Jaw dropping. Here’s an Al Jazeera English interview (on the show The Stream) a day or so back with Kenneth Marcus, who founded the Brandeis Center “to combat the resurgence of anti-Semitism in American higher education.” The Brandeis Center includes in its definition of anti-Semitism, speech against Israel. Marcus has been a leading advocate for using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to file lawsuits against university campuses claiming there is a climate of anti-Semitism on campus.
Host Josh Rushing says, at 15:26:
You believe that [Jimmy] Carter is an anti-Semite
Marcus says that’s not true:
I would not say that. Generally saying, I prefer not to say that individuals are anti-Semitic because I think that it’s counterproductive. What I prefer to do is look at certain tropes or memes, certain ways of speaking, and ask… Are you conveying a classic kind of Jew-hatred, intentionally or not.
Then Rushing produces Marcus tweets declaring Jimmy Carter anti-Semitic. “Is Jimmy Carter selling out his anti-Semitic principles…” Etc. Watch Marcus’s nonplused response. “The date of that is 2009, I don’t recall that.” You can see the tweet in question here:
Is Jimmy Carter selling out his anti-Semitic principles to advance his grandson’s political career?
— Kenneth L. Marcus (@Klmarcus) December 24, 2009
this was a really good program. huge shout out to EI’s Nora Barrows Friedman who totally slams marcus’s bs with reality calling him out for being a “pioneer in trying to criminalize palestinian solidairty activist” with fact based info (19:30 in the video).
Marcus opens up his comments by stating anti Jewish comments that he has no real evidence of and then a few minutes later basically admits that. Too bad Univ of California is trying to act like the Palestinian Solidarity movement has started on UofC campuses. That is a myth many of these campuses have been slow to respond to these human rights abuses. Hampshire and other campuses have been far out in front of UofC campuses. BDS has been far more effective on campuses back east
Phil/Annie think you are going to be interested in Chris Matthews coverage on the Hagel nomination from Hardball last night Jan 7. Had Clemons, former Senator Kerry on to talk about the issue. There was a clip of Senator Kerry’s comments on about Hagel’s nomination. Kerry bent over and kissed Bibi’s ring questioning some of Hagel’s comments and allegiance to Israel. So pathetic that these hearing may be a “litmus test” in whether Hagel’s gets through these hearings
nice interview. hasbarists are such liars
“The date of that is 2009, I don’t recall that”
And he remembers everything that happened in AD 70
Just fancy that.
NEWSFLASH!
Lying Liars Lie About Their Lying Lies!
[sigh]