel—will publicly pledge to be more vigilant in the future and never again associate their names or provide funding to any movement that seeks to destroy Israel.</p>
<p><em>Sara K. Greenberg is a joint masters degree student at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. You can listen to the full audio of the BDS panel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmM3KIRop-c">here</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>The Early Roots of Anti-Israel Lawfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Harrod]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long and disturbing history of the legal assault against the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/weapon-of-choice.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234622" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/weapon-of-choice-350x350.jpg" alt="weapon of choice" width="259" height="259" /></a>Anti-Israel lawfare actually has a longer pedigree than usually imagined, dating from a seemingly obscure lawsuit arising from Israel’s 1948 re-birth.  <a href="http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/experts/2893/sreemati_mitter.html">Sreemati Mitter</a>, an Ernest May Fellow at the Belfer Center of Harvard University’s Kennedy School and Harvard history Ph.D. candidate detailed the matter in a May 20 lecture.  About forty mostly middle-aged and older pro-Palestinian individuals at the like-minded <a href="http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/46328">Jerusalem Fund</a> think tank heard Mitter.</p>
<p>Mitter recounted the June 12, 1948 freezing by the newly reborn state of Israel of all bank accounts belonging to Arab refugees from Israeli-controlled territory during the country’s independence war.  She focused on the Palestine branches of Barclays and the Ottoman Bank in London, the two of which held deposits from the Arab Bank, a “Palestinian nationalist bank.”</p>
<p>Arab Bank’s attempts to win restitution of its seized accounts ultimately resulted in a “seminal lawsuit in banking history” against Barclays and Ottoman.  A 1954 House of Lords (then the British high court) decision in <i>Arab Bank Ltd. v. Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas)</i>, though, rejected Arab Bank’s demands.  Yet Barclays and Ottoman “won in Britain, lost in Jordan” as lawsuits in the latter country produced the opposite result. These banks then threatened to leave an economically developing Israel, leading to a settlement with Israeli account restitution in return for a low interest loan from the two British banks.</p>
<p>Mitter assesses that in principle “everybody is happy” in this story, as the banks along with the United Kingdom in general preserved commercial reputations, the account holders received their assets, and Israel got a loan.  Yet her general euphoria has one wrinkle.  Rebuffed in the United Kingdom, lawyers for the Palestinian account holders tried to “find a legal regime that does not recognize Israel,” Mitter explained.  Some fifty resulting lawsuits filed in Jordan led to the judicial holding that Israel is an “illegal entity” not entitled to seize property.  Therefore “Palestinians really fought for their rights” and “turned to the law” precisely by denying Israel its rights.</p>
<p>Britain’s Law Lords, by contrast, affirmed in their decision private sector subordination to wartime Israeli state action.  Similarly, Israel’s March 14, 1950 <a href="http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/E0B719E95E3B494885256F9A005AB90A"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Absentee Property Legislation</span></a> seizing Palestinian refugee property in Israel comes “almost word for word” from British enemy property legislation, Mitter noted.  These laws have the “same justification, which is war.”</p>
<p>The decision cites the Israeli proclamation on May 19, 1948, five days after Israel’s independence declaration, that Palestine Mandate “English law…should remain in force” wherever “not repugnant to” Israeli enactments.  Thus in “all questions relevant . . . there is no difference” in British and Israeli application of “English common law regarding trading with the enemy.”  Under a “general principle . . . not in dispute . . . war prevents the further performance of contracts” with “persons in enemy territory . . . . Many kinds of contractual rights are totally abrogated.”</p>
<p>The “economic dimension” of “what it means to be stateless” formed the central theme of Mitter’s presentation, which sought to place “Palestinians in context with stateless people everywhere.”  Yet, upon this reporter’s questioning, Mitter conceded that Jordan did bestow citizenship upon <a href="http://prrn.mcgill.ca/background/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">West Bank Palestinian refugees</span></a>, the largest Palestinian refugee contingent, in contrast to other Arab states.  Mitter also acknowledged that Jewish refugees fled Arab countries following Israel’s independence.</p>
<p>In fact, these <a href="http://jcpa.org/article/the-jewish-exodus-from-arab-landstoward-redressing-injustices-on-all-sides/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jewish refugees</span></a> exceeded Palestinian refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel in numbers and property losses, prompting Israeli demands that Jewish refugees concurrently receive compensation in any Palestinian refugee settlement.  Most of these Jewish refugees avoided statelessness precisely through immigration to an “illegal” Jewish homeland at considerable integration costs to Israel.  Not surprisingly, <a href="http://www.angusreidglobal.com/polls/1401/israelis_reject_reparations_for_1948_refugees/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">68 percent</span></a> of Israeli respondents in a 2007 poll rejected compensating 1948 Palestinian refugees.</p>
<p>This long record of lawfare against the Jewish state, with the goal of denying Israel’s right to protect sovereign interests, provides Israel’s enemies with legal and propaganda weapons used to delegitimize its existence to this day. The assertion that Jewish settlement in any territories won by Israel in the 1967 war, including Jerusalem, are absolutely illegal, rest on these efforts, as do (more perniciously) attempts to justify sanctions and actual violence against Israel. While Mitter and others focus on the plight of Palestinian refugees and their descendants who deserved integration into Arab states long ago, Israel, a country formed largely by Jewish refugees from all over the world, remains under threat.</p>
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		<title>The Agony of Moral Defeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard L. Cravatts]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tale of two leftists and their broken dreams.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/harvard.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220417" alt="harvard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/harvard-450x325.jpg" width="270" height="195" /></a>Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was speaking about those well-meaning, but naïve college students who “torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” Lewis’s observation seemed to have been given credence in the past weeks by the very public, tendentious rants of two coeds, one at Harvard University and one at UCLA, as they railed against a world in which their dreams of social justice for the oppressed and weak was not being realized, despite their best efforts.</p>
<p>In the first instance, in an op-ed in the <i>Harvard Crimson </i>entitled “The Doctrine of Academic Freedom,” Sandra Y.L. Korn, majoring at Harvard, tellingly, in the history of science and studies of women, gender and sexuality, decided that academic freedom was undeserved by those who hold beliefs different than hers and her fellow “moral busybodies”— those who have decided what is moral, what is right, and what is acceptable speech and behavior on Harvard’s campus and in the world beyond. “Why should we put up with research that counters our goals simply in the name of ‘academic freedom?’,” she asked, seemingly without embarrassment. Academic freedom, she contended, should be put in check so that unwelcomed viewpoints can be suppressed. As an alternative virtue, she suggested “a more rigorous standard: one of ‘academic justice.’”</p>
<p>One example of how that justice might be applied, at the expense of academic freedom, was the recent academic boycott against Israeli academics called for by the American Studies Association (ASA). Though the boycott was subsequently denounced by over 200 university presidents and scores of academic organizations and scholars, Ms. Korn thinks that the loss of academic freedom by Israelis is of secondary importance to her notion of “academic justice;” that is, justice for the oppressed, the victimized, the marginalized, the weak. “The ASA, like three other academic associations,” she wrote, “decided to boycott out of a sense of social justice, responding to a call by Palestinian civil society organizations for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions until Israel ends its occupation of Palestine.” Despite universal protestations from many people far more insightful than Ms. Korn, in her mind, any critics of the boycott are, by definition, morally wrong, and, she asserted, “only <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/1/21/a-just-boycott-for-palestinian-rights/">those who care about justice</a> can take the moral upper hand.”</p>
<p>The UCLA incident revealed a similar Leftist obsession with obtaining social justice for the Palestinians, even if it necessitates the weakening or destruction of the Jewish state. On February 26<sup>th</sup> , the UCLA undergraduate student government voted 7-5 against a Students for Justice in Palestine-proposed “Resolution to Divest from Companies that Violate Palestinian Human Rights,” including specific corporations:  Caterpillar, Cement Roadstone Holdings, Cemez, General Electric, and Hewlett-Packard. After the charged hearings, which included some 500 people in the audience and went on for ten hours, an identified UCLA undergraduate, who was serving as a note taker for the hearings, broke down and railed at the cameras with an expletive-laden rant about how disappointed she was that the resolution failed, how ashamed she was of the racists and bad people who voted against divestment, and how Palestinians would now continue to be “hurt” because of their inaction. For two minutes the hysterical woman can be seen screaming “I’ve never been so f***ing disappointed” and complaining that “we just f***ing blew it” by not passing the corrosive divestment resolution.</p>
<p>Many pro-Israel commentators gleefully parodied the whimpering student when the video went viral, suggesting that her behavior typified the dangerous liberalism which elevates the Palestinian cause at the expense of Israel’s survival. But the reality is more troubling than that: this woman, like the Harvard undergraduate who wishes to live in a world where only her predetermined virtues and worldview prevail, feels quite strongly that, in the case of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, at least, the answers are black and white, there is a moral side and an immoral side, and that anyone who does not, or cannot, see things as clearly and unambiguously as these gifted undergraduates do is a racist, an oppressor, an imperialist, a colonizer, or a supporter of an illegal, apartheid regime trampling the human rights of a blameless indigenous people.</p>
<p>As commonly happens when liberals appraise the relative merits of their own countries and others, one set of expectations is used to measure Third-world countries and their leaders, and a totally different, far more stringent (if not unreasonable) set is used when evaluating the behavior and values of the United States, the EU, or Israel. This cynical, nearly hypocritical, view has meant that the Left frequently denounces Western democracies as imperialistic, racist, militaristic oppressors, precisely because they wish them to evolve to a purer, newly-structured society and feel that they have the collective insight and moral strength to effect this change as they strive for the social justice, or its intellectually-flaccid offspring, “academic justice,” a nebulous term lifted from Marxist thought which empowers Left-leaning administrators, students, and faculty with the false ethical security derived from feeling that they are bringing positive moral and ethical precepts to campuses.</p>
<p>For that reason, Israel is continually slandered as a racist state, an aggressive, militaristic regime that inflicts disproportionate suffering on the hapless Palestinians, lubricating the argument that this inequality is inherently and inexorably wrong, that it must be corrected and made just. Thus, when such radical campus groups as Students for Justice in Palestine have as their core mission, as their name implies, bringing their own vision of justice to the Middle East, it is justice <i>only</i> for the oppressed, the Palestinians, and not for the perceived oppressor, Israel, whose position of power was made possible only because of military strength and imperialistic tendencies.</p>
<p>For the Left, social justice is solely for the disenfranchised, the ‘victims’ of unjust Western societies, those whose suffering is ostensibly caused by and is the fault of imperialistic, capitalistic, militant, hegemonic nations—America and Israel foremost among them. And on campuses, where liberal professors have nearly made sacred the politics of race and class and have identified specific sets of favored victim groups for whom justice will be sought, the cult of “victimhood” has even led to compulsory instruction on the mechanics of achieving social justice for the weak in society.</p>
<p>The new academic dialogue over the concept of social justice obviously has found a fitting locus with concern for the Palestinian cause, since the concept of social justice is particularly applicable on highly-politicized campuses when, as in the case of the Palestinians, the absence of a new Arab state is perceived to be the fault of Israel alone. Compassion for the dispossessed and the weak on the part of the Left has also seen the growth of a whole different set of ethical standards by which the actions of powerful nations—primarily Israel and the U.S—are judged as compared to weaker, developing, sometimes clearly inferior nations, based on their political and international behavior.</p>
<p>In their mission to protect the sensibilities and emotional well-being of identified campus victim groups, universities, often violating their own written guidelines and codes of behavior, have also instituted speech codes to prevent what is generally called “hate speech” now, but which has become a perverse tactic to marginalize, and exclude, the speech and ideology of those with whom liberals and Leftists do not agree, those individuals who express ideas that offend the sensibility of Ms. Korn, for example. Because they feel they have the moral high ground and a much more profound insight into social justice and the rights of the oppressed victim groups with whom they share an intellectual affinity, Leftists are fervent in their belief that they, therefore, have a right to unfettered speech to promulgate their own high-minded views; in fact, the speech of their ideological opponents, simply by virtue of the fact that it contradicts the moral principles that the Leftist holds dear, is regularly regarded as “hate speech” that can be ignored, punished, or, as happens with increasing regularity, shut down completely and excluded from the campus conversation.</p>
<p>That core sentiment has come to define the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and was on full display at UCLA during the divestment debate: it is the notion that the repeated defamation of Israel will result in its eventual expulsion from the supposed civilized community of nations. But the call for divestment is merely a tactic through which Israel will be marginalized, and eventually extirpated, as a pariah state with no moral justification for existing.</p>
