Harvard: Israel buffet menu "affront to Arabs"

“That ‘Israeli Mezze Station” is the ultimate multicultural, multireligious ‘f*** you’ in the face of ALL Arabs at once from North Africa to the Levant,” el- Yafi wrote.
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Ludicrous. If a buffet had had a "Syrian Food Station", say, and also featured humous and couscous and that infamous Cypriot cheese, no one would have batted an eye.

And the fact is, no one knows where many of these foods originated—many of them are centuries old.

An Israeli food journalist set out a few years ago—rather whimsically—to settle the question of whether falafel was an Arab or a Jewish invention. It turned out, from her research, that falafel had almost certainly been developed by Coptic Christians as a dish for meatless Fridays.

Are the Copts demanding their dish back? I think not...

Also, note how Sara el-Yafi hammers away on these foods "not being Israeli"—even though many of them have been enjoyed by Jews in the Levant for hundreds of years.

The fact is, that foods are some of the most mobile of all cultural artifacts.

For instance, several of the foods we think of as being most iconically Italian are new world foods like the tomato and peppers. The same is true of potatoes in northern European cuisines.

And this isn't some "colonial" thing—it works both ways. That famous Hawaiian bread certainly wasn't originally indigenous to the islands.

But—of course—this is *not* about food.

This is merely yet another attempt to label the Jews of Israel as "foreign" invaders—despite the fact that they predate the existence of Muslims in the region by *milllenia*, and that all Muslims in the region were originally Arabian invaders.

Mean while he/she is not concerned at all with arab men(muslims) raping and sodomizing 9 year old girls.
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"..the Israeli buffet’s menu as an affront to Arabs, as such foods as humous and couscous are not of Israeli origin."

The Islamic "holy" books are an affront to Christians, as such Holy Texts as "The Lord's Prayer" and "The Beatitudes" are not of Mohammedan origin."

Shut up Muslimah, and keep your head down.

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/04/lords-prayer-of-muhammad.html

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/05/beatitudes-of-muhammad.html

Haughty sticks to Muslims like dust on the Peanuts character Pig-Pen. It just never goes away, and you can't ignore it. It defines them, but only the former is also defined by hate.

Well, that seems reasonable to me. If humous and couscous are not really Israeli then they should not be portrayed as Israeli.
But only on the condition that the 1001 Islamic inventions that are not really 'Muslim' should not be portrayed as Muslim.
You see, it works both ways and Muslims really are the last people on Earth with a right to complain about misrepresentation.

Iwonder what the many Jews on the faculty say about that. Noam Wasserman lectures with a kippa. Any student complaining? I hope Harvard doesn't sell out like Georgetown.

Dear Jihad Watch readers:

Seriously? This Islamadoodle Harvard student doesn’t have anything better to do? Apparently, even brunch has been politicized to stink of anti-Semitism and Jew Hatred. Where to begin? First- the history of the “art of cooking.” Yes, food preparation has a “history”, cuisine arts have a “past.” Sadly, even whats in the ‘frig can have its history be appropriated by Islamadoodles.

JW Poster Gravenimage has made valid points about how different cultures have shared crops, foods and cuisine over the centuries.
The following goes into more detail about it.
First let me tell you about “The Columbian Exchange” which as I, a Native American Indian can explain to el-Yafi. This term described how the New and Old Worlds met and the economic, cultural, cuisine, agricultural, scientific, business, trade and population exchanges that took place as a result. The agricultural and cuisine exchange would have an impact on the diet, health, life span and trade of Europe. Many foods- vetgetables, spices, grains, berries, nuts, fruits; etc, grown on American Indian farms and gardens for generations made it into recipes, kitchens and dining areas of Europe.

Now, as a Native American Indian; when I sit down to an Italian cuisine meal (or that of other ethnicities or nationalities), I can notice that anything from the ingredients to the main course- had an Americas origin. American Indians taught Europeans how to cultivate, prepare and other things with certain foods and crops. What the Euopeans did after that was… (to use the Italians as an example again) DELICIOUS. In other words, I as an American Indian and other Native peoples around “Indian Country” (ie wherever American Indians live) WOULD NEVER CLAIM those recipes or prepared food dishes as “American Indian cuisine.” An Italian dish or French bistro platter is Italian or French regardless of its “American Indian origin ingredients.”

Gravenimage also points out very truthfully that food sharing goes back and forth witht he description of the "Hawaiian bread" another example is are the many tropical fruit crops and orchards in Hawaii- many are imported.

Now, there is American Indian cuisine; and it varies in regard to tribal ethnicity. Some is more healthy (ie the more traditional foods) and then you have the more modern foods, like you’d get at a pow-wow. Which tend to have too much powdered sugar, cheese and cooking oil (but is definitely tasty and very bad for you). Also, if I put soy sauce on some of my pow-wow food (anyone having been to a pow-wow and knowing the types of foods served at one have just gone… “YUK!”) or lets say I put Olive Oil on it for seasoning…. GUESS WHAT is doesn’t make that American Indian food “Chinese” or “Greek.”

Anti-Semitic muslim girl needs to get a clue. Israel is a daughter of the Mid-East and like any nation in the region has a legitimate claim to many of those dishes, especially when their is an “Israeli touch” in how they’re prepared. Also, Multi-racial and diverse cultural Israel; has Arabs from many lands within her borders.

