Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy was arrested yesterday exercising “freedom of expression,” spray painting over savage Geller ad.
“Mona, do you think you have the right to do this?” said Pamela Hall, holding a mounted camera as she tried to block the barrage of spray paint.
“I do actually,” Eltahawy calmly responded. “I think this is freedom of expression, just as this is freedom of expression.”
Hall then thrusts herself between Eltahawy’s spray paint and the poster.
Eltahawy — an activist who has appeared on MSNBC and CNN — engaged her in an odd cat-and-mouse dance, spraying pink every time she had an opening.
“What right do you have to violate free speech,” Hall pleaded.
“I’m not violating it. I’m making an expression on free speech,” an increasingly agitated Eltahawy shot back.
“You do not have the right!” Hall said.
“I do actually and I’m doing it right now and you should get out of the way! Do you want paint on yourself,” Eltahawy shot ack
As the poster defender bobbed and weaved to get in the paint’s way, Eltahawy mocked: “That’s right, defend racism.”
Finally an MTA police officer and an NYPD cop came to scene and arrested Eltahawy.
For more on Pamela Hall see here.
I just started to watch the film Der ewige Jude. (Directed by Fritz Hippler). I could not see the whole film because it is horrible. I could only take 5 minutes of the hate.
It starts with the text: “This film shows actual shots of the Polish ghettos. It shows us the Jews as they really look… before concealing themselves… behind the mask of civilized Europeans.”
After the end of the Second World War, Hippler was interned and sentenced to two years in prison.
Pamela Geller is the new Hippler.
She should be put in prison to prevent the Third World War.
Anybody think it’s a helluva coincidence that Pamela Hall just _happened_ to be on the scene to advocate for racist hate-speech?
There’s been a bit of debate on the matter on Facebook and Twitter: Was Mona trying to draw attention to herself with this as a staged protest? If so, is interjecting her ego into the matter productive for dispelling the influence and effects of the racist ads?
Remi Kenazi posted:
‘From Rahim Kurwa: “Lots of amazing New York activists managed to creatively deface Pam Gellar’s racist ads in ways that exposed their bigotry. But Mona Eltahawy showed up with a bottle of spray paint to mindlessly cover up the ad and make a scene in public, including spelling her name for people to tweet as she got arrested. Kudos to the many nameless, faceless activists for subverting racism the right way, and shame on Mona Eltahawy for once again trying to grab the spotlight.”
To which somebody responded, ‘Somehow between November of 2011 and Sept 2012 I must have missed a chunk of news about Mona and the interpretation of her motivation. I did not know about the racist ad until I saw on Twitter Mona being arrested. When I read it I started posting about the racist ad. Shame or no shame, I believe she gave more exposure to what’s happening right now in terms of racist ads being displayed around us. It is not about Mona but about spreading awareness. In the meantime, I’m intrigued to understand where the spot light grabbing comes in.’
Max Blumenthal weighed in on Twitter:
7:42 PM – 25 Sep 12: ‘Mona Eltahawy and Pam Geller in tacit media attention alliance: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/video_exclusive_woman_defaces_anti_3xZ5mGVAGc1b6KUMFKGseK …’
7:50 PM – 25 Sep 12: ‘It was staged for media attention, positioning herself deceptively as leader of fight against racist ads.’
8:48 PM – 25 Sep 12: ‘@MuftahOrg sometimes self-promotion is productive but in this case it casts the campaign against the ads as lawless & wacko’
I know nothing about Hall so followed annie’s link at the end of the article. You know who she is? The cow that started the whole ridiculous thing in NYC that closed down the school that Debbie Almontaser founded because of a T-shirt that read “Intifada NYC” [from annie’s link]:
The summer before Almontaser was to take the helm of Khalil Gibran, Stop the Madrassa spokeswoman Pamela Hall went trolling at New York’s annual Muslim Day Parade. Hall found a t-shirt that read “Intifada NYC” and snapped a picture. Gold mine: Almontaser was on the board of an organization that rented office space to the women’s group that made the t-shirt.
So if it’s islamophobic hate speech, Hall is fine with that.
An arabic word that translates to “uprising” (not even anything as threatening as “revolution”) – the sky falls in and a school gets closed down because of it.
Such hypocrisy. These people are despicable.
OT, and i assume most MW folks saw this… (is this REAL?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfoaLbbAix0&feature=youtu.be
but man…. that is brazen. you don’t discuss false flags, covert actions, and provocations to start a war of aggression *publicly*, right?
he should have gone all in and mentioned the lavon affair and the USS liberty, as examples of how to not carry out a false flag (BTW, i assume israel had the OK for the attempted false flag on the USS liberty in advance… as we covered it up instantly, while it was failing).