Islamic anti-Semitism is indeed not based on race or color. It’s based on religion. The Qur’an puts forward a clear, consistent image of the Jews: they are scheming, treacherous liars and the most dangerous enemies of the Muslims. Allah gave food laws to the Jews because of their “wrongdoing,” and for “for their averting from the way of Allah many [people]” (4:160), and by doing so, “repaid them for their injustice” (6:146). Some Jews are “avid listeners to falsehood” who “distort words beyond their [proper] usages.” These are “the ones for whom Allah does not intend to purify their hearts,” and they will be punished not just in hellfire but in this life as well: “For them in this world is disgrace, and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment” (5:41). Jews dare to deny divine revelation, claiming that “Allah did not reveal to a human being anything,” to which Muhammad is told to respond, “Who revealed the Scripture that Moses brought as light and guidance to the people? You [Jews] make it into pages, disclosing [some of] it and concealing much” (6:91).
In light of all this, it is understandable that Muslims should not get close to such people: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people” (5:51). Ultimately, Allah transforms disobedient Jews into apes and pigs (2:63-66; 5:59-60; 7:166). In line with this, the practice of calling the Jews of today “apes and pigs” has become a staple of jihadist discourse. And while the Qur’an says that Muslims are the “best of people” (3:110), “they who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the worst of creatures” (98:6). They are “like livestock” (7:179). “Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and they will not [ever] believe” (8:55). The Jews, according to the Qur’an, wantonly killed the prophets Allah sent to them (2:61; 2:87; 2:91; 3:21; 3:112; 3:181; 3:183; 4:155; 5:70). The Qur’an depicts the Jews boasting that “we killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary” (4:157). Yet the same verse goes on to say that they did not kill or crucify Jesus, but only thought they did. The Jews, according to the Qur’an, are prone to war – especially against Muslims. Whenever the Jews “kindle the fire of war,” says the Qur’an, “Allah doth extinguish it” (5:64). The Jews also “strive to do mischief on earth” – that is, fasaad, for which the punishment is specified in 5:33: “they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land.” The rebellion against Allah that has resulted in the Jews’ degradation – the “terrible agony” that those who have rejected Islam are to feel “in this world” as well as in the next (3:56) – is a frequent preoccupation of the Qur’an. Departing from his earlier tendency to appeal to the Jews as the authorities on what Allah had revealed, Muhammad began to criticize them for concealing parts of that revelation. The Qur’an several times criticizes Jews for refusing to follow Muhammad, asking, “Why don’t the Jews’ rabbis stop their evil behavior?” (5:63). In a particularly egregious transgression, the Jews even dare to say that “Allah’s hand is fettered” (5:64).
Yet the Jews need not suffer their fate passively, for the Qur’an offers them a way out. The one thing the Jews can do to get back into Allah’s good graces is to convert to Islam (2:43). This might sail right by the English-speaking reader, since the translations exhort them to be “steadfast in prayer” and to “practise regular charity” (as Abdullah Yusuf Ali has it), but in Arabic the word used here for prayer is salat, and for charity zakat; these refer specifically to Islamic prayer and almsgiving. Non-Muslims cannot pray salat or pay zakat. Ibn Kathir is forthright about the need for this conversion: Allah “commands the People of the Book to be with, and among the Ummah of Muhammad.” Likewise, Sayyid Qutb observes that here Allah “invites the Israelites to join the Muslims in their religious practices, and to abandon their prejudices and ethnocentric tendencies.”
Islamic tradition is no kinder to the Jews. Ibn Kathir notes Islamic traditions that predict that at the end of the world, “the Jews will support the Dajjal (False Messiah), and the Muslims, along with ‘Isa [Jesus], son of Mary, will kill the Jews.” And, of course, the most notorious anti-Semitic passage among very many is the one in which Muhammad is made to prophecy that Muslims will bring about the End Times by killing Jews wholesale: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews’” (Sahih Muslim 6985).
“MSNBC: Professor claims anti-Semitism in the Middle East doesn’t exist,” by Samantha Reinis, Campus Reform, August 6, 2014 (thanks to CJ):
According to American University professor Hillary Mann Leverett, anti-Semitism doesn’t exist in the Middle East.
The Senior Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service recently appeared on MSNBC and claimed that since she has personally seen a Jewish hospital and kosher restaurants in Iran, the idea that anti-Semitism exists in the Middle East is false.