<p>The acting out and vitriolic language against Israel that so often defines campus anti-Israelism may make the activists feel good about themselves for striving for social justice, but, as journalist Khaled Abu Toameh has contended, these are hollow efforts, that “[i]nstead of investing money and efforts in organizing Israel Apartheid Week, for example, the self-described ‘pro-Palestinians’ could dispatch a delegation of teachers to Palestinian villages and refugee camps to teach young Palestinians English. Or they could send another delegation to the Gaza Strip to monitor human rights violations by the Hamas authorities and help Palestinian women confront Muslim fundamentalists who are trying to limit their role to cooking, raising children and looking after the needs of their husbands.” What was Abu Toameh’s conclusion about this misdirected effort to support the Palestinian cause? “What is happening on the U.S. campuses,” he wrote, “is not about supporting the Palestinians as much as it is about promoting hatred for the Jewish state. It is not really about ending the ‘occupation’ as much as it is about ending the existence of Israel . . ,” and “we should not be surprised if the next generation of jihadists comes not from the Gaza Strip or the mountains and mosques of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but from university campuses across the U.S.”</p>
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<p>“The whole problem with the world,” observed philosopher Bertrand Russell, “is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” That these two undergraduates display a certainty that is so stringent and so contrary to intellectual inquiry should give us all pause, and might make us question if we are teaching a whole generation of college students <i>what</i> to think instead of <i>how</i> to think.</p>
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<p><strong><i>Richard L. Cravatts, PhD, is president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and the author of </i>Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel &amp; Jews.</strong></p>
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		<title>‘Academic Justice’: Inside the Abyss of the Academy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 05:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Kerwick]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sandra-korn-300x234.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-219820" alt="sandra-korn-300x234" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sandra-korn-300x234.jpg" width="300" height="234" /></a>Sandra Korn is a Harvard University undergraduate student and a writer for <em>The Harvard Crimson</em>.  In a recent edition of the school’s paper, she argues for abandoning the traditional value of “academic freedom” in favor of what she calls, “academic justice.”</span></p>
<p>Korn may still be but a student, but both the lines along which she thinks as well as the ease with which she articulates her thoughts reveals to all with eyes to see the character of the academic environment in which she’s been reared:  those whom she wishes to deprive of academic freedom are just those academics who refuse to endorse the leftist ideology of Korn and her professors.</p>
<p>Korn singles out as instances of teacher-scholars who should have been stripped of their academic freedom just and only those figures who are noted for their penchant for smashing the sacred cows of the left.</p>
<p>Richard J. Herrnstein is one such example.  Herrnstein is probably most distinguished for having co-authored, along with Charles Murray, the now famous, <em>The Bell Curve</em>. However, the thesis that IQ differences vary with race and that, to at least some extent, these differences are genetic, is one that he defended two decades earlier, back in 1971.  Because of this position of his, militant student activists disrupted Herrnstein’s classes and demanded that, along with sociologist Christopher Jencks (another thought criminal), he be fired.</p>
<p>Quoting Herrnstein, Korn relays that while claiming to have not been “bothered…personally” by the attacks against him, Herrnstein admitted that he was deeply troubled by the fact it was now “hazardous for a professor to teach certain kinds of views” at Harvard.  Korn replies that this was precisely the point of “the SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] activists—they wanted to make the ‘certain kinds of views’ they deemed racist and classist unwelcome on Harvard’s campus.”</p>
<p>Harvey Mansfield is another person upon whom Korn sets her sights.  She charges Mansfield with “publishing…sexist commentary under the authority of a Harvard faculty position” and avows that she “would happily organize with other feminists on campus to stop him” from continuing to do so.</p>
<p>Korn admits that while it could very well be the case that student activists are guilty of infringing upon the academic freedom of the Herrnsteins and Mansfields of the world, this “obsession with the doctrine of ‘academic freedom’ often seems to bump against something [that] I think [is] much more important: ‘academic justice.’”</p>
<p>The “obsession” with academic freedom Korn thinks is “misplaced,” for “no academic question is ever ‘free’ from [such] political realities” as “racism, sexism, and heterosexism.”  After all, since “our university community opposes” such things, “it should ensure that this research…promoting or justifying oppression…does not continue.”  This is in keeping with the demands of “academic justice.”</p>
<p>So too does the craving for “academic justice” account for the decision of the American Studies Association at Harvard to boycott “Israeli academic institutions until Israel ends its occupation of Palestine.”  The ASA, Korn explains, are interested, not in resorting to “the ‘freedom’ game” of “those on the right,” but in achieving “social justice.” Thus, they “take the moral upper hand.”</p>
<p>Korn concludes by reiterating the central thesis of her essay that our “obsessive reliance on the doctrine of academic freedom” prevents us from considering “more thoughtfully what is just.”</p>
<p>In a sane world, a world that hasn’t been subverted by decades of leftism, it would be viewed as nothing less than a scandal that any college student, let alone a student at one of the world’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning, would hold Korn’s views, to say nothing of publishing them. Traditionally, the university had been regarded as among the premiere civilizing institutions, the place where students were educated in just those intellectual and moral habits that would enable them to formulate, articulate, and defend their own convictions while treating those of their opponents with respect and even charity.</p>
<p>The academic world inhabited by the Korns of our world is a radically different kind of place.  Views with which one disagrees are not to be refuted, but condemned, and their proponents demonized.  The university exists not for the sake of acquiring and conveying truth and knowledge, but for the sake of “social justice”—i.e. a totalizing leftist ideology that is to be imposed, “by whichever means necessary,” upon both students and faculty alike.</p>
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		<title>Harvard Offers Hillary Clinton a Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Considering her background, you would think Yale would step up to the plate, but apparently they had enough of her and decided <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5022">it was Harvard&#8217;s turn to shell out</a> enormous wads of cash for the prestige of having a political celebrity occasionally show up on campus and talk about the lessons she learned during her failed term as Secretary of State and her mediocre time in the United States Senate.</p>
<blockquote><p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is considering a job offer from Harvard University, according to her spokesperson.</p>
<p>The school’s student publication, reported late last week that administrators had approached Clinton with several opportunities for &#8220;engaging the university.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Engaging the university? There was a time when words meant things. Now they are an Orwellian soup of Newspeak that means nothing.</p>
<p>Does Harvard want Hillary to run it into the ground as president, before she does the same thing to America? Does Harvard want her to bake cookies for the faculty lounge? Something in between? Does it want her to teach a course on International Relations that will consist entirely of readings from her ghostwritten book?</p>
<p>Only Harvard and Hillary know.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have extended an invitation to Secretary Clinton to consider engaging with the university and would of course welcome her interest in a range of roles,&#8221; Kennedy School spokesperson Doug Gavel wrote in an email to The Crimson.</p>
<p>Clinton is considering that offer, along with other offers from other schools around the nation including Baruch College and New York University, both based in New York City, according to Politico.</p></blockquote>
<p>Baruch College? Really?</p>
<p>NYU does have money to burn, but this is about power and prestige. And when Hillary goes for it in a few years, she wants to put Harvard on her resume. Harvard wants Hillary to have it on her resume.</p>
<blockquote><p>“A number of academic institutions have reached out with ideas,&#8221; said Clinton spokesman, Nick Merrill. &#8220;We’re following up with each to discuss them.”</p></blockquote>
<p>One option that Hillary should take under advisement is th<a href="http://www.uob.edu.ly/englishMain.aspx">e University of Benghazi, a fine academic institution</a> with its own law faculty. <a href="http://www.uob.edu.ly/enghishFaculities.aspx">Or as they spell it in Libya, &#8220;Low&#8221;</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>3)  Faculty of Low:<br />
1-                         Department  of  Islamic Law (Sharia).<br />
2-                         Department  of  Private and Economics Low.<br />
3-                         Department  of  Criminal Low.<br />
4-                         Department  of  International Low.</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently all law but Islamic law is &#8220;low&#8221;.</p>
<p>The University of Benghazi is a bit of a commute and it&#8217;s in a dangerous neighborhood, but as a great woman once said, &#8220;What difference does it make?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Oprah Gets a Degree From Harvard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/oprah-harvard.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191876" alt="Oprah Winfrey commencement speech at Harvard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/oprah-harvard.jpg" width="269" height="323" /></a>This week, Oprah Winfrey became just the latest celeb to grab an honorary degree from a prestigious university. Speaking at Harvard, Oprah lectured the graduates about immigration and gun control. She stated, “In our political system and the media, we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed, that is self-interested. And yet I know you know the truth. We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitating throughout Washington and the 24 hour cable news cycle.”</p>
<p>There’s a reason this rhetoric sounds familiar. It’s straight from Barack Obama’s playbook. But that’s what’s so astonishing about today’s politics: if you took the quote out of context, you wouldn’t know whether it came from the Queen of Daytime Television or the President of the United States.</p>
<p>And Oprah’s politics are the same as Obama’s, too. “The vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks,” she said, “because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce that violence that is robbing us of our children.” She then went on to immigration, where again President Obama’s teleprompter clearly spoke through her: “it’s possible to both enforce our laws and, at the same time, embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores.”</p>
<p>Finally, she ended with welfare. “People from both parties and no party,” she said, “believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over the heads and a strong public education. Because here in the richest nation on earth, we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.”</p>
<p>Why does Oprah sound so similar to President Obama? And is she cribbing from him, or vice versa?</p>
<p>In all likelihood, Obama’s America got its start in Oprah’s audience. Oprah described her mission on television this way to the Harvard audience: to show Americans “that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates [us].” That’s just the sort of bromidic nonsense that President Obama speaks, before pretending that a false consensus for liberalism exists. This phraseology means nothing. What unites Americans and al-Qaeda terrorists &#8212; our biology as <i>homo sapiens</i> &#8212; is larger than what divides us. But that doesn’t mean that there are philosophical battles worth fighting and values worth defending.</p>
<p>But Oprah’s entire mission in life is to enfeeble those values. Her entire show was geared for years toward driving sympathy for poor decision making. Emotion was the name of the game. A typical hour of Oprah often included a weepy sob story from someone – either deserving or undeserving – followed by a giveaway to her audience.</p>
<p>Oprah Winfrey, for all her charitable work, has pushed the feelings-first America that drives us to immediate band-aids for long-term problems. While American values bleed out, both Oprah and Obama tell us to take a nice, comfortable anesthetic without correcting the underlying problem.</p>
<p>She deserves her Harvard degree just as much as Barack Obama deserves his Harvard Law degree. After all, her master class in feelings has helped bring us the Harvard value system that now dominates the White House.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the endless torrent of anti-Israel propaganda influences even the most steadfast defenders of Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/jpost-nyc-2013-panel-1-15-thumb-470x313-3098.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188276" alt="jpost nyc 2013 panel 1-15-thumb-470x313-3098" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/jpost-nyc-2013-panel-1-15-thumb-470x313-3098-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>Originally </i><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Dershowitz-and-tragedy-311890"><i>published</i></a><i> in the Jerusalem Post. </i></p>
<p>There are two main reasons that many leftists who are viscerally supportive of Israel have difficulty understanding and defending the Jewish state today. First, the storyline about Israel is deeply distorted.</p>
<p>For instance, this week, Freedom House released its annual report on press freedom around the world. Israel&#8217;s ranking was reduced from &#8220;free&#8221; to &#8220;partly free.&#8221;</p>
<p>Freedom House gave three reasons for downgrading Israel&#8217;s status: the prosecution of <i>Haaretz</i> reporter Uri Blau for holding stolen top-secret documents; Channel 10&#8242;s difficulties getting its broadcast license renewed; and the success of the <i>Israel Hayom</i> newspaper. As Jonathan Tobin at <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/01/newseum-and-freedom-house-smear-israel-adelso/"><i>Commentary</i></a> noted Wednesday, all of these reasons are fraudulent.</p>
<p>Uri Blau received thousands of top secret documents from Anat Kamm, who stole them from the office of OC Central Command at the end of her military service. The documents were not mere intelligence analyses. They were operational plans, unit information and other highly sensitive information.</p>
<p>Blau lied to investigators who asked him about the documents. He fled to London for months rather than speak to investigators or return the documents.</p>
<p>Yet because Israel prosecuted Blau for these acts &#8211; which are felonies &#8211; Freedom House decided that Israel constrains press freedom.</p>
<p>Then there is Channel 10. Channel 10 is a poorly managed, unsuccessful company that has gone broke. It owes NIS 110 million which it cannot pay back, including NIS 60m. to the state.</p>
