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		<title>Judeophobia on Full Display at UCLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students vote for economic warfare against the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/la-me-ln-ucla-divestment-israel-20141119-001.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245771" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/la-me-ln-ucla-divestment-israel-20141119-001.jpg" alt="la-me-ln-ucla-divestment-israel-20141119-001" width="331" height="260" /></a>Anti-Semitism on college campuses is nothing new and, partly as a result of the growing influence of groups like the Muslim Students Association (<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/MSA%20and%20Jihad%20Network%20v5b-1.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood</span></a>) and Students for Justice in Palestine, has witnessed a sharp rise in recent years. In fact, some of today’s institutions of higher learning are among the greatest purveyors of Judeophoboia and anti-Israel sentiment.</p>
<p>At San Francisco State University for example, an institution subsidized by the taxpayer, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/taxpayers-fund-radical-profs-overseas-meeting-with-terrorists/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi</span></a>, a pseudo professor of “Race and Resistance Studies,” was allowed (under false pretenses) to meet and collaborate with known terrorists on a university-funded excursion. And at Northeastern University, professors have been <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/09/28/video-shows-professors-teaching-anti-semitism-anti-israelism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">videotaped</span></a> openly expressing Jew-hatred in the classroom with one professor stating quite candidly that he wears the label of anti-Semite as a badge of honor.  But when it comes to base anti-Semitic vitriol, the University of California, Los Angeles has the dubious distinction of being among the worst of the lot.</p>
<p>On November 18, at around the same time when Jewish worshipers were being hacked and shot to death in a Jerusalem synagogue, UCLA’s student government, by a vote of 8 to 2 with 2 abstentions, <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/11/19/news-opinion/united-states/ucla-student-government-passes-israel-divestment-resolution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passed a resolution</span></a> urging the university to divest from Israel and from American companies doing business with Israel.  Despite the fact that some 2,000 students signed a petition opposed to the pernicious measure, the student government, stacked with Judeophopes and their mindless partners in crime, acted as anti-Semites normally do and voted to target the Jews.</p>
<p>Last February, a similar resolution sponsored by the SJP <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/02/26/news-opinion/united-states/ucla-student-council-rejects-divestment-resolution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">failed</span></a> by a vote of 7 to 5 provoking an embarrassing and memorable <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/video-ucla-student-melts-down-after-anti-israel-resolution-defeated/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">meltdown</span></a> by a BDS-supporting, student note-taker. It is ironic that the instant resolution was co-sponsored by groups like Queer Alliance and Bruin Feminists for Equality. Someone should remind these useful idiots that Palestinians <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/20/pinkwashing-difference-between-israel-palestinians-gay-rights/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">don’t take kindly to gays</span></a> and areas governed by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are rife with so-called “<a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=10767"><span style="color: #0433ff;">honor killings</span></a>” where women are often tortured and brutalized. This strange alliance merely demonstrates that when it comes to targeting Jews, radical leftists and their Islamist allies generally find common ground and put their difference aside.</p>
<p>What is also ironic is that the vote comes at a time when the Muslim Middle East is imploding. While dysfunctional countries like Iran, Syria, Iraq and Egypt are devoid of any semblance of democracy and brutally subjugate their people, Israel stands as a beacon of democratic values where minorities enjoy full civil rights and where tolerance is the norm rather than an aberration. Yet the student government saw fit to disregard the facts and instead painted a broad bull’s-eye over the Jewish State.</p>
<p>The vote also comes on the heels of a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/from-gaza-to-ucla-israel-faces-multi-front-war/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">vindictive campaign</span></a> by UCLA’s honorary Brown Shirts to prevent Avi Oved, a Jewish undergraduate and economics major and former vice president of the UCLA student government, from serving as a UC Board of Regents student representative. The campaign failed, but is testament to the broad effort that the SJP is conducting to intimidate Jewish students. UCLA’s SJP’s chapter also tried to invalidate last February’s student government vote of two student government members who allegedly took sponsored trips to Israel that were allegedly subsidized by organizations affiliated with pro-Israel causes. That drive fell flat as well, but the students had to devote much time and effort defending themselves against spurious allegations laced with anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Though the instant anti-Israel drive was boycotted by Jewish and pro-Israel groups, and the sad but predictable result amounts to nothing more than a publicity stunt with more bark than bite, the malevolent vote represents a black stain and a mark of shame on UCLA. Already, <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/major-ucla-donor-pledges-pull-funds-if-administration-backs-bds"><span style="color: #0433ff;">prominent</span></a> UC alumni and donors have voiced <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/second-ucla-donor-pledges-funding-cut-if-administration-doesnt-condemn-bds"><span style="color: #0433ff;">staunch opposition</span></a> to the BDS resolution and have made clear that they will cease donations to the university until it issues an unequivocal rejection and condemnation of the student government’s action.</p>
<p>It does appear that the pressure is having the desired effect. Just a day following the passage of the anti-Semitic resolution, Chancellor Gene Block <a href="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-chancellor-gene-block-statement-on-student-vote-on-israel-divestment"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released a statement</span></a> plainly rejecting the BDS outrage, noting that it unfairly held Israel to a different standard. This axiom is of course ignored by the SJP and other Islamist and radical student groups whose platforms are ensconced in Jew-hatred and xenophobia.</p>
<p>While the Chancellor’s statement represents a step in the right direction, stronger action is clearly needed to stem the growing cancer of anti-Semitism that is so pervasive at UCLA. Until it is seriously addressed, we can expect more abominations from UCLA.</p>
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		<title>UCLA’s New Cover Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A radical who received the "International Lenin Peace Prize" gets the honor. ]]></description>
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<p>Look whose photo graces the campus of UCLA, meant to be an inspiration to incoming students. The woman in the photo is standing above the slogan: “We Question.” On the right-hand side, in small letters, students are informed that they are “the optimists.”</p>
<p>This banner adds to the shadow that today is cast over so many of our major universities.</p>
<p>For those who can’t identify her, the photo depicts Angela Davis, the notorious former Communist Party USA leader who, beginning in the ’60s, molded together black nationalism with Marxism-Leninism. She created a heady brew for recruiting new cadre into the CP and the original Black Panther Party of Huey Newton.</p>
<p>Some optimist! Davis believed in the triumph of Communism.</p>
<p>For her loyalty to the Soviet Union and its foreign policies, in 1972 she was awarded a Lenin Centenary Medal in the Soviet Union, after which she spoke to thousands at an outdoor rally in Moscow. Next, speaking at a factory in Kirov, Davis praised the workers for not using “products of labor [to fuel] the irrational drive for capitalist profits as it is used in our country.”</p>
<p>As she left Moscow and went up the stairs to enter her plane, she yelled out with a clenched fist: “Long live the science of Marxism-Leninism.” There is not an iota of evidence that she questioned anything about the dreary reality in the Soviet Union and their Eastern European client states.</p>
<p>Davis also received the International Lenin Peace Prize — formerly called the Stalin Peace Prize — from the STASI state of East Germany in 1979. She was awarded it for supposedly strengthening “peace among peoples,” but it was actually for her continued fidelity to the Soviet bloc, which to her represented the future of humanity.</p>
<p>Not only did she not “question” authority, Davis openly defended the repressive measures of the Communist states by endorsing their imprisonment of dissident intellectuals. When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the movement for “socialism with a human face” that the citizens of the country believed they could pull off without Soviet intervention, Davis strenuously supported the invasion that was forthcoming.</p>
<p>In 1970, she was implicated in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, black revolutionary George Jackson, whose brother took over a Marin County courtroom and took the judge hostage, as well as an assistant DA and two jurors.</p>
<p>After a gun battle, the judge was murdered by a shotgun owned by Davis.</p>
<p>Davis then fled, assumed different aliases, and disguised how she looked. She was brought to trial, and to great amazement of those who believed no black could get a fair trial in the U.S., the jury found her innocent. As it turned out, the jurors were all defenders of Davis. One juror even faced TV news cameras and gave the clenched-fist salute, indicating their lack of objectivity or intent to evaluate the evidence.</p>
<p>After the jury’s acquittal of Davis, Pelikan wrote: “Try to help [the imprisoned Czech dissidents] so they can defend themselves against their accusers as you have been able to do in your country.” His plea fell on deaf ears. She had a close friend, another black female American Communist Party leader, tell the press that Davis believed that the critics of the Czech regime were counter-revolutionaries who were undermining socialism, and therefore were undeserving of support.</p>
<p>Davis’ entire life reveals a woman who, rather than question authority, uses her skills to attack the very democracy she lives in — which allowed her to teach at a university, obtain highly paid speaking engagements, and publish scores of books attacking the American government.</p>
<p>After 9/11, Davis said: “The United States significantly contributed to conditions that led to the violence on September 11.” As for demands that she not be allowed to speak, she said in a campus speech at Keene State College in New Hampshire that she finds it “bizarre, if freedom is being defended, that it is necessary to curtail freedom in order to defend freedom.”</p>
<p>As we have seen, she had a very different view when it came to defending freedom in the so-called “people’s democracies.”</p>
<p>From the ’60s to the present, Angela Davis has been a thoughtless propagandist for every far Left cause one can imagine. How did she ever become a Communist and believe in the Leninist theory of “dialectical materialism” and all of its mumbo-jumbo? The answer comes from the high school which she attended — Elisabeth Irwin H.S., the upper level division of the famed private school the Little Red School House, referred to by its critics with an additional three words: “for little Reds.”</p>