“That doesn’t exist in the Middle East. There’s no history of that in the Middle East.” Tweet This
“There is not this deep-seated Arab-Jewish or—you know, Muslim-Jewish animosity. There’s not an anti-Semitism in the Middle East the way that there was in Europe, which is based on race; which is based on color; which is based on genes and biology,” Leverett said in her segment on Melissa Harris-Perry. “That doesn’t exist in the Middle East. There’s no history of that in the Middle East.”
However, a recent worldwide survey from the Anti-Defamation League on global anti-Semitism shows that the majority of the most anti-Semitic countries and territories are in the Middle East.
The top 10 worst countries for anti-Semitism among inhabitants include: the West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan.
Public figures from the Middle East have been extremely outspoken about their anti-Semitic beliefs, including Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi and Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad….
Read the rest here.
Champ says
This is such rubbish. Shame on MSNBC. And Melissa Harris-Ferry just sat there *silent* while they spoke their lies about anti-semitism and islam, and about the conflict in Israel–as if their rubbish is acceptable journalism. Wow.
Silvia says
This miserable bitch is simply LYING!!!!! I’d like to think she’s just ignorant in which case she should just keep her trap shut!).
Antisemitism is endemic to Islam because it’s in the quran. There has always been Jew hate in muslim countries including pogroms, ghettos and Jews being 2ed class citizens.
She’s one of those idiots who think that if the muslims didn’t murder 6 million Jews and didn’t do what Europe did, it must have been the opposite.
Jay says
Her profile says this is her educational background:
Degrees
Juris Doctor, Law, Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts, Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, Certificate, Middle East Studies, Arabic, American University, Cairo, Certificate, Middle East Studies, Tel Aviv University
Now many of those so called higher learning institutions are far left and anti semitic, but how did she manage to study at the last one Tel Aviv University and not be informed as to the source of Islamic hatred towards Jews?
Jaladhi says
“Degrees
Juris Doctor, Law, Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts, Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, Certificate, Middle East Studies, Arabic, American University, Cairo, Certificate, Middle East Studies, Tel Aviv University”
The degrees explain her ignorant rant!! All these Universities of Higher Ignorance have prepared her well to go out to shill for Muslims. I am just wondering how is Tel Aviv University involved here!!
Obvviously she never opened a Quran and read the orders to Muslims to kill Jews. Or perhaps that is not anti-aemitism!!
GP says
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that african gurl says
maurice de mophole. what do mean by “Nigeria”? what rubbish!!! ignorant caucasian.
Tradewinds says
“ignorant caucasian?” Wow, that’s funny. I’d say it’s you who is ignorant. Enjoy yourself in Nigeria.
Jay Boo says
I would bet that (that african gurl )
Is likely neither African nor a girl.
islamisdeath says
She needs to throw away that crack pipe now!
Frank Scarn says
According to American University professor Hillary Mann Leverett, anti-Semitism doesn’t exist in the Middle East.
And all it will cost per semester is 20,658 in tuition (or 41,316/academic year). That’s tuition alone. Not fee, not books, not travel, not housing.
http://www.american.edu/finance/studentaccounts/Tuition-and-Fees-Information.cfm
Tradewinds says
What’s wrong with these people? Oh, Harvard. I get it. And Brandeis – who turned away Hirsi Ali this year as Commencement speaker. I’m sure this lady was among those leftists and Muslims protesting the appearance of Ms. Ali.
nacazo says
Is there anyone still watching that network?
Apparently someone watched…. Amazing such a person exist.
medina says
Melissa Hari Kari is the “journalist” who went on the air wearing tampon earrings…a serious, thought-provoking intellectual? Not.
Wellington says
Proving once again that moral stupidity and a dearth of common sense will always triumph over any kind of formal education.
jewdog says
The Muslim Arab countries have expelled their Jewish minorities and destroyed their synagogues, down to a vestigial trace. The latest attempt to rebuild a synagogue by a former Jewish resident of Libya was violently foiled. Call it what you like, but it’s not very friendly.
Myxlplik says
She didn’t say there wasn’t anti semitism in the Middle East, she said that it isn’t race based like European anti semitism. So, essentially if you are the average libtard who listens to MSNBC you hear that Muslims aren’t racist like Europeans, and forget about the FACT that Jews were ethically cleansed from nearly all middle eastern countries about 70 years ago, but at least it wasn’t racism, oh how sanitized it is now! Oh wait I assumed libtards know about the ethnic cleansing of Jews in the Middle East, oops.
