The pursuit of Joseph Massad at Columbia continues. Here's an excerpt from an investigation by Jared Malsin at Electronic Intifada.
[A] student group at Columbia called Campus Media Watch (CMW), backed by the pro-Israeli media monitor the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), recently violated university regulations while urging students to "report" on allegedly biased utterances by Massad and other professors, according to faculty members and students.
According to documents, news reports and interviews with students and professors... Columbia senior Daniel Hertz falsely claimed this semester to be a registered student in the class "Palestinian and Israeli politics and societies." Hertz criticized the content of the class on CMW's website, and urged other students to report on any perceived bias in Massad's teaching.
Hertz' father, Eli E. Hertz, is a prominent pro-Israeli businessman and activist, who among other roles, serves as the chairman of CAMERA's board and sits on the Executive Council of the powerful Washington-based pro-Israel lobby group the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
If the university administration does not take a firm stand in the case, professors and students argue, the incident could hamper freedom of expression in the classroom. The apparent attempt to eavesdrop on Massad's classroom also coincides with a resolution denouncing the professor introduced in the New York City Council (Res 0050-2010, 3 March 2010).
For Columbia faculty members, the case also raises the specter of a six-year-old dispute concerning Massad, who was granted tenure last year after top Columbia officials rejected claims that he intimidated students in lectures. Massad was branded as an extremist in a film, Columbia Unbecoming, which was produced by another pro-Israeli pressure group, The David Project.
The incident began in January when Hertz began attending Massad's class without registering, and wrote an anonymous blog post on CMW's website, under a section titled "class watch" ("CMW Class Watch: Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies," 21 January 2010).
Hertz founded CMW in the fall of 2009 after completing a summer internship with CAMERA. Hertz also identifies himself as a CAMERA campus fellow.
"Professor Massad initially caught me off guard," Hertz wrote in his report on the class. "Extremely upbeat and congenial, it did not seem as though he could be someone guilty of delegitimizing the State of Israel, which is a common claim against Professor Massad's work."
He goes on to note that the syllabus for the class includes not only the works of Edward Said (The Question of Palestine), Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian identity) and Massad's own book The Persistence of the Palestinian Question, but also the writings of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, and those of Israeli Jewish critic Shlomo Sand (The Invention of the Jewish People).
"A majority of the listed authors are among Israel's greatest detractors," Hertz wrote. "And while many are in fact Israeli, some of them, especially Shlomo Sand, have written pieces that many have considered virulently anti-Semitic."
Here is an event that CAMPUS MEDIA WATCH itself is sponsoring. I am going with some friends to “participate”. If you are free Monday night, come and join us at Columbia. (Dennis Y. Loh, MD)
Campus Media Watch presents: ?Relativism and Reporting on the Arab-Israeli
Conflict?, a conference and panel discussion featuring perspectives from the
media, academia and activism, with:
- Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, PhD, from Stanford University and a Senior Research
Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv
University
- Dexter Van Zile, the Christian Media Analyst for the Committee for
Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
- Gershom Gorenberg, Israeli historian journalist and blogger, specializing
in Middle Eastern politics and the intersection of religion and politics
- Charney Bromberg, activist who worked for the Congress of Racial Equality
for three years and today is executive director of the non-profit Meretz USA
for Israeli Civil Rights and Peace
Moderated by: Irwin Mansdorf, PhD, a Diplomat of the American Board of
Forensic Examiners, a licensed psychologist in Israel and the USA, and
coordinator of the Israel Citizens Information Council in Raanana, Israel
In addition to having these four speakers offering their perspectives on the
topic for about twenty minutes each, we will have a question-answer period,
followed by a presentation put on by our executive board. There will also
be free dinner provided for all who attend!
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 from 6:30 – 9:00 pm in Earl Hall
If in fact, he had berated, insulted, and/or prejudicially graded students on the basis of their political views, would you be critical?
Or, would you turn the other way?
