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Georgetown University prof, son of jihad terror leader, likens Israel to Islamic State

Aug 21, 2014 12:44 pm By Robert Spencer

AbdullahalArianpicAmerican universities are generally highly politicized and utterly compromised, but Georgetown University is among the worst. Not only does it employ this vicious Jew-hater, but it is also the home of the Saudi-funded Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, an energetic mill of Muslim victimhood propaganda, denial of the jihad threat, and defamation of foes of jihad terror that is run by John Esposito, an eager water-carrier for the Islamic supremacist agenda, and that counts among its staffers the thuggish and dull-witted attack dog Nathan Lean, who has published details of what he thinks are my whereabouts in a transparent attempt to intimidate me into silence and to endanger me and people around me, and devotes considerable energy to a Brownshirt-like effort to defame me to people who have invited me to speak, trying to get me canceled wherever he can.

And then there is Christine Fair, another Georgetown prof who has lately taken to Twitter to call me a “lunatic” and an “Islamophobe” (there’s that Muslim Brotherhood propaganda term again), liken me to Charles Manson, and impugn my work (while contemptuously refusing to debate, of course), all the while affecting a stance of wounded victimhood and denying that she is attacking me at all. This is Georgetown University today. The place is a disgrace, and epitomizes the thorough corruption of American academia today.

“‘K-I-L-L-I-N-G,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 21, 2014:

A Georgetown University professor whose father pled guilty to terrorism charges is facing criticism for comparing Israel to the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) on Twitter.

Georgetown University History Professor Abdullah Al-Arian, the son of Sami Al-Arian, a controversial Israel critic who pled guilty to conspiring with a terror group, tweeted out his take on a common nursery rhyme by comparing Israel to the terror group ISIL, which recently beheaded an American journalist on film.

AbdullahalArianAl-Arian quickly deleted the tweet, but not before a screenshot was taken and retweeted by the Washington Free Beacon. Critics immediately deemed the tweet offensive, inaccurate, and over the line for a professor at Georgetown, which itself has come under fire for hosting a 9/11 Truther and a member of Egypt’s Nazi Party.

Al-Arian, a critic of Israel who also was a vocal advocate for his father during his terrorism trial, did not respond to a Free Beacon request for comment on the tweet and his reason for conflating Israel with ISIL.

Multiple Georgetown University spokesmen also did not respond to calls and emails asking if the university approves of Al-Arian’s rhetoric and would be addressing it with the professor in any way.

Al-Arian—a frequent contributor to Al Jazeera, where his sister, Laila, works as a producer in the Washington, D.C. office—teaches history at the university’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, a country that serves as the terror group Hamas’ top financier.

Longtime pro-Israel advocate and CEO of the Israel Project Josh Block called the tweets “shocking and disgusting.”

“It is shocking and disgusting to see a Georgetown University professor or faculty member making comparisons between ISIS and Israel—let alone that Georgetown would pay someone like that to teach young people about the Middle East,” Block said. “When you realize that the person is the son of master terrorist Sami Al-Arian, it is both even more troubling to see Georgetown affiliated and less surprising that he would hold such views.”

The younger Al-Arian recently portrayed Hamas’ terror assault on Israel as “exceeding all expectations.”

“There were low expectations in terms of its performance against the recent round of Israeli incursions. It’s been exceeding all expectations,” Al-Arian was quoted as telling the New York Times, which itself has come under intense scrutiny for its recent efforts to delegitimize Israel.

“And it’s [Hamas] likely to come out in a far better position than in the last three years, and maybe the last decade,” Al-Arian added.

Al-Arian also implied that Israel forced Hamas into the most recent conflict by working to undermine the terror group’s political alliance with the more moderate Fatah party that governs the West Bank.

“If we really take a very close look at the chronology of events that have led to this latest Israeli offensive against Gaza, we would find that actually Hamas has not chosen the option of a military or violent confrontation with Israel,” Al-Arian told CNN in July.

“It was Israel and to a certain extent even the United States that undermined that unity government,” Al-Arian said. “And it was only after Israel broke the ceasefire, and of course we know all about the reports of the different killings and bombings that Hamas then chose the second option or was confronted essentially with an attempt by Israel to destroy it and Gaza to destroy its presence there.”

Hamas is not really a threat to Israel even though it is committed to exterminating all Jews, Al-Arian said.

“Hamas is not in any condition or situation whatsoever to actually be able to carry out these threats against Israel’s existence. But in fact the opposite is quite true,” he said. “And I think the real emphasis here has to be on the humanitarian crisis against the people of Gaza.”

Al-Arian describes himself as an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood, a topic he has often written about.

During his time at Duke University, Al-Arian frequently wrote articles for the Duke Chronicle.

One 2002 piece, for instance, urges Palestinian to revolt against “Israeli occupation,” comparing the situation to Jewish uprisings against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto.

“In a battlefield that is all but even, the Intifada is the ‘uprising’ against one of the most brutal occupations in history,” he wrote.

Many other articles focus on similar topics and take aim at Israel.

In 2003, Al-Arian’s father Sami was charged by the U.S. government with racketeering on behalf of Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a terrorist organization responsible for many attacks.

