Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist for the Leftist publication Haaretz. She is strongly in favor of the “Palestinian” jihad. But she was asked to leave a conference at the “Palestinian” Birzeit University, and warned “This is for your own protection [from the students].” She writes: “And I was at that moment reminded of the image that Israelis commonly have of Palestinians: irrational hotheads.” But only at that moment, apparently, as her core beliefs don’t seem to have been challenged by this ugly encounter with Islamic anti-Semitism, or even by the fact that “Palestinian citizens of Israel who teach at Israeli universities are not subject to the same policy” that kept her out of the conference: in other words, they were just keeping Jews out, even “pro-Palestinian” Jews, not just citizens of Israel.
“I have other places to invest my subversive energies,” Hass huffs. Or here’s a better idea: stop being subversive altogether and aiding and abetting the destruction of your people, and wake up to the reality of the jihad.
“When a Haaretz journalist was asked to leave a Palestinian university,” by Amira Hass, Haaretz, September 28, 2014 (thanks to JH):
The German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and The Center for Development Studies (CDS) at Birzeit University organized a conference entitled, “Alternatives to Neo-Liberal Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories – Critical Perspectives.”
During the first presentation on Tuesday, two lecturers from the CDS approached me within ten minutes of each other, asking me to step outside, saying that they needed to talk to me. I asked them to wait until the break, but after they asked me a third time, I stepped out of the conference hall. “Am I not allowed to be here?” I asked, half-kidding, but one of the lecturers answered that there was a problem.
When I registered at the entrance of the conference I wrote next to my name the institution I belong to, Haaretz. For the past two decades, the lecturer said, there has been a law at Birzeit stipulating that Israelis (Jewish Israelis, that is) are not allowed on the university grounds. The students manning the conference registration desk saw that I had written “Haaretz,” realized I was an Israeli, and ran to tell the university authorities. The security department in turn went to the conference organizers, the lecturer said. She and her colleagues were afraid, she told me, that students would break into the conference hall in protest over my presence.
From where we were standing in the entrance hall, I didn’t see a throng of students approaching in order to oust me, the representative of the ‘Zionist entity.’ But when friends and acquaintances (including lecturers) telephoned afterward to find out what had happened, I then understood that the rumor going around was that students had attacked me. And so, for the sake of truth, this is not what happened. What did happen was that two lecturers demanded that I leave. So I left.
One of the lecturers explained that it is important for students to have a safe space where (Jewish) Israelis are not entitled to enter; that while the law is problematic, this was not the time or place to discuss amending it; and that, just as she could ask to treat me differently as an exception to the rule, another lecturer might ask for the same preferential treatment for Yossi Beilin, Israel’s former justice minister who is known as one of the architects of both the Oslo Accords and Geneva Initiative and the initiator of the Taglit Zionist project. She also told me that Professor Ilan Pappe, author of the book ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,’ among others, had been invited to deliver a lecture at Birzeit, but owing to the law, gave the talk off campus. The other lecturer told me that if I didn’t write “Haaretz” in the registration form, I would have been able to stay. Still, another faculty member who I have known for 40 years walked past and said: “This is for your own protection [from the students].” And I was at that moment reminded of the image that Israelis commonly have of Palestinians: irrational hotheads. A Palestinian citizen of Israel who came to the conference left out of disgust, in her words, at my ouster.
In the meantime, Katja Hermann, director of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Regional Office in the Occupied Territories, was told about the complication. Despite her appreciation of the importance of preserving a safe space for Palestinian students, much like feminists have created women-only spaces, she failed to understand why it is impossible to explain to protesting students (“who I don’t even see,” she noted) that this puritanism misses the mark. I am regularly invited to events organized by “Rosa,” as the foundation is fondly nicknamed. The shocked Hermann then said that had she known about the law at Birzeit, and the decision to exclude me from the conference’s audience, she wouldn’t have agreed to hold the event within the university walls.
In the past twenty years, I have entered Birzeit University dozens of times, and have been an audience member at various academic conferences there. I have also interviewed faculty members both on and off campus. A year ago, an economics lecturer refused an interview, telling me, “It’s not personal. But you know what the rules are.” I didn’t know there was a rule against being interviewed by Haaretz.
It is well known that the university doesn’t employ Israeli Jews as academic staff, even from anti-Zionist left-wing circles. In 1998, my application to an Arabic course for foreigners was rejected. (A sarcastic friend, Iyad from Gaza, said back then: “With your Gazan accent, how can they accept you?”) But I was never told that there was a university law against my very presence, as an Israeli Jew, on Birzeit’s campus. The claim that the law applies to me because I am representing an Israeli institution is a shaky one: Palestinian citizens of Israel who teach at Israeli universities are not subject to the same policy. If I had known about the existence of such a law, I wouldn’t have come to the conference. I have other places to invest my subversive energies.
I am writing about this incident precisely because I did not take it personally. I do not take personally the fact that some faculty members were hiding behind hypothesized angry students and a law that many others seem to be unaware of. In my opinion, it would have been more dignified to tell me explicitly: We do not differentiate between those who support the occupation and those who are against it, between those who report on policies to forcibly evict the Bedouin or those who carry out that policy; for us, there is only one place for every Israeli Jew – outside.
At the final session of the conference on Wednesday, a lecturer from another department asked to discuss the fact that I had been kicked out, and the issue of banning left-wing Israeli Jews in general. The lecturer and others, who weren’t present at the time of the incident, were shocked and expressed their protest, I was told. When it was announced that I was asked to leave, “for my own protection,” a number of people left the hall in anger. Meanwhile, a storm erupted on Facebook. Acquaintances have since called me to apologize. The owner of my local grocery store apologized “in the name of the Palestinian people.”