After all, there is no “Palestinian” ethnicity; it is an artificial construct. Egyptians, Saudis, Jordanians… even muslims from the former Yugoslavia had flooded the region of what is today Israel. Settling in the area to take advantage of the infrastructure, economy, medical care, prosperity, etc- DEVELOPED BY THE JEWISH ISRAELIS and PRE-1948 JEWISH “PALESTINE” POPULATION.

THAT SAID, Israel has Arabs from many lands and has every right to include various arab dishes, desserts, spices, etc- in “Israeli cuisine.” Also, don’t forget that even if one thinks Jewish Israelis “stole” Arab food recipes, then the Israelis can still use those same Arab dishes for the following historical FACTS.

Remember the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Arab lands who were forcefully expelled from Arab states in 1948. Keep in mind JEWS WERE IN THESE LANDS BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE ISLAMIZATION TAKE OVER. So, if Arabic Jews lived in these areas, “their culture” included Arabic foods, which I’m sure they shared with the Arab Christians and other Arab Gentiles (ie Pagans) in the regions. When they (the Arabic Jews) landed in Israel any “cook lore” they had with them became Israeli by default. Sooo, if a Cypriot origin dish has now evolved to become Israeli fare… well fine.

We live in a world where someone can have a Kosher meal at a Chinese restaurant; a vegetarian meal at a French Bistro, a “down home” southern USA deep fried meal with ingredients from lands all over the world; “soul food” with African origins… and I could go on.

Also, some posters over at the Bare Naked Islam site pointed out some things I didn't know such how chickpeas and other "Islamic" foods were cultivated centuries before Islam existed or even before pre-Islamic Arabs entered certain areas.

On to include something else. Bigoted Harvard girl needs to read up about “The Columbian Exchange” as I, an American Indian I have seen more than a few “American Indian origin” items end up in “Mid-East cuisine.” So, following Ms. Harvard bigot’s logic…. SHE HAS STOLEN ANOTHER CULTURE’S CUISINE LEGACY. So, what should she do to “repent?” Hhhmmmm?

First, no Friday prayers for her… she needs to go to the local YMCA hall and go to a pow-wow. I know some traditional items she can use (which I’m sure she would consider “pagan”, but hey…. she needs to repent for her “food crime”). There are some traditonal items to wear… maybe something from the hide of a wild boar?

Which yes, is a species of pig bigoted Harvard girl. Since this started out with food, lets have some tasty pow-wow treats from the concession stand… which being “modern” American Indian food items, I can 100% assure her it IS NOT HALAL certified. Oh, with her dance shawls, etc- she’ll need to lose any burkhas or hijabs and she may very well be in the Grand Entry (ie a pow-wow term) alongside (GASP!) M-E-N! I could go on. Its obvious what I just mentioned is ridiculous, she would rebel and this is where I hope a light bulb goes off in her head (her, very, very itty bitty brain enclosed head)- her rant against Israeli food dishes is so absurd.

I hope the faculty, staff, students. alumni and any other person hearing about this silliness… voice their opinion so Harvard DOES NOT REMOVE the Israeli buffet option.

Finally, what is bigoted muslim girl going to do with this Harvard education of hers? The more sharia law is implemented anywhere in the world… the less likely ANY WOMAN would be able to have a career or further her education. This woman is destroying her own future. Does she realize it? Does she care? How sad.

How do you say "chutzpah" in Arabic?

Oh right -- it's Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam

“we are deeply troubled that we offended anybody by doing this buffet item, particularly considering that our reason for doing the international buffet each day is to celebrate cultural diversity.”

"...to understand how this happened and to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”

This would be even more amusing if it weren't so pathetic, Brian, get a clue--look at what the muslima wrote. Here's a clue: It ain't ahout the food, dude! You really want to make sure this awful tragedy--this unspeakable "insult" to one muslima--doesn't happen again? Send her home!
Just how stupid can these enabling idiots get? Rhetorical question, never mind...

@Arjay: Even the words _tomato_ and _chocolate_ are Nahuatal, just as _tea_ is Minnan Chinese 茶.

And, why shouldn't Israelis claim hummus and the like as their own? Slightly more than half of them descend from people displaced from Arab countries anyway.

A Lebanese female savage. I am an American originally from Russia, and it had never even occurred to me to get offended over the Jewish use of meals such as borscht, kasha or blintsi. Because I am a civilized man. You can take her out of Beirut, but you cannot take Beirut out of her.

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

Sara El Yafi needs to get a life.
I guess she figures if the Arabs cannot win on the battlefield they might win at the buffet table.
What a maroon!!!

HEY MA! the snooty brat is tryin' to start a food fight again!

“Curses!!!”, he said while twiddling his mustache. This of course has been our plan all along (look it up in the Protocols). Our master plan to coopt the Arab diet has been found out. Now we’ll have to go back to the Orbital Mind Control Lasers to manipulate those bozos. On the bright side, after they come home from the buffet they can use the tin foil from the doggy bag…oops, my bad… the CAMEL BAG for a nifty tin foil hat!

I shudder to think what the world would be like when these idiots get their first clue.

Irony of ironies. If the Israelis ever conquer Cyprus, they will have liberated it from its pan-Islamist Turkish occupiers, to the everlasting joy of displaced native Greek Cypriots.

Nearly FOUR DECADES of OCCUPATION are ENOUGH!!

Sorry, I meant to type "goulash", not "goulsash".

A ghoulsash is how Muslims tie their towels around their heads.

Almost Everything offends Muslims...

Muhammadism does not tolerate Cultral Diversity.