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Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, has publicly denounced Israel as being responsible for the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7: “‘Genocidal Intent’: Brown University Holocaust Professor Blames Israel for Hamas Terrorism,” by Alec Schemmel, Washington Free Beacon, December 6, 2023:
Even if Hamas were somehow removed from Gaza—as the Palestine Liberation Organization was removed from Beirut—there is no known plan by the Israeli government as to what would happen next,” Bartov wrote. “The Israelis do not want responsibility for governing an additional 2 million Palestinians; nor does Egypt.” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the nation’s military will control Gaza following the war.
There is no “known plan” about what happens in Gaza after Hamas is destroyed, or rather, there is no plan known to Professor Omer Bartov. There is the stale and unworkable notion — it’s hardly a plan — pushed by the Bidenites, for a “two-state solution” that will never come to pass. I suspect Bartov likes that the best, because this so-called “solution” would force Israel to be squeezed back within the now indefensible 1949 armistice lines. There are those who have other ideas. The one I keep proposing here at Jihad Watch is this: after the fighting ends, the IDF takes a few months to search for, and destroy, every last tunnel, and every last weapons storehouse, above or below ground. At the same time, even before Israel’s task of destruction of tunnels and weapons is complete. the UAE and Saudi Arabia could be persuaded to take on the task of ruling Gaza, at least as long as the Strip is undergoing reconstruction with funds largely provided by those two surpassingly rich countries.
In addition to Bartov, Brown professor of Palestinian studies Beshara Doumani has endorsed the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to wage economic warfare on Israel. The movement’s founder, Omar Barghouti, has touted BDS as a way to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state” and “turn Israel into a pariah state.”…
I see that “Palestinian studies” are well represented at Brown. Not only is there a professor of Palestinian studies — who wants to wage economic warfare against Israel — but even the professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies seems more interested in supporting the Palestinians and denouncing Israel than in supporting the Jews in their attempt to head off a second holocaust.
Professor Doumani has been working behind the scenes, helping the Brown chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) compose their response to the October 7 Hamas attack, which attack Doumani — and the SJP students — have the maddening gall to blame not on the perpetrator Hamas, but rather on the victim, Israel.
There is fear on the Brown campus, but it is one-sided. None of the SJP students are fearful. They know that they will suffer no consequences from the administration for their blaming Israel for “causing” the attacks on October 7. No hordes of Jewish students will chant slogans against them, or try to attack them. At Brown, it is the Jewish students who are now in a permanent state of fear. The campus for them is unsafe. The professor of Holocaust studies, whom one might have expected would display solidarity with Jews after experiencing the largest antisemitic attack since the Nazis, and show sympathy for Jewish fears on campus, instead has taken the side of Hamas, blaming Israel for the current conflict. Remember what he claimed in a recent article: “If you keep over 2 million people under siege for 16 years [sic], cramped in a narrow strip of land, without enough work, proper sanitation, food, water, energy and education, with no hope or future prospects, you cannot but expect outbreaks of ever more desperate and brutal violence,” wrote Bartov.
There has been no 16-year “siege,” but only a narrowly-tailored blockade of “dual-use” materials, such as cement and steel rods, that can be used to build tunnels and bunkers. The fact that there is not enough work in Gaza is hardly Israel’s fault; it is due entirely to the corruption and mismanagement by Hamas itself, three of whose leaders (Khaled Meshaal, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Ismail Haniyeh) have stolen from the aid meant for Gaza the colossal sum of eleven billion dollars. Israel has tried to alleviate the problem by providing well-paying jobs for 20,000 Gazans — a number it was about to increase before October 7, but of course since then, no Gazan workers have been allowed into Israel, given the belief that some of those guest-workers provided intelligence to Hamas about the layout of both kibbutzim and the house shelters, and the placement of security details.Contrary to Bartov, the Israeli “siege” never included food or medicine; Israel also had been supplying Gaza, until October 7, with food, water, and 50% of its electricity. None of this is taken into account by Omer Bartov. It is entirely possible he knows none of this, but more likely, he is counting on his audience not knowing.