What are you talking about? I thought we were discussing Hertz’s behavior and what the University did or did not do. Or, are you simply suggesting or insinuating about Joseph Massad. The charges you make like prejudicially grading students are serious accusations. Please provide evidence and result of any abjudication. Otherwise, stop smearing people.
I plan to ask Hertz directly on Monday at the Campus Media Watch conference. Phil, do you want to join me?
Are you kidding? When Witty walks into a deli he asks for ‘An Arab professor, with a nice big smear’!
His favorite nosh.
Does it matter? There’s no evidence that he did. Can’t you go play McCarthy somewhere else?
Tough crowd here. I thought that brittle jape was scintillating!
I would be critical if I saw objective evidence, rather than a typical Zionist smear campaign associated with a McCarthyite organization Like Campus Watch.
RE: “If the university administration does not take a firm stand in the case, professors and students argue, the incident could hamper freedom of expression in the classroom.” – Jared Malsin
ALSO SEE: The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics, by David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi, Tikkun, September/October 2009
(EXCERPT)…It is an extraordinary fact that no fewer than thirty-three distinct organizations – including AIPAC, the Zionist Organization of America, the American Jewish Congress, and the Jewish National Fund – are gathered together today as members or affiliates of the Israel on Campus Coalition. The coalition is an overwhelmingly powerful presence on American college campuses for which there is simply no equivalent on the Palestinian or Arab side. Its self-proclaimed mission is not merely to monitor our colleges and universities. That, after all, is the commitment of Campus Watch, which was started by pro-Israel activists in 2002. It is, rather (and in its own words), to generate “a pro-active, pro-Israel agenda on campus.” There is, accordingly, disproportionate and unbalanced intervention on campuses across the country by a coalition of well-funded organizations, who have no time for — and even less interest in — the niceties of intellectual exchange and academic process. Insinuation, accusation, and defamation have become the weapons of first resort to respond to argument and criticism directed at Israeli policies. As far as these outside pressure groups (and their campus representatives) are concerned, the intellectual and academic price that the scholarly community pays as a result of this kind of intervention amounts to little more than collateral damage…
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to tikkun.org
The incident began in January when Hertz began attending Massad’s class without registering, …
Did Eli Hertz pay to sit in the class? Most universities charge for auditing. Is he a thief as well as a Sicherheitsdienst officer-in-training?.
Did Eli Hertz pay to sit in the class? Most universities charge for auditing.
No, of course not. He’s special. The rules don’t apply.
Just got this off Masin’s web site: “Two Palestinians have been deported to the Gaza Strip from Israel, raising fears that more expulsions could follow under a controversial new Israeli military order.”
What an idiot. The order is 41 years old.
So is your post.
If that had been 2 Jews deported, you’d be screaming hysterically about the 2nd Holocaust.
…and the open air concentration camp gets two souls more crowded.
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I see that Columbia has more moral courage than DePaul.
Even in New York.
I think the main difference was that Massad probably had better lawyers AND some very powerful allies, including some very wealthy people, wealthy enough that Pres. Lee Bollinger would visit his/her offices instead of the other way around!!!
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Who was that “professor” at Berkley who threatened students with failing grades as they marched out of Michael Oren’s propaganda talk? Send a Zionist goon to his class to intimidate him and spy on him.
The bottom line is this: There is no difference between the way organized crime operates and the way pro-Israel lobbies operate. In fact, organized crime and the mafia dons have a code of ethics, not so with pro-Israel goons.
The professor who threatened the students was at UC Irvine (at least the students were)
Lyn,
I get all the Aparthei-friendly universities confused sometimes.
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Columbia Spectator published Daniel Hertz’s “anti-Semitic” smear unsourced and unopposed. Must be a great university to learn something. Like thinking.
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‘A majority of the listed authors are among Israel’s greatest detractors,’ Hertz wrote. ‘And while many are in fact Israeli, some of them, especially Shlomo Sand, have written pieces that many have considered virulently anti-Semitic.’
The “many” referred to, I presume are those American citizens who share Hertz’s “Israel uber alles” committment.
Speaking of civil rights.