Her analysis was carefully constructed to lead the weak minded off the ideological link between Islam and Jew hatred, to racism. Two very different subjects, but well executed. Too bad the host didn’t call her on it.
The other thing is Iran is filled with Persians, not Arabs, but again the libtards probably missed that one too.
Will says
That is quite cunning as all Islamic Anti-Semitism is ideological (disguised as religious) and she has a point(however misguided is her overall view) seeing as Arabs and Jews are Semites.
Don’t bother to attempt to contact her as it is now impossible as I guess the faecal fallout storm has closed her shop (as it should).
I shudder to think just how many academics in the west see through blinkers as does she.
voegelinian says
Interesting. One would like to see her subjected to a more searching inquiry — something along the lines of: “Permission to treat the witness as hostile, Your Honor” — in order to ferret out the truth behind that sophistical distinction, and determine whether she is a morosoph, or is she willfully trying to deceive?
gravenimage says
Myxlplik wrote:
Her analysis was carefully constructed to lead the weak minded off the ideological link between Islam and Jew hatred, to racism. Two very different subjects, but well executed.
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Very sharp catch, Myxlplik—that’s *exactly* what Hillary Mann Leverett was doing.
More:
Too bad the host didn’t call her on it.
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I doubt she ever would, Myxlplik.
Melissa Harris-Perry characterized our response to 9/11 as “horrific racial violence” directed at America’s non-white “racial enemies”.
She went on to say that Americans derive their notions of national security through how they view “whiteness” and “who are our racial enemies that are the non-whites.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-host-911-response-was-horrific-racial-violence-directed-at-americas-non-white-racial-enemies/
She refers to the Jihadists as “an imagined racial enemy”. In other words, that we would have had no problem with Muslims killing almost 3,000 of our people if we weren’t such “racists”.
Never mind that Islam is not a race, and that many of the victims of 9/11 were not white.
And she descries any black person who opposes Jihad terrorism as “suffering from PTSD”. Presumably African Americans should *want* to be murdered by ravening Jihadists.
She said that America has had to have an “imagined racial enemy”—implying that we not only framed it in “racial” terms, but that we must somehow have imagined the horror of 9/11 altogether.
It is also utter bs—our primary enemies of the 20th century were the Communist Russian Soviets and the Fascist Nazi Germans—both groups that were almost entirely white. The last group, in fact, infamously considered themselves “racially pure” white, and liquidated Jews, Slavs, and Gypsies on this basis.
Of course, we opposed brutal hard-core Communism and Fascism on *ideological* grounds, not racial ones.
Harris-Perry’s single-minded emphasis on “racism” puts the above in heightened context, as well—since racism is the *only* sin in her world-view, the idea that genocidal Jihadists *aren’t* racist means that they are far morally superior to her fellow Americans. *Ugh*.
Angemon says
That’s a suspiciously specific denial that tells us nothing about anti-semitism based on something other than race. Like, for example, religious beliefs.
eib says
The antisemitism of the Middle East is indistinguishable from that in Europe, 1870-1950.
It is virulent in some places and times.
Lethal in others.
It also threatens to become systematic without substantial resistance on the part of the Jews and their friends in Israel.
voegelinian says
I wouldn’t say it is “indistinguishable”. There are a few superficial differences. And as Andrew Bostom has shown, while of course Nazi Judaeophobia was intensely and vividly mass-murderous in a concentrated orgy of systematic killing for a few years, Islamic Judaeophobia lasted centuries and made life Hell for Jews for far longer, and it isn’t for want of hatred and desire — only for want of means — that Muslims haven’t initiated their own Holocaust against Jews.
Beagle says
Kuffar Quranic Head-Saving Survival Guide
Robert says:
“The one thing the Jews can do to get back into Allah’s good graces is to convert to Islam (2:43).”
Another option: memorize the magic phrase from ayat 9.6 in Arabic. That’s where you ask for asylum to learn Islam.
Plan B: save at least one bullet for yourself.
jewdog says
Whenever I read these sorts of dimwitted opinions from university professors it convinces me that young people need to be very careful before committing themselves to a college program. It can wind up getting them into enormous debt in return for a very dubious education.