Meanwhile, the university published a statement Saturday saying: “The administration has nothing against the presence of the journalist Hass. The university as a national institution differentiates between friends and enemies of the Palestinian people… and works with every person or institution that is against the occupation.”
I understand the emotional need of Palestinians to create a safe space that is off limits to citizens of the state that denies them their rights and has been robbing them of their land. As a leftist, however, I question the anti-colonialist logic of boycotting left-wing Israeli Jewish activists. In any case, such leftists do not seek kosher certificates while opposing the occupation and striving to put an end to the Jewish regime of privileges.
jewdog says
Amira Haas is an example of the self-hating, power-hating ghetto mentality among secular Jews. After 2000 years of powerlessness, and being victimized by those in power, we have many secular and religious Jews who want to keep their moral purity by refusing to support Jewish self-defense. Zionism was supposed to remedy that passivity, but people don’t change overnight.
Paula Stern, an Israeli woman with two sons in the IDF, confers an annual Ghetto Mentality Award to that Jew who embodies those unsavory traits. Last year’s winner was Rabbi Antebi of Amsterdam, who was beaten up by two Muslims, but forgave them as he claimed they couldn’t have known that he was an anti-Zionist Rabbi of the Natorei Karta sect.
Ha Meshuga says
My money says that her relatives went quietly on trains to their deaths….
No mine, never again!!
patches says
Correct , as the violins played and the Red Cross handed out chocolates Leftist Jews were in awe of their German handlers 🙁
mortimer says
How sad that such Jews believe passivity is justice. Amira Hass is actually unaware of her own dhimmitude.
Zionism is misunderstood by people like her who studiously avoid learning its principles. Zionism is fundamentally a secular movement for protecting Jews from harassment and persecution by providing a Jewish homeland. Of all the potential homelands available and barely occupied the former Turkish regions of ‘lower Syria’ were the most suitable for a Jewish homeland. Israel provides true justice and democracy for large numbers of Arabs who enjoy the relative tranquility and freedom of Israel compared with the surrounding toxic Arab countries.
Israel’s reasonable, unprejudiced treatment of non-Jewish teachers is contrasted with the prejudicial, racist policies of the Pallies.
sujith says
why didn’t they make her their sex slaves and chop her off later ?
jewdog says
Why? Because she’s still a useful idiot.
ER says
I thought Israel was supposed to be the apartheid state. Of course, it is “Palestine” that actually engages in ethnic cleansing, racism, sexism and all the other verboten isms. Ha ha!
Asfor Amira Hass (hass means hate in German), she is full of hate for her own country Israel. Serves her right for all the lies she continually tells about Israel.
jewdog says
Oops, I misspelled Hass, as in flaming Hass-hole.
Jay Boo says
If only we could magically just get rid of the irrational hotheads then all would be peace.
Until we confront the ideology and its enablers we have no strategy, only tactics.
The future belongs to those willing to insult the false prophet of Islam’s
“War Is Peace,” ” Freedom Is Slavery,” “Ignorance Is Strength.”
(Islam is peace and Sharia is Justice) ideology.
juandos says
Nicolai Sennels: Psychology: Why Islam creates monsters (http://goo.gl/TsbBr4)
Kiel says
It’s amazing; lefty Jews and non-Jews alike subscribing to ghetto-mentality and political correctness being harassed cannot see what’s just in front of them. That day the muzzies are doing the tipping point, as are likely to happen in underpopulated Sweden, all the libtards are carried away to the sharia slaughter-hall.
Angemon says
No, no, no, no, no. Mrs. Hass, it’s clear you’re not truly devoted to your cause. Your reaction should have been something like “And I was at that moment ashamed and angered by the actions of the Israeli government and its treatment of the Palestinians that forces them to express their anger and helplessness in such a way. I truly wished to have dropped dead at that moment as atonement for the sins of the Israeli government”.
All is well when it ends well?
You’re a leftist. You don’t question.
mortimer says
What the ‘Pallies’ are saying is this: ‘Even a self-hating Jew hasn’t hated herself ENOUGH. If she were sincere about the self-hatred, she would be dead.’
So who are the racists now? How fascinating…and how much more ‘racist’ can you get, when GENOCIDE is the only solution accepted by the Pallies?
Wellington says
Oh yeah, clueless forever.
It’s a virtual guarantee this woman will go to her grave (sooner rather than later if the so-called Palestinians who expelled her get their way entirely) never figuring out how the world really works. Well, this is the price one pays if they buy into modern leftist ideology. It’s a terrible price to pay since it’s a waste of life, just as being a Muslim is.
Ah, imagine the world minus Islam and modern leftism. Yeah, far better, no? Of course, there would still be many problems (e.g., yet another leader of Russia who is a horrible anachronism and who looks upon his neighbors, a la George Kennan, as either vassals or enemies), but a world minus Muslims and modern leftists would be so much a better world.
But, oh yes, back to reality, which is so often made quite the downer PRECISELY because of Muslims and modern leftists—–as exampled here by this fool, Amira Hass, the subject of this article.
katarzyna says
My critical perspective of Amira’s explanation: leftist logic of Palestinian’s bitch.
Ayatrollah says
What does “providing a save place” for Palestinian students mean?
Do Jews bring suicide bombs on campus?
Angemon says
I think “safe place from X” is leftist for “a place to mock/insult X”.
A few months ago there was an article about a “White privilege conference”. IIRC, some of the undercover journalists were barred from entering some of these “safe places” either because of gender or skin color.
PAthena says
Calling Arab enemies of Israel “Palestinians” is a consequence of Soviet propaganda. The terms “Palestine” and “Palestinian” have been synonymous with “land of the Jews” and “Jew” since the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