<p>I attended the same high school to which Davis got a scholarship and then moved from her middle-class black home in Birmingham, Alabama, to attend in New York City. There she was taught history by its longstanding history teacher, a man named Harold Kirshner — the very same man who taught me that “dialectical materialism is a science” and that Marxism explained the world. The author of a recent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Red-Passionate-through-Sixties-ebook/dp/B00B3M3XOE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1413306346&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Dina+Hampton" rel="external">book</a> <sup>[2]</sup> about the high school writes that it was the same Kirshner who “effected a life-altering transformation in Davis” by assigning her the works of Marx and Engels. The effect it had, Davis said, hit her “like a bolt of lightning.” After that she graduated from Kirshner to taking a class from the official CP “historian” Herbert Aptheker at a Communist school he had set up in the city.</p>
<p>One might ask: Why is Davis so important? The answer is that today’s cultural elites, like whoever at UCLA decided to adorn the campus with her photo, treat any rebel — even a dogmatic ideologue like Angela Davis — as a leader from which students can learn valuable lessons. It is these academics who treat her as both a saint and a leader, and who constantly invite her to give major speeches on our campuses which they urge their students to attend.</p>
<p>To herald Angela Davis as a person who questions anything reveals the mindset of our university administrators, and is itself more evidence of the decline of standards at our major colleges and universities. Expect Ms. Davis to be a graduation speaker sometime in UCLA’s future. That is the logical next step in helping Angela Davis lead her march to a communist future via “the long march through the existing institutions.”</p>
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		<title>From Gaza to UCLA, Israel Faces Multi-Front War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 04:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A campus witch-hunt against a supporter of the Jewish State comes to an end. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/88580_e5433e14240a11715ca431845648c597_a0b0b0431db7b29b5cb5fe921518e83c.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236754" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/88580_e5433e14240a11715ca431845648c597_a0b0b0431db7b29b5cb5fe921518e83c-450x337.jpg" alt="88580_e5433e14240a11715ca431845648c597_a0b0b0431db7b29b5cb5fe921518e83c" width="303" height="227" /></a>As Operation Defensive Edge enters its 14th day and Israeli forces mount an intensive counterinsurgency campaign against a cowardly, genocidal Islamist enemy bent on terror and destruction, a different war of sorts is shaping up across the Atlantic in America’s universities. UCLA, a university that prides itself on tolerance and diversity has instead, turned into a bastion of intolerance and hate where Jewish and non-Jewish supporters of Israel are subjected to a relentless campaign of harassment and intimidation.</p>
<p>Anti-Semitism on college campuses is nothing new. San Francisco State University for example, employs a university professor who <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/terrorists-on-campus/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">advocates violence</span></a> against Israel and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/taxpayers-fund-radical-profs-overseas-meeting-with-terrorists/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">meets with overseas terrorists</span></a> at university and taxpayer expense. But UCLA takes Jew-hatred to new levels. Groups like the Muslim Student Union, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) are allowed to run amok, creating a campus environment of fear and intimidation where an all out assault has been waged against pro-Israel students. Meanwhile, the ostrich-like administration has placed its collective head in the sand pretending that all is normal and allows outrage after outrage to continue with contemptible stoicism.</p>
<p>The latest indignation involves UCLA student Avi Oved, a Jewish undergraduate and economics major. Oved, while serving as vice president of the UCLA student government, opposed a bitterly contested divestment resolution that targeted the Jewish State. The resolution ultimately failed and this proved too much to bear for UCLA’s designated campus brownshirts who then <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-regents-20140717-story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">embarked on their Jihad to preclude Oved</span></a> from serving as UC Board of Regent student representative.</p>
<p>Aside from being Jewish, Oved’s only crime was his opposition to an anti-Semitic resolution sponsored by a plethora of hate groups including Students for Justice in Palestine. Ironically, the divestment resolution was aimed at the only democracy in the Middle East. Since there was no legitimate reason to prevent Oved’s appointment, SJP and their cohorts came up with contrived grounds that smacked of desperation. They alleged that Oved’s campus political campaigns were supported by a donor who backs Israeli causes.</p>
<p>Aside from being an outright fabrication, there is no rule in any UCLA student charter or handbook that prohibits receipt of such support. Nevertheless, Oved was required to defend himself to the UC Board of Regents against these bogus charges not unlike the way innocent Americans were subjected to witch-hunts and forced to defend themselves during the age of McCarthyism.</p>
<p>At the UC regent hearing, Oved faced an avalanche of pro-Palestinian, anti-Semitic shills who attempted to influence the proceeding with their numbers. Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) executive director Sam Levine and other pro-Israel representatives faced off against the hostile crowd and spoke in support of Oved noting that the objections to Oved’s appointment amounted to nothing more that a smear campaign that is “solely focused on destroying the Jewish State, and intimidating and harassing Jewish students on campus.”</p>
<p>Levine also noted that Jewish students at UCLA as well as pro-Israel supporters are subjected to a persistent campaign of violence and intimidation by Muslim and other anti-Israel groups who aim to discourage pro-Israel activity.</p>
<p>Part of this effort includes forcing prospective student government members to sign a pledge that they would not travel to Israel on trips sponsored by pro-Israel groups. The SJP also tried to invalidate the anti-divestment vote of two student government members claiming that they had traveled on such sponsored trips. These students then had to defend themselves before a formal UCLA judicial inquiry. While they ultimately prevailed, the students had to expend enormous effort to defend themselves against contrived charges, which affected their studies.</p>
<p>Ultimately, responsibility for the campaign of hate and atmosphere of fear that prevails on the campus of UCLA rests with the UCLA administration. Under the guise of allowing freedom of expression and unrestricted exchange ideas, the administration has fostered an atmosphere of intolerance where the only ideas that are allowed to be expressed are those which openly espouse hate and bigotry.</p>
<p>Israel now faces a multi-front war where it battles rockets and terror tunnels from Gaza while at the same time it must confront anti-Semitic inspired delegitimization efforts spearheaded by the SJP and their fascist partners in crime. The failure of the SJP to advance the divestment resolution and torpedo Oved’s appointment as UC regent student representative are positive steps in the right direction but the battle against tyranny, oppression and those who would otherwise wish to see Israel destroyed continues.</p>
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		<title>No Debate Allowed at Anti-Israel UCLA ‘Debate’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Golub]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/piterberg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233968" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/piterberg.jpg" alt="piterberg" width="293" height="209" /></a>Outside of the United Nations, few institutions are as dedicated to anti-Israel rants as the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Near Eastern Studies (<a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=cnes&amp;sa=Search">CNES</a>). A recent CNES <a href="http://web.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/10512">conference</a> titled “The Settler Colonial Paradigm: Debating Gershon Shafir’s ‘Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ on its 25th Anniversary,” was a case in point.</p>
<p>The mouthful of a title refers to University of California, San Diego sociology professor and director of the human rights minor <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=gershon+shafir&amp;sa=Search">Gershon Shafir’s</a> 1995 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Labor-Origins-Isr%C3%A6li-Palestinian-Conflict-1882-1914/dp/0520204018/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1399585732&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Gershon+Shafir+Land%2C+Labor+and+the+Origins+of+the+Israeli-Palestinian+Conflict%E2%80%99">book</a>, <em>Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict</em>. Ignoring 3,000 years of archeological evidence connecting Jews to what is now the land of Israel, Shafir’s unoriginal thesis was that carpet bagging Zionists bought up land and displaced indigenous Palestinians. Calling the conference a “debate” was a misnomer, for that typically requires at least two opposing views. In this case, the Israeli Gershon Shafir offered the Palestinian point of view and none of the speakers’ contested him.</p>
<p>Of the twenty-five or so attendees, at least half were middle-aged and half were presenters, moderators, and other faculty. About five people under thirty showed up, including Shafir’s daughter and her boyfriend, both of whom looked bored.</p>
<p>UCLA history professor and CNES director <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=gabriel+piterberg&amp;sa=Search">Gabriel Piterberg</a>, speaking on the second panel, declared that, “Zionism is a rupture from Judaism, and certainly a rupture from Rabbinic Judaism.” He managed to conclude that this uniquely Jewish movement could be considered “Protestant,” and described Karl Marx’s <em>Communist Manifesto</em> as “a classic in its own right.” Piterberg, who was born in Argentina and grew up in Israel, described himself as a “Palestinian historian”; despite consorting only with likeminded academics, he then castigated “self-designated New Israeli historians” as “insular.”</p>
<p>He offered the usual anti-Israel canards, including the “false Zionist narrative of the 1948 war,” the “Israeli plan to carry out an ethnic cleansing,” and, bizarrely, the “elitist, Marxist, feminist colonization.” He referred to Israel’s founding as the “Nakba,” the Arabic word for “catastrophe” and claimed the “Jewish National Fund” was responsible for “helping settlers buy up land” to “displace” Palestinians.</p>
<p>Next up was <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Beshara+Doumani&amp;sa=Search">Beshara Doumani</a>, director of Middle East studies at Brown University, who coupled harsh criticism of Israel with environmental tropes. After accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocide, he suddenly lamented that “climate change is creating new forms of displacement,” although, he added, the “consequences are not clear.”</p>
<p>He described the two sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict as “one based on hard facts [and] one based on memories” and bemoaned the mythical “settler colonial nature of the Zionist project.” His incisive summation was, “I don’t have a conclusion.”</p>
<p>Doumani conceded that he was “not a historian,” and that “I’ve never done any research on the period after 1860 until now.” In what could have been the tagline for this very conference, he noted that “The more people study” this issue, “the less we know,” before asking rhetorically, “How do they know I am not making any of it up?” Doumani then made one of the more revealing statements of the day:</p>