Howdy:
I came upon this quite by accident today. You might want to ask why progressives (or libertarians) chose to totally ignore this travesty when it was going on. My concern arises out of something my father once told me in the 1960′s during the civil right demonstration. He said that “free speech will wither when left doesn’t support the civil rights of those on the fringe.” He also went on to say “It will never fully recover when when a travesty (like this one) is allowed to occur in silence.
God, what an overpoweringly evil precedent this opens for the rest of us.
Testing the Limits Of Freedom Of Speech –
Ernst Zundel Speaks Out
Foreign Policy Journal’s Exclusive Interview With One
Of The World’s Best-Known Political Prisoners
By Kourosh Ziabari
4-30-10
(Note – The first radio interview with Mr. Zundel will occur soon on the Jeff Rense Program. – ed)
Ernst Zundel is a German author and historian who has spent seven years of his life behind bars as a result of expressing his controversial viewpoints and opinions. He is a revisionist who has denied the Holocaust as described by most historians. He has been one of the most prominent political prisoners in Europe and has been jailed in three countries on two continents.
After his arrest in the U.S. in 2003, he was deported to Canada, where he was kept in prison as “a threat to the national security” for two years. After deportation to Germany in March 2005, he was convicted and sentenced in 2007 to five additional years of imprisonment on charges of holocaust denial. He was finally released on March 1, 2010.
This is the first interview Ernst Zundel has given since his release, published in the Foreign Policy Journal.
Firstly, I would like to extend my congratulations on your recent release. Were you ever mistreated or subject to any type of mental or physical punishment in breach of international conventions?
My entire treatment these past seven years by those arresting me, trying and convicting me, and keeping me in prison has been in brutal breach of international conventions. I was arrested in broad daylight on American soil by officials of the U.S. government who acted as hit squads for a nefarious lobby. There was no arrest warrant. I was not read my rights. I was whisked away in handcuffs without being allowed to get my wallet, to call my attorney, to be allowed to make my case before an American Immigration Judge or even hug my wife goodbye.
I was incarcerated in six different prisons on two continents in three countries-the USA, Canada, and Germany-without relief of any kind. In effect, I have had 10 percent of my life stolen from me and for what “crime”? For having “overstayed my U.S. visa”?
Throughout my imprisonment, basic human rights principles were trampled underfoot repeatedly and with impunity. The worst prisons were the Canadian detention centers at Thorold, Ontario and at Toronto West, where I was held for two long years in isolation cells, ice-cold in the winter, no shoes or socks allowed. The electric light in these cells, bright enough to be able to read, was kept on 24 hours a day. Through a glass slot in the door I was checked every 20 minutes, and my activities were meticulously noted by the guards: one sheet for every day. No dignity, no privacy. My toothbrush was kept in a plastic bin in a hall. I was not allowed to speak to other prisoners.
Bed sheets were changed only after three months. No pillows. No chairs. When I wrote to my wife or to my attorneys, I had to sit on a makeshift pile of my court transcripts. No radio, no television, not even an electrical outlet to sharpen my pencils. No ball point pens, only pencil stubs, cut in half with a saw. No spoons, forks, or knives were permitted; only a white plastic spoon with a fork called a “spork” that had to be returned every time at the end of the meal. With very few exceptions when furtive guards showed me some kindness away from the surveillance cameras, I was treated as though I was the worst of criminals. That’s Canada for you, where I have lived and worked without a criminal record for more than 40 years.
It was somewhat better, but not much, in the United States. In Germany, it was quite a bit better in terms of the basic necessities, but personal mail was routinely withheld 1,700 letters for up to five years even after I forced a court to order that it be given to me. My so-called trial in Mannheim was a political show trial in the Stalinist mode in that my guilt was a foregone conclusion. I requested that exculpatory exhibits be allowed as validation for what I believed and had written and said. No meaningful defense was allowed. I could not put on record any forensic evidence, any historical documents, or even expert witnesses, That very request to be allowed to offer evidence was held to be a new offense of criminal behavior and could have resulted in new criminal charges as were, in fact, lodged against my lawyers during that very trial who tried to overcome these restrictions.
