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Here is my take on Khalil Shikaki's Brandeis appointment, from FrontPage this morning. News links in the original:
Providing new evidence of the academic Left’s hardened anti-Americanism and sympathy for jihad terror, Khalil Shikaki has been appointed a senior fellow at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies.Shikaki’s involvement with Middle Eastern politics and culture has long been more hands-on than that of most academics. On February 24, 1998, terrorism expert Steven Emerson gave this testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee: “Professor Khalil Shikaki seemed to possess such an impassioned voice for moderate political solutions to the Middle Eastern problems that it prompted the USF [the University of South Florida] to finalize its cooperative relationship with WISE [the World & Islam Studies Enterprise, of which Shikaki was the first director]. Yet documents seized by federal officials uncovered a wealth of information, including incriminating letters, proving Khalil Shikaki using Shallah as a courier to ferry information, messages and even operational materials to his brother Fathi in Damascus, head of Islamic Jihad. When publicly asked however, Khalil always maintained he had no contact with his brother.”
On May 23, 2000, Emerson gave additional and quite specific information about Khalil Shikaki when testifying about the World & Islam Studies Enterprise before the House Judiciary Committee: “Documents seized by federal agents at the WISE office in November 1995 show that Khalil Shikaki, after his departure from WISE in 1992, contacted his brother Fathi Shikaki through Ramadan Abdullah. Evidence released in the federal investigation against WISE and ICP included a letter and a fax between Abdullah and Khalil Shikaki showing that Abdullah served as a go-between for the brothers. These communications contained references to various matters including support for a project headed by ‘Abu Omar,’ a nom de guerre of Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzook…. In comments made by Khalil Shikaki on December 24, 1989 at the ICP Annual Conference, he proclaimed support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as a unifying element of the Islamic resistance in Palestine.”
Some evidence for Shikaki’s connection to Palestinian Islamic Jihad came to light at the recent trial of Sami Al-Arian. “The pattern of evidence from the wiretaps introduced at the trial,” said Emerson, “and other material clearly show that Shikaki was intimately not just aware of, but participated in the operations of Islamic Jihad until January 1995, contrary to all of his public denials. He was a pivotal player in the creation of these institutions -- the transfer point between the different parties in the Islamic Jihad, and their transfers of monies.”One of the wiretaps has Shikaki hesitant but replying in the affirmative when asked to supply money for Palestinian Islamic Jihad. On another, after PIJ was declared a terrorist group, Al-Arian’s brother-in-law complains that Shikaki would no longer allow the organization’s money to pass through his bank account.
Morton A. Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, was aghast. “The ZOA,” he declared, “is appalled that an institution like Brandeis University and its Crown Center for Middle East Studies appointed Khalil Shikaki as a scholar last year. The Crown Center had an obligation to look closely into Shikaki’s background before appointing him. After all, Shikaki had known associations with Sami Al-Arian, who has been in the news for years with regard to evidence pointing to his connection with PIJ. Shikaki has also a public association with WISE, which has been determined by the US government to be a front for PIJ. How is it possible that it hires someone with Shikaki’s record?” ZOA called for donors to end their support of Brandeis if Shikaki’s appointment goes through.
The Crown Center’s Shai Feldman defended the appointment: “None of what I know about Khalil Shikaki is consistent in any way, shape or form with what is alleged. We have to trust U.S. law enforcement, and Khalil has never been charged.” But all the evidence to which Emerson referred stops in January 1995, not long after President Bill Clinton designated Palestinian Islamic Jihad a terrorist organization. It isn’t likely that Shikaki will be charged for associations with the group dating from the period before that designation.