<blockquote><p>If the world was black and white we would never have a job. Historians, what they really do is erase. That is their number one job.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=david+n.+myers&amp;sa=Search">David N. Myers</a>, chair of the history department at UCLA, showed up very late to deliver the keynote address. He briefly described honored guest Gershon Shafir as a man without “bombast,” “facile reductionism,” “sloganeering,” or “generalizations.” In his remarks, Shafir quickly disproved at least one of Myers’s assertions, as his voice was too quiet to offer bombast. He did, however, thrice reference the “occupied territories” rather than the “disputed territories.”</p>
<p>Shafir then got confused and briefly disagreed with his entire narrative, stating that, “The Hebrew language does not have a term for conquest” before reversing himself and adding, “It does not have a term for occupation, but does have a term for conquest.” His ramblings did little to enliven the audience, at least one member of which, Stanford University Middle East history professor <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=joel+beinin&amp;sa=Search">Joel Beinin</a>, appeared to be taking a nap.</p>
<p>While Shafir was supposed to be the focus, the speakers fawned over Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, a young Arab-Israeli woman who is project coordinator for the Mada al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa and a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University. A key moment in the seminar came when she asked her fellow speakers when exactly the Palestinians became indigenous and none of them, despite basing their entire narrative on the “indigenous Palestinian” story, could answer the question.She had no idea herself, nor an idea how to find the answer.Perhaps that’s because the assertion that they’re indigenous is based not on historical research but on modern misinformation.</p>
<p>The conference was rife with such lapses, but an absent-minded, biased professor is no less damaging than an effective one. Spreading the false narrative of Jews as colonizers and Palestinians as victims, Middle East studies academics are able to corrupt generations of impressionable young minds. And taxpayers are left footing the bill for what amounts to anti-Israel propaganda.</p>
<p><em>Eric Golub is the publisher of the</em> <a href="http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/"><em>Tygrrrr Express</em></a><em> blog. He wrote this article for</em> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/"><em>Campus Watch</em></a><em>, a project of the</em> <a href="http://www.meforum.org/"><em>Middle East Forum</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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		<title>The Cheating Strategies of a Racist College</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 04:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of “Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ch.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-226887 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ch-280x350.jpg" alt="ch" width="208" height="260" /></a>Every professor knows that you can’t prevent students from cheating. Every safeguard can be overcome. Only the ethical makeup of a student will prevent him from cheating. The same is true of a university.</p>
<p>Unfortunately UCLA had its own sense of ethics which not only made cheating ethical and mandatory, but also made covering up that cheating equally ethical and mandatory.</p>
<p>Tim Groseclose’s “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Insiders-Report-Race-Admissions/dp/1457528290">Cheating: An Insider&#8217;s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA</a>” exposes how the school dodged California’s ban on racial preferences.  Groseclose, a professor of American Politics, saw the abuses up close while on the admissions oversight committee and his attempts to find the truth led him into a pitched battle with his own university.</p>
<p>Groseclose is not an opponent of affirmative action. Like his colleagues he believes in racial diversity and racial preferences. He did not however believe in breaking the law that had been made by Proposition 209 which banned racial preferences or in a UCLA admissions process that cheated even its own rules.</p>
<p>“Cheating” is a detailed and dizzying look at UCLA’s admissions process. The complexity of the system allows colleges to dodge even the most explicit bans on racial preferences. UCLA was already using personal stories of hardship as admissions criteria. Had white students benefited from a system that allowed “compelling personal stories” of overcoming trials in the ghetto to outweigh a lack of academic achievements, UCLA would have faced the mother of all civil rights lawsuits.</p>
<p>But that still wasn’t enough.</p>
<p>In a desperate drive for diversity, UCLA switched to a “holistic” process in which both the personal stories and the academic achievements were combined into a single score that “reflected the applicant’s full spectrum of achievement.”</p>
<p>More black readers were hired to help out while Asian readers were underrepresented. A process in which black students were repeatedly advantaged and given multiple chances worked to their benefit.</p>
<p>A Life Challenge Index increased admission chances for students who were single parents, poor or had gone to bad high schools. The graduation rate <a href="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/uc-student-graduation-rates-hit-246210">at UCLA is at 92%.</a> For black men it’s at 74%, down from 84% in 2008, suggesting that UCLA’s attempts at working around affirmative action with socioeconomic metrics led them to bring in a class of minority students less capable of graduating than before.</p>
<p>As academic institutions used to know, accepting unqualified students doesn’t help them, it hurts them.</p>
<p>Every stage of the process led to further racial filtering and discrimination. The result was not diversity, but increasing admissions of African-American students at the expense of Asian students.</p>
<p>The holistic scores had been set up to give black students an advantage, but even that wasn’t good enough and more explicit racial preferences had to be piled on to achieve demographic targets.</p>
<p>26% of African-American students with a holistic score of 3.0 were admitted compared to 3% of North Asian students. 20% of African-American students with a holistic score of 3.5 were admitted compared to 1% of North Asian students.</p>
<p>UCLA’s own review process showed that a third of the black students admitted would not have qualified even based on the holistic scores. That was unsurprising since UCLA’s admission process had become so unselectively racist that black students were being accepted at a 43 percent rate while the rates for white and Asian students were at 15 and 18 percent.</p>
<p>Without the holistic approach however 9 percent more Asian students and 33 percent fewer black students would have been admitted. With it, the number of black students rose dramatically, but the average SAT score for African-American students fell 45 points.</p>
<p>Even UCLA’s Mare report showed that the final and supplemental reviews favored black over Asians students who were otherwise similarly qualified in both academic and life achievements. Instead of diversity, there was a racial rebalancing favoring some minorities at the expense of others.</p>
<p>The number of Native American and Latino students fell. The chance of admission for Vietnamese students tumbled from 28 to 21 percent.</p>
<p>This was the story that UCLA did not want told, not only because it was violating the law, but because numbers like these raise Asian opposition to affirmative action. The effort to overturn Proposition 209 ran into a roadblock from Asian voters worried that it would hurt their children and yet, as Groseclose demonstrates in “Cheating”, it’s impossible to stop unethical universities from cheating on race.</p>
<p>Opponents and supporters of affirmative action have noted that in the aftermath of a ban there would be an immediate fall in black and Latino enrollment, followed by a resurgence. This was accomplished through the use of structurally racial “race neutral” strategies intended to increase minority enrollment.</p>
<p>UCLA is unfortunately far from alone in gaming the system. It was merely copying Berkeley. In states where affirmative action was banned, universities replaced it with “creative” alternative strategies. Some, such as automatically admitting the top students in every high school class, an approach favored by Groseclose, are more meritocratic than others. But all the methods are backdoor affirmative action.</p>
<p>Diversity has become a more fundamental tenet of education than any other and “Cheating” provides an extensive recapitulation of how far colleges will go to preserve it. It’s difficult to stop unethical students from cheating. It’s even more difficult to stop unethical universities like UCLA from cheating.</p>
<p>The problem of affirmative action has become a problem of ethics and liberal lawlessness.</p>
<p>In “Cheating”, Tim Groseclose demonstrates that UCLA not only cheated, but that it lied about it. Six years after Groseclose began looking into UCLA’s racial enrollments, after studies, papers and reports were issued and now a book, UCLA is still determined to go on doing its end run around Proposition 209.</p>
<p>Federal and State civil rights investigators pore over businesses and schools searching for racially discriminatory conspiracies against African-Americans, but they have failed to find these conspiracies. Instead they have had to invent them and sue over disparate impact. But the vast majority of disparate impact claims are not the result of a calculated racial policy. Nor do investigators claim that they are.</p>
<p>However the disparate impact of covert affirmative action in colleges like UCLA is a calculated conspiracy and civil rights investigators won’t touch its blatant discriminatory impact on Asian students.</p>
<p>“Cheating” reveals the process UCLA used to engage in racially discriminatory admissions policies that had an adverse impact on every race except African-Americans. And it’s only one of many colleges that have been doing the same thing.</p>
<p>The greatest civil rights lawsuit of our generation would drag these racist policies out of the shadows and into the light.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Mag that Praised Bin Laden Demands Jewish Student Reject &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; Pro-Israel Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 16:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Islamophobia is a very serious problem. <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ucla-muslim-newsmag-targets-jewish-student">Just ask UCLA&#8217;s Al-Talib</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The editorial board of Al-Talib, the Muslim Newsmagazine at UCLA, called on Jewish student Avinoam Baral to disassociate himself from the pro-Israel program Hasbara Fellowships due to the group&#8217;s alleged Islamophobia. Al-Talib alleged that the Jewish program &#8220;actively (contributes) to violence against Muslims&#8221; and asked that Baral, who is a candidate for Internal Vice President in upcoming UCLA student elections, separate himself from the program.</p>
<p>The newsmagazine asked that Baral &#8220;publicly distance himself from the organization Hasbara Fellowships because of its association with the production and dissemination of Islamophobic documentaries across the United States. Unless Baral distances himself from an organization that disseminates Islamophobia, ties to anti-Muslim networks will remain accepted in campus life and politics.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Talib is of course <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7384">notorious for its incredibly moderate views</a> that in no way <a href="http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/?s=gailey">demonstrate Islamic support</a> for terrorism.</p>