Along with the rest of EU members, Germany regularly criticizes other countries for violations of free speech and human rights. However, your case demonstrated the emptiness of such claims within Europe. What’s your take on that? Is Europe really a utopia of liberty and freedom of speech?
Most European countries have only selected free speech for officially approved and sanctioned views on history. Almost all EU countries have laws in place that restrict freedom of speech under the guise of one fig leaf or other, such as the prevention of racist or neo-Nazi activities. The state decides selectively who is and what is racist. These laws are hypocritical, in Germany’s case superseding even their own Basic Law.
Dissidents are allowed very little opportunity to be read or heard in the mainstream corporate media channels of the West. The control mechanisms of the press are many, often subtle but widely understood and obeyed fear of loss of jobs, diminished circulation, the withholding of government advertisements etc. There is no longer unrestricted freedom in any Western country, not even in the U.S. with its wonderful Constitution and Amendments such as the Bill of Rights.
Allow me here to point out to your readers the outline of a censorship practice known by its neutral term “rendition”, but more honestly defined as political kidnappings to force the silencing of dissident speech or alternate thoughts. Renditions in the West are ever more frequently practiced not only against alleged “terrorist suspects” but against ordinary political activists and writers whose viewpoints are frowned upon by such outfits as AIPAC and similar Zionist lobby and interest groups, B’nai Brith, the Canadian Jewish Congress etc.
In order to spell out what I can only describe to you in broad strokes, I’d like to briefly shed light on the period preceding my arrest in the U.S. and Canada, the conniving and the similarity in other cases like mine, where an innocuous or alleged infraction is used as a fig leaf to silence a political opponent.
Viet Dinh, a Georgetown University law professor and director of their Asian Law and Policy Studies Program who helped craft the Patriot Act, put it succinctly, as reported in an American publication called Wired that deals with freedom of speech on the net. That interview reads:
Wired News: An estimated 5,000 people have been subjected to detention since 9/11. Of those, only five – three noncitizens and two citizens – were charged with terrorism-related crimes and one was convicted. How do we justify such broad-sweeping legislation that has resulted in very few terrorist-related convictions?
Dinh: I’ve heard the 5,000 number. The official numbers released from the Department of Justice indicate approximately 500 persons have been charged with immigration violations and have been deported who have been of interest to the 9/11 investigation.
It may well be that a number of citizens were not charged with terrorism-related crimes, but they need not be. Where the department has suspected people of terrorism, it will prosecute those persons for other violations of law, rather than wait for a terrorist conspiracy to fully develop and risk the potential that that conspiracy will be missed and thereby sacrificing innocent American lives in the process.
This is exactly what happened to me. The initial reason given was an alleged immigration infraction namely a “visa overstay”. I was no terrorist; I was a dissident writer. My political detractors knew perfectly well that I was in America legally, awaiting adjustment of status due to my marriage to an American citizen. I was in Immigration Adjustment of Status proceedings, meticulously following all the prerequisite steps. I was living openly in a rural area in Tennessee and was listed by address in the local telephone book. The U.S. government had given me a Social Security number, a work permit, a document that allowed me to leave the country and return unmolested. I had undergone and passed an FBI check and a health clearance. The only last step missing was a personal interview by an immigration official to ascertain a valid marriage to my American citizen wife.
We had been notified in writing that this interview could take as long as three years, and that no status report would be given. We were patiently waiting for that last step, a routine interview with an immigration official. Our immigration attorney had requested such an interview in writing twice! Under oath, he testified that he had written those letters. These letters have mysteriously disappeared from our immigration file. When I was arrested, it was claimed that I had negligently “missed a hearing” which gave them grounds for an arrest due to a visa overstay. In other words, a simple bureaucratic loophole was found or fabricated that has cost me seven years of my life.