Projectionism- an Islamofascist trait for the past 1,400 years.
The lies about the supposed siege are repeated endlessly, and the ignorant believe them.
Gaza had many amenities, including malls and fine dining. Hamas doled out resources to
those they favored.
I happen not to be Jewish, but, if I were a Jewish student at one of these universities I would be giving serious consideration to completing my degree online at one of the universities in Israel. Or even in person in Israel. Why should universities which fail to protect law-abiding students benefit from their course fees?
Agree. I’d do that. But in effect that denied access to education degrees and future jobs to Jewish people who are American citizens. This situation is unfair discriminatory racist and should be illegal.
If you’ve read about Holocaust Nazi Germany, they expelled Jewish students and professors. This does the same.
Someone at FrontPage might want to email this article to Candace Owen’s, because back in what 2019 she made her idiotic comment about “oh, all those oppressed Palestinians,” living like blacks did in the US, back in the days of segregation. Which as a supposive fan of Thomas Sowell, she would not insult Black’s from that Era, because they were literally discriminated against and they STILL managed to thrive, post 60’s. Palestinians UNLIKE the actual history of Black Americans CHOSE a Terrorist organization to be their governing body. They CHOSE it. A better comparison would have been, (if she wasn’t listening to the upper crust elite husband of hers, Who grew up in a part of the society in the UK that is known to be very antisemitic.) A better analogy would be, today’s inner city Black Americans, that keep voting for the “Plantation Democrat Party.” Over n Over no matter how their cities n culture desend into poverty and violence. But , they keep voting for the Dems.
The war criminals need to go before international tribunals. Parents who used children as human shields should lose custody. The rest of the people need to be dispersed to obscure places with no Muslims. The countries can be bribed to take them, and the emigres can be given grants and loans, plus personal assistance to adjust to the new society and develop a successful business. After October 7th, no two state solution is possible.
Can’t disperse them to places with no muslims as if there are two of the opposite sex they will breed and keep doing it till there are too many in a place they shouldn’t be. Letting them in has been the problem.
Why would the UAE and Saudi Arabia want to get involved in governing Gaza? They wouldn’t. There is not a single benefit which would accrue to them, only endless grief. No one wants to get involved; everyone remembers what Palestinians did in Jordan and Kuwait. Egypt has said it’s willing to accept millions of deaths to keep a single Pali from entering Egypt. I think a large artificial island ten miles out is the best solution. It’s been considered for over ten years, and is thought to be practicable and affordable. Then the UN would have to support them; Israel would be out of the picture except for reasons of its own security.
Omer Bartov’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies course must be a how-to.
Deport all Muslims, citizens or not, from the West. Islam is antithetical to everything America and the west stands for.
Islam continues to attack the Christian world for over 1400 years after Christianity was established peacefully in the middle east 600 years before militant and political islam was spawned from hell.
There never was a siege in the well understood meaning of the word. Certain restrictions may perhaps have been imposed but only after Hamas-Daesh took over Gaza, start smuggling weapons and lauched rockets at Israel’s civilian population.
The amount of utter untruth taught on campus is repulsive. Other professors and alumni should be informed and there should be a boycott of donations until and unless these Arab studies programs are eliminated. They are intellectually and morally bankrupt. Please keep us posted.
Your solution of rule by UAE or Saudi Arabia is naïve. With the knowledge of 1400 years of Jihad and the number of Jews murdered over that period starting with Mohammed, the only solution to anyone looking at this rationally is that the 2 million arabs in Gaza need to be relocated to their “brother” countries. A great solution suggested was to condition US billions of support to Egypt, Jordan and Turkey upon them absorbing the Gazans. They could each absorb <1% of their population and all the Gazans would have a new home with their brethren.