I think the advice of the Chabad Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson is worth considering: Unless you have a very specific vocational purpose in getting an education, for example accounting or medicine, it’s probably best to forego college until that purpose is crystallized. Meanwhile, the Rebbe councils Jews to study Jewish texts, if possible at a yeshiva, and by implication, gentiles should study their respective spiritual material. Secular people can always spend time reading and studying independently while they pursue employment.
Many people major in college subjects that they do not use later in their jobs, so there’s no sense wasting time and money.
Wellington says
Supporting you here, jewdog, I would put it this way (and as one who spent a third of a century in academia): No young person who goes to college should waste their time and money by being in the college of liberal arts, education or human development. Rather, major in business of some sort, science, agricultural studies or engineering—–and even these disciplines are in the early stages of being corruped by PC/MC.
Higher education in America has been semi-destroyed by the mindset that dominated the 1960s. Traditional disciplines like history, government and economics have been taken over by the intellectual descendants of the Sixties generation. Such deeply confused human beings (like this woman, the subject of this thread) regularly spout nonsense but in a seemingly sophisticated way. It’s quite sad but nonetheless a reality.
voegelinian says
I spent three intensive years devouring Western history classes at a university in a major American city in the late 70s/early 80s (receiving two B.A.s ). I was an avid student and filled my plate every quarter with never less than three or four courses, ranging all over the Western Civ map, from as many different professors as I could (and also sought out one-on-one discussions with various professors, along with little study sessions with professors and other students).
Not once in all those three years — in any class lecture, discussion, or curriculum text — did I ever learn that Islam had been a major (if not the major) pernicious threat to the West for centuries. Not once did I learn — or even become aware of — the horrific litany of events that mark the history of that perennial assault on the West waged by Mohammedans in the name of their Islam. One of the professors in the History dept. was a notorious conservative, often eliciting amused smiles from his colleagues behind his back (though they had to be careful — he was their Chairman). Though Episcopalian, he opened the eyes of the class of students of The History of Christianity in the Winter of ’77 to the great moral, philosophical and cultural contribution of the Catholic church to the West. He was an ardent anti-Communist (uncomfortably so for his squeamishly, squishily liberal colleagues) and a solid Reagan enthusiast. And yet, not once did he mention Islam in his class on the history of Christianity. I had to learn that on my own in this present century in the years A.9.11. (Meanwhile, one of his colleagues, thoroughly politically INcorrect, not only never mentioned Islam in his courses on Western religion & philosophy, but felt moved in the month after 911 to pen an editorial to the city paper prattling on about how Islam needs to restore its “former openness and tolerance”).
This unconscionable amnesia of my professor, translated into a grievous dereliction of duty as a steward of passing history on to the next generation — cannot be because of liberalism or greed, can it? No, something deeper has been afoot in the West for a long time; no conspiracy, but rather a paradigm shift, a tragicomic fashion.
gravenimage says
Jewdog, Wellington, Philip Jihadski, Eib, and Voegelinian—thank you for your observations. This is something I am very torn about.
I grew up dirt-poor on welfare and education was my life-line. I got a substandard eduction in the public schools and supplemented it as much as I could with my own reading, but I had little guidance. It was when I was accepted as a scholarship student to a good prep school that I finally got a sense of how huge the gaps in my education were. After two years, the school cut the last of the scholarships. I was living on the street as a teenager—I had had to leave home—when I was applying to university.
My experience while at university was almost identical to Voegelinian’s—I attended Berkeley at the same time he was at college, and I took as many courses in history and art history as I could.
In many ways, the courses in these departments were excellent—but even though my focus was the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, there was very little about Islam at all.
Oh, sure—it was touched on, in the late-antiquity rise of Islam, in the Crusades, in the Spanish Reconquista, and in European explorers wanting to find a new route to the East—but there was *no* real sense of the existential threat Islam represented to Europe—in slave raids, in pirating ships, in making the Mediterranean virtually unnavigable, in outright conquest.
And much of what I learned to that effect was oddly tangential—of the flood of Greek manuscripts into the West after 1453 (it took me some time to find out that this was because of the Muslim conquest of Constantinople); of Byron’s poetry about the fight to liberate Greece (this was given so little context that the first time I read his work, in an English class at the age of 17, I didn’t learn that Greece had been invaded, occupied, and oppressed for centuries by Muslims. I thought that Byron’s work was a romantic fantasy); I also recall trying to find out why the Muslim world had so little tradition of figurative works, and not learning until a decade later that orthodox Islam forbids depictions of humans and even animals. Certainly, none of my professors knew this.