What happened to me in the context of a deliberate state policy of deception has also happened to others. Similar ruses via false accusations were used in cases like Germar Rudolf, likefwise married to an American citizen, El Masri of Germany, Maher Arar of Canada, Gerd Honsik of Spain, Siegfried Verbeke of Belgium, David Irving, and now Bishop Williamson of England, to name only a few individuals who were caught between the grind stones of a criminal policy possible only under the Patriot Act in the U.S. and similar legal instruments in other countries. Embedded in that background of a widespread covert policy and practice to force political conformity, my case makes eminent sense. We are no longer dealing with an aberration. These extrajudicial renditions give 9/11 and the Patriot Act a new light as a global policy instrument of brutal censorship of unpopular thinkers and writers.
The thrust of a prestigious publication such as yours would normally deal with the policies of foreign governments, renditions, kidnappings, and incarcerations not only of foreign enemies but, as in the case of Vanunu, an Israeli-born- and-raised atomic scientist. He was no neo-Nazi, no racist, no Holocaust Denier, yet he was relentlessly pursued by the Mossad and ultimately kidnapped and jailed for 18 years.
The patterns of the breaking of international law and conventions, the use of false identities, and the brazen practice of breaking and entering by spy and intelligence agencies, etc. these criminal activities are daily in the news. This sets the stage and makes my case a logical progression of an old, established policy, with this one difference: we are no longer talking about hunting and kidnapping alleged “Nazi war criminals” like Eichmann or stone-throwing Palestinians or even “Arab terrorists”, but instead the targeting of writers and other political dissidents in Western countries calling themselves “democracies”.
My story does not even end there. In my case, my “Holocaust Denier” profile was convenient, but passé. It was not even, as is so commonly and falsely claimed, “Denial of the Holocaust” or even more bizarre, my “visa overstay”! I was told what actually happened by a friend of ours with high-level UN connections. In his own words: “It was the Blue Booklet that did it! That’s when it was decided at the very highest level to take you out for good!”
Here is what happened, briefly: In the early months post-9/11 my wife, an avid Internetter, discovered a compelling research document entitled Stranger than Fiction: An Independent Investigation of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism by Anonymous, 11-11-2. She gave it to me over breakfast. I read it, found it interesting, and ran a few copies off on my printer for people on my mailing list. I did not write that lavishly footnoted paper. I did not research it. I merely copied it. Somebody must have concluded that I, with my background of thorough forensic investigations in other areas, showed more than ordinary interest in 9/11 as a potential political false flag common in intelligence agency operations!
During my trial in Mannheim, ostensibly for “Holocaust Denial”, portions of my monthly newsletter, where I mentioned this booklet and the 9/11 topic, were referenced by the prosecution as criminal offenses. Only after it became clear that I welcomed the opportunity to have my attorneys present forensic evidence of a potential 9/11 cover-up were those portions of the accusation against me hastily dropped, and my trial became a “Holocaust Denial” show trial in the traditional Stalinist mode, ” accuse wildly but don’t allow a defense!”
As we later found out through various freedom of information requests in various countries, there was in place for years a deliberate, convoluted plan to arrest and detain me under false pretenses so as to take me out and put me behind bars.
I mention this only as an overarching, logical example as to how diabolically clever my political opponents are in using the accusation of “Holocaust Denial” and persecution of Holocaust Revisionists as arrows in their arsenal of weaponry to shore up, consolidate, and protect their deceptively acquired power and influence.
What’s the reality behind Holocaust? Didn’t it happen at all? What about people such as Elie Wiesel, Thomas Blatt, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and Leopold Engleitner who are Holocaust survivors and describe their own accounts of those painful days, when they personally witnessed the heart-rending demise of their parents in concentration camps and bone-crushing machines. How should we resolve these contradictions?
I will not answer this question. I would risk five more years in jail if I answered these questions honestly and truthfully. However, in the age of the Internet, others less known than I am find ways to simplify a painful, multifaceted problem, as the cartoon [Prevent Holocaust, Bomb Iran by Carlos Latuff] makes plain.