<p>Due to its nonpayment of its debt to the state, the Knesset was set to vote down the renewal of its broadcast license &#8211; again, in accordance with the law. To protect themselves from market forces &#8211; Channel 10&#8242;s failed management and staff used their bully pulpit to deflect attention away from their failure and incompetence. They accused the Knesset of trying to silence free speech. Channel 10&#8242;s allies in the media and the political Left joined their anti-government bandwagon. The Knesset folded.</p>
<p>Channel 10&#8242;s license was renewed. And its debt to taxpayers remains unpaid.</p>
<p>As for <i>Israel Hayom</i>, Freedom House alleged that the free paper&#8217;s success in gaining market shares at the expense of other tabloids is part of a nefarious plot by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his friend and <i>Israel Hayom</i> owner Sheldon Adelson to establish a quasi-state-controlled media. <i>Israel Hayom</i> is the first mass circulation Israeli newspaper not aligned with the political Left.</p>
<p>Freedom House&#8217;s allegations against Adelson and Netanyahu and its championing of bankrupt Channel 10 are based on two guiding notions. First, non-leftist entities &#8211; the Knesset, <i>Israel Hayom&#8217;s</i> editorial board &#8211; are inherently opposed to press freedom while the motives of leftist institutions like <i>Haaretz</i> and Channel 10 are as pure as the driven snow.</p>
<p>Second, they imply that media in Israel can only be free if not subjected to market forces or the rule of law.</p>
<p>Clearly both of these underlying assumptions are absurd. Yet they form the basis of Freedom House&#8217;s damaging allegations against the government.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the thing of it.</p>
<p>Over the past generation, we have been inundated by disinformation from an unlimited number of seemingly credible organizations whose aim is to discredit any development related to Israel that does not advance the positions of the Left. And due to the ubiquity of this disinformation, among wider and wider circles today the belief has taken hold that there is something fundamentally illegitimate about non-leftist Israelis and non-leftist supporters of Israel.</p>
<p>Since most Israelis are not leftist, and since the most outspoken supporters of Israel are not leftists, there is a widening belief &#8211; particularly among liberals &#8211; that Israelis, Israeli institutions and Israel&#8217;s supporters are illegitimate.</p>
<p>This brings us to the second reason that it has become so difficult for Americans &#8211; and particularly liberal American Jews &#8211; who viscerally support Israel, to defend or even understand the Jewish state today.</p>
<p>There is a Western tendency, most pronounced on the anti-colonialist Left, to ignore the nature of the Islamic world generally and the Palestinians in particular, and concentrate their attention on Israel alone.</p>
<p>Case in point is Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz.</p>
<p>Dershowitz is rightly considered one of Israel&#8217;s most outspoken defenders in the US. But like his fellow leftist ideologues, Dershowitz apparently does not think that it is important to focus on the nature of things in the Islamic world. Rather than notice current realities, he places his faith in his power to shape the future through his intellect and his willingness to compromise.</p>
<p>In an<a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york-news/getting-his-turn-cardozo-dershowitz-blasts-carter"> interview</a> with New York <i>Jewish Week</i> following his participation at Sunday&#8217;s <i>Jerusalem Post&#8217;s</i> conference in New York, Dershowitz said he was astonished by both my remarks on Iran and the audience&#8217;s response to my remarks.</p>
<p>He told the paper, &#8220;She said, &#8216;Bombs away,&#8217; and they gave her a standing ovation.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the things that distinguish the<i> Post&#8217;s </i>readers from most other news consumers is that our readers have educated themselves in the realities of Israel and the region and pay attention to those realities.</p>
<p>As a consequence, they are less affected by anti-Israel propaganda presented as human rights reports than the vast majority of news consumers in the US.</p>
<p>When I addressed the conference, I said I would limit my discussion of Iran to two words, &#8220;Bombs away.&#8221; I said that because like the <i>Post&#8217;s</i> readers, I base my analysis of Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program on the nature of the Iranian regime.</p>
<p>The Iranian regime is a totalitarian regime. It has an uninterrupted record of torturing and massacring its citizens. It has threatened to annihilate Israel. It is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.</p>
<p>Economic sanctions are only viable against regimes that care about serving their citizenry. A regime that represses its citizens is not going to be moved from its strategic course by international sanctions that embitter the lives of its citizens. Since the Iranian regime does not care about its citizens, it cannot be diverted from its plans to acquire nuclear weapons through economic sanctions, no matter how harsh.</p>
<p>As for reaching an agreement with the Iranian regime that would induce it to end its nuclear weapons program, this aspiration is similarly based on a denial of the nature of the regime. The first act of the regime was to reject the foundations of the international system. The Iranian takeover of the US Embassy in 1979 was not merely an act of war against America. It was a declaration of war against the international legal system. Since then, nothing the Iranian regime has done, including emerging as the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, has brought it closer to accepting the norms of behavior expected from a member of the family of nations. As a consequence, the notion that this regime would honor any nuclear agreement it may sign with the US or any other international party is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Since traditional forms of statecraft that do not involve the use of force are not viable options for statecraft involving Iran, the only viable option for preventing Iran &#8211; particularly at this late stage &#8211; from becoming a nuclear power is force. If Israel is serious when it says that a nuclear-armed Iran is an existential threat to the Jewish state then Israel must attack Iran&#8217;s nuclear installations.</p>
<p>Because the <i>Post&#8217;s</i> readers are informed about the nature of the Iranian regime, they appreciated the message I telegraphed in saying &#8220;Bombs away.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Dershowitz was astonished.</p>
<p><i>Jewish Week</i> asked Dershowitz about the <i>Jerusalem Post</i> conference because during a panel discussion he and I participated in about the Palestinian conflict with Israel, he angrily attacked the audience for laughing at his plan for renewing negotiations between Israel and the PLO and I angrily rebuked him for doing so.</p>
<p>Dershowitz told the audience that he had presented a plan to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that involved Israel abrogating Jewish property rights in select areas of Judea and Samaria through a so-called settlement freeze. In exchange, the Palestinians would agree to suspend their efforts to delegitimize and criminalize Israel at the UN and the International Criminal Court.</p>
<p>In other words, Dershowitz put forth a plan &#8211; which he said Abbas responded positively to &#8211; that would require Israel to take a step not required by the agreements it already negotiated with the PLO. And in exchange, the Palestinians would temporarily suspend actions they are taking in material breach of the agreements they signed with Israel.</p>
<p>By advocating this &#8220;bargain,&#8221; Dershowitz revealed that his conception of the Palestinians is based on willful blindness to their nature that equals his apparent blindness to the nature of the Iranian regime.</p>
<p>Last Saturday, Abbas <a href="http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=60796">gave a speech</a> in which he said that Israel&#8217;s commitment to the peace process will be measured by its willingness to release Palestinian terrorists from its jails. Last month, Abbas sent his representative to visit the families of jailed Palestinian mass murderers to express his solidarity with them and his admiration for their sons&#8217; crimes.</p>
<p>As Aaron Lerner from IMRA pointed out earlier this week, by insisting that all Palestinian terrorists be freed from Israeli prisons, Abbas is saying that there is nothing criminal or wrong about murdering or attempting to murder Israelis. This position alone discredits him as a peace partner.</p>
<p>Abbas&#8217;s steadfast refusal to recognize Israel&#8217;s right to exist, and his unceasing political warfare against Israel &#8211; in breach of signed agreements between Israel and the PLO &#8211; are just further proof that he is not a credible partner for peace.</p>
<p>Then there is the nature of the Palestinian people themselves. Unlike the Iranians, who desperately wish to overthrow their regime, according the results of a new <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/infographic-palestinian-islamic.html">Pew survey </a>of the Arab world, Palestinians want more tyranny.</p>
<p>To the extent they oppose their regime, they do so because it is too open. Among other things, 87 percent of Palestinians say a wife must always obey her husband; 89% want to be ruled by Islamic law, and 62% support the death penalty for leaving Islam.</p>
<p>More Palestinians support terrorism against civilians than do citizens in any other Muslim society polled.</p>
<p><i>Post </i>readers are apparently as familiar with the nature of Palestinians society as they are with the nature of the Iranian regime. And this is why they laughed at Dershowitz&#8217;s plan for restarting negotiations.</p>
<p>Angered at the audience&#8217;s response, Dershowitz lashed out against it. He said the thousand people in the hall were irrelevant, that no one listens to them, and that it is good that no one listens to them.</p>
<p>Dershowitz is rightly respected by Zionists across the political spectrum for his willingness to defend Israel against its detractors. And this makes his contemptuous treatment of an audience of its supporters at the conference more tragic than infuriating.</p>
<p>It is the tragedy of our times that basically decent liberals like Dershowitz dismiss as marginal those who base their assessments of Israel and the Middle East on reality, rather than on policy paradigms that are the stuff of negotiations textbooks at Harvard.</p>
<p>It is the tragedy of our times because the people he holds in greatest contempt are the people who have been right about Israel, and about Iran and the Palestinians, time after time after time.</p>
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		<title>In De-Niall about Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard historian takes heat for Newsweek cover story.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/james-fallows.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143133" title="james-fallows" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/james-fallows.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a>“Hit the Road, Barack: Why We Need a New President” proclaimed the cover of the August 27 print edition of <em>Newsweek</em>, bearing a photo of the president, jacket slung over his shoulder. Inside, Harvard professor Niall Ferguson <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/19/niall-ferguson-on-why-barack-obama-needs-to-go.html">made his case against Obama</a>, provoking a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/26/responses-to-niall-ferguson-s-newsweek-cover-story-on-obama.html">response both furious and revealing</a>.</p>
<p>Consider the case of James Fallows, longtime national correspondent for the <em>Atlantic</em> and author, most recently, of <em>China Airborne</em>. In the September 3 print edition of <em>Newsweek</em>, Fallows responded to Ferguson in this manner:</p>
<blockquote><p>A tenured professor of history at my undergraduate alma mater has written a cover story for Daily Beast/<em>Newsweek </em>that is so careless and unconvincing that I wonder how he will presume to sit in judgment of the next set of student papers he has to grade. I have no complaint with anyone making a strong case against Obama, or in his favor. That’s what an election year is for. My point concerns the broadside pamphleteering nature of his argument, which is no worse than what we expect on cable-news talk shows but also no better. And it comes from someone trading heavily on the prestige that goes with being a tenured professor at the world’s leading university.</p></blockquote>
<p>This was not the longest response but certainly the nastiest, especially the charge that Ferguson is “trading heavily” on the prestige of his Harvard post. Ferguson’s article contains no reference to Harvard but Fallows’ response begins with a reference to “my undergraduate alma mater.” That is a signal to readers that he is not only a Harvard man himself but graduated to higher studies elsewhere, and is therefore someone to be heeded.</p>
<p>“Broadside pamphleteering” is a strange description of Ferguson’s 3,248-word article, packed with facts, analyses and historical references. Fallows found it all “so careless and unconvincing” but tackled none of Ferguson’s arguments. Ferguson begins with Obama’s promise of “growth” and it is on the economy, he says, where President Obama’s failure is greatest, despite a “dream team” of economists including former Fed boss Paul Volcker.</p>
<p>In “Obama’s America,” wrote Ferguson, “nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return.” And this comes “despite a far bigger hike in the federal debt than we were promised.”</p>
<p>Ferguson calls Obamacare “Pelosicare,” since it was Nancy Pelosi “who really forced the bill through Congress.” Pelosicare was “another fiscal snafu” with net costs of the insurance-coverage provisions close to $1.2 trillion over the 2012–22 period” according to the CBO.</p>
<p>On foreign policy, Obama “completely missed the revolutionary wave of Middle Eastern democracy.” He could lend support to youthful revolutionaries in a direction advantageous to American interests “or he could do nothing and let the forces of reaction prevail.” In Iran, “he did nothing, and the thugs of the Islamic Republic ruthlessly crushed the demonstrations. Ditto Syria. In Libya he was cajoled into intervening. In Egypt he tried to have it both ways, exhorting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave, then drawing back and recommending an ‘orderly transition.’ The result was a foreign-policy debacle.”</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Dances with Lies&#8217; Takes Center Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats double down on their support for Elizabeth Warren while she refuses to meet with real Native Americans. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/06dnc0904-pg-horizontal.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142946" title="06dnc0904-pg-horizontal" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/06dnc0904-pg-horizontal.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>Elizabeth Warren’s introductory <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/transcript-elizabeth-warrens-democratic-convention-speech/story?id=17164726&amp;page=3">speech</a> at the Democratic National Convention came with a predictable broadside aimed at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as a tool of big corporations who wants to “pulverize financial reform, voucher-ize Medicare, and vaporize Obamacare.”</p>
<p>In contrast to the wicked Romney agenda, Warren regaled the assembled Democratic delegates with the comforting notion that President Obama would defend their interests against those evil forces, since Obama “believes in a country where everyone is held accountable.”</p>
<p>Yet, while Warren was extolling the virtues of accountability, her own lack of accountability was glaringly on display in the days leading up to her speech &#8212; namely with her refusal to meet with Native Americans over her fraudulent claims of American Indian heritage.</p>