Al-Arian was taken to task by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly for making a series of statements deemed as anti-Israel.

“Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution. Revolution until victory. Rolling to Jerusalem,” O’Reilly quoted the elder Al-Arian as saying in 1998.

Sami Al-Arian ultimately pled guilty to conspiring to aid the PIJ and was sentenced by a judge to serve just under five years in prison.

The Justice Department in a statement at the time said that Al-Arian is a prime example of individuals in America attempting to “provide assistance” to terrorists.

“We have a responsibility not to allow our Nation to be a safe haven for those who provide assistance to the activity of terrorists,” former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at the time. “Sami Al-Arian has already spent significant time behind bars and will now lose the right to live in the country he calls home as a result of his confessed criminal conduct on behalf of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is the same conduct he steadfastly denied in public statements over the last decade.”

“Al-Arian has now admitted providing assistance to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad—a specially designated terrorist organization with deadly goals—as the government has alleged from the start,” added former Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division.

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  1. Beagle says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    Georgetown and Harvard are the elite Wahhabi League schools.

  2. Tuvia Fogel says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    “Qatar, a country that serves as the terror group Hamas’ top financier”.

    Actually, it’s becoming clear they also bankroll ISIS.

    • Beagle says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 1:16 pm

      Yeah, but, air base. We are so stupid.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    He is trying to get the media back on the ignore all Islamic violence track.

  4. Beagle says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    If you were trying to buy influence into the US political process, can you think of two better schools to pick than Georgetown and Harvard? Georgetown is known as a feeder into the US government and Harvard is generally considered to be the top Ivy (which is not saying very much any more). The Saudis have invested tens of millions in both in order to conduct daw’ah and ensure our nation pursues their interests and those of their Muslim brothers.

    Amazing we’ve allowed our nation to be almost utterly subverted by Gulf Arab lucre and people within (and without of course) these undermined institutions complain about Jewish influence.

    • RonaldB says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 2:33 am

      Everything changes now.

      Saudi Arabia obviously captured Harvard and Georgetown University by waving a few dollars around. So much for academic integrity.

      But, that was before the ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhoods massive screw-up in Egypt, and the alignment of al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Iran. All of the sudden, Saudi Arabia finds itself in the cross hairs of Muslim radicalism, and the billionaire sheiks like it not a bit. Saudi Arabia has declared its former partner in subverting the US society, the Muslim Brotherhood, as a terrorist organization. Israel as a buffer to the ISIS and Iran and as a de facto ally of Egypt is beginning to look not so bad to billionaire sheiks wanting to keep their plush positions at the oil spigot.

      Furthermore, Saudi Arabia might, unofficially, begin to see some benefit to keeping the West non-Muslim and effective, while the US is the de facto protector of Saudi borders. Muslims being great hypocrites, the Saudis will never admit to cooling on Muslim proselytizing, but may in fact be susceptible to pressure to maintain the contributions while dropping the demand for whitewashing Islam.

      Being aware of the rapid shifts in the Islamic world could prove invaluable in ultimately saving civilization.

    • paddy says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 7:47 am

      Beagle…beyond all this grief and carnage..money talks

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    By saying what he did about Israel this guy has exposed himself to be a very ignorant man.

    • Wellington says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 1:34 pm

      I agree, Walter, but ignorance is the least of his sins.

  6. obiwan says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:29 pm

    I received this from an Israeli friend:

    This is from a M.D. at Hadassah Hospital in Israel, Dr. Arieh Eldad: A very short read……
    The (Muslim) Arab Mentality…

    It is really hard for western society to understand this kind of thinking. It is counter to civilized understanding. The (Muslim) Arab Mentality…
    I was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations. The skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery. This is how I was asked to supply skin for an (Muslim) Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her. Usually, such atrocities happen among (Muslim) Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.
    We supplied all the needed Homograft for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza. She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva.
    One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt. Her mission was to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her. This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel. It is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilizational conflict, or rather a war between civilization and barbarism. Bibi (Netanyahu) gets it, Obama does not.
    Dr. Arieh Eldad
    I have never written before asking to please forward onwards, so that as many as possible can understand radical Islam and what awaits the world if it is not stopped.

  7. Uncle Vladdi says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 2:24 am

    The modern “education system” only “teaches” (abuses kids with) liberal corruption – they inflict their own infantile delinquency and criminal negligence by offering them alibi-excuses to NOT have to think for them selves:

    “Life is too complex for us helpless fallible and so, potentially dangerous mistakes to ever understand cause and effect, so, “since” all facts are therefore really only opinions anyway, our subjective, entirely fact-free opinions are the diversely opposite equals to those silly Conservatives’ objective facts! Whee! And remember, kids: There’s No Wrong Answers!”

    To pretend there is no evil crime, and no evil criminals because everyone’s really only a helpless victim, they pretend to a predetermined inevitability excuse: Marxist historical determinism, that people are all helpless victims of society, mere products of their environments, and slaves of allah.

    And of course their inevitability alibi involves unavoidable mob-rule extortion, for which idolatrous group rights serve them well:

    Ever try arguing with a liberal? It’s pointless trying to use facts to educate people who have been taught that the truth doesn’t exist!