Many people of other countries have come to the categorical conclusion that the Western world is a beacon of liberty and unrestricted freedom of speech. But it sometimes seems that the reality is something else, and that people can be easily prosecuted merely for publishing views that are disliked. The booklet you published, Did Six Million Really Die?, is an example. What do you think?
Here is just one more example of what I already outlined above: We have faxes and other documents that prove on official embassy letterhead that the much vaunted and propagandized U.S. Judiciary has run interference for these kidnappers and renditioners via behind-the-scenes ex parte communication, thus engaging in a cover-up and whitewash worse than the ones practiced by those the U.S. government always blames for human rights violations in their hypocritical press campaigns, like against China in Tibet, Lukashenko in Belarus, Putin in Moscow and, of course, Iran during the recent so-called Green Revolution.
Many Zionist websites have introduced you as a white supremacist. Is that a fair characterization?
This claim is a convenient character assassination technique. I have never been a white supremacist and have stated so for decades, publicly, in countless interviews, newsletters, speeches, broadcasts, etc. It is my opponents’ modus operandi to broad-brush complex issues by politically expedient demonization.
You’re opposed to the regime of Israel because of its discriminatory and atrocious approach against the nation of Palestine. You consider yourself a pacifist who advocates stability and peace; aren’t these beliefs incompatible with your viewpoint regarding Hitler, who is internationally considered to be a notorious dictator and relentless killer? How can your peace-seeking stance come together with your approval of Hitler?
I cannot answer this question due to legal restraints. An honest and complete answer would land me in jail as a re-offender very quickly. Implicit in your question is the toxic image of me that my detractors would like you to have. To be called a Nazi is worse than being called a leper. For decades I have been on the receiving end of just such a targeted character assassination campaign. I have been jailed many times not for advocating an ideology but for expressing a dissident, alternative viewpoint on many topics, including Adolf Hitler’s role in history. Revisionism is not an ideology. It is merely a scientific method of re-examining historical events and of trying to understand the movers and shakers who made history a footnote to their personalities.
Let me answer your question this way: I have always abhorred any kind of violence in the pursuit of political goals. By anyone! Politically, I was and am a pacifist, much in the Gandhi style. I advocate a sober, neutral look at history, including the period known as the Third Reich. The peoples of the world, regardless of what system of government they live under, owe it to themselves to emancipate themselves of the simplistic images of propaganda and deceit posing as history.
On May 1995, your Toronto residence was the target of an arson attack which resulted in $400,000 worth of damage. A few days later, some of your extremist opponents were caught trying to break into your property. Again a few days later, you received a parcel bomb which the Toronto police detonated. Have you ever tried to lodge a complaint against them? Have they ever been lawfully sentenced?
This is the flip side of some of the questions above. While I have never advocated or engaged in violence, egregious acts of violence have been repeatedly practiced on me, of which the political kidnapping in 2003 was merely the latest. As to the fire and the bomb, no, nothing was ever resolved. The police apprehended the bomb builders and senders, but the charges laid were stayed. There seems to have been no political will at the highest levels of the Canadian government. There was no political coin to be garnered by prosecuting Jewish arsonists, who even confessed to the deed.
Do you differentiate between the Zionists and Jews as the followers of a divine, monotheistic religion?
Yes, the two are totally different. Some Orthodox Jews who are united against Zionism, such as the Neturei Karta, believe that also. They know the godfathers of Communism and Zionism followed identical policies. The guiding spirit behind the two systems is the same. Neturei Karta rabbis attended the 2006 Teheran Conference sponsored by your President in an attempt to distance themselves from what they consider to be a dangerous atheist clique in the pursuit of illegal politics of conquest of which they want no part.
The mainstream corporate media, while having already vilified you, remained silent about your release. What do you think about this? Are you going to continue your ideological path or would you prefer to keep a low profile and forget about the intellectual activities?