Thus the more important question is whether Khalil Shikaki approves of the murderous work of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. However, Brandeis has been content with the distinction that Shikaki’s supporters have drawn between PIJ’s violent arm and its more peaceful activities. Stephen Bernstein, attorney for Sameeh Hammoudeh, another Al-Arian associate, has said of the wiretaps that establish Shikaki’s involvement with Islamic Jihad: “I think that there’s lots of evidence that goes to support that the funds shown in the wiretap were for charitable reasons, and there’s no evidence to support the suspicions or allegations the government claimed.” But if the Ku Klux Klan ran a school, and someone donated money specifically to the school, not for cross-burnings, would that really be exculpatory? Would it not enable the Klan to divert other money to more violent operations, so it would end up being a distinction without a difference?
Some who defended Shikaki sidestepped such questions by denying the allegations about Shikaki altogether. Jehuda Reinharz, the President of Brandeis University, thundered in an email against the ZOA: “I thought that McCarthyism had disappeared long ago, but obviously it can still be found. The ZOA’s charges against Professor Shikaki constitute a form of Jewish McCarthyism -- accusing and judging him before any credible evidence has been put forward. Justice Brandeis, who served as the honorary president of the ZOA when it was first established, would be saddened and distressed to see the depths to which the ZOA has fallen.” Shikaki, he maintained, was “a world-respected expert on Palestinian politics and public opinion. He is a sought-after speaker at major American think tanks, including the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is also currently an adviser to the State Department.”
Jewish McCarthyism? Emerson in his Senate and House testimony referred to documents seized by federal agents. The wiretap evidence was presented at Al-Arian’s trial. The fact that Shikaki’s involvement with PIJ apparently predates its designation as a terrorist organization may save him from prosecution, but it should not save him from a clear-headed moral evaluation. In a bombing in Israel in April 1995, Palestinian Islamic Jihad murdered Brandeis alumna Alisa Flatow. Did Shikaki approve of her murder? Does he now? What does Shikaki think of Palestinian Islamic Jihad now? Does he think it is a legitimate group? Or does his distancing himself from his brother indicate that he knows very well what the group stands for, and disapproves? Did anyone at the Crown Center dare ask him such questions during the interview process?
Brandeis should have been ready to answer such questions from a rightly skeptical public. The fact that they were not and are not, and that Jehuda Reinharz has vilified those who still have enough ethical sensibility to protest this appointment, is yet another indication of how much the liberal academic establishment has lost its moorings. Justice Brandeis would indeed likely be saddened and distressed to see the depths to which the university that bears his name has fallen.
Posted by Robert at January 31, 2006 7:51 AM
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Some background on this buffoon Shai Feldman
http://my.brandeis.edu/profiles/one-profile?profile_id=457
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at January 31, 2006 8:11 AM
Someone has said this before but it needs to be said again: The air is thin up on the Ivory Tower
Posted by: JadeDragoness at January 31, 2006 9:33 AM
Wait a minute. Wasn't Brandeis the target of the supposed terrorist threat that came from the library computer? I wonder if there's a connection here.
Hmmm, jihadist is up for a position with university. Appointment takes a little longer than jihadist wants to wait. University receives terrorist threat. Jihadist gets his appointment. Hmmmm, indeed.
Posted by: Big G In TX at January 31, 2006 10:09 AM
Intersting blog Robert. I found you from a post on the Islamic States of America. Curious what the ISA might look like, check out:
Posted by: tomdude48 at January 31, 2006 10:56 AM
I disagree, Robert, with the title "Brandeis appoints a Jihadist." Shikaki is, to my mind, a deeply suspect character. He clearly was involved -- the tapes are there -- with various unsavory characters. Emerson does not make charges wildly. He, Shikaki, has failed to discuss this matter. He has had every opportunity to do so, and his appointment should be put on hold until this matter is cleared up. Where does he stand? What does Shikaki now think about what he did in the past as a conduit for money from terrorist supporters in this country to those connected to terrorism in Israel? Th8is cannot be ignored. Until this is forthrightly dealt with, neither Shikaki, nor those who choose to overlook this new information, and simply are hellbent on reacting angrily to charges made, (and remember that the beating heart of Brandeis, as of all American universities, is the Development Office) there will be a cloud over the Crown Center.