<p>Warren’s attendance at the sit-down had been <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20220904tribal_activist_shame_on_her_indian_delegates_seek_sit-down_with_liz/srvc=home&amp;position=0">requested</a> by a contingent of Native Americans attending the DNC, all of whom were hoping to receive an explanation as to why Warren had long misrepresented herself as an American Indian minority.</p>
<p>Warren has been able to parlay her now debunked claim of Cherokee heritage into a distinguished academic law career, current position as a Massachusetts Democratic senatorial candidate, and rising stardom in the Democratic Party. For real Native Americans, however, like those convention attendees in Charlotte, Warren’s bogus claim to Cherokee lineage is a slap in the face to those without her wealth, power and privilege.</p>
<p>According to Frank LeMere, of the Nebraska Winnebago Tribe, Warren “shouldn’t represent that she is Native American. Our issues are too important,” adding he would “absolutely not” back a candidate who lied about being American Indian. Harlyn Geronimo, the great-grandson of the legendary Apache warrior, echoed that view when he <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20220904tribal_activist_shame_on_her_indian_delegates_seek_sit-down_with_liz/srvc=home&amp;position=0">said</a>, “I wouldn’t vote for anybody that is being dishonest, and unfair to our people.”</p>
<p>Others, like Sharon Stewart-Peregoy, a Montana state senator and member of the Crow Nation, said, “If you’re [Warren] going to claim that you are American Indian and a descendant of some Native nation then you have to represent…That’s what it’s all about.”</p>
<p>But Warren, who was happy to fraudulently exploit American Indian heritage throughout her career, had no intention of <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/video-unaccountable-elizabeth-warren-and-the-cherokee/">representing</a> herself before the Native American caucus in Charlotte as a legitimate member, saying in apparent frustration over allegations, “I’ve answered those questions, what I’m here to talk about [is] what’s happening to America’s working class families.”</p>
<p>Warren’s exasperation stems from her disingenuous, insincere and at times, highly comical attempts to quell the controversy of her heritage, which first erupted in May when it was discovered that she had long been using unsubstantiated claims of Cherokee lineage to enhance her career prospects.</p>
<p>Those efforts first began in 1986 when Warren, in an effort to appeal to recruiters, started <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Elizabeth-Warren-Dodges-Meeting-With-Native-American-Delegates-at-the-DNC">listing</a> herself as Native American, actions which led to her name being placed in the faculty directory of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) under “Minority Law Teachers.”</p>
<p>From there, Warren then reported herself as Native American on job applications for positions she garnered at both the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, lies which both institutions claim played no role in their hiring of Warren.</p>
<p>Despite those claims, both institutions, which were then under fire for a lack of diversity among its faculty members, were certainly vocal in promoting Warren as a Native American hire, with Harvard Law School proclaiming her to be its first Native American hire.</p>
<p>Warren, however, has <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20220429indian_lorewill_play_okin_her_tribe">said</a> until recently she knew nothing about Harvard Law boasting about her alleged Indian heritage, a case of amnesia which may be catching as Harvard Law School, which lists one Native American faculty member, has <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1061129154&amp;srvc=rss">refused</a> to say whether that person refers to Elizabeth Warren.</p>
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		<title>Oppressed by a Pronoun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What elite universities are teaching our youth. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Ask-About-my-Pronoun-Preference1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136890" title="Ask-About-my-Pronoun-Preference" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Ask-About-my-Pronoun-Preference1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="286" /></a>The other day I was sitting here writing and had the Howard Stern Show on in the background.  (I sometimes find it easier to write with background noise.)  Since Howard was on vacation, they were rerunning excerpts from old programs, including one on which he interviewed a prostitute.  She told him about a client of hers who paid her a couple of hundred dollars to give him a good, swift, violent kick in the <em>cojones.  </em>At<em> </em>first<em> </em>she hesitated, not wanting to hurt him, but then, apparently drawing on her high sense of professional honor and duty, she went ahead and did what he asked, whereupon he doubled over in such excruciating pain that he was barely able to stagger out of the room.  As she watched him depart, she was overcome with feelings of guilt for having caused him such agony.  Two days later he came back with another two hundred bucks and asked her to do it again.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t until several hours later that I realized this wasn&#8217;t a bad metaphor for the current relationship between what are supposed to be some of America&#8217;s – indeed, some of the world&#8217;s – very best universities and liberal-arts colleges and the people who send their kids there.  What do I mean?  This: every year, all over the U.S., countless parents cough up not two hundred but more like two hundred thousand dollars so that their pride and joy, their newly minted high-school grad, can go to Harvard or Yale or wherever.  So they pack him – let&#8217;s make it a him – off to old Ivy, and next thing you know he&#8217;s being roundly scolded at orientation for harboring vile prejudices of which he has, until now, been totally unaware.  But don&#8217;t worry, he&#8217;s told: those prejudices aren&#8217;t really his fault – they&#8217;re the natural product of a bourgeois upbringing in capitalist, imperialist America, that fount of all worldly evil and the international headquarters of racism, sexism, and classism.  It is, furthermore, made clear to the kid that he&#8217;s come to the right place: for the next four years, he&#8217;ll undergo a thorough re-education that will liberate him from the misbegotten notions on which he was raised and will set him on a journey down the one and only path to truth.</p>
<p>Four years later, having been marinated all the while in postmodernist twaddle and lockstep groupthink – from queer theory to radical feminism – the kid will be handed a diploma and sent home, where his parents, if they haven&#8217;t already figured out what&#8217;s been happening to their little darling on campus, will get an earful of some of the stuff he&#8217;s been “learning” and will realize that he&#8217;s learned to despise pretty much everything they stand for.  He&#8217;s been taught to hate his country, to hate its history (of which he&#8217;s been given a thoroughly twisted version courtesy of Howard Zinn &amp; co.), and to view its economic system (thanks to a gaggle of post-Marxist profs) as the root cause of all the planet&#8217;s ills.  In short, they&#8217;ve paid good money – a lot of it – for their precious angel to be brainwashed into viewing them as class enemies.  Or, to return to our original metaphor, in exchange for all those staggering checks they&#8217;ve been mailing off to the college all these years, they&#8217;ve been given the equivalent of a powerful kick in the privates.</p>
<p>And so what do these parents – who, in our hypothetical scenario, have other, younger kids – do?  Do they reevaluate their choices?  Do they admit to having learned an expensive lesson and change direction?  No – they go ahead and send kid #2 to exactly the same place to be brainwashed in exactly the same way.  And, in the fullness of time, they do the same thing with whatever other kids they have.  In short, it&#8217;s just like that guy paying the hooker to slam her heel into his groin over and over again – the only differences being (1) the sums of money involved, and (2) the fact that at least the hooker, unlike the college, felt bad about taking money for doing such a horrible thing to a paying customer.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve spent much of the past couple of years working on a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Victims-Revolution-Identity-Studies/dp/0061807370/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0">book</a> about some of these matters, so the ways in which higher education has devolved over the last generation or so are very often on my mind nowadays.  But the immediate reason why I found my thoughts wandering down these byways the other day was an <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304934/its-barnum-bailey-world-mark-steyn">item</a> by Mark Steyn in which he <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/7/3/vanidy-bailey-bgltq-office/">quoted</a>, first, a <em>Harvard Crimson </em>report that that institution had appointed someone named Vanidy “Van” Bailey “as the College’s first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life,” and, second, a follow-up “correction” in which the <em>Crimson </em>noted that “[a]n earlier version of this article used the pronoun &#8216;she&#8217; to refer to Vanidy &#8216;Van&#8217; Bailey&#8230;.In fact, Bailey prefers not to be referred to by any gendered pronoun.”</p>
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		<title>The Gospel According to Elizabeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Flynn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Warrenite sect believes in St. Elizabeth of Harvard Yard.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/gty_elizabeth_warren_ll_120511_wblog.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-132933" title="gty_elizabeth_warren_ll_120511_wblog" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/gty_elizabeth_warren_ll_120511_wblog.gif" alt="" width="375" height="248" /></a>When is a lie not a lie? When it is told by a liberal icon.</p>
<p>This is the message of supporters of the beleaguered Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate hopeful whose baseless claims of Native American heritage have hurt her political career almost as much as it helped her academic career.</p>
<p>“Warren’s claim to be ‘part Indian’ is correct in mythical terms,” Bernie Quigley rationalizes at <em>The Hill</em>. “Every old-school white Oklahoman is in this regard even if this [is] nominally not true. But it is not a lie to want to be Indian and to imagine your ancestors were. It is to be free of Europeanism.” The Fourth Estate fanboy writes that Warren “brings a fresh, classical Americanism from the heartland back to us in Boston,” which he adds is “lucky” to have her.  “She adds stock and substance.”</p>
<p>The Harvard Law professor may add substance. But her devotees’ contorted embrace of the embarrassing ancestry yarn seems as readily explained by substances as any substance behind it. With proffered evidence of the Cherokee background of Warren’s great-great-great grandmother coming from the 21st century rather than the 19th, the already flimsy basis for the professor claiming minority status in an affirmative-action-obsessed academia now appears so obviously a careerist’s exploitation of identity politics. Just don’t tell that to the Warrenites, whose devotion to St. Elizabeth doesn’t allow for any inference of deception on her part.</p>
<p>When <em>The American Prospect</em>’s Robert Kuttner dubbed Warren a “progressive super-hero” last year, he may have knocked a progressive deity down a notch.Her fanatical acolytes have routinely put the cart before the horse, all but confirming Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before President Obama had announced a nominee and launching several 2016 “Warren for President” sites before a vote had been cast in her senate race in Massachusetts. The <em>New Republic</em>’s Tiffany Stanley took notice in an article subtitled “Inside the cult of Elizabeth Warren.” She noted that “Warren commands a legion of loyalists apparently willing to rush, at a moment’s notice, to her defense,” an observation confirmed by Stanley’s subsequent experience of an inbox full of hate mail.</p>
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		<title>Harvardstan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prestigious university shapes the course of America's future -- but where is it leading us? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-126354" title="harvard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard.gif" alt="" width="375" height="243" /></a>Harvard has long been perceived as America’s premier university, the gold standard in the quest for truth in the market-place of ideas, where scholars of high academic integrity pursue cutting-edge research and assist eager students to develop the analytical skills and critical acumen needed for future leadership.</p>
<p>But that perception bears closer scrutiny, especially since Harvard graduates become a disproportionate percentage of our country&#8217;s leaders.  Based on a <a href="http://labs.slate.com/articles/where-do-leaders-come-from/">Slate survey</a> of 1,410 prominent Americans, Harvard grads make up 17% of college and university presidents, 12% of people in the executive branch of our federal government, 11% of our judiciary, 10% of our Senate, and 9% of our business leaders.  Harvard grads shape the course of America’s future.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, such scrutiny reveals rather unpleasant realities.  The present writer’s three previous analyses<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[1]</a> of Harvard’s <a href="http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/">Center for Middle Eastern Studies</a>, its <a href="http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/outreach">Middle East outreach center</a> and its <a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/">John F. Kennedy School of Government</a> document a decade-long drift from academic integrity to the institutionalization of anti-Israel counter-factual and often deeply mendacious pro-Muslim indoctrination, characterized by egregious distortions of history and risible lies about Israel and Jews.  But perhaps most astonishing is the <a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/index.html">Harvard Law School’s</a> promotion of Sharia law as a system of jurisprudence that can, and according to some faculty should,<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn2">[2]</a>  operate alongside of our secular legal system.</p>
<p>The problems and perils of such an endeavor have been discussed in detail.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn3">[3]</a> To summarize briefly: Shariah is based upon a Muslim religious ideology that embraces the suppression of women (gender apartheid), the oppression of other religions (religious apartheid), cruel and unusual punishment, the denial of basic western freedoms (speech, thought, conscience, religion, and choice of life partner), and the maintenance of an eternal religious war against non-Muslims until Islam is the only, or at least the supreme, religion on earth.  As such, Sharia is incompatible with the social and political values of Western civilization, and radically contrary to its jurisprudence.</p>
<p>None the less, Justice Elena Kagan, then Dean of Harvard Law School, successfully promoted Sharia finance there.  Today Harvard boasts three separate programs, all funded by Saudi largesse, devoted to the study and application of Sharia law.  Professor Kagan is now a Supreme Court justice<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=13630577fb55a8db&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn4">[4]</a>.</p>
<p>Still left un-explored is the motivation for Harvard’s unconscionable compromises of its commitment to “veritas.&#8221;  As the old adage has it: when things don’t make sense, look for the money.</p>