And yet apart from this, in many ways my education in history and art history was excellent—rigorous and in-depth.
But I could see the unraveling at the edges even then—I took a course in Anthropology that was extremely flaky, a course in California history that was biased and doctrinaire, and—worst of all—a class in Chicano studies that was embarrassing not only in its slant, but in the shoddy, slap-dash nature of its scholarship.
And—somewhat off-topic, but perhaps salient nonetheless—besides Art History, I also hold a degree in practice of Art—this department taught virtually nothing except a sneering disdain of not just figurative work, but of any real mastery of art itself. Despite my degree, I consider myself a self-taught artist, because I had to be. This desire to learn was not respected, and other students actually advised me to keep this desire to myself.
Other departments may have been just as bad or worse. And that was at Berkeley, which is at least known—generally—for the rigor of its study.
I’m sure that the “political correctness” has only gotten worse in the years since.
I’m honestly not sure what I would advise a bright teen today who wanted to learn—I believe I would still advise them to go to university, but make it clear how much independent study they would have to do, and what it would take to maintain their integrity in the face of PC ideology.
But now more than ever, we cannot afford to cede the study of history and the life of the mind to those who want to do nothing but undermine it.
Kepha says
Semantics, semantics.
Dr. Leverett mentions Anti-Semitism on the grounds of something genetic, which, to be fair, is exactly what the heirs of Wilhelm Marr in German-speaking Europe meant. This goes back to Johann Gottfried Herder in the 18th century speaking somewhat admiringly of the Jews as “this strange people out of Asia” who somehow survived among the alien peoples of Europe on through a viewpoint that shifted from cursing the Jews as Europe’s lone non-Christian holdouts (an issue solved by conversion, for those of that mindset) to a de-Christianized anti-Semitism which viewed the Jews as the bringers of everything unwholesome and strange–such as the liberalism imposed on the German lands at the points of Napoleon’s bayonets. THIS is what created an ideology of a “racial” anti-Semitism positing “Aryan” and “Semitic” bloods ever at odds.
However, Leverett is disingenuous, and she really ought to know better. How can she be ignorant of _The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion_ being published with government funds in Arab countries, the regular Jew-baiting going on in often government-owned media, the extinction of the millennia-old Mizrahi communities, and the momentary suspension of Qur’anic denial of the crucifixion to present poor, suffering “Palestine” as crucified anew by the perfidious Jews?
@jewdog, Wellington, and Phillip Jihadski:
Jewdog, we Evangelical/fundamentalist Protestant Christians took Schneersohn’s advice long ago (although we got it from people in our own ranks) and got very, very separatist. I frankly have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, there’s no other way we’re going to preserve our tradition. On the other, this kind of intellectual culture can get very, very insular, and go off in bad directions when it is forced to interact with and confront the surrounding unbelieving culture (which, in our circles, since we’re a missionary religion and always have been one, sooner or later happens). I’m thinking of the _Sojourners_ crowd, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and some others who charged full speed ahead to embrace the year 1968–in the 1980’s.
It can also make you blind and closed to constructive and needed corrective criticism. For instance, I note that all too often, Evangelical scholars mistake Thomas Aquinas’ account of Ibn Roshd’s view of nature and grace for Thomas Aquinas’ own. A more lively interaction with secular and Roman Catholic historians might have saved them from bearing false witness against a neighbor. And I speak as someone who is far more a Calvinist than a Thomist!
Frankly, I’m very much in sympathy with Philip Jihadski’s point. Our own Protestant Reformation was born out of interaction with Classical texts–and through them a rediscovery of the semi-lost world of the Bible. Further, it is very useful just to know what the other sides of questions are saying.
Unhappily, though, the ability to interact with texts not of our own time and place is indeed being lost, and with it the ability to think. Too many of us are airheads who believe the first clown to come along and make his point to us–especially if it squares with some of our own predilections. This is something that makes me want to just sit down and howl over some of the things I find in the curriculum I’m supposed to teach and how my colleagues think (or fail to think). It’s why I sometimes see myself as a professional swindler of the young rather than as the teacher I signed on to be!