When the Middle East (now Crown) Center was originally envisaged, the President of Brandeis said he wanted it to be a place where "ideology" would have no place. That is a little like saying that one wishes to write a history from which all "bias" is eliminated, a "purely objective" history. Nonetheless, one understood his point. He knew that most of the academic centers were directly or indirectly suported by Arab money (see Esposito at Georgetown, see Michael Hudson at the other center at Georgetown, see Exeter, see Durham, see the "Islamic studies" at the University of Arkansas, see all those King Abdul Aziz or Guradians of the Two Noble Sanctuaries spread hither and yon), or were full of those who were very much parti pris -- see Columbia, passim.
But there is an ideology at the Crown Center. That is the Ideology of the Peace Process, the ideology of "why can't we all get along," the ideology of "dialogue" and "understanding" that is not a true dialogue, nor true understanding, because it is based on a failure to notice the elephant in the room -- Islam. Unless and until centers and departments dealing either with the assault on Israel, or on the assault elsewhere on non-Muslims throughout dar al-Islam (and now the assualts by organized Muslim communities in Western Europe, designed to transform the laws, customs, manners, understandings by which the indigenous Infidels have always lived, and are now being asked to change so as to accommodate delicate Muslim sensibilities, from France to Holland to Denmark to Italy), then such a place will merely be the mixture as before.
To wit: there are these two tiny peoples, and their nationalisms compete, and that is and always has been the problem. And if here and there Islam seems to be a problem, it really isn't -- that's just a matter of a reaction to locally corrupt leaders, and the clever "exploitation" of resentment by those who have hijacked, or misunderstood, or represent on ly a strange (Wahhabi) version of, Islam.
This is nonsense. Jehuda Reinharz knows it is nonsense. He may be an admirer of Bernard Lewis, but is not one of those students of Lewis who turns out to be not merely an admirer, but an uncritical worshipper.
He will, one hopes, attempt to look again not only at Shikaki, but at the "scholarship" in this area of Feldman (who apparently left Tel Aviv when the academic-political winds were shifting, to seek his fortune in his last decade of work in the goldene Medina of America, and whose basic principle is to be Perfectly Middle-of-the-Road and never to raise, or even to think of raising, disturbing questions about Islam), and then the heroic (when it comes to Iraq) Kanan Makiya, who is one more beneficiary of the if-he-hates-Edward-Said-and-is-willing-to-truly-recognize-Israel's=right-to-exist that is all we need ask of him, we need ask no more.
Positions are precious. If it goes to Shai Feldman, it does not go to someone else, someone whoo is not stuck in the Dennis-Ross rut. If Kanan Makiya, who saw clearly the abomination of the massacre of the Kurds by Arab Iraqis, and the complete indifference (or even approval) of such a massacre by non-Iraqi Arabas, is still unable, in the years since he published "Cruelty and Silence," to make a more general indictment or even study of the Arab supremacist ideology within Islam (he might start with Kateb Yacine's writings, and the resentments, and riots, by the Berbers in the Kabyle). And Makiya still does not display any hint of comprehending what Islam teaches so many Muslims to believe (in fact, though a declared atheist, Makiya quickly senses any verbal slight to Islam and takes offense, at times mentioning his "pious grandmother" who was so kind, and yet so pious, as if that were sufficient to end the discussion). He angrily refused to read Bat Ye'or's book "The Dhimmi" -- as if the very idea that in the history of Islam there had been any mistreatment of non-Muslims was too disgusting to even consider.
The bar is being set too low. It is not Reinharz's fault. But he should not react, in the main, with anger at those who have raised the matter, however impolitic or impolite some of them have been. He should go into his study, read Bat Ye'or, read "The Legacy of Jihad," look at what is happening around the world, and reconsider the staffing, and intent, and "ideology" that so clearly prevails, at the Crown Center.