<p>In 2000, the Sheikh Zayed Foundation offered Harvard $2.5 million to create an endowed professorship in Islamic studies at the Harvard Divinity School.</p>
<p>Due to the noxious anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-American nature of the Zayed foundation’s speakers, events, and the extremist causes that it supports, there arose much objection to the gift and to the Divinity School’s creating such a program with Zayed money:  but no Harvard administrator or professor publicly criticized the gift. The endowed professorship was withdrawn only because one courageous student, <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/harvard-never-learns/2012/03/07/">Rachel Lea Fish, mobilized public support</a> against it with an article in the <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/5/23/losing-veritas-i-recently-learned-that/">Harvard Crimson</a>.</p>
<p>Ms. Fish alerted the presumably snoozing Harvard community that sheikh Zayed is responsible for his nation’s abysmal human rights record (including, corporal punishment of dissidents, amputations for theft, lack of democracy, and child slave labor in the camel racing industry).  She also drew attention to the travesty of an American institution lending credibility to the Zayed Centre, which sponsors events and publications that spew such obscenities as “<a href="http://www.adl.org/anti_semitism/arab/saudi_blood_l.asp">The Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare for holiday pastries</a>,” and “<a href="http://larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2002/020602_zayed_speech.html">The United States was involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001,</a>” and “<a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/867.htm">the truth is that the Jews are the enemies of all nations</a>.&#8221;  Zayed Centre speakers have also expressed support and encouragement for suicide bombings and other terrorism against Israel, and denied the Holocaust.</p>
<p>When her letter in the Crimson drew no response, she <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/zayedno/petition.html">circulated a petition</a> on line which quickly garnered c. 10,000 signatures. Students’ outrage and petition failed to move Harvard administrators, but so <a href="http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/232/metro/Arab_nation_seen_halting_center_aidP.shtml">deeply embarrassed the Zayed foundation leaders</a> that they decided to rescind the offer.</p>
<p>Then in 2005, during Larry Summers’ presidency, <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/12/13/islamic-studies-gets-20m-gift-the/">Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal donated $20,000,000</a> to Harvard to establish the Prince al-Waleed bin Talal Islamic Studies program. Officially bin Talal gave the gift with <a href="http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=35721">no strings attached</a>; but some observers worried about indirect influence, especially regarding how Islam and Arab history are taught in U.S. schools.</p>
<p>Their worries may have been well founded.</p>
<p>On September 10, 2006, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, employer of Stephen Walt of Walt-Mearsheimer infamy, marked the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by hosting Mohammed Khatami, a former president of Iran<a href="http://www.nysun.com/editorials/khatemi-at-harvard/38903/">.  His topic: &#8220;Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>His hosts at the Kennedy School surely knew that Khatami presided over the July 9, 1999, crackdown on Tehran University, where hundreds of students were arrested and tortured.   Shortly before his invitation to Harvard, he described <a href="http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/guest/06/policz/veritas.html">Hezbollah as “<em>a shining sun</em></a><em> which warms up all oppressed Muslims, especially those in Palestine and Lebanon.&#8221;</em>  His predecessor, the Ayatollah Ruhola Khoumeini, founded Hezbollah in 1983, and Khatami continued to fund and support it.  They must have known as well that his country is run in accordance with Sharia law, women’s rights have been curtailed, homosexuals are hanged, and other human rights violations abound.</p>
<p>Then in 2008 <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-islamic-republic-harvard">Harvard banned men</a> from its three major gyms for six hours every week so that modest Muslim women could use these facilities without male scrutiny.  Critics, including Muslim students, condemned this decision as <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/03/sharia-at-harvard/219230/">capitulation to radical Islam</a>.</p>
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		<title>What Happened to Harvard&#8217;s &#8216;Veritas&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did Saudi funding for the university have anything to do with its decision to host an anti-Israel hate-fest? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HARVARD.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125924" title="HARVARD" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HARVARD.gif" alt="" width="375" height="260" /></a>The official seal of Harvard University bears the four Latin words “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” (&#8220;the truth of Christ and the church&#8221;). Today, most reproductions of Harvard’s seal omit the last three words.  But it seems that all too many of Harvard’s faculty and governance have decided to ignore the first one as well.</p>
<p>The present writer’s assessment of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/12/new-front-in-israel-campus-wars/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=df02c9dba9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">Harvard’s hosting extreme anti-Israel hate-fest</a> events, and of its <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/15/academic-integrity-dying-on-harvard's-ivy-league-vine/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=29676318ba-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">programs that provide almost exclusively anti-Israel</a> and pro-Palestinian propaganda of a deeply misleading and often mendacious nature masquerading as educational outreach for high school and college students, demonstrated Harvard’s official institutionalization and legitimization of Islamic anti-Israel, anti-Jewish and anti-American ideologies, and its promotion of these ideologies to its students and others.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most egregious example of this figurative erasure of “veritas” from Harvard’s vision of its august educational mission is <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/dickmorrisandeileenmcgann/2010/07/21/kagan_promoted_shariah_law_at_harvard">Justice Elena Kagan’s energetic efforts to promote the advancement of Islamic Sharia law</a> in the form of Sharia finance studies during her tenure as Dean of the Harvard Law School.</p>
<p>But to understand the dangerous, perhaps even treasonous, nature of Kagan’s actions, one must first review why Sharia finance and Sharia law are problematic for any Western institution.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2010/07/19/elena-kagan-will-she-tolerate-shariah-she-did-at-harvard/">Sharia finance includes the Islamic legal requirement</a> that 2.5% of the principal of any investment be donated annually to charitable institutions, that recipients of their investment are fined 7% for transgressions of Shariah law (and the 7%  is donated to charity), and that the principal be invested only in projects compliant with the rules of Shariah.</p>
<p>The decisions as to which projects are compliant, which recipients have transgressed, and which charities receive the fines and the 2.5% contributions, are made by Shariah Compliance Boards appointed by the financial institution.  Such Boards may include radical Muslim extremists who routinely designate terrorist-linked entities to receive their charitable donations.  So Sharia finance regulations have the potential to <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/muslims-harvard-shill-for-islam-celebrate-sharia-law-its-desirable-chilling-effect-in-us/">create a new and lucrative channel for funding terrorism</a> against Israel, against the USA, and against any country targeted by Muslim terrorists.</p>
<p>But there is another and even more threatening aspect of Sharia finance.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=136177718ee1b909&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[1]</a> Shariah (lit. a path, a way) law is the product of Muslim jurists who use the Qur’an, the extra-Qur’anic accounts of Mohammed’s teachings, analogical reasoning, and consensus to create Muslim law.  Unfortunately, this 1,400 year-old process has created a body of jurisprudence that is fundamentally opposed to the concepts of human equality and personal freedom that are the foundations of Western civilization.</p>
<p>Requirements of Shariah law that are most antithetical to Western society include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Condoning the murder, preferably by stoning, of women for sexual transgressions or even for the accusation of sexual transgressions;</li>
<li>Condoning forced marriages and marriage of under-aged girls;</li>
<li>Condoning wife beating and marital rape;</li>
<li>Establishing women’s legal status in courts to be literally half of a man’s (it takes two female witnesses to counter one male witness in court);</li>
<li>Requiring that female heirs receive only half of what males receive;</li>
<li>Requiring women to <a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/ask-about-islam/faith-and-worship/aspects-of-worship/166970.html">cover all of their body</a> except <a href="http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&amp;ID=4912&amp;CATE=137">hands and face</a>;</li>
<li>Encouraging polygamy;</li>
<li>Prohibiting Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men;</li>
<li>Prohibiting homosexuality, with punishment of flogging or execution;</li>
<li>Prohibiting alcoholic beverages, gambling, music, much Western art;</li>
<li>Use of <em>lex talionis</em> (literally an eye for eye, tooth for tooth) as legal punishment;</li>
<li>Amputation, flogging, crucifixion, stoning and decapitation for a variety of crimes, many of which would be considered non-capital offenses or even torts by Western standards;</li>
<li>Death for insulting or criticizing Islam, Muslims, Mohammed, the Qur’an, Sharia, or Allah;</li>
<li>Requiring execution or assassination of <a href="http://www.cfr.org/malaysia/religious-conversion-sharia-law/p13552#p3">Muslims who convert out of Islam</a>;</li>
<li>Creating the <em>dhimm</em>i status for non-Muslims: a sub-class non-citizen denied civil and human rights;</li>
<li>Establishing the worth of a non-Muslim’s life as less than a Muslim’s;</li>
<li>Prohibiting the execution of a Muslim for the murder of a non-Muslim;</li>
<li>Requiring eternal jihad and exhorting Muslim leaders to abrogate treaties with non-Muslim countries if doing so will advance Jihad;</li>
</ul>
<p>So Shariah is based upon a religious ideology that embraces the suppression of women, gender apartheid, religious apartheid, cruel and unusual punishment, the denial of basic Western freedoms of speech, thought, conscience, religion, and choice of life partner, and the maintenance of an eternal supremacist religious war against non-Muslims until Islam is the only, or at least the supreme, religion in the world.</p>
<p>Add to that the Global Sharia Movement,<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=136177718ee1b909&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn2">[2]</a> with its own <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalSharia">YouTube channel </a>and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Sharia-Movement/131766086898930">Facebook pages</a>, whose goal is the <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5565.htm">total islamization of the world</a>, implementation of Shariah and abolition of democracy.  Unreal as this may sound, nearly 300 people attended a 2009 <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson072109.php3?printer_friendly">conference in Boston</a> to participate in the <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson071409.php3">Khalifah Conference on “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam”</a> organized by <a href="http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/index.php/EN/">Hizb ut-Tahrir</a> (HT), whose alumni include 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the late Iraqi terrorist leader Abu Musab az-Zarqawi and some would-be Hamas <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/354.pdf#page=5">suicide bombers</a>.  HT <a href="http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=65264&amp;start=0&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;highlight">declared a new Caliphate</a>, with its capital in Gaza City, in 2006; and it now seeks to establish that Caliphate and Shariah over the entire world.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-14.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125634" title="Picture-14" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-14.gif" alt="" width="375" height="240" /></a>On this past March 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup>, Harvard University hosted the now infamous “One-State Solution” conference, recently <a href="../2012/03/12/new-front-in-israel-campus-wars/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=df02c9dba9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag">analyzed and critiqued by the present writer</a>.  The character and content of the conference, described as an anti-Israel hate fest by Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, generated considerable controversy, to which the Harvard <a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/message">Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood responded</a> with a limp and lackadaisical cookie-cutter disclaimer:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Let me emphasize that Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School in no way endorse or support the apparent position of the student organizers or any participants. We would never take a position on specific policy solutions to achieving peace in this region, and certainly would not endorse any policy that some argue could lead to the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But wait! “…not endorse any policy that some argue could lead to the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel?”  How can Dean Ellwood make such a statement?  Is he not aware of <a href="http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/outreach">Harvard’s Middle East Outreach Center</a>?</p>
<p>The center’s stated mission is to promote “a critical understanding of the diversity of the Middle East region;” but its activities and its director display a <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=257997">dogmatic adherence to the polemical, often counter-factual Palestinian version</a> of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Its director, Paul Beran, is an activist in the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement; and its reading list favors anti-Zionist writings of such polemicists as Edward Said and Ilan Pappe. It promotes the anti-Israel propaganda film “Occupation 101,” which features the one-sided and often mendacious rants of well known anti-Israel personalities such as Dr. Noam Chomsky and Richard Falk.  Moreover, <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">Center speakers on the Arab‑Israeli conflict have been accused of focusing singularly on a Palestinian perspective</a> while dismissing or ignoring the Israeli position.</p>
<p>Beran promotes the BDS movement when he lectures, and has forged bonds   between his outreach center and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an activist group <a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/top_ten_anti_israel_groups.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_2">designated by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as one of the ten most anti-Israel organizations</a> in the USA.</p>