Ironically, that was exactly what I intended to do when I moved to Tennessee and married Ingrid; keeping a low profile and turning to private endeavors such as my love for art and music. I felt that my revisionist outreach was finished, concluded to my inner satisfaction. Let others read both sides and then judge for themselves. All the arguments, all the information needed on the Holocaust is out there, on the Internet, in tens of thousands of websites, all for the taking. How often do you have to dig up an archeological site to find yet one more bone, yet one more implicating shard? My wife likes to say that you don’t have to eat a camel to know what a cutlet tastes like. I was quite ready to retire and satisfy my creative needs and desires. I could leave the political mopping-up activities for others to complete. But could my political opponents bring themselves, as rational people might have, to likewise call it quits? No; that is simply not in their nature.
As you point out so cogently, a powerful vilification campaign is still going full blast. It keeps my name in the media for people to decide for themselves who I am. Upon my release, my wife has collected thousands and thousands of letters from readers, only three of which were negative! Not a bad record, of the millions of dollars spent and millions of words dispersed in an attempt to paint me as as a devil with horns.
Let me ask you would your prestigious publication have cared to interview me if you thought that I deserved the label of ‘Evil Incarnate’?
(FPJ’s editor note: The views and beliefs of Ernst Zundel are his own, and not those of Foreign Policy Journal. It is the policy of FPJ to uphold the principle of freedom of speech, which means freedom to say things that others may find despicable. It is otherwise a meaningless principle. It is also the position of FPJ that both sides to a story deserve to be heard. It’s up to readers to draw their own conclusions and make their own judgments.)
Uh oh
You know, freedom of expression doesn’t mean freedom from stupidity, unfortunately ; saying it’s “dissidence” is misleading, it’s just bad history. Pathetic man shouldn’t have been thrown in jail though. Why not just provide a link?
“Why not just provide a link?”
Around here (west of the Fountainblue, that is) we consider posting long articles instead of a short quote and a link “abuse”. And that’s what the “report abuse” button is for.
Curious response from lareineblanche. I don’t care what Zundel said, I believe that it is essential that we support the free speech of all or we support the free speech of none. Zundel suffered egregiously for his beliefs and his treatment has provided a glimpse to what the future might hold for all dissidents. Canada can now be officially designated as a police state.
Somehow I get the impression that lareineblanche is especially upset that this article has been posted for all to see in its entirety. The reason she is asking for the link is so she can forward it to her friends at the ADL so the site can be shut down.
“it is essential that we support the free speech of all or we support the free speech of none.”
Absolutely, and if it’s any consolation, I said that it’s shameful that he was imprisoned, obviously no government or society shoud have the right to enforce a “correct” version of history, it’s fascist. I wasn’t clear, I guess – I was objecting to the fact that Zundel is being portrayed as some kind of “maverick” or “dissident”, while in fact he’s just a little off his rocker. While people like him and David Irving show an unhealthy obsession with the Holocaust, and are obviously racist, their work can sometimes be very valuable in opening up new questions, setting the factual record straight (Hitler Diaries) instead of just swallowing anything we are told.
her friends at the ADL
LOL, that made me spit out my coffee. And if I wanted to send a link, I could send a link here, that’s irrelevant.
so the site can be shut down
No, no, I wouldn’t want that, I’ve learned a lot here, it’s a wonderful place – posting that article, however, attracts the attention of these kinds of thugs, unfortunately.
I think “jdfsau” is implying you will have the ADL shut down the site the article originally appeared on.
Ah, I gotcha
“A majority of the listed authors are among Israel’s greatest detractors,” Hertz wrote. “And while many are in fact Israeli, some of them, especially Shlomo Sand, have written pieces that many have considered virulently anti-Semitic.”
This doesn’t exactly knock me off my chair. When I was a Columbia student some of my professors expressed opinions that were virulently philo-Semitic. I didn’t think anything of it. I figured that at a major university a professor had the right to say pretty much anything he wanted. Yet when when Hertz sees the name of someone who has been critical of Israel on a reading list he goes all to pieces.
What is it with Columbia seniors these days? One would think they would be tougher (and smarter) than that.
Zionism is not an ideology that can survive in the marketplace of ideas without monopoly protection. It’s as simple as that. Everything Zionists do to stifle debate is based on this reality.
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