Posted by: Hugh at January 31, 2006 11:26 AM
I'm sure other departments at Brandeis are fuming-- if not for the implications on politics and national security, then for the misallocation of resources:
For whatever they're paying Shikaki, how many assistant professors could they have afforded to appoint in various disciplines, and thus have gotten determined young academics, who would teach and do research that could actually advance their respective fields, and, oh yeah, not be jihadists, to boot?
If Brandeis lets itself serve as a platform for Shikaki's agenda, the old aphorism will have to be changed to "publish and perish."
Posted by: Shinoliite at January 31, 2006 12:29 PM
"For whatever they're paying Shikaki, how many assistant professors could they have afforded to appoint in various disciplines, and thus have gotten determined young academics, who would teach and do research that could actually advance their respective fields..."
-- from a posting above
That is constantly on one's mind. The misallocation of the vast resources of the modern American university, the misunderstanding of the real needs of students (learning something about literature, and something about history, despite the boom-box-and-DVD world they live in, a world where history is a pointless and irrelevant joke). The gifts, like that of T. Boone Pickens the other day (some $180 million) for the "athletic program" at the University of Tulsa. The sums paid to football coaches. The dumb alumni who apparently would be offended if those athletic programs were not so well-funded. The political figures who apparently suddenly become profound academics, and are rescued, and given jobs, and responsibilities, as university administrators, or as professors at the assorted kennedy-schools-of-government. The professors of self-esteem and postcolonial studies (that should be their real designation, whatever their official title). The rape-crisis-centers, the "arts" administrators whose idea of "the arts" would make a Babbitt blush, the whole mess.
And, of course, in that very particular field, Middle Eastern studies, the takeover by apologists for, and stout defenders of, Islam. At the Crown Center, they are dedicated to avoiding the subject of Islam. It Will Not Do. It might imply a completely new, less hopeful, view of the Arab war against Israel. Shai Feldman has nothing to offer. Kanan Makiya, if he were fully to come to grips with how the distempers and massacres in Iraq, past and present, have to do with Islam, and finally could do more than mrely "support" Israel's right to exist but come to grips with the full horror of the Muslim attitude toward non-Muslims, might help. As for Shikaki, he's one more variant on the smooth, Nusseibeh or, in its Muslim Brotherhood form, Tariq Ramadan.
These extremely rich donors, who have been so buy making or inheriting or tending to their money that they fail to educate themselves (not all rich people, but many), and then hand the money over to universities ("Surely Brandeis is safe," surely "they know what they're doing"), need to educate themselves and keenly monitor where their money is going.
Years ago, Maurice Samuel wrote a very amusing essay on the rich Henry Morgenthau, known for his evident want of sympathy toward Zionism. He wondered if the explanation for Morgenthau's indifference was a certain cruelty, or indifference, toward the Jewish plight (which Morgenthau was spared, spared by his millions), or whether Morgenthau, despite his glossy exterior and wordliness, was essentially stupid. He went to Felix Frankfurter, who knew Morgenthau. Frankfurter's answer greatly relieved him: "He's just stupid." That, alas, is always a problem. A permanent problem. It is the duty of university presidents, and others with their hands out in eleemosynary position #1 (what fun it must be, at times, to attend those gatherings of the rich, for it is among the rich that university presidents must exist if they are to do their job as fund-raisers), not only to extract the money, but ot attempt, where they can, to educate the donors about the aims of education, and about the real, as opposed to fashionable, requirements which ought to be met.
A general problem.
But the anger and anguish expressed by the poster above is one that will be shared by all intelligent graduate students, or those did not go to graduate school because they had been so disheartened and discouraged by the way such subjects as history and literature had been taught, or not taught, to them as undergraduates or the young faculty members who have no taste or aptitude for politicking, and are not protected by solicitious elders who are on the way out themselves, and now washing their hands of the political racketeering of the modern university, or even those not yet tenured, and knowing how important it is, in these fashionable and great times, as Karl Kraus would say, to keep their real opinions, about so many things, necessarily to themselves. Here and there there are signs of life, of an intelligent university president, of someone deterined to clean up assorted Augean Stables. But only here. And there.