<p>He has promoted the anti-Semitic lie of Jewish or Israeli control of the American Government, urged Harvard to consider former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz a war criminal, and when <a href="http://www.clarendonhillchurch.org/podcasts/our_image_001.html">speaking to a Presbyterian audience compared Israel’s sovereignty over the West Bank to the Roman occupation</a> of Judea at the turn of the millennium, asking his Christian audience: “How would Joseph and Mary get to Bethlehem with the now 25-foot high Separation Wall in their way?”</p>
<p>The Center’s activities<a title="" href="#_edn1">[i]</a> include educational outreach to local Boston high schools, and one of the texts used by the Center in high school outreach programs is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arab-World-Studies-Notebook/dp/1889993034">The Arab World Studies Notebook</a>, a seriously outdated text (last revised in 1998) which according to numerous studies<a title="" href="#_edn2">[ii]</a> is replete with factual errors and misrepresentations about Middle East history.  It  &#8220;….frequently steps over the line from teaching about (the Muslim) religion to….proselytizing for it,&#8221; and it uses <a href="http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&amp;b=849241&amp;ct=873537">polemical, one-sided language and even outright lies</a> (such as falsely accusing Israeli soldiers of murdering Arab women and children in cold blood) to condemn Israel and depict it as a genocidal aggressor state, in order to generate anti-Israel sentiment in its high school audiences.</p>
<p><a href="http://web.williams.edu/go/native/arabtextbook.htm">When challenged about the book’s egregious claim</a> that indigenous North American Algonquins were converted to Islam by Muslim trans-oceanic voyagers to the New World five centuries before Columbus, the authors offered no defense or rebuttal.  They quietly removed the passages from the textbook.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/221607/saudi-classroom/stanley-kurtz">Massachusetts education officials were shocked by the Center’s program</a> and by its textbook, and denounced it as an attempt to foist a &#8220;manipulative&#8221; and &#8220;distorted&#8221; political agenda on unsuspecting teachers.</p>
<p>And “manipulative and distorted” don’t even begin to describe the Center’s programs on the Israel-Arab conflict.  Director Beran’s <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">anti-Israel animus is well documented</a>, <a href="http://www.nysun.com/editorials/belfer-declaration/29648/">as is his wife’s</a>, Hilary Rantisi, a Palestinian-American who serves as director of the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.  She has been <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">active with the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center</a>, a Palestinian Christian Arab group operating in the West Bank that preaches the demonization of Israel to Christian audiences world-wide and compares Israel’s defensive actions against Arab terrorism to Nazi Germany’s oppression and slaughter of Jews.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard-kennedy-school.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125045" title="harvard-kennedy-school" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harvard-kennedy-school.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>Harvard University has been excoriated for allowing a student-organized conference, the <a href="http://onestateconference.org/about_us.html">“One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the one-State solution,”</a> to take place on its campus (March 2 &amp; 3, 2012), financed in part by university resources (Harvard&#8217;s Provost and the Weatherhead Institute), located at the prestigious Kennedy School Forum, posted on the Harvard Kennedy School of Government website, and advertised as a Harvard Kennedy School Student Conference.  The Kennedy School website includes a disclaimer: “The One-State Conference is run solely by the student organizers, and students alone are responsible for all aspects of the program, including content and speakers, as with all student-run events.  It does not represent the views of the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, or any Harvard school or center.”  But it still had all the trappings of a Harvard event.</p>
<p>The organizers promised a conference that would explore “the possible contours of a one-state solution and the challenges that stand in the way of its realization.”    But a variety of critics defined the conference as an anti-Israel hate-fest on the basis of its <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/06/3092023/one-state-conference-at-harvard-signifies-possible-new-front-in-campus-israel-wars">presenters</a>, its sponsors (including notoriously anti-Israel groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Justice for Palestine, the Palestine Caucus, the Arab Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, and the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East), and <a href="http://www.onestateconference.org/speakers.html">its content</a>.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, <a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/withdraw-financial-support-of-and-affiliation-with-one-state-conference">controversy erupted</a> well in advance of the conference itself. Alan Dershowitz, a tenured professor at Harvard Law School<a href="http://israelcampusbeat.org/home/news/12-03-02/Dershowitz_We_Are_Winning.aspx">, condemned the conference as a genuine hate-fest</a> because &#8220;virtually all of the speakers oppose Israel’s existence.” He <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/should-harvard-sponsor-a-_b_1304798.html">described the call for a single-state solution</a> as “a euphemism for ending the existence of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people…. The “one-state” solution is not ‘the alternative for Israel. It is the alternative to Israel.’&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scottbrown.com/2012/03/brown-calls-on-harvard-university-to-cancel-conference-promoting-one-state-solution-in-israel/">Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) called on Harvard</a> to cancel the forum: “I want to condemn in the strongest possible terms Harvard’s sponsorship of a conference exploring a ‘one-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. This is dangerous thinking that gives comfort to Israel’s enemies who view the ‘one-state solution’ as a euphemism for eliminating Israel as a Jewish state. Harvard may have a right to do this, but that doesn’t make it right to do it. The University should cancel this conference.”</p>
<p>Professor Richard Cravatts, president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/trying-to-give-respectability-to-the-one-state-solution-at-harvard/">summed it up</a> best:</p>
<blockquote><p>A conference whose goal is to demonize and delegitimize Israel is not an academic enterprise. It is propaganda parading as scholarship, and violates not only one of the basic precepts of scholarship but also the spirit of the Kennedy School, which was conceived as a place where students could debate, with academic integrity, reason, and insight, the important issues facing decision makers.</p>
<p>The one-state solution, far from a rational plan for Palestinian statehood, actually proposes to do with votes and demography the same thing that Arab armies have themselves failed to do for the past 64 years.</p></blockquote>
<p>It is thus no surprise that the participants at this conference were <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/22/harvard%E2%80%99s-academic-pogrom/">the usual suspects</a> of the hate-Israel crowd.</p>
<p>Ilan Pappé, a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/22/harvard%e2%80%99s-academic-pogrom/">notorious anti-Israel Israeli faux-historian</a>, was one of the keynote speakers; despite the fact that he has been exposed as inventing history and distorting facts to fit his personal anti-Zionist ideology. As he himself has said, <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30161">“I care less about veracity because I have an agenda to advance.”</a></p>
<p>The other keynote speaker, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Abunimah">Ali Abunimah</a>, co-founder of <em>Electronic Intifada</em> and author of the 2006 book “One Country, a Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse,” has made a career of Israel bashing.</p>
<p>Another participant for whom facts are irrelevant is Eve Spangler, who routinely accuses Israel of “genocide, apartheid, and sociocide.”  Elsewhere she has declared that “<a href="http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/sociology/pdf/2012F/SC367Spangler.pdf">there is no ‘real’ history, only competing narratives</a>.” So much for objective scholarship.</p>
<p>Another, Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the PLO, <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&amp;x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=1584">simply makes stuff up to demonize Israel</a> and minimize the heinousness of terrorism.  She has repeatedly claimed, in stark contradiction to the oft video-taped explosions and destruction caused by qassams, <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/29/cnr.07.html">that none of the almost 12,000 rockets and mortars that Hamas has rained down on Israeli towns “actually [had] an explosive head</a> on them.” According to her, Hamas is just pretending to kill Israelis.</p>
<p>Among Harvard faculty and affiliate staff presenting at the conference were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stephen Walt: author of the ferociously anti-Israel and factually shoddy<em> The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, </em>which many consider an anti-Semitic tract. Ironically, he was the only speaker at the conference to acknowledge the possibility of a two-state solution.</li>
<li>Duncan Kennedy: Harvard  professor of law who has leveled extreme, <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/2/2/a-context-for-gaza-when-i/">factually inaccurate</a> charges against Israel and calls for boycott and divestment.</li>
<li>Timothy McCarthy: lecturer at the Carr Center at the Kennedy School and a member of the board of advisors of <a href="http://freedomforward.org/">Freedom Forward</a>, a pro-Palestinian, activist group.</li>
<li>Naor Ben-Yahoyada: a visiting lecturer at Harvard.  In 2007 he was part of a<a href="http://harvardwarcriminals.blogspot.com/2007/05/ajme-on-front-page-of-maariv.html"> campaign </a>that distributed <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n9jSiHjm4Dg/Rj6bjIcyolI/AAAAAAAAABs/B2ktppj-N84/s1600-h/flat.jpg">wanted posters </a>for Israel&#8217;s chief of staff, Dan Halutz, calling him a war criminal, and in 2009 he spoke at an <a href="http://providence.apartheidweek.org/en/boston2009">Israel Apartheid Week</a> event in Rhode Island.</li>
</ul>
<p>In response to the criticism, the Weatherhead Center and the Carr Center for Human Right removed their sponsorships; but the Kennedy School logo remained. This should come as no surprise. The Kennedy School of Government, with its sharply skewed Middle East Initiative program; the university&#8217;s virulently anti-Israel <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=257997">Center for Middle Eastern Studies </a>and affiliated <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2161">Outreach Center</a><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=135f3ac8f9e43a62&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw#0.1__edn1">[1]</a>; the various anti-Israel programs and personalities at the Weatherhead Center, at the Carr Center for Human Rights and in other departments — all have in recent years promoted bigoted attacks against the Jewish state.</p>
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		<title>Harvard’s Academic Pogrom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The university's upcoming Destroy Israel conference.]]></description>
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<p>Harvard University is a school of rich tradition. And in a few days it will be restoring a great Harvard tradition dating back to the 1930s: the tradition of hosting Nazis and violent anti-Semites on campus seeking the mass murder of Jews.</p>
<p>Harvard is <a href="http://www.onestateconference.org/speakers.html">to hold a pseudo-academic conference</a> devoted to calls for Israel’s extermination. This “academic conference” will be little more than a genteel campus pogrom. Misnamed the “One State Conference,” it will definitely <em>not</em> have any discussion of any “one-state solution” under which all of Western “Palestine” remains one single Jewish state, while “Palestinians” unhappy about living there as a political minority move to one of the 22 Arab states. When the conference organizers and speakers talk about a “one-state solution,” what they mean is a Rwanda solution, a final one, to the “Jewish Problem” of the Middle East. They want Israel annihilated and replaced by a “bi-national” state with an Islamist Arab majority in control. And it does not take a great imagination to understand just how Jews will fare under such a “solution.”</p>
<p>Naturally, Harvard is defending this campus atrocity with the usual protestations about academic freedom and freedom of speech. The administrators who justify such open and violent bigotry in the guise of an academic conference are the very same people who never seem to express any objections when campus hooligans disrupt and harass talks by Israeli diplomats and rallies by Jewish students. Harvard administrators would be the first ones in the Ivy League to shut down as “hate speech” any “conference” devoted to proving that black people have lower IQs than others, that called for evicting all illegal Hispanics from the nation, or that promoted the view that homosexuality is a mental disorder.</p>
<p>In any case, a brief review of pedigrees of the participants in this “conference” illustrates just how clearly this is to be nothing more than a bash-the-Jews campus crusade.</p>
<p>The “star” of the Harvard pogrom will be Ilan Pappe, who is arguably the most <a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third+level+pages/third+level+pages/outside+Israel+-+Exeter+-+Ilan+Pappe+-+gets+pass.htm">thoroughly discredited pseudo-academic</a> on the planet. Pappe is a <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&amp;x_context=8&amp;x_nameinnews=122&amp;x_article=994">notorious fabricator</a>, someone who <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=38&amp;x_article=1299">claims proudly that facts</a> and truth are of no importance. &#8220;Indeed the struggle is about ideology, not about facts. Who knows what facts are? We try to convince as many people as we can that our interpretation of the facts is the correct one, and we do it because of ideological reasons, not because we are truthseekers,&#8221; the French newspaper <em>Le Soir</em>, has cited Pappe as saying.</p>
<p>Pappe is an expatriate Israeli who devoted one of his “books” to his sons with the wish that they may grow up in a world without Israel. His own University of Exeter recently <a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third+level+pages/outside+Israel+-+Exeter+-+Ilan+Pappe+-+gets+pass.htm">chastised him</a> for his infamous habit of playing fast and loose with facts. Pappe is best known as a fulltime anti-Israel propagandist who <a href="http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021020_pappe.html">has done more than any</a> other <a href="https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/5305/index.php">anti-Israel Israeli</a> to promote the moral equivalence of &#8220;Nakba denial&#8221; with Holocaust denial. (For those who are unaware, &#8220;Nakba,&#8221; meaning &#8220;catastrophe,&#8221; is the term Arabs use to refer to Israel&#8217;s birth.) He is a &#8220;<a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/302">new historian</a>&#8221; in the sense of pseudo-historian. His mission in life is to invent an imaginary Palestinian historic “narrative.” Nearly all those <a href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar07/Petersen18.htm">beating the &#8220;Nakba</a>&#8221; drum today <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/bendor05212005.html">cite Pappe</a> and his books about the supposed &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851684670/002-5347975-9078422?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dissidentvoic-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1851684670">ethnic cleansing</a>&#8221; of Arabs by Israel in its war of independence.</p>