But, as I noted many posts back a few days ago, I’ve seen a young man confront a be-hijabed young woman (convert to Islam by the looks of her) over her Support Hamas bracelet, pointing out to her that the annihilation of the Jews is part of Hamas’ platform. Maybe there are a few people still learning and listening. Perhaps times of crisis–such as the current one–are necessary to knock a lot of us out of our complacency. Young as she is, I suspect Dr. Leverett will end up a voice of the past rather than a worthwhile guide for the present and future.
Richie says
Liberalism= detachment from reality
Lunatic liberals like that make me wince to remember that i used to be a liberal- (until I discovered that the Occupy Wall street movement was just a gathering of America hating and Jew bashing communists. Thats when i left the left)
GP says
Jihadists blithely aided and abetted by leftists, liberals, socialists, academia, and the media to a large extent.
GP says
I think it should read: “un-American university professor”
Yona says
More than 10 years ago I made a short presentation on two UN organizations dealing with refugees. UNHCR organization caring for refugees from around the world.
And UNRWA organization who cares for Arab refugees who fought against the Jewish state – Israel.
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/15773199
Here is also a page of the changes made to UNRWA’s refugee definition in recent years after I published the presentation
http://www.art-gallery-yona.com/Refugees-Definition.html
Out of the work on the presentation I learned that the UN through UNRWA, which is used as an arm of the United Nations, promotes violence, is a factor for not resolving the conflict and transmits and stores actual war material against Israel.
Is this not a crime against humanity?
Without UNRWA, there would not exist “Palestinian refugees.”
Without UNRWA, there would not be the requirement of the “right of return”.
Without UNRWA, all the refugees in the world would receive the same conditions and the same treatment.
Without UNRWA, there would not exist in the eternal warfare between Israel and the Arabs of Israel.
UNRWA is an organization that had to be closed 66 years ago. So why is it still exists? Who and why prevents the closing of this criminal organization?
Let’s talk about occupation.
Because what is happening now in Israel will happen in your countries. Therefore, you should know about that.
Everyone who talks about the oppression of the Palestinians. Some historical information would not hurt.
The Arabs are Not Palestinians! The real Palestinians are Not of Arab origin.
Do you know who are those who stole the Palestinian identity?
Do you know that the largest mosque in Gaza was a synagogue less than a hundred years ago? Did you know that a hundred and fifty years ago, most of Gaza’s population was Jews and Christians? The Jewish population in Gaza ended with the pogrom of 1928. The last Christian Priest murdered three years after Hamas came to power. And recently, Christians in Gaza are forced to convert to Islam. Just like ISIS do it anywhere which they occupy.
Mr. Gafungo Bakanka says
Is she got her degree from McDonalds or somewhere? She didn’t get it from Nigeria like Mauricemojo234 mentioned. How about the Jewish in Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, Turkey, Iraq and other places? I only finish primary school but I still know this. I read a lot that is why, even some of my books are from Charity shops and second hand book shops. By the way is this lady never went outside America?. When I go to Paris and places like that and see Jewish from Tunisia or Algeria I always know they left their country because of Anti Semitism, harassment and discrimination.
Joe says
She should visit Saudia Arabia first and then throw her PHD to garbage after she return to America.
Always On Watch says
“There’s no history of that in the Middle East.”
What?
Which version of history has she been studying? Likely the same version that is being taught now in schools, K-graduate level.
Ralph says
Anyone remember Woodstock? That is where all of the Liberal Professors came from. Pot smoking Idiots could not get a Real Job; but they found it easy to teach young children “Liberalism”.
dumbledoresarmy says
So ALL teaching, qua teaching, from kindergarten on up, is not and never has been a “real job” and should therefore be viewed with contempt??
have you never, in your lifetime, encountered any teacher who was a person of integrity who loved their subject and encouraged kids to *learn*??
Because *I’ve* encountered several in the course of my own life: people who inspired me. People without whom I wouldn’t have acquired the knowledge or become the person I now am; without whom I might well not be posting here. If I hadn’t encountered a maths teacher who loved maths and could a/ communicate that love and b/ *explain things* clearly, I’d never have gotten more than a failing grade in that subject.
I’ve also seen some of the primary school teachers – this in the public system – that my own children have had; and they have been *good*. I’ve been in a first-grade class – this is kids who are *beginning* to learn to read and write – as a “parent helper” for just three hours and it left me absolutely exhausted, and with nothing but the deepest respect for the teacher, who – cool, calm and gracious – had the class a “tight ship” with all the kids “on point” and busy learning their letters and numbers, within a few weeks of starting school. But in your view she wasn’t doing a “real job”?