Posted by: Hugh at January 31, 2006 1:11 PM
Opps, didn't put the link in right, the site is:
http://www.republicworldnews.com
Posted by: tomdude48 at January 31, 2006 1:52 PM
hi I just sent this and the Frontpage article to
http://my.brandeis.edu/news/item?news_item_id=104350
Carl and Ruth Shapiro family donates $25 million for new science center
This news item can be found at:
http://my.brandeis.edu/news/item?news_item_id=104350Return to Normal ViewReleased on: January 18, 2006
Contact: David E. Nathan 781-736-4203 or dnathan1@brandeis.edu
Longtime Brandeis benefactors Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro have donated $25 million for a new 175,000-square-foot science center designed to enhance the University’s leadership in the life sciences and emerging areas of interdisciplinary research deep into the 21st century.
Ground will be broken in the spring for the $154 million Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, the largest capital initiative in Brandeis history. The facility, designed by Payette Associates of Boston, will feature state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research labs, classrooms, a science commons, seminar rooms, conference space, and a café.
“The complex will allow Brandeis to advance its leadership position in scientific research, and make it possible for us to continue to attract the brightest and best researchers from around the world,” Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz said.
Brandeis research scientists have made important discoveries in vital areas such as genetics, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and memory and hearing. The University has pioneered the scientific frontiers at the boundaries of different disciplines – biology and physics or psychology and neuroscience – to create promising new fields of endeavor.
Brandeis is the alma mater of Roderick MacKinnon ’78, the 2003 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, and five members of the faculty are Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
“I have always believed in Brandeis and its commitment to improving the human condition through scientific research,” Carl Shapiro said. “Brandeis is doing important work in the life sciences and other areas that will help us understand the causes and find cures for debilitating diseases.”
The generous donation – the largest in University history, matched only by the family’s gift for the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center – makes the Shapiros the leading benefactors in Brandeis history with a total of more than $60 million.
........
I am sure they will be please to see where other Brandeis money goes
Posted by: ploome at January 31, 2006 1:55 PM
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Five killed as militants attack railway station in Thailand
BANGKOK: Five people were killed in the latest violence in Thailand’s south, including two railway guards shot when about 20 militants attacked a train station, police said Monday. The militants, armed with assault rifles, on Sunday launched a wave of three attacks on the Rue Soe district train station in Narathiwat province. They fired at the security guards as a train arrived, then escaped in pickup trucks as the two victims were being evacuated to hospital, only to be replaced by two more groups of attackers, police said. “In the third wave, gunmen using AK-47s and M-16 machine guns attacked police as the guards were travelling to hospital,” Police Lieutenant Pibbon Kanitkul of Rue Soe police station told AFP. “Altogether there were about 20 gunmen participating in the three attacks.” Station security chief Charoonsak Wangdaeng, 42, died on the way to hospital after being shot in the head and face, and Jeerasak Sae-lim, 22, died overnight in Yala provincial hospital from stomach wounds, police said. No passengers were wounded in the attacks. Separately, Jaema Soa, 52, was shot dead by suspected Islamic militants late Monday as he was riding a motorcycle home in Muang district of Narathiwat, police said.afp
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\01\31\story_31-1-2006_pg4_7
at January 31, 2006 3:04 PM
It's news articles like this one that make me glad I no longer listen to leftists on ANYTHING.
Thank God (And I do NOT mean 'al-lah' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) for the Patriot Act.
What a tragedy for human freedom. Not a good day for the world when something like THIS occurs.
Maybe there is hope that we can prosecute these creeps at Brandeis for TREASON????? Is there anyone out there who could follow this up with such a law suit?
Possibly America needs YET ANOTHER NGO (or maybe some independent task force or agency at least, and preferably one with strong prosecutorial clout) or something similar to focus on and tackle the challenge of eliminating AND PROSECUTING those parties present in America who willingly conspire to destroy our nation through collusion with anti-American jihadists--such as these academic leftists at Brandeis U. are clearly doing. I sure don't like the looks of this and think Americans need to form some type of organization to handle this situation (on a legal basis) at Brandeis and other places before this spirals even further out of control and threatens the survival of our republic.