<p>Pappe was a lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa, but moved to resume <a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third+level+pages/third+level+pages/outside+Israel+-+Exeter+-+Ilan+Pappe+-+another+Final+Solution.htm">a pseudo-academic propagandist position</a> at the University of Exeter in the UK. Even other<a href="http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040322&amp;s=morris032204"> anti-Zionists</a> have repudiated Pappe as a <a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/897">liar and fabricator</a>. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16099">He openly calls</a> for Israel to be exterminated and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879227334&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">endorses Hamas</a> terrorism. He <a href="http://ww4report.com/node/1826">considers Noam Chomsky</a> insufficiently anti-Israel.</p>
<p>Pappe, who ran for the parliament in Israel on the slate of the Stalinist communist party and played a <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&amp;x_issue=55&amp;x_article=991">central role</a> in fomenting boycotts of Israel in the UK and elsewhere, was also the central figure in <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=99&amp;R=EB972A018">the now infamous &#8220;Tantura Affair</a>.&#8221; In this incident, Pappe coached a graduate student of his <a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/87">into inventing</a> a non-existent &#8220;massacre&#8221; of Arabs by the Hagana Jewish militia (Alexandroni Brigade) in Tantura, south of Haifa, a &#8220;massacre&#8221; that Pappe claims took place in 1948. Not a shred of any evidence for any such &#8220;massacre&#8221; exists. Arab and other journalists who were present at the time of the battle that took place in Tantura reported no massacre. Arabs living in the town at the time confirmed that a battle did occur, but that after the battle the Jewish militiamen aided and assisted the townspeople, not massacring anyone. The graduate student in question was sued for libel by the veterans of the Hagana militia. He later <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=99&amp;R=EB972A018">admitted in court</a> with his lawyer present that the entire massacre was an invention.</p>
<p>No matter – Pappe <a href="http://mediacrity.blogspot.com/2005/06/tharoor-does-it-again-this-time-its.html">roams the world</a> and continues to spread the lie about the imaginary Tantura &#8220;massacre,&#8221; a lie that has found its way into nearly every <a href="http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/al-Tantura/Story560.html">anti-Semitic web site</a> and <a href="http://www.zundelsite.org/english/news/070410_Arnold_Zionism.php">Neo-Nazi magazine</a> on Earth, and even a <a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/41768.html">handful of otherwise respectable mainstream</a> journalists foolishly rely upon him. Pappe has lied about practically everything else, including about <a href="http://www.monabaker.com/pMachine/more.php?id=A2812_0_1_0_M">being &#8220;persecuted</a>&#8221; by <a href="http://archive.ramallahonline.com/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=2095">his own university</a> in Israel. In fact, Pappe was never fired for his fraud and fabrication by <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=167664">the University of Haifa</a>, although he should have been. (Some wags even suggested the university should be boycotted for <em>not</em> firing Pappe.) That did not stop Pappe from <a href="http://www.zionismontheweb.org/AUT/arguments.htm">waving his stigmata</a> as a &#8220;victim of Zionism&#8221; before the European anti-Semites <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=569361">promoting &#8220;divestment</a>&#8221; from Israel. His recruitment by the University of Exeter proves how indifferent that school is to scholarly standards. His coming appearance as the star of the Harvard academic pogrom shows that things are not much better there.</p>
<p>While Pappe may be the most notorious fabricator at Harvard’s Destroy Israel Conference, he is hardly the only one. A close runner-up will be Stephen M. Walt, who – along with his sidekick John Mearsheimer – is best known for proliferating medieval “theories” about a grand Jewish cabal plotting to control the world. Walt and Mearsheimer spin yarns about the imaginary power of the “Jewish lobby” that sound very much like German propaganda from the 1930s. It would be an exaggeration to say that there is no Israel lobby whatsoever in the United States, but only a small exaggeration. The “Israel lobby” does not come up to the pinky toes in terms of the power of the farm lobby and the teachers union lobby. Walt’s partner Mearsheimer has been in the news the past few weeks for <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/john-mearsheimer-endorses-a-hitler-apologist-and-holocaust-revisionist/245518">endorsing</a> and <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-big-lie-returns">celebrating</a> a notoriously deranged British Israel-born Holocaust denier, Gilad Atzmon. Walt <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/25/mearsheimer_responds_to_goldbergs_latest_smear">also defends Mearsheimer’s choice of Nazi chums on his own personal</a> blog.</p>
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		<title>Harvard, Jew Haters, Motherhood and Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same evil wind that swept academia before the Holocaust is blowing through it again today.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/" target="_blank">CarolineGlick.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>I recently received an <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2194">e-mail alert from CAMERA</a> that my alma mater, Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government is hosting a two-day conference which essentially begins with the proposition that Israel has no right to exist. This isn&#8217;t surprising. After all, the Kennedy School is home to my old professor Steve Walt. No one there batted a lash when he co-published his updated version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with University of Chicago&#8217;s John Mearshimer.</p>
<p>Not only did Walt suffer no recrimination from his colleagues at Harvard when he first emerged a professional Jew basher.  He suffered no recrimination when he used the controversy surrounding his book into a means of transforming himself into a celebrity Israel basher.</p>
<p>As I wrote in my recent column about <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/01/mainstreaming-anti-semitism.php">mainstreaming Jew hatred</a>, Walt and Mearshimer&#8217;s book has enabled anti-Semites to emerge from under the rocks where they had been hiding and proudly announce that it is reasonable to discriminate against the Jewish people and side either actively or passively with those like the Iranian regime and the Sunni jihadists from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood who openly call for the annihilation of the Jewish state and the Jewish people.</p>
<p>Two thoughts on the Harvard conference.</p>
<p>Consider the <a href="http://www.onestateconference.org/speakers.html">long list of &#8220;professors&#8221;</a> who will be speaking at the conference.</p>
<p>My sense is that the reason the Holocaust was more successful in killing Jews on a genocidal scale than say the Russian czars&#8217; pogroms is because the Holocaust was fuelled from above &#8211; from elitist anti-Semitism and elitist xenophobia. It wasn&#8217;t the feudal lords who  organized the murder machine. Those lords just let their Cossacks murder couple hundred Jews to get their bloodlust satisfied for the year. Most of the surviving Jews were permitted to pack their suitcases and run away.</p>
<p>The Holocaust was different. It wasn&#8217;t the peasant class or their landed gentry lords that instigated the crime. And the Holocaust wasn&#8217;t perpetrated principally to satisfy their taste for Jewish blood.</p>
<p>In the decades before the Holocaust, <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2009/07/terror-training-grounds.php">an evil wind</a> blew through academia and other elite quarters throughout the Western world. The doctrines of race and eugenics became all the rage of the anointed intellectuals. Even an otherwise liberal thinker like Oliver Wendell Holmes was drawn to the fashionable concept of killing mentally disabled in the name of eugenics.</p>
<p>These doctrines gave the German intellectuals the philosophical underpinning for their so-called &#8220;anti-Semitism.&#8221; That itself was a pseudo-scientific term for regular old Jew hating just like &#8220;anti-Zionism&#8221; is a progressive, politically correct term for regular old Jew hating today. That is, anti-Semitism was an elitist way of masking intolerance, even genocidal intolerance for Jews and making it socially acceptable to seek our annihilation.</p>
<p>And this is the precise function that the term anti-Zionism serves today.</p>
<p>The worker bees of Europe in the mid-20th century had been marinated in Christian Jew hatred for centuries. But they were mere commoners. They would never have made an Auschwitz or held a Wanssee Conference, but they were more than willing to fill Jewish babies with lead when given a chance. And the German intellectuals and their counterparts from Boston to Paris to London gave them the intellectual foundation of racism to kill Jews on a scale they could never have dreamed possible.</p>
<p>Likewise, today&#8217;s crop of corrupt intellectuals of the Walt and Mearshimer variety with all their allies in academia and the media and the blogosphere and politics are seeking to delegitimize Israel &#8211; the collective Jew &#8212; intellectually. Like the work of the eugenics champions of the late 19th and early 20th century, their work will provide Muslim Jew haters with the political leeway to murder Jews on a scale they could never have dreamed possible. Hence you&#8217;ll never find a so-called &#8220;anti-Zionist&#8221; like Walt lose sleep over the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, but rather over the prospect of Israel preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.</p>
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		<title>Harvard Promotes the Palestinians&#8217; Slow-Motion &#8216;Final Solution&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prestigious university holds conference on the Arabs' Hilter-inspired strategy to destroy Israel.]]></description>
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<p>There is no idea so hateful or useless that some university somewhere won’t hold a conference on it. The latest example of this unfortunate truism is the recently announced “Israel/Palestine and the One-State Conference” scheduled for early March at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nineteen speakers and ten panels will spend two days explaining why “’two-states for two peoples’ is no longer a viable option for Israel/Palestine,” as the organizers assert, and discussing a “solution” to the Israeli-Arab crisis that has absolutely no chance of ever being implemented.</p>
<p>The adherents of this veiled assault on Israel argue that the “two-state solution,” “in which Israel is secure and the Palestinians have sovereignty,” as President Obama told <em>Time</em> magazine, has been a failure. Of course, the two-state solution has failed because since 1948, the first time Arabs rejected a Palestinian state, a critical mass of Palestinian Arabs have wanted something more than sovereignty: they want Israel destroyed and her land possessed by Arabs from “the river to the sea,” as PLO chief Yasser Arafat used to say. The one-state solution, which envisions a single nation comprising Arabs and Jews under a single government, is a way to achieve the same aim. Such a state would obviously require the end of Israel’s Jewish identity, and would result in an Arabic demographic explosion that in any kind of representative government would marginalize Jews. Moreover, we can see the most likely sort of regime that would rule the “one state” by looking next door at Egypt, where Islamists are now in control and relations with Israel have deteriorated. Whatever the result, such a state would not resemble the liberal democracy of Israel today.</p>
<p>Perhaps the conference will address issues like Arab intransigence, genocidal anti-Semitism, and terrorist violence, but judging from some of the speakers, such balance seems unlikely. Among the usual obscure academics and Palestinian activists camouflaged as scholars, one finds anti-Israel luminaries like Stephen M. Walt, who along with John Mearshimer in 2007 published <em>The Israel Lobby</em>, an academic recycling of the <em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em> in which nefarious American Jews secretly control U.S. foreign policy in service to their Zionist puppet-masters. Even more suggestive of the conference’s bias is the presence of Ilan Pappé, whose <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&amp;x_nameinnews=122&amp;x_article=994">scholarly malfeasance</a> got him cashiered from Haifa University over his involvement in a student’s master’s thesis that fabricated an Israeli massacre of Palestinians. Such an episode will surprise no one familiar with Pappé’s own work, which as historian Efraim Karsh has written, displays a “consistent resort to factual misrepresentation, distortion, and outright falsehood.” Pappé is clearly an ideologue and propagandist, as he frankly admits: he sneers at “objectivity,” professes that he is “not as interested in what happened as in how people see what’s happened,” and crows that “my ideology influences my historical writings.” That such a travesty of the profession of history is invited to speak at a prestigious university testifies to how intellectually and morally corrupt the American academy has become.</p>
<p>This rather loose attitude towards evidence and fact embraced by Pappé reveals itself as well in the <a href="http://onestateconference.org/program.html">on-line</a> descriptions of the panel topics, where one finds libels such as references to “the original 700,000 [Arabs] who were ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 1948 and 1967,” moral cowardice in phrases such as “a great deal of violence has isolated the two peoples from one another,” and the de rigueur question-begging epithet: “How can justice for the victims of racism or violence be achieved?” You get the picture: racist Israelis who ethnically cleansed Arabs from their homeland and incited a “cycle of violence” need to abandon their Jewish identity and their ancestral lands in order to resolve a bloody conflict.</p>
<p>The Kennedy School conference, then, is a propaganda exercise the effect of which is to further the Palestinian Arab “phases” strategy for destroying Israel. In this regard, history provides an interesting parallel to the way the Arabs have manipulated Westerners and obscured their true aim, the destruction of Israel. In 1938, Hitler began fulfilling his plan to create a racial German empire, one that also was put into place by “phases.” Just as the Middle East regimes today claim that their hostility to Israel results from the maltreatment of the Palestinians, who have been dispossessed of their homeland by an oppressive invader, Hitler justified his aggression against Czechoslovakia as in fact the liberation of his fellow Germans from an alien government oppressing them and violating their rights. Thus Hitler’s pretext that national and ethnic self-determination for the Sudeten Germans, necessary because of the Czechs’ “brutal treatment of mothers and children of German blood,” as Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels put it, was the reason he was interfering in Czechoslovakia.</p>
