did Harvard invite Orval Faubus and Bull Connor to speak in ’60s?

by on October 30, 2009 5

Harvard Crimson. Some guy with racist attitudes who served in Knesset…

According to the flyer, Eitam had previously said that Palestinians are a “cancer in the body of the nation” and advocated that Israel “expel most of the Judea and Samaria (West Bank) Arabs from here…Palestinians should be used as human shields by the IDF.”

The event was organized by the Harvard Students for Israel and sponsored by the Jewish National Fund and Media Watch International—a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing Israel’s image through accurate coverage.

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  1. potsherd says:
    October 30, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    If someone said that “Jews are a cancer in the flesh of humanity,” “Jews should be driven into the sea,” I doubt if he would be given many invitations.

  2. tree says:
    October 30, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Eitam is worse than Faubus and Connor. He is not just in favor of segregation and greater rights for Jews than non-Jews, he advocates ethnic cleansing of non-Jews from both Israel within the green line and the occupied territories.

    “We will have to expel the great majority of the Arabs of Judea and Samaria,” Eitam said. “It’s impossible with all those Arabs, and it’s impossible to give up the territory. We’ve already seen what they’re doing there,” he said.

    It was the first time that Eitam, who heads the Religious Zionism faction within the National Union, has publicly supported deportation of Palestinians.

    Turning to the subject of Israeli Arabs, Eitam said, “We will have to take another decision, and that is to sweep the Israeli Arabs from the political system. Here, too, it’s clear and simple. We’ve raised a fifth column, a league of traitors of the first rank. Therefore, we cannot continue to enable so large and so hostile a presence within the political system of Israel.”

    From Haaretz, reporting on statements Eitam made in September of 2006.

  3. spuxx says:
    October 31, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Give them enough rope I say

  4. Chaos4700 says:
    October 31, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    “…a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing Israel’s image through accurate coverage.”

    Huh. Oddly enough, by sponsoring Effi Eitam they managed to do the opposite — advancing accurate coverage of through Israeli’s image — considering what colorful quotes he generates.

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