I think Jihad Watch readers and posters should seriously ponder the need for the establishment of something like I have mentioned and consider bringing it to the attention of their government representatives.
Any takers for this idea??
(However, I'm pretty sure most folks will have to go 'do their hair' or remember they have to go shop for groceries or see the dentist etc at the mere mention of this idea....).
at January 31, 2006 3:30 PM
David Horowitz on the pestilence that has infected US academia. It is indeed a widwspread infection.
At Cal State-Long Beach: Ron Karenga is a Professor and Chairman of the Black Studies Department. He’s also a convicted torturer and inventor of Kwanzaa.
At the University of Texas-Arlington: Jose Angel Gutierrez is a Political Science Professor. He’s also the founder of La Raza Unida, a racist Hispanic organization that calls on Hispanics and Mexican immigrants to seize U.S. land. Among his more notable racists rants is his repeated pronouncement that calls for the elimination of "the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have to kill him."
At City University of New York: Leonard Jeffries is Professor and one-time Chairman of that schools Black Studies Department. He regularly lectures students that blacks are "sun people" and morally and culturally superior to "ice people" -- whites. "Jews," Jeffries says, "are a race of skunks...."
At Brandeis University: Robert Reich is a Professor of Social and Economic Policy. He was Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary and is a multi-millionaire. That doesn’t keep from telling his students that the U.S. has "fallen under the sway of radical conservatives who, by the malicious application of intolerant moral precepts, intended to secure the "reign of the rich" at the expense of most Americans.
There are more of course: MIT professor Noam Chomsky, who has made himself rich calling for the destruction of his country; Columbia University’s Nicholas De Genova, who led an anti-war demonstration by wishing for deaths of thousands of American troops; and, Texas Journalism Professor Robert Jensen, who rabidly hates the United States, and recently told his students, "The United States has lost the war in Iraq and that’s a good thing."
Yet the 101 professors highlighted in my book are representative of thousands of radical leftists who spew a violent anti-Americanism, preach anti-Semitism, and cheer on the killing of American soldiers and civilians! And they’re living off taxpayer dollars and tuition fees as they indoctrinate our future leaders.
at January 31, 2006 3:54 PM
OT :
"UN confirms Iran enrichment move"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4667970.stm
if confirmed, this is serious folks - the clock is ticking.
at January 31, 2006 3:59 PM
"Yet the 101 professors highlighted in my book are representative of thousands of radical leftists who spew a violent anti-Americanism, preach anti-Semitism, and cheer on the killing of American soldiers and civilians! And they’re living off taxpayer dollars and tuition fees as they indoctrinate our future leaders."
chevalier - thats called free speech.
deal with it.
Posted by: archduke at January 31, 2006 4:20 PM
"Robert Reich is a Professor of Social and Economic Policy. He was Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary and is a multi-millionaire."
-- from a posting above
I don't think Robert Reich deserves to be in the same galere with the others listed. I'd have to see the list. Reich is perfectly sane and perfectly pleasant. He knows that the insecurity of American jobs, and the banana-republic like redistribution of wealth, is worrisome and offensive.
What does stick in the craw, of course, is just how well he has done for himself with this heartfelt redistributive message. We don't expect vows of poverty from those bringing such a message, but must they charge so very much for each talk? Wouldn't it be a little bit more convincing if they weren't quite so grasping, apparently, themselves? Reich has made out like gangbusters ever since serendipity permitted him to get to know Bill Clinton by the banks of the Isis, in turn leading to friendship, and then to a cabinet post and the rest of it. He's a lot better than the one whose name temporarily escapes me, a former Time Magazine journalist now the head of some big deal, all because he caught Clinton's eye, and reputed to be a great Russian expert simply because he wrote his undergraduate thesis on Tiutchev.