<blockquote><p>In July 1999, Al-Talib featured a cover story titled “The Spirit of Jihad,” which said: “When we hear someone refer to the great mujahideen Osama bin Ladin [sic] as a ‘terrorist,’ we should defend our brother and refer to him as a freedom fighter; someone who has forsaken wealth and power to fight in Allah’s cause and speak out against oppressors.” The same piece characterized bin Laden as a &#8220;philanthropist.&#8221;</p>
<p>In November 2000, Al-Talib praised the ideas of Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden’s spiritual mentor who believes that Islam must conquer the world by means of “jihad and the rifle alone.” “We pray that Sheik Azzam’s dream of a true Islamic state comes true,” said Al-Talib.</p>
<p>The November 2001 edition of Al-Talib featured three full-page, color advertisements soliciting donations for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), the Global Relief Foundation (GRF), and the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF). One month later, each of these pseudo-charities would be closed down by federal agents for funding al Qaeda and Hamas terrorists.</p></blockquote>
<p>It might be more sensible to ask any Muslim student candidate at UCLA to disavow any ties to Al-Talib and the Muslim Students Association.</p>
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		<title>The Meltdown of Danielle Dimacali</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on what a Jew-Hater might not have sobbed about.]]></description>
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<p></b></a>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/">TruthRevolt.org</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>Last week, the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/leftists-melt-down-over-failure-of-ucla-israel-boycott-resolution/print/">UCLA Student Council rejected</a> an anti-Israel divestment resolution by a vote of 7-5, dealing a devastating blow to the BDS movement on campus. <em>TruthRevolt’s</em> Editor-in-Chief, Ben Shapiro, a UCLA alumnus, showed up and delivered <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/shapiro-crashes-ucla-divestment-israel-hearing-resolution-defeated-7-5">a powerful two-minute speech</a> that brilliantly unveiled the pernicious hypocrisy and double standards of the BDS movement.</p>
<p>The BDS movement’s defeat didn’t sit well with the anti-Israel students, especially with a certain Danielle Dimacali, the student council’s note-taker, who engaged in some intriguing behavior in the student council meeting following the resolution’s defeat. The clip of her performance, which included sobbing and pounding on the table, is a must-view.</p>
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<p>In the comments section afterwards at the <em>Daily Bruin</em>, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/leftists-melt-down-over-failure-of-ucla-israel-boycott-resolution/print/">Dimacali accused her critics</a> of “obvious blatant racist microaggression.” Her behavior reflected well the meltdowns of many other BDS supporters, who were <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/leftists-melt-down-over-failure-of-ucla-israel-boycott-resolution/print/">foaming at the mouth</a> about their failure to contribute to the world’s racist assault on the Jewish State.</p>
<p>Upon watching the video of Danielle Dimacali’s response to the momentary defeat of her movement’s mission, I couldn’t keep from wondering a few things:</p>
<p>I wondered how many tears Dimacali had shed for Ilan Halimi, the young French Jewish man in Paris who was kidnapped in 2006 by a group called the “Gang of Barbarians” and <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35352">tortured horrifically</a> over a period of three weeks, which finally ended in his tragic death. <strong>The gang members cut his fingers, ears, bits of his flesh; they burned him with acid and poured flammable liquid on him and set him on fire. </strong>Four-fifths of his body was mutilated by torture.</p>
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<p>I couldn’t help from wondering: how did Dimacali react when she learned of the terror and unimaginable suffering that Ilan had endured? What were her emotions when she thought of how the gang <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/france-muslim-who-tortured-and-murdered-jew-while-quoting-quran-assaults-prison-guards-gets-three-more-years">forced Ilan’s mother to listen to her son’s tortured screams</a> over the phone while they simultaneously recited Quranic verses to her? What were Dimacali’s feelings when, at his trial, the leader of the gang, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/france-muslim-who-tortured-and-murdered-jew-while-quoting-quran-assaults-prison-guards-gets-three-more-years">Youssouf Fofana, smirked at Ilan’s mom and relatives</a> and shouted, “Allahu akbar”?</p>
<p>Did Dimacali sob and pound on a table?</p>
<p>Did she whimper?</p>
<p>Or has she till this day never even heard of Ilan Halimi?</p>
<p>Have any of her friends?</p>
<p>Would she care?</p>
<p>Would they?</p>
<p>I also couldn’t help reflecting on what Dimacali’s emotional reaction must have been when, in March 2011, she learned of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/davidhornik/fogel-family-killers-caught/">the fate of the Fogel family</a> in the West Bank community of Itamar. Two Palestinian teenagers broke into the Fogel’s home and murdered five members of the family &#8212; the parents, 11- and 4-year-old boys, and a 3-month-old girl. They shot the parents to the death; stabbed the boys to death; and slit the throat of 3-month-old crying Hadas.</p>
<p>The two perpetrators, Hakim Mazen Awad, 18, and Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, later, upon interrogation, expressed great regret ….. that they had not killed two other Fogel boys, 8-year-old Roi and 2-year-old Yishai, who were sleeping in the house and were, consequently, left undetected by the two intruders.</p>
<p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.truthrevolt.org/sites/default/files/images/Itamar.gif" /></p>
<p>I couldn’t keep from wondering: what kind of moaning and pounding on a table did Dimacali engage in when she learned of the 3-month-old crying Hadas having her throat slit?</p>
<p>How did Dimacali stutter and whine when she brooded and agonized over how the two murderers are today <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian-tv-airs-show-praising-fogel-family-murderer-1.409858">praised as “heroes” and “legends”</a> in Palestinian society?</p>
<p>Or has Dimacali till this day never even heard of the Fogel family?</p>
<p>Have any of her friends?</p>
<p>Would she care?</p>
<p>Would they?</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>
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				<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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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TruthRevolt's Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing and Elisha Krauss shed light on the tactics that lead to victory.  ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s special editon of <em>The Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <b>Ben Shapiro</b>, the Editor-in-Chief of <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/">TruthRevolt.org</a>, <strong>Elisha Krauss</strong>, Morning Co-Host at KRLA AM 870 The Answer and a staff writer at <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/">TruthRevolt.org,</a> and <strong>Jeremy Boreing</strong>, the Managing Editor of <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/">TruthRevolt.org.</a></p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em>How To Fight The Left in Political War</em>. The dialogue occurred within the context of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/paul-bois/shapiro-crashes-ucla-divestment-from-israel-hearing-resolution-defeated-7-5/">Ben&#8217;s recent successful appearance</a> at the UCLA Divestment from Israel Hearing, in which he blasted both the student sponsors and those considering the anti-Semitic measure.</p>
<p>Other themes included <em>Flashback: Shapiro&#8217;s Debate KO of Piers Morgan,</em> <em>UN Ambassador Samantha Power&#8217;s Jew-Hatred, and much, much more:</em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The BDS movement is one long hysterical tantrum of hatred and self-righteousness.</p>
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The <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/ucla-student-council-rejects-anti-israel-divestment-resolution/">UCLA Student Council rejected a resolution</a> to divest from companies that do business with Israel, including Hewlett Packard, frustrating its sponsors Elizabeth Naameh, Armen Hadjimanoukian, and Omar Arce.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/video-ucla-student-melts-down-after-anti-israel-resolution-defeated/">Legal Insurrection video of Danielle Dimacali, a student notetaker</a> having a meltdown went viral after the event after at which point the Google Hangout session abruptly ended probably to spare her any further embarrassment. Danielle Dimacali began by saying that she rarely speaks at these events and the rest was tears and recriminations.</p>
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<p>In the comments section at the Daily Bruin, Danielle Dimacali accused critics of &#8220;obvious blatant racist microaggression&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>I must have never learned civility? Am I supposed to remain submissive? No, I just know when to stand up for what I believe in and what I believe is right. I will not silence myself or censor my language to make you feel more comfortable.</p>
<p>For the record, my job ends after the meeting has been adjourned. I used to consider good and welfare as a safe space for dialogue with the council members, some of those who I consider my closest friends. I am just as justified as getting impassioned over something as the public commenters. The heat of the moment and the intense emotions I felt led to the deluge of tears and strong diction. How dare you call me uncivil, you don&#8217;t even know me outside of my reaction to something I found extremely upsetting.</p></blockquote>
<p>Later Danielle claimed that she was reacting to how upset her friends were and wasn&#8217;t against Israel.</p>
<p>Twitter was full of equally vocal meltdowns by BDS supporters upset that their latest racist assault on the Jewish State had fallen short of its goals.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Privilege, the idea of superiority, and selfishness&#8230; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UCLAdivest&amp;src=hash">#UCLAdivest</a> decision</p>
<p>— Miguel Juarez (@TheGreaterForce) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheGreaterForce/statuses/438784352982269952">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I am not an equal bruin on this campus. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UCLAdivest&amp;src=hash">#UCLAdivest</a></p>
<p>— Reem Suleiman (@ShitREEMsays) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShitREEMsays/statuses/438783695999098880">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Amazing how racist rhetoric won people over. The UCLA student govt could have been a force for social justice. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UCLAdivest&amp;src=hash">#UCLAdivest</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Shirien شرين (@shishibean) <a href="https://twitter.com/shishibean/statuses/438680714758737920">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JaimesonCortez">@JaimesonCortez</a> a sad day to be a UCLA student.</p>
<p>&mdash; Daniel Silberman (@Dsilbz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dsilbz/statuses/438752840513638401">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Last night&#39;s &quot;I&#39;m for peace&quot; played out as the equivalent of &quot;I&#39;m not racist but&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UCLADivest&amp;src=hash">#UCLADivest</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Remi Kanazi (@Remroum) <a href="https://twitter.com/Remroum/statuses/438720604712472576">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>sad to see that some of these student gov reps didn&#39;t learn a thing after 9 hours <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UCLAdivest&amp;src=hash">#UCLAdivest</a></p>