    They’ve really only declared a confession of non-compus-mentis!

    And their favorite deflection is the childish critical thinking logical fallacy called the Argumentum Tu Quoque, which only amounts to trying to compare two unrelated wrongs in order to pretend to make one of them into a right:

    “There’s no evil crime or criminals because we (i.e: you) all do it, too! Whee!”

    Beyone that, their crime is all about the objectification: victim-blaming “defensively pre-emptive” slander.

    They embrace the slanderous philosophy that the best “defense” is a good offense, to keep their opponents on the defensive so they will remain emotionally off-balance and so never be able to (counter-)attack ‘first!’

    Only lying thieves (fraud being the most basic form of theft, the theft of the Truth) slanderously pretend their victims are too dumb to be educated!

    The “elites” – including the “education” elites – are cowardly masochists who always want to form ever-larger gangs to protect them selves; they are all about the double-standards of subjectivism, and so oppose universal objectivity; they want rights without responsibilities, and so must offload their responsibilities onto their victims.

    The reason they embrace might-made group “rights,” is both offensive and defensive: they can always assert they are “defensively protecting” others if and when they can make even a tenuous connection between some others at least somewhat similar to them selves who, somewhere else, at some other time, were oppressed by some other people who were sort of like YOU; in which case, YOU OWE THEM!

    The corollary is that if and when they get caught for their crimes, they can always use the group idol as an alibi-excuse to dilute their own culpability:

    “I didn’t do it! ONLY the GROUP did it! Whee!”

    (Substitute “The System,” &/or “The Procedures” or your choice of idolatry for “The Group!”)

    I’m pretty sure the main strategy AND subsequent tactics of liberals is to always generalize to dilute personal responsibility. It’s why they endorse group rights and responsibilities and absolutely hate factual cause-and-effect specifics. Generalizations are lies and exaggerations used to hide all the specific details of their individual criminal culpability. And they also get to blame specific victims for general group membership responsibilities, too!

    They are criminals.

    ;-(

    All libertine “liberals” are really only slanderous masochist CRIMINALS.

    Liberals love to pretend that life is just too “complex” for any of us fallible, helpless and so potentially dangerous victims to ever be able to understand cause and effect, so to them cause and effect don’t really exist, because, when all facts can be spun as opinions, it gives them the false relativistic right to pretend their entirely fact-free, subjective opinions are the “diversely opposite equals” to conservatives’ objective facts; it gives them the false ‘right’ to remain irresponsibly wrong.

    In fact, lefties always sound retarded (hence, the accuracy of such terms as “leftardation,” “libtarded,” etc.) BECAUSE all they’re ever really doing is trying to think up alibi-EXCUSES FOR THEFT, so of course their language has to employ all the critical thinking logical fallacy evasions, distractions, deflections, euphemisms, and metaphors (i.e: lies) in order to sell it to sane people, (and all crimes are forms of theft); i.e: “Wealth Redistribution” and that of course requires lies, like I just said, most often in the form of evasive metaphors and euphemisms (like for the best instance example, the term “Wealth Redistribution” itself)!

    Most of their sub-sequent forced predeterminism and group-rights idolatry is also only an excuse to “defensively” either do nothing, or to enjoy a perpetual excuse attack others first, even if only by having the false right to delinquently force their own self-reliant responsibilities onto groups of “privileged/guilty” (innocent) others.

    And of course they’ll always try to co-opt the largest gang, the government, into helping them with their wealth dedistribution theft schemes.

    Liberal ‘psychology’ is very simple: commit any and all crimes, because the ends (enriching them selves) justify the means (screwing over others first, before and “because” those others will inevitably try to screw them over too, anyway)!

    Like all criminals, they want to have false rights (like, to our stuff) without any responsibilities (like, for having to earn or otherwise pay for it)!

    It actually starts with masochism – they feel compelled to inflict the worst-case scenario them selves, because then they can pretend to themselves that they had control over it. Criminals turn mere negligence
    (accidents, mistakes) into criminal negligence all the time, by adding their own backwards false pride confession of intent to it: “Screw you, I MEANT to do that!”

    That’s what “progressives” always do – they rush in first before some other fools can beat them to it!

    There is no crime or perversion a liberal won’t instantly Submit to or immediately compromise with, all the while claiming they are doing so by just being “practical” about it. They call it ‘Realpolitik.’

    And cowardice loves company, too… which is why their band-aid therapeutic “solution” to every “eternal crisis” is always to form a bigger gang! It explains “Globalism,” too.

    To them, if something CAN go wrong, then so it WILL go wrong, SO they must make sure to cause it so they can control the amount of resulting wrongness, since preventing it completely is “impossible.” This immorality of despair is what they call ‘ethics.’

    ALL libertine “liberals” are CRIMINALS too. After all, their entire pre-emptively defensive idolatrous alibi-excuse creed pretends there are no evil crimes nor evil criminals, because we’re all just helpless victims of predetermined force (products of our environments, victims of society, slaves of allah)! Whee! The Devil’s greatest trick is to pretend he doesn’t exist – after all, he’s really only ever a helpless victim, too!

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