Perhaps in California, taking the $12 million for which his house off Brattle Street just sold, he will sit down by the imagined waters of Babylon and think a little more about wealth, poverty, and who deserves what for what. It could happen. I don't think that at present he rises, or descends, to the level of a salon bolshevik.
Let's see what he now makes of himself.
Posted by: Hugh at January 31, 2006 5:31 PM
The primary point to be learned from this news story (it seems to me) is that there are leftists in the US who are actively conspiring with jihadists to harm America. Lynn Stewart is a perfect example of this, which shows this is not a figment of some conservatives' imaginations.
The people seen in this news story about Brandeis University are committing TREASON. TREASONOUS BEHAVIOR must be met with prosecution and maximum sentencing for the crime of treason as the lives of American civilians may be in jeopardy.
I do not care about or dispute with persons who have it in for US policies as long as they do not conspire with jihadists that mean to kill our people!
On matters involving America's domestic economic policies, by the way, I happen to be in partial agreement with Robert Reich. Some "conservative" economic policies set forth by some so-called "conservatives" have been harmful to large numbers of American working-class and middle class citizens--I have been among those people adversely affected by such economic policies on more than one occasion (I am stating a fact here, nothing more). But believe me, if I spot anything remotely resembling a jihadist or jihadist activity coming down the pike I would be more than obliged to report it to the government IMMEDIATELY!!
Posted by: pythagoras at January 31, 2006 7:21 PM
I don't understand this at all.
Brandeis is Jewish, all of the leftists mentioned are Jewish, the Muslims hate the Jews, yet the leftists mentioned are predominantly Jews.
Sounds more like an inhouse Jewish war, than an all encompassing left v right war.
I'll wager that there are "Islamophobic" leftists, just like there are antisemitic righests.
And there are, and they are legion, and they are not all NAZI's, start with the Presbyterians and Mennonites and the hard core traditional, and work your way back.
They have the same litany of demons, gays, leftists, feminists, but instead of Hollyweird and the leftist MSM, it is Jew run Hollyweird and the Jewish media.
The only difference is the Jews and the Muslims, that right is against the former and supporters of the latter, while this right is the reverse.
Go figure.
Posted by: Nariz at January 31, 2006 7:42 PM
First that proff in Flodia was found not guiely of terrorism by than jury and the jury deadlock on afew. The federal divide not to retial on deadlock charge wise desion there. That why the universiety have to rehire him. The Michael Jackson trial the dumd LA DA went to trail with no soild evindents, all the DA witness said they saw Michael Jackson do nothing wrong with the kids. Than OLD TIME DA would never have appear before a court of law without soild evidences.
One standing rule of jury trail if the state doesnot
prove it case you must vote not guiety even if you think he did it. The burden of proof is on the state
not defender.
at January 31, 2006 10:27 PM
Someone let the fox into the hen house again, do they never learn?
Posted by: disciple at February 1, 2006 1:24 AM
Defender of Islam, I appreciate that you try to stay in the debate.
Now defend this:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/009975.php#comments
Posted by: disciple at February 1, 2006 1:56 AM
The hiring of shikaki, brother of fathi shikaki, top leader of the islamic jihad gang, by Brandeis Univ is immensely disgusting and repulsive.
By the way, Louis Brandeis was an honorable Zionist, among other things.
Posted by: Eliyahu at February 1, 2006 7:01 AM
prof reinharz compounds his immorality with stupidiy by buying the notion of a "palestinian people" that never existed in history. Indeed, the very reason that the notion of a "palestinian people" was invented by psychological warfare experts was to prevent peace. Prof reinharz is a liar or a fool or both.
Posted by: Eliyahu at February 1, 2006 7:13 AM
Nariz:
Islamophobic leftists? Not too very many. Too politically incorrect. The only OK form of racism or xenophobia acceptable to what now identifies as "left" is called "anti-Zionism". There are, however, former leftists who have no illusions about the xenophobic and totalitarian nature of Islam.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at February 1, 2006 8:23 AM
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