Bloody hell! Huffpo reports that Jews ‘do not reign supreme’ in Manhattan

by on July 2, 2009 8
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Columbia student Anna Kelner, writing on America's blog:

On Monday, when Columbia University granted tenure to Joseph Massad -- the professor of Modern Arab politics whose alleged intimidation of pro-Israeli students likely doomed his first tenure bid in 2005 -- the University jeopordized [sic] its long-standing commitment to cultivating and supporting its Jewish student population....
Its students, Jewish and otherwise, will simply have to remember that even in Manhattan, even at Columbia, Jews and liberals do not reign supreme.
Thanks to Saif Ammous.

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  1. Richard Witty says:
    July 3, 2009 at 12:21 am

    If he actually intimidated pro-Israeli students, his tenure should have been in jeopardy.

  2. Craig11 says:
    July 3, 2009 at 1:18 am

    "Even in Manhattan, even at Columbia"? Why should anyone expect that Jews "reign supreme" there? Is she mistaking Columbia University for a synagogue?

  3. MRW says:
    July 3, 2009 at 5:40 am

    Her article has a warped sense of entitlement that is sooooo unattractive. Her article whines. And why did HuffPo give this kid so many inches?

  4. Margaret says:
    July 3, 2009 at 7:19 am

    With the less powerful voice of a student, she is repeating the threat of her elders that Columbia jeopardizes its funding by Jewish alumni if it doesn't privilege the pro-Israel perspective. Good for Columbia! Such thoughts percolate through society until, finally, with a sigh and perhaps a whimper, they disappear – to be remembered only as past legends. "We are making history!" was a child's response to a news person's question about fortress building activity at the beach, part of a recent feature on unusually mild weather. From which opening the article goes on, without other comment, to compare the temperatures of the last week to averages.

  7. KatinPhilly says:
    July 3, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Richard – the fact that Massad was given tenure illustrates the spuriousness of the charges that he intimidated students (other than those who feel intimidated by any views that don't exactly correlate with their own, and by those professors who refuse to kowtow to them unconditionally). This article was filled with self-entitlement and ignorance, not to mention a complete misunderstanding of what being a student in a university is all about. I suggested there that she should actually take a course with Massad, and then come back and report to us. She would have a hell of a lot more credibility, even if she took the same stand. You can emphatically disagree with Massad, but this was a shoddy, red-herring opinion piece that wouldn't even be published in the New York Post (I take that back – maybe it would).

  8. ThorsProvoni says:
    July 4, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Note the standard intellectually dishonest racist Jewish Zionist attempt at intellectual intimidation.

    Similarly, by calling an Israeli an anti-Semite or a Nazi, Massad shows disrespect for the years of oppression the Jews suffered under the Nazi regime. Hypothetically, the Israelis could be racist or tyrannical, but to deem them anti-Semitic Nazis is to fail to appreciate the Holocaust's lasting impact both on Israel and on the wider Jewish community. These words cannot be simply re-appropriated, no matter what the cause; they connote long-lasting and painful memories.

    In Open Letter to MPAC, I write:

    Now that American and Israeli Jews have revealed the true face of Zionist genocidalism in Gaza, fake dialogues in which Muslims (or Christians) get together with Jewish hypocrites to pretend to have a serious discussion while participants ignore ongoing and longstanding Jewish barbarism makes no sense whatsoever. Today, non-Jews should only meet with Jewish groups to demand that Jews apply to themselves the same standard that they apply to everyone else. In other words, just as Jews demand that non-Jews acknowledge, take responsibility for, and show remorse for the anti-Jewish crimes that have arisen from non-Jewish politics, Jews must likewise acknowledge, take responsibility for and show remorse for the anti-gentile crimes that have arisen from Jewish politics. There really is no value in talking with Jews that do not admit that Zionism is ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism, that the State of Israel routinely engages in terrorism, and that the only just solution consist of the dismantlement of the Zionist state, the eradication of Zionism, trials for Jewish perpetrators of crimes against humanity, repatriation of the native population, and reconveyance of properties to their rightful owners.

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