"A university plays host to anti-Semites and terror advocates." And glories in jihadist attacks on civilians. From OpinionJournal, with thanks to JS:
A new ritual on the American academic scene is the annual conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement. The PSM is an umbrella organization that connects various U.S. and Canadian groups; its yearly gathering offers an opportunity for the constituent elements to establish a visible presence on a prestigious university campus and plan strategy and tactics for a movement dedicated to delegitimizing the state of Israel. Over the past several years, the convocation has been held at Ohio State, the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. In October, it was the turn of Duke University.Duke's president, Richard Brodhead, had only just assumed office last summer when the university announced that it would be hosting the PSM conference in the fall. Because the organizers had followed the proper procedures for mounting such an event, Mr. Brodhead explained, the decision to grant approval was an "easy one." After all, the university was only reaffirming "the importance of the principle of free expression."
Easy or not, the decision immediately provoked criticism. Some of it came from Duke alumni and others off campus, and some of it came from a student group, the Duke Conservative Union. Altogether, some 90,000 signatures were gathered for an online petition denouncing the university's move.
Among the targets of protest was the PSM's fifth official "guiding principle," which decrees the group's refusal to denounce any terrorist act committed by Palestinians. Condemnation was also directed at the PSM's amply documented history of anti-Semitism and incitement to violence. One scheduled speaker, Charles Carlson, had openly called for lethal attacks against Israeli youth, declaring that "every young Israeli is military--they are all proper war targets," and that "each wedding, Passover celebration, or bar mitzvah [in Israel] is a potential military target."
Read it all.
This about says it all:
"It is all but impossible to imagine the president of Duke offering a similar encomium to, say, a conference of neo-Nazi rabble-rousers on his campus, or defending a parade of speakers dilating on the "diseased" history of, say, black Americans. It is in fact impossible to imagine Duke agreeing to host such debased goings-on in the first place. In that sense, the administration's appeals to free expression and dialogue were the purest disingenuousness."
While we're on the topic of schools, ACAIR has just released its latest report:
"CAIR: Setting Standards for a Private Organization, Why?"
Intro:
"On 23 December, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a News Release concerning the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS). CAIR is in a snit because TAPPS had dared to ask questions that CAIR considered “biased” of two Islamic schools that had applied to join the TAPPS organization..."
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/press_001_05
Our universities, in order to reaffirm "the importance of the principle of free expression", openly incite and recruit to further the Islamists agenda with violence ? ? ?
George Rishmawi, co-founder of ISM
candidly explained its purpose in recruiting these foreign students:
"When Palestinians get shot by Israeli soldiers, no one is interested anymore. But if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice." [i.e. ISM activist Rachel Corrie]
Huweida Arraf, ISM co-founder
"the ISM cooperates with the terror organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Ms. Arraf encouraged students to join the group and instructed them on how to enter Israel surreptitiously and how to deal with possible arrest and deportation. "
Utter madness!
Not coincidentally, Duke University receives generous funding from the King Fahd Institute in Saudi Arabia.
According to Campus Watch Sauid elites like the Royals and the Bin Laden family have been giving generous donations to Universities like Berkeley, Harvard, Rice, and Duke for years.
According to Campus Watch:
"The Saudi motive is clearly stated by the official Saudi English weekly Ain-Al-Yaqeen, in describing donations to U.S. colleges: "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd Ibn Abdul Aziz, has positively shouldered its responsibility, and played a pioneering role in order to raise the banner of Islam all over the globe and raise the Islamic call either inside or outside the Kingdom."
Duke is just doing what they're paid to do.
Not suprising at all, Mary.
Thanks for the links.
Does any know Charles Carlson? Any relation to "Chuck" Carlson of the 60s-70s in the Nixon Administration?
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"each wedding, Passover celebration, or bar mitzvah [in Israel] is a potential military target."
Mr. Carlson obviously doesn't give a damn about 'military targets'; this is a euphemism, an excuse, a pretext, for 'slaughter', slaughter of Jews, especially Jewish children.
If Duke allows this man to speak on campus the university will have lost all integrity as an institution of higher learning.
Moral imperatives against bloodlust and mass murder supercede rights to free speech. If he comes on campus, just kick him off. Is that so hard to do?