<p>&mdash; farah (@farahtweets_) <a href="https://twitter.com/farahtweets_/statuses/438674012168658944">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Zionist student: This student council has no right to stop profiting off death. Or something like that. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UCLADivest&amp;src=hash">#UCLADivest</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Remi Kanazi (@Remroum) <a href="https://twitter.com/Remroum/statuses/438531889830563840">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>CM: &quot;The Regents oppose divestment? The Regents are the same people who keep raising our tuition.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UCLAdivest&amp;src=hash">#UCLAdivest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23preach&amp;src=hash">#preach</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Amal (@amal928) <a href="https://twitter.com/amal928/statuses/438657305307906048">February 26, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tre.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211759" alt="tre" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tre-450x287.jpg" width="315" height="201" /></a>About 25 graduate students “of color” <a href="http://dailybruin.com/2013/11/14/ucla-grad-students-stage-sit-in-following-recent-discrimination-report/">staged</a> a sit-in in professor Val Rust’s UCLA classroom recently, alleging that there is a “toxic” racial climate in the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. As partial evidence of that poisonous climate, they complained that the grammar and spelling corrections he made on their dissertation proposals are a form of racial “micro-aggression.”</p>
<p>The demonstration stemmed from a new <a href="http://www.maildoc.ucla.edu/External_Review_Team_Report.pdf">report</a> stating that UCLA’s policies and procedures don’t sufficiently address racial discrimination among the university’s faculty. The organizers alleged several examples, unspecified in the <i>Daily Bruin</i> article, in which minority students faced challenges and “micro-aggressions” from professors. Nora Cisneros, one of the sit-in participants, said they chose to protest Rust’s class because he doesn’t encourage “a climate where students of color can discuss issues of race openly.”</p>
<p>This seems a curious accusation, since one of his <a href="http://gseis.ucla.edu/people/rust">areas of teaching expertise</a> is “ethnic issues in international perspective.” Several of Rust’s current and former students said they thought it was unfair to target him, because he is a supporter of intercultural learning, whatever that is, and that he was being used “as a scapegoat for much larger issues.” Grad student Emily Le said, “It is disturbing that students would make such unfounded accusations based on misperceptions of what they believe as racism.” Disturbing perhaps, but unsurprising considering that racism today exists wherever it suits anyone to see it.</p>
<p>Rust himself believes that the demonstrators have legitimate concerns and that the department should organize a town hall meeting “to begin a dialogue.” Perhaps that dialogue could begin by addressing why graduate students at a major university – in the Department of <i>Education</i> and <i>Information Studies</i>, remember – need to have their grammar and spelling corrected, and why that correction constitutes racism. Rust <a href="http://dailybruin.com/2013/11/20/students-defend-professor-after-sit-in-over-racial-climate/">said</a>, “I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don’t feel that is appropriate.” They don’t feel it’s “appropriate” because they are exploiting their self-designated victim status as an excuse to avoid being held to the department’s <a href="http://gseis.ucla.edu/about/mission-values">stated</a> high academic standard.</p>
<p>In case you’ve been blissfully ignorant until now of this term “micro-aggression,” the UCLA report defines it as “subtle verbal and nonverbal insults directed toward non-whites, often done automatically and unconsciously. They are layered insults based on one’s race, gender, class, sexuality, language, immigration status, phenotype, accent, or surname.” It was <a href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx">coined</a> in 1970 by a psychiatrist to describe acts of racism so subtle that neither the “perpetrator” nor the “victim” is even fully conscious of what is happening. “The invisibility of racial microaggressions may be more harmful to people of color than hate crimes or the overt and deliberate acts of White supremacists such as the Klan and Skinheads,” writes Dr. Derald Wing Sue, author of the influential <i>Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation</i>.</p>
<p>So, unconscious racism that goes unnoticed by both parties is more of a danger than actual lynching – got that? (If you want to see to what ludicrous degree this phantom threat can be carried, check out this McGill University <a href="http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2013/11/movember-as-micro-aggression/">op-ed</a>  by the school paper’s Health and Education editor, Ralph Haddad. He accuses “Movember,” the annual month-long campaign in which men raise awareness of, and funds for, men’s health issues by growing mustaches, of “racist, sexist, and transphobic” micro-aggression.)</p>
<p>Apparently such micro-aggression is a greater concern among the race-obsessed left than the <i>macro</i>-aggression of, say, the “knockout game,” currently a trend among roving gangs of black youth who target random, unsuspecting whites or Jews with sometimes murderous violence. But never mind that; the outrage of these racist spelling corrections must be addressed.</p>
<p>Critics of this theory, such as Kenneth R. Thomas, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, <a href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx">point out</a> that it enforces a victim mentality by creating problems where none exist: “The theory, in general, characterizes people of color as weak and vulnerable, and reinforces a culture of victimization instead of a culture of opportunity.”</p>
<p>Another problem with the theory of racial micro-aggression is that it assumes whites – and only whites – are irredeemably racist even in their most casual, unconscious words or actions. They’re racist even when they’re consciously striving <i>not</i> to be. <i>Nothing whites can do or say or think</i> about race is ever good enough. They are expected to seek forgiveness for this by humiliating themselves in “white privilege” workshops, while other races openly express pride in their own colors and cultures. And they are not allowed to correct the grammar or spelling of non-white graduate students who should have mastered both before they left high school.</p>
<p>At the sit-in, victimized graduate student Cisneros read a letter written collectively by several students which described the class – and the grad school in general – as being “an unsafe climate” for “students of color.” Students took turns sharing their personal experiences. Alma Flores tearfully declared, “As a woman of color, I should not have to get up every single day to have my identity questioned… I am tired of it. I’m tired, and it hurts me so much.” (The <i>Daily Bruin</i> article about the protest is unclear as to how her identity is questioned every single day, or how she is unsafe.)</p>
<p>This is all, of course, an extension of the cultural Marxism of political correctness, the wielding of language as a weapon against the established order. “Islamophobia,” “Israeli apartheid,” “micro-aggression” – the radical left has a genius for such neologisms. The way to defuse these linguistic weapons is simply to refuse to legitimize them, and they will cease to have power. When Professor Rust corrects the grammar and spelling of insufficiently literate graduate students, for example, neither he nor the department nor the school should be cowed by trumped-up accusations of racist micro-aggression. The intellectual standards are the same for everyone – end of story.</p>
<p>Once we as a society stop submitting to the tyranny of feelings, as I call it – bullying by those who wrap themselves in a false mantle of victimhood – then we can get on to the serious business of combating racial macro-aggression and making our streets safe again.</p>
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		<title>California Grad Students Claim Correcting their Spelling is Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students described spelling corrections on their dissertation proposals as "micro-aggression."]]></description>
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<p>Nothing says white privilege like correct spelling.</p>
<p>And who is to say what the correct spelling of a word should be? Why privilege the Euro-centric model of linguistic integrity over a multi-dimensional approach that takes in the voices of everyone and respects their spelling choices?</p>
<p>What about <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/22/ucla-students-say-professor-highlighting-spelling-and-punctuation-errors-is-racist-contributes-to-toxic-racial-climate/">Native American trans-women of color in wheelchairs </a>who refuse to spell to protest the historic injustices against their people?</p>
<blockquote><p>Student demonstrators alleged that there is a “toxic” racial climate in the graduate school, including in Rust’s classroom.</p>
<p>Rust said students in the demonstration described grammar and spelling corrections he made on their dissertation proposals as a form of &#8220;micro-aggression.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don&#8217;t feel that is appropriate,&#8221; Rust said in the letter.</p></blockquote>
<p>I recall a lot of acts of micro-aggression by my teachers. I had no idea that spelling corrections were really acts of war.</p>
<p>Now these are grad students, working on computers that have spell check built in, making spelling errors that are egregious enough to require constant corrections.</p>
<blockquote><p>He said the protesters were also responding to a conversation in class between two students about critical race theory that he allowed to take place by not stopping the discussion.</p>
<p>The demonstration’s organizers said they are aware of several examples in the graduate school where minority students claimed they faced challenges and “micro-aggressions” from professors.</p>
<p>Nora Cisneros, a graduate student who participated in the sit-in, said the group chose to hold their protest because they feel Rust’s class does not encourage a climate where students of color can discuss issues of race openly.</p></blockquote>
<p>Inability to discuss issues of race openly is PC code for someone disagreeing with the contention that all white people are racist. Rust is being targeted because he apparently allowed someone, presumably white, to disagree.</p>
<p>Now the radicals, who are doing the same thing that California students have been doing for a while, will pressure UCLA to hire some of their fellow radicals for top positions.</p>
<p>Meanwhile UC will refuse to address Muslim Anti-Semitism and harassment on campus. Because that form of bigotry is politically correct.</p>
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		<title>Janet Napolitano&#8217;s New University Calls Illegal Immigrant the &#8220;I Word&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Recently the N Word, and by that I mean Janet Napolitano, got a job in a place even more dysfunctional than the United States government. The University of California.</p>
<p>To commemorate her arrival, the UCLA student government, which is a lot like the worst of the United Nations and the European Union combined, have denounced the use of the I Word. Not Idiot, which is the proper name for the people <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/09/03/ucla-banning-racially-derogatory-phrase-illegal-immigrant/">behind this, but Illegal Immigrant</a>.</p>
<p>Considering the success that MSNBC had reducing the Redskins to the R Word, it seems our language will soon be enriched with a lot more truncated unpronounceable words.</p>