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		<title>Union Gangsters: Ron Bloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Don’t miss FrontPage’s other Union Gangsters profiles featuring </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/23/union-gangsters-craig-becker/"><em>Craig Becker</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/30/union-gangsters-richard-trumka/"><em>Richard Trumka</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/10/union-gangsters-stephen-lerner/"><em>Stephen Lerner</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/21/union-gangsters-andy-stern/"><em>Andy Stern</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/02/union-gangsters-jimmy-hoffa-jr/"><em>Jimmy Hoffa Jr.</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/04/union-gangsters-john-sweeney/"><em>John Sweeney</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/11/union-gangsters-leo-gerard/">Leo Gerard</a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/16/union-gangsters-wade-rathke/"><em>Wade Rathke</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/29/union-gangsters-heather-booth/"><em>Heather Booth</em></a><em> and </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/07/big-labors-leninist-founding-father/"><em>Daniel De Leon</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p>Sometimes union thugs wear pinstriped business suits.</p>
<p>Investment banker Ron Bloom is one of those thugs.</p>
<p>He decided in the 1970s to devote his life to helping labor unions stick it to America’s corporations. As an organizer, negotiator, and researcher for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Booth observed that many union negotiators didn’t have the skills they needed to bargain effectively with management.</p>
<p>“Unions were being backed into corners by companies and couldn’t understand on a sophisticated level, the company’s arguments &#8230; Labor needed to be armed with the equivalent skills.”</p>
<p>A longtime leftist, Bloom acquired the skills he needed to run circles around management. He went to Harvard Business School and built up his resume.</p>
<p>Bloom, who was President Obama’s car czar and then manufacturing czar, excels at wheeling and dealing. Last year <em>Time</em> magazine fawned over Bloom, naming him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Bloom’s “role in brokering the rescue of General Motors and Chrysler while preserving more than 100,000 jobs demanded a synergist who could work both sides of the equation with authority and respect.”</p>
<p>Although it is true that Bloom was one of the principal architects of the auto industry bailout, <em>Time</em> failed to mention that he made certain that the deal enriched the United Auto Workers at the expense of bondholders. Bondholders accept low rates of return on their investment in the expectation that if the company goes belly-up they will be among the first creditors paid back, but Bloom and his colleagues in the Obama administration upended that ancient rule of repayment priority in the name of so-called &#8220;social justice.&#8221; They made sure that President Obama’s allies in the labor movement got far more than their fair share.</p>
<p>In his career as an investment banker, Bloom has used his considerable skills as a negotiator to engineer deals that benefit trade unions.</p>
<p>For example, when Brazilian steel company Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) tried to merge with Wheeling-Pittsburgh Corp. in 2006, steelworkers feared the deal would decimate their ranks. Bloom, who joined the United Steel Workers (USW) union as a special assistant to the president in the 1990s, put together a hostile takeover bid by Chicago-based steel distributor Esmark to fend off CSN.</p>
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		<title>Leftist Out, Leftist In</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama picks Elena Kagan to fill John Paul Stevens' Supreme Court seat.]]></description>
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<p>When John Paul Stevens announced that he would be stepping down from the Supreme Court after three-and-a-half decades on the bench, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">Barack Obama</a> lauded the outgoing Justice as a “brilliant, non-ideological, pragmatic” man, “committed above all to justice, integrity, and the rule of law.” The President pledged to seek, for Stevens’ successor, someone “with similar qualities” – an individual who <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64fJeZiLk70">understands</a> that “in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.” Monday morning Obama announced that choice: Elena Kagan.</p>
<p>This not the first time the President has named Kagan to a prominent post in government. During his first week in office, Obama, who has known Kagan since <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/elena-kagan/">the two were colleagues</a> on the University of Chicago Law School faculty during the 1990s, named her for the post of <a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:J-xdCdVxsZ4J:www.humanevents.com/article.php%3Fid%3D31601+%22elena+kagan%22+and+%22human+events%22&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">U.S. Solicitor General</a>, the nation’s second-most-influential legal authority. It bears mention that Kagan, at the time of that appointment, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/elena-kagan/">had never argued a case in any court</a> and had published only <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36989_Page2.html%20">three major articles</a> along with a handful of minor pieces. Sensing the special connection that existed between Obama and the new Solicitor General, Center for Security Policy CEO Frank Gaffney presciently depicted Kagan’s assignment as “<a href="http://74.125.47.132/custom?q=cache:NWznV92omfwJ:www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx%3FGUID%3D48706155-f9fb-4212-ad7b-edf8bd54b5e0+%22elena+kagan%22&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">a stepping-stone for her appointment to the Supreme Court</a>.” To understand why Obama holds Kagan in such high regard, we must take a closer look at the political and legal positions she has embraced over the course of her adult life, and see how they dovetail with those of the President.</p>
<p>A week after Ronald Reagan’s presidential victory in November 1980, a twenty-year-old Elena Kagan, who was then a student at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University">Princeton University</a>, contributed a piece to the <em>Daily Princetonian</em>, wherein she gave voice to her angst over the apparent demise of the left. She <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/young_elena_kagan_hoping_for_a.asp">wrote</a> that her immediate “gut response” to Reagan&#8217;s election had been to conclude “that the world had gone mad, that liberalism was dead, and that there was no longer any place for the ideals we held or the beliefs we espoused.” After having taken some time to calm down, Kagan predicted, with a hopeful spirit, that “the next few years will be marked by American disillusionment with conservative programs and solutions, and that a new, revitalized, perhaps <em>more</em> leftist left will once again come to the fore.”</p>
<p>The following year, Kagan penned her <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/elena_kagan_radical.asp">senior thesis</a>—titled “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933”—wherein she specifically thanked her brother Marc, “whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.” In the body of that work, Kagan <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/elena_kagan_radical.asp">lamented</a> that “a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States”; that “Americans are more likely to speak of … capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness”; that “the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter”; that “in a society by no means perfect,” no “radical party” had yet “attained the status of a major political force”; that “the socialist movement [had] never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties”; and that the Socialist Party had “exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance.” Kagan called these developments “sad” and “chastening” for “those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.”</p>
<p>After graduating from Princeton, Kagan went on to earn a Master of Philosophy degree from Worcester  College at Oxford University in 1983, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. She then took a job as a law clerk for Judge Abner Mikva, a leftist member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Later, she clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whom she now identifies as <a href="http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODMyM2YxNWM1MTUxMWJmNjBlNjYyNWFkN2RjMTNhYjE=">her hero</a>. In 1988 Kagan <a href="http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODMyM2YxNWM1MTUxMWJmNjBlNjYyNWFkN2RjMTNhYjE=">worked on the presidential campaign of Democrat Michael Dukakis</a>. And three years later she became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where, as noted above, she first met Barack Obama.</p>
<p>From 1995 to 1999, Kagan served under <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=644">Bill Clinton</a> in various roles: Associate White House Counsel, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council. In June 1999, Clinton nominated Kagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. But because the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Republican chairman, Orrin Hatch, subsequently elected not to schedule a hearing on Kagan, her nomination was never confirmed.</p>
<p>In 2003, Harvard University president Lawrence Summers appointed Kagan to be the dean of Harvard Law School. It was in this role that Kagan expressed her most infamous criticisms of the U.S. military. <a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:J-xdCdVxsZ4J:www.humanevents.com/article.php%3Fid%3D31601+%22elena+kagan%22+and+%22human+events%22&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">In Kagan’s view</a>, the armed forces ought to welcome open homosexuals to their ranks without the slightest reservation; any policy to the contrary, she views as bigotry of the lowest order. In an <a href="http://www.hlrecord.org/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&amp;uStory_id=fb9b7e30-726c-45a1-ae9c-e74a7c5f655f">e-mail</a> that she disseminated to the entire Harvard Law School community in October 2003, Kagan <a href="http://obamanoms.com/?p=79">wrote</a>: “I abhor the military’s discriminatory [<em>don&#8217;t ask,don&#8217;t tell</em>] recruitment policy”<em> </em>– characterizing it as “a profound wrong, a moral injustice of the first order … a wrong that tears at the fabric of our own community.”</p>
<p>Kagan has long opposed the so-called Solomon Amendment, a law that denies federal funding to any university that “has a policy or practice … that either prohibits, or in effect prevents” military personnel “from gaining access to campuses, or access to students … on campuses, for purposes of military recruiting.” This Amendment was enacted in 1996, in response to a trend where many law schools, <a href="http://obamanoms.com/?p=79">as gestures of protest</a> against a federal law barring open homosexuals from military service, were discouraging and/or prohibiting military recruitment on their campuses. When a federal appeals court struck down the Solomon Amendment, Harvard Law, under Kagan&#8217;s stewardship, became the first major law school in the United States to ban official recruiting on campus. Ed Whelan of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center has written: “I doubt that the American public will be impressed that Kagan kicked the military off campus in wartime but welcomed law firms that were donating their services to terrorists.”</p>
<p>Kagan also <a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:J-xdCdVxsZ4J:www.humanevents.com/article.php%3Fid%3D31601+%22elena+kagan%22+and+%22human+events%22&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">filed an amicus brief</a> urging the Supreme Court to declare the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional. The Court, however, <a href="http://74.125.47.132/custom?q=cache:NWznV92omfwJ:www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx%3FGUID%3D48706155-f9fb-4212-ad7b-edf8bd54b5e0+%22elena+kagan%22&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">unanimously rejected</a> Kagan’s position. Frank Gaffney <a href="http://74.125.47.132/custom?q=cache:NWznV92omfwJ:www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx%3FGUID%3D48706155-f9fb-4212-ad7b-edf8bd54b5e0+%22elena+kagan%22&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">observed</a> that Kagan’s passionate opposition to the Solomon Amendment reflected “her hostility toward the U.S. military.” But that very hostility has proven to be to Kagan’s political advantage, because it is ideologically compatible with that of President Obama, who, in a moment of unguarded candor during the presidential campaign, <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2007/08/obama_gaffe_air_raiding_villag.html">suggested</a> that U.S. troops in Afghanistan were doing a disservice to their mission by “just air raiding villages and killing civilians.” When Kagan was confirmed as Solicitor General last year, Gaffney <a href="http://74.125.47.132/custom?q=cache:NWznV92omfwJ:www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx%3FGUID%3D48706155-f9fb-4212-ad7b-edf8bd54b5e0+%22elena+kagan%22&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">noted</a> that the “likely consequence” would be that “the Justice Department will play an adversarial, rather than supportive, role for our armed forces in an age when they are increasingly subjected to ‘lawfare’—the use of legal proceedings to interfere with and, where possible, defeat their missions.”</p>
<p>It is noteworthy that Kagan&#8217;s understanding of the Supreme Court&#8217;s role <a href="http://www.merinews.com/article/elena-kagans-ties-with-thurgood-marshall-questioned-by-rnc/15806843.shtml%20">mirrors</a> that of her “hero,” Thurgood Marshall. In one of her legal writings, Kagan cited Marshall&#8217;s assertion that the Constitution, “as originally drafted and conceived,” was “defective.” This view fits hand-in-glove with Obama&#8217;s celebrated contention that the Constitution “is not a static but rather a living document and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.”</p>
<p>Kagan has also quoted Justice Marshall saying that the Supreme Court&#8217;s mission is to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.” In those words, we can hear the echoes of Obama saying that in many legal cases, “the critical ingredient” is neither what the law nor the Constitution say, but rather “what is in the judge’s heart”; that a judge must prove that he or she is not “<a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TerenceJeffrey/2008/02/27/obamas_class-war_court">dismissive</a> of concerns that it is harder to make it in this world … when you are a woman rather than a man”; that a judge ought not “<a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TerenceJeffrey/2008/02/27/obamas_class-war_court">sid[e] </a>on behalf of the powerful against the powerless”; and that a judge should be “<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/849oyckg.asp">somebody </a>who&#8217;s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it&#8217;s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it&#8217;s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old.” In essence, these are calls for a jurisprudence of the heart rather than of the law; a jurisprudence aimed at settling old scores on behalf of aggrieved “victim” groups, rather than meting out equal justice to individuals regardless of their demographics.</p>
<p>Ideologically, Elena Kagan is a kindred spirit of Barack Obama. As such, she will keep Justice Stevens&#8217; Supreme Court seat firmly situated on the political left. By no means is this the least bit surprising. Elections have consequences, sometimes very predictable ones.</p>
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