Don’t allow the existence of bad teachers – bad in a number of different ways – at the present historical moment in the West, to cause you to despise and dismiss all teachers and teaching *as such*.
gravenimage says
Very true, DDA.
And there are a number of teachers who comment here at Jihad Watch, as well—Wellington, Mirren, and Kepha among them. I have also taught.
And Robert Spencer can be regarded, first and foremost in his work, as a teacher as well.
The poor state of education in general and bad teachers specifically are a real problem in the West right now—but a good teacher is *priceless*, and having one can inspire far beyond the damage that can be done by most of the bad ones.
richard sherman says
Her professors are named Obama., Ayers and Chomsky.
Geppetto says
These are the folks, the intellectual elite, college educated, knowledgeable, immersed in the nuances and complexities required to accurately determine historical fact from fallacy. Just ask them a question and be amazed at the wisdom that spews forth. No?
This woman may receive a recess appointment from one of her contemporaries who currently holds the highest office in the land. She’d fit right in.
Anonamustafa says
This must be some kinda reverse psy-ops or something.
MSNBC is like the Marianas Trench of news.
A lot of strange life down there…..
Champ says
Hillary Mann Leverett ought to convert to islam since she’s so *fond* of and defends evil islam, and since Hillary has mastered the fine art of lying like a muslim, as well.
Wellington says
She ought to convert, Champ, but she almost certainly won’t (or, arguing in the alternative, if she actually did, it really couldn’t make more of a fool of her than she already is).
As for her lying, I’m not so sure. Your assertion about her mendacity could be correct, but I’m inclined to think she’s a “true believer,” that is to say a leftist ideologue who will say and embrace sundry silly things, like extolling Islam or what’s left of Marxism, all the while being insouciantly ignorant of where truth really resides. This goes to one of the most bizarre (and simply wrong) phenomena of our time, which is the way the modern left continues to be exculpated for making excuses for “acceptable” totalitarian ideologies like Islam and Marxism, contra “unacceptable” totalitarian ideologies like Nazism or Franco’s version of fascism. Huge double standard I would argue and hugely stupid too I would also argue.
Hope you are doing fine, Champ. Take good care, my friend.
Champ says
Good analysis, Wellington, and thank you for your reply, my friend! 🙂
gravenimage says
MSNBC: American University professor claims anti-Semitism doesn’t exist in Muslim countries
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Just jaw-droppingly false. The only question is whether Hillary Mann Leverett is an ignorant fool, or something much, much worse.
Here’s a piece in The Atlantic exposing her as an apologist for the sanguinary Islamic Republic of Iran:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/01/hillary-mann-leverett-from-iran-critic-to-iran-apologist/33156/
The Wall Street Journal described the Leveretts as “Washington’s most outspoken defenders of the mullahs,” in a piece called “I Heart Khomenei.”
She wrote a book titled, “Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran”:
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Tehran-United-Islamic-Republic/dp/0805094199
She and he husband laud Iran’s “significant progress toward the integration of Islamic governance and participatory politics”—this, a place that regularly imprisons and liquidates its enemies, as well as “blasphemers” and women accused of “Zina” (“unlawful” sexual activity, which can include adultery, but also many lesser charges).
This is a place that *stones women to death*, and that, not coincidentally, has vowed to “wipe Israel off the map”.
Nothing antisemitic about that…sarc/off
B Miller says
In the 1990’s, as an Iran expert, Hillary Mann’s view was that Iran was a sponsor of international terrorism. But since then, her song has changed. Why? Perhaps it is an effort to parlay her scholarly credentials, prior government employment credentials, and Iran insider status into her potentially lucrative energy consultant business, Strategic Energy and Global Analysis (STRATEGA), as Iran produces both Oil and Liquid Natural Gas , and she is the CEO of this company.
According to Wikipedia: “Iran has the 4th largest oil reserves and the world’s largest natural gas reserves in the world” and Robert Baer, in his 2008 book ‘The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower’ “argues that Iran has attained the status of an energy superpower and is on its way be become a military-political superpower”.
Therefore, Hillary Mann has to be soft on Iran and hard on Israel, or in this case claiming there is no anti-semitism in Iran, to maintain her insider status and access to Iranian contacts, which enables her to generate business for STRATEGA.
Isn’t this a conflict of interest for future scholarly research?
Joe Terravecchia says
Muslim Antisemitism Compilation .