<blockquote><p>The undergraduate student government at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the end of the use of the phrase “illegal immigrant,” saying it violates human rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>“The racially derogatory I-word endangers basic human rights including the presumption of innocence and the right to due process guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution,” the resolution states.</p></blockquote>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize illegal immigrant was a race. Apparently now it is.</p>
<p>You may laugh at the stupidity, but people who think in insane ways like these already hold Federal judgeships and even have a place on the Supreme Court.</p>
<blockquote><p>The resolution came in response to undocumented students who had “expressed their concerns and fear with the recent appointment of Janet Napolitano, former US Secretary of Homeland Security,” as the new University of California president.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, if there&#8217;s anything to be worried about it&#8217;s that Janet will provide amnesty to anyone at UCLA failing classes.</p>
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		<title>Pro-Gay and Anti-Israel? ‘Pinkwashing’ to the Rescue</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/cinnamon-stillwell-and-reut-r-cohen/pro-gay-and-anti-israel-pinkwashing-to-the-rescue/steve-rhodes/" rel="attachment wp-att-182927"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-182927" title="Steve-Rhodes" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Steve-Rhodes.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="197" /></a>What’s a pro-gay, anti-Israel activist to do when faced with the fact that the Jewish state is the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/pinkwashing_sexual_assault_on_israel.html">only nation</a> in the Middle East in which not only is it illegal to discriminate against homosexuality, but where homosexuality is celebrated with an annual <a href="http://www.tel-aviv-gay-vibe.com/non-stop-city/2013-pride-parade#.UUiylDefgp4">gay pride parade</a>? To such activists, the answer is obvious: invent a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/04/pinkwashing-another-conspiracy-theory.html">bogus theory</a> called “<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/02/26/pink-anti-semitism-is-no-different-from-brown-anti-semitism/">pinkwashing</a>” that accuses Israel of touting gay rights in order to downplay its alleged oppression of the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The University of California, Los Angeles’s <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=center+near+eastern+studies+cnes&amp;sa=Search">Center for Near Eastern Studies</a> recently jumped into the fray with <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9901">a lecture</a> comically titled, “Pinkwashing: Gay Rights and Queer [sic] Indigeneities” (the term “<a href="http://www.definition-of.com/indigeneity">indigeneities</a>,” an invented piece of <a href="http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/116">academic jargon</a>, is derived from “indigenous”). In a sparsely attended presentation rife with post-colonialist rhetoric, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=nada+elia&amp;sa=Search">Nada Elia</a>, a professor of gender and global studies at Antioch University in Seattle and a member of the <a href="http://www.usacbi.org/about-us/">organizing committee</a> of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic &amp; Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), attempted to align her support for “Palestinian queer activism” with her devotion to all things anti-Israel.</p>
<p>Stating up front that she prefers to be called a “scholar-activist,” Elia wasted no time describing Israel as “a settler-colonial power that violates human rights” and therefore, “has an image problem.” Despite the multicultural and multi-religious <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFroots.html#6">nature</a> of Israeli society, she maintained that “a Jewish state is an exclusive state,” and that:</p>
<blockquote><p>As [Israel] persists in its desire to be a Jewish state, it can only indulge in image-fixing . . . to cover up for the crimes it is unrepentant for.</p></blockquote>
<p>In order to achieve these nefarious goals, Elia claimed Israel, “uses ‘gay-friendly’ as a mask to distract from the reality.” Worse, she noted, referencing <a href="http://forward.com/articles/2070/israel-aims-to-improve-its-public-image/">a quote</a> from Wayne Firestone, the president of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, “the Foreign Ministry [Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs] is sending out the ‘cool, hip people’ to distract from the reality of war.” She lamented that this “propaganda” is only “fixing the image, not the policies.” Never mind that Israel truly is a bastion for “cool, hip people” in the region, as its thriving economy demonstrates; to tell the world as much is considered criminal.</p>
<p>Pointing to the efforts of the Israeli government, Israeli and American citizens, and the <a href="http://israel21c.org/blog/jewish-week-marketing-a-new-image/">Brand Israel group</a>, a volunteer coalition of marketing and communications executives, to draw attention to Israel’s vibrant society, Elia concluded, “This is where the gay market comes in.” Although Israel is by no means the only nation or entity to engage in “gay tourism” and “gay marketing,” she attributes sinister motives to an endeavor that, as she put it, presents Israel as “gay-friendly, unlike the homophobic Palestinians. Israel is civilized; Palestinians are barbaric, homophobic.” Perhaps she should ask gay Palestinians themselves, particularly those who have found <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/secret-freedom-at-tel-avivs-palestinian-queer-party/">acceptance</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/cuny-welcomes-queers-against-israel/">safety</a> in Israel—<a href="http://www.law.tau.ac.il/Heb/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/Nowhere.pdf">limitations</a> based on security concerns notwithstanding—just how “homophobic” their culture really is.</p>
<p>Elia referred to the experience of “queer Palestinians” on several occasions, but only to bash Israel:</p>
<blockquote><p>Israel may be gay-friendly for tourists, citizens . . . but not for Palestinians. Israel is the greater purveyor of institutionalized violence regardless of sexuality. . . .  The queer Palestinian community in Israel has long known that it is disenfranchised not because it’s gay, but because it’s Palestinian.</p></blockquote>
<p>This claim conveniently omits the <a href="http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/21419/for-gay-palestinians-israel-offers-a-chance-at-survival/">grisly details</a> regarding the “institutionalized violence” and “disenfranchisement” meted out to gays in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, including honor killings by and of family members, jail sentences for sodomy (which was decriminalized in Israel in 1987), abduction, torture, rape, and murder.</p>
<p>Tacitly acknowledging the danger to gay Palestinians accused of collaboration, Elia still blamed Israel:</p>
<blockquote><p>A lot of queer Palestinians are suspected of being collaborators. There is some degree of truthfulness because Israel knows—every Palestinian is spied on somehow— if there is suspicion that a Palestinian is gay, they are arrested and then recruited. They threaten to ‘out them.’ This increases the homophobia. It’s aggravating the circumstances of gays in Palestine.</p></blockquote>
<p>Anti-Israel activists have been <a href="http://www.quitpalestine.org/actions/gaymen2.html">plying</a> this conspiratorial charge for years, but Menachem Landau, a veteran of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency quoted in a 2003 <em>Reuters </em><a href="http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/world/palestine/psnews003.htm">article</a>, questioned the logic at hand: “Gays are already treated with suspicion in Palestinian society. So what good are they for covert work?” Moreover, Palestinian police have <a href="http://jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/articled87d.html?articleid=218">been known</a> to torture gays into spying on other homosexuals, while Palestinian terrorists groups—much <a href="http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/128/forced-female-suicide">as they do</a> with “dishonored” women—have tried to coerce them into carrying out suicide bombings.</p>
<p>Elia’s criticism of Israel even extended to gay rights, as she claimed that, “pinkwashing denies there is homophobia in Israel.” Yet she admitted, in a rare moment of lucidity, that “I don’t know any country where there is no homophobia.” She later described “pinkwashing” as a “twenty-first century manifestation of the Orientalist agenda” and, alluding to Rudyard Kipling’s <em>T</em><em>he White Man’s Burden</em>, added:</p>
<blockquote><p>Prior to that colonial powers pretended to save brown women from brown men. Now it’s a matter of saving the brown gays from, primarily, the brown men. It’s the burden of the white gay international.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, it’s left-wing academics such as Elia who see the world in “brown and white” terms.</p>
<p>Beyond peddling the “pinkwashing” meme, Elia proffered a revisionist history aimed at delegitimizing Israel. She denied that, “coming out of the Holocaust [Jews] had to find a safe place,” and instead cited “European” and “imperial expansion” as the impetus for Israel’s founding as a “colonialist-settler movement.”</p>
<p>Claiming, against all evidence, that the “Zionist narrative” viewed the early Arab inhabitants of Palestine as a “subhuman people who shouldn’t exist,” Elia invoked the well-known phrase—<a href="http://www.meforum.org/1877/a-land-without-a-people-for-a-people-without">originated by</a> nineteenth century Christian writers—“a land without a people for a people without a land” to imply that the early Zionists set out to destroy a civilization. In fact, Jews and Arabs coexisted in the region, despite tensions, <a href="http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch17jeru2.htm">long before</a> Israel’s founding and could have done so afterward had the Arabs accepted the offer of their own state in 1948, or some of the many <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFpeace.html#6">offers spurned</a> since.</p>
<p>Elia ascribed malevolence to Israel’s founding and repeated the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/m-zionism_and_the_married_to_another_man_story.html">thoroughly debunked</a> anecdote about two rabbis who, following a fact-finding mission from Vienna to Palestine in the late nineteenth century, were said to have sent back a cable reading, “The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man.” That the story has no basis in history was either unknown or disregarded, both by Elia and her audience, which judging by its behavior during the question and answer period was made up primarily of sycophants. It included two academic members of the USACBI “<a href="http://www.usacbi.org/about-us/">organizing collective</a>” who share Elia’s anti-Israel views: <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2012/01/farewell-to-ucla-sondra-hale">Sondra Hale</a>, professor emerita of anthropology and women’s studies at UCLA, and <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/battle_professors">Sherna Berger Gluck</a>, professor emerita of women’s studies and history at California State University, Long Beach. Elia was in her element.</p>
<p>No audience member asked an obvious question: In light of Israel’s purported “settler-colonialism” and “pinkwashing” and the discrimination gay Palestinians face in their own society, what are the alternatives? Had they done so, Elia might have elaborated on her utopian proposal, outlined in the lecture’s <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9901">announcement</a>, for “a queer state, which allows individual citizens to define themselves as they wish, without losing power, entitlement, or safety.” Given the reaction that a Jewish state has elicited in the region, one can only imagine how a “queer state” would be received. Yet Elia and her fellow travelers prefer a fictional “queer state” to an actual country where gays are welcomed—a sure sign that, for them, bigotry trumps reality.</p>
<p>NB: If you wish to make your views known to University of California, Los Angeles Chancellor Gene Block, he can be reached at:</p>
<p><em>Email: </em><a href="mailto:chancellor@ucla.edu" target="_blank">chancellor@ucla.edu</a><br />
<em>Phone: </em><a href="tel:310-825-2151" target="_blank">310-825-2151</a><br />
<em>Fax: </em><a href="tel:310-206-6030" target="_blank">310-206-6030</a></p>
<p>The office of Antioch University Seattle President Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet may be contacted at:</p>
<p><em>Email: </em><a href="mailto:cmanuelito@antioch.edu" target="_blank">cmanuelito@antioch.edu</a><br />
<em>Phone: </em><a href="tel:206-268-4105" target="_blank">206-268-4105</a></p>
<p><em>Reut R. Cohen (</em><a href="http://www.reutrcohen.com"><em>www.reutrcohen.com</em></a><em>), a journalist, researcher, and photographer, co-wrote this article with Cinnamon Stillwell, the West Coast Representative for</em> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/"><em>Campus Watch</em></a><em>, a project of the</em> <a href="http://www.meforum.org/"><em>Middle East Forum</em></a><em>. She can be reached at</em> <a href="mailto:stillwell@meforum.org"><em>stillwell@meforum.org</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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		<title>Pushing ‘Palestine’ at UCLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/reut-cohen/pushing-palestine-at-ucla/swrnnucla/" rel="attachment wp-att-177742"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-177742" title="swrnnucla" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/swrnnucla.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="203" /></a>The United Nations General Assembly’s decision to grant “non-member state observer” status to the Palestinians in November, 2012 was the latest salvo in the never ending quest to create a mythical state of “Palestine” unburdened by concessions to coexistence with Israel. A recent <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9789">panel discussion</a>, “Palestine &amp; the UN,” at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) took up the subject with mixed results. Sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES), the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, and the Burkle Center for International Relations, the event was well-attended, with an audience of approximately 100 comprised of students and community members.</p>
<p>Asli Bali, a professor at the UCLA School of Law <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=asli+bali&amp;sa=Search">not known</a> for providing a balanced approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, was in this instance the more objective voice on the panel. She was the only speaker to point out that this was not the Palestinians’ first time declaring statehood at the UN and, she added, “It may not well be the last time.”</p>
<p>Making a solid case that the Palestinians’ bolstered status is largely symbolic, she noted that Fatah “put itself back on the map” by finding “a non-military way” to score a success. Employing a term often associated with critics of Islamism, she summed it up as a successful example of “lawfare.”</p>
<p>She went on to characterize Egypt as a “patron” of Hamas in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but pointed to a fissure in the relationship. Referring to Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense in November, 2012, she stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>Egypt was extremely upset about the seven-day operation that took place in Gaza, and what they were upset with was Hamas. [They] were pressing Hamas to absolutely unilaterally desist in what was, at the end of the day, pinprick attacks in any case, but to unilaterally desist.</p></blockquote>
<p>By “pinprick attacks” Bali was referring presumably to the thousands of rockets indiscriminately fired at Israel’s populace over the last decade. Southern Israel, in particular, has <a href="http://www.idfblog.com/facts-figures/rocket-attacks-toward-israel/">been hit</a> with over 8,000 rockets since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, resulting in psychological trauma, injuries, and death.</p>
<p>Steven Spiegel, director of UCLA’s Center for Middle East Development, identified himself as the panelist presenting Israel’s side, but was, in fact, less neutral than Bali. He even announced at one point: “My agenda is to get Israel outside of the West Bank.”</p>
<p>Spiegel spent much of his time lambasting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s “right wing” for not promoting peace. “There are many Netanyahus,” Spiegel said, arguing that Netanyahu has alienated many Israeli voters and Western states. “Israelis are tired of paying for settlements,” he added, suggesting that if Netanyahu joins forces with right-wing elements “the Orthodox will be asking him for money for his Yeshivas every couple of days.”</p>
<p>It is worth noting that it was right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin who, along with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, reached a peace accord that would be difficult to reproduce in today’s rapidly Islamizing Middle East.</p>
<p>Spiegel suggested that a lack of assurance from the Palestinian Authority ultimately caused several nations to abstain from voting in the November, 2012 decision, pointing to what he characterized as a well-founded concern over how the Palestinians would use, or abuse, the International Criminal Court as a weapon against Israel.</p>
<p>Arguing that in the days preceding Israeli elections, Palestinians often engage in “physical violence” that sways the Israeli population to vote for the right-wing establishment, Spiegel added,</p>
<blockquote><p>It is true that Abu Mazen almost blew it by announcing a few days ago, right before the election, that the Zionists and the Nazis had been in cahoots in the 1930s—not something to make Israeli voters feel good about the Palestinians.</p></blockquote>
<p>Contradicting his original theory, he concluded that, “it wasn’t something as dramatic as a UN vote and it wasn’t a physical attack, so it does seem, from what we know, that the Israeli voters ignored that series of stupidities.”</p>
<p>Spiegel suggested that Israeli society is largely indifferent to, or even supportive of, the Palestinian bid: “Most Israelis of any stripe would accept, if the Palestinians wanted it, a situation where the Palestinians were the Vatican and the Israelis were Italy.” Currently, the other UN non-member state is the Holy See, also known as the Vatican.</p>
<p>Despite Spiegel’s claim to represent “Israel’s side,”  he proffered an extremely narrow view of Israeli society, portraying right-wing elements as radical and, to some extent, tarring centrist Israelis with the same brush by suggesting that Yair Lapid—founder and chair of Yesh Atid, the second largest party in the Knesset—is “no dove.”</p>
<p>Although the panel discussion was indicative of the obsession in Middle East studies with blindly pushing the “Palestine” narrative—often at the expense of Israel—in contrast to the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=center+near+eastern+studies+cnes&amp;sa=Search">vast majority</a> of CNES-sponsored events involving the Arab-Israeli conflict, this one was uncharacteristically subdued. At some point, reality has to set in, even in academia.</p>
<p><em>Reut R. Cohen is a journalist, researcher, and photographer. You can follow her at </em><a href="http://www.reutrcohen.com/"><em>www.reutrcohen.com</em></a><em>.</em> <em>She wrote this article for</em> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/"><em>Campus Watch</em></a><em>, a project of the</em> <a href="http://www.meforum.org/"><em>Middle East Forum</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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		<title>UCLA Honors Sharia Apologist Khaled Abou El Fadl</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[University celebrates a defender of Islamic human rights abuses.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Retraction: FrontPage Magazine wishes to retract a quote attributed to Professor George Bisharat of the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, which appeared in the original version of the article below. The statement, “[B]ut when I dug deeper and spoke with the dean, it was clear to me that it was the Jews. The Jews were behind a united attempt to silence academic freedom,” was never made and, therefore, it has been removed from the article. We apologize to Prof. Bisharat for the appearance of this quote. </strong></p>
<p>Academic self-congratulation reached new heights at the University of California, Los Angeles on March 21, 2012, with “An Event Honoring Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl.” <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Khaled+Abou+El+Fadl&amp;sa=Search">Abou El Fadl</a>—Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law and chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA—was feted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA School of Law <em>Journal of Near Eastern and Islamic Law</em>, the UCLA School of Law Muslim Law Students Association, and the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program. Eighty students, professors, and community members gathered to commemorate “the world’s leading authority on Islamic law and Islam, and the prominent scholar in the field of human rights,” according to the <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9338">event description</a>. In reality, Fadl is <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/1841/stealth-islamist-khaled-abou-el-fadl">an apologist</a> for radical Islam who routinely <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11248">denies</a> valid concerns over the human rights abuses inherent to Sharia (Islamic) law while <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10523">charging its critics</a> with “<a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12187">Islamophobia</a>.”</p>
<p>Cheryl Harris, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights at UCLA, opened the event by hailing Abou El Fadl as a hero in “the struggle against Islamophobia in America.” Persecuted for the “sins he has committed . . . from the sin of being a scholar to standing up against the egregious vilification of Muslims in the West,” Abou El Fadl—in Harris’s fevered imagination—is a victim of slander from both liberals and conservatives. Ratcheting up the melodrama even further, she then declared that “the Korematsu trope has been recycled in the post-9/11 world against Muslims,” referring to the 1944 United States Supreme Court case deciding the constitutionality of the order to intern Japanese-Americans during WWII. This ludicrous comparison has been made on <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11269">more</a> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11219">than</a> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11560">one</a> such occasion; it never seems to lose its appeal to academic peddlers of victimhood.</p>
<p>Continuing this theme, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=george+bisharat&amp;sa=Search">George Bisharat</a>, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, reveled in sinister—albeit imaginary—campaigns to stifle academic freedom. He focused on a March 2011 Hastings conference that he organized titled, “Litigating Palestine: Can Courts Secure Palestinian Rights?” The conference featured a roster of anti-Israel speakers advocating the delegitimization of Israel through U.S. courts—otherwise known as lawfare. Because of the radical, one-sided nature of the conference, local Jewish leaders expressed their reservations to Hastings dean Frank Wu, who subsequently canceled his welcoming address and the law school’s official co-sponsorship. Bisharat objected to Wu’s actions, telling the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/13/BABN1IV958.DTL"><em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></a> that “opponents had wrongly accused the conference of ‘Israeli-bashing.” Yet journalist Stephen Schwartz, who attended the conference and reported on it for Campus Watch, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11219">wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In fact, that’s exactly what took place at the conference. The anti-Israeli rhetoric of the participants was notably extreme, and even bizarre. . . . Hastings officials were correct in withdrawing their sponsorship and canceling the participation of their dean in this effort.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Willful Blindness Toward Terrorists at UCLA a Decade After 9-11</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of California hosts a peculiar roundtable discussion.]]></description>
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<p>The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted a <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9002">roundtable discussion </a>last month titled, “After a Decade of the ‘War on Terror’: The Middle East, Human Rights and American Muslims.” Sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program, the event featured UCLA law professor Asli Bali, University of California, Santa Barbara sociology professor Lisa Hajjar, and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Southern California attorney Ahilan Arulanantham. The audience of approximately twenty people was comprised mostly of law and graduate students, along with a few members of the community.</p>
<p>According to the introduction, the speakers were to “examine this decade on the war on terror in the broader context of the international community,” but the two-hour event quickly descended into a forum for America-bashing. All three speakers called the existence of Islamic terrorism into question and, what’s worse, behaved as if the attacks of September 11, 2001 never occurred.</p>
<p>Bali of UCLA Law began by framing the discussion around how “the war on terror has affected the international law community and American Muslims.” She argued that the “war on terror has created a political entrepreneurial class that has benefited from the war” and called the Patriot Act a “violation of the Fourth Amendment” that has played out “quite viciously on the global stage.”  The U.S., Bali maintained, has been allotted extraordinary executive license and now has the “power to detain anyone, even U.S. citizens.”</p>
<p>Presenting <a href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/sc7158.doc.htm">U.N. Resolution 1373</a>—a counter-terrorism measure passed unanimously on September 28, 2001 to restrict the movement, organization, and fundraising activities of terrorist groups—as evidence of America’s overarching power, Bali concluded that this “is a case in point of how the U.S. has sculpted and shifted the global community to do what they want.” With no evidence, she then asserted that the American “and the Israeli government benefit economically from the resolution.” In sum, Bali whitewashed the events of 9/11, bashed the U.S., and ignored countries that harbor Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham followed and called America’s detention program abroad into question. Urging the U.S. to have “some sort of accountability for abusing and torturing humans,” Arulanantham limned a portrait of America as a dictatorial state that “secretly detains people abroad.” Building on Bali’s insinuation that the U.S. conducts secret and illegal missions worldwide, he called upon the audience to “look into worldwide cases of people being secretly detained and tortured, some of whom are U.S. citizens.” Labeling the U.S. “a surveillance industrial complex,” Arulanantham advised audience members to obtain a “freedom of information act form in order to acquire information from the government about what is happening on your own campus.” Arulanatham’s paranoid assertion that the U.S. government, with the assistance of local FBI cells, is secretly “monitoring the lives of students on college campuses” illustrated the level of fear mongering at this event.</p>
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		<title>R.I.P.  Christopher Hitchens</title>
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<p>I hesitate to join the already Mormon Tabernacle-scale chorus of tributes to Christopher Hitchens.  For one thing, to my great regret, I never knew him, although we had many mutual friends.  (One of whom sent me, a couple of years ago, shortly before I was to visit Washington, D.C., an e-mail saying that Hitchens had expressed the desire to meet me; alas, I somehow didn&#8217;t notice the e-mail until after I&#8217;d returned home.)  But while I didn&#8217;t know Hitchens, he was too important a part of the landscape of my life for me not to say a few words about him now that he is gone.  And in this time of sadness I want to focus on one thing that cheers me – namely, the knowledge that there were more than a few young people who felt his influence.</p>
<p>For this influence there is ample evidence. On You Tube, you can see videos of his talks and debates at institutions of higher education ranging from Oxford and UCLA to the University of Waterloo and the College of New Jersey.  Seeing such videos always gave me a good feeling, as did the occasional glimpse of a young person reading one of his books.  It was encouraging to know that students were being exposed to him.  And since his death I&#8217;ve been pleasantly surprised to see how many young people have gone to the trouble of uploading You Tube tributes to him.  He did indeed have an impact on the young.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s a good thing – for many reasons.  First of all, he was a fearless champion of individual liberty and human dignity – a man who, in the wake of 9/11, saw through the moral vacancy and hypocrisy of the left and broke with his sometime leftist comrades to stand up for freedom and against totalitarian tyranny.  In a time when when American teenagers borrow exorbitant sums of money (or bankrupt their parents) to attend colleges and universities where they&#8217;re taught contempt for everything their country stands for, Hitchens offered a salutary model of rebellion against leftist orthodoxy, of having a mind of one&#8217;s own and insisting on using it.</p>
<p>For such young people, “educated” by faculty-lounge foot soldiers who offer up bold-sounding battle cries but who are always desperately, timidly careful about toeing the lines of academic orthodoxy, Hitchens provided an admirable example of intellectual honesty, integrity, and courage, a first-rate lesson in independently observing the world, reflecting upon it, and developing and presenting arguments about it, orthodoxies be damned.  You didn&#8217;t have to agree with everything he said – who did? – to admire his constant readiness to say it as he saw it.  No lesson could be more important to a generation of students instructed by the spineless careerists and lockstep lemmings of the academy, whose mind-numbing, reality-immune ideological claptrap is enough to crush the intellectual ambitions of even the most gifted students – enough to make them cynical about the very idea of ideas.  (Either that, or enough to turn them into so many little copies of their teachers, churning out papers, essays, and eventually books saying the approved things about the approved topics in the approved kind of prose.)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[SE Cupp from Glenn Beck&#8217;s GBTV program interviewed two of the student leaders we worked with last Spring in addition to David Horowitz about the &#8220;Wall of Lies&#8221; campaign.  We&#8217;ll be putting more walls up this Spring on more campuses across the country to combat the genocidal lies being told by anti-Israel hate groups like [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SE Cupp from Glenn Beck&#8217;s GBTV program interviewed two of the student leaders we worked with last Spring in addition to David Horowitz about the &#8220;Wall of Lies&#8221; campaign.  We&#8217;ll be putting more walls up this Spring on more campuses across the country to combat the genocidal lies being told by anti-Israel hate groups like the Muslim Students Association, Students For Justice in Palestine, and their allies on the left.  For more information go to <a href="http://freedomcenterstudents.org/2011/12/gbtv-video-feature-on-our-spring-campus-campaign/www.walloftruth.org">www.walloftruth.org</a></p>
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		<title>Using the ‘Arab Uprisings’ to Bash America and Israel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judith Greblya]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_112937" style="width: 385px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cole-gelvin-pic-kc-kte.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-112937" title="cole-gelvin-pic-kc-kte" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cole-gelvin-pic-kc-kte.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Juan Cole and James Gelvin</p></div>
<p>On Thursday November 10, 2011, approximately sixty people gathered for a lecture hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Near Eastern Studies. The <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9001">event</a> was titled, “Taking Stock: The Arab Uprising on the Eve of Their First Anniversary” and it featured two history professors, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=james+gelvin&amp;sa=Search">James Gelvin</a> of ULCA and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=juan+cole&amp;sa=Search">Juan Cole</a> of the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Though the two-hour event promised to illuminate the various particulars and multi-layered realities of the Arab uprisings, it quickly dwindled into a platform for the type of postcolonial, anti-American, and anti-Israel rhetoric typical to the field of Middle East studies, and certainly to the notoriously biased <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2609/the-israel-palestine-conflict">Gelvin</a> and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11109">Cole</a>.</p>
<p>Gelvin began by noting that although each Arab uprising has its own historical roots and contexts, there were four principle causes: failed neoliberal U.S. policies; demographics; the international food system; and the “brittle” nature of Arab countries. Under the aegis of “benefits for compliance,” he claimed, the Middle East was introduced to a form of “crony capitalism” that led to economic inequality. He went so far as to insist that the “Arab world, the recent strikes in Israel, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the Chilean student strikes” were all reactions to these allegedly failed economic policies. In Gelvin’s myopic and reductionist view of the world, all revolts result from an egregious “rift between the rich and poor.”</p>
<p>Cole followed suit by claiming that “progressive youth . . . spearheaded this movement with real sympathies for the working class.” Downplaying the role of religion in each revolt, he scoffed at suggestions that the Muslim Brotherhood has been a major player in the Egyptian uprising. “These revolutions,” he maintained, “are largely secular and national.” Cole must have missed the June 2011 <a href="http://thequeue.gallup.com/2011/06/inside-new-egypt-what-egyptians-tell.html">Gallup</a> poll showing that:</p>
<blockquote><p>[A] majority of Egyptians (69 percent) want religious leaders to have an advisory role in writing national legislation. Egyptians say they support the Muslim Brotherhood more than support other parties.</p></blockquote>
<p>When a woman from the audience asked him about <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-14/tunisian-islamist-party-victory-confirmed-after-election-appeals.html">the success</a> of the Islamist Ennahdha party in Tunisia’s recent election, Cole, after deeming the question “good,” proceeded to change the subject. “Most of our news is capitalist news,” he stated, and then asked the audience: “How many of you heard about the strikes in Israel this summer?” A fourth of the audience raised their hands. “There’s a reason that so few heard about the revolts,” he added conspiratorially. What this had to do with the Tunisian election remains a mystery to which, apparently, only the “capitalist news” is privy.</p>
<p>During the question and answer session, both Cole and Gelvin—engaging in an ahistorical and asinine comparison—insisted that the Occupy Wall Street movement and last summer’s tent protesters on Israel’s Rothchild Avenue took “inspiration from Tahrir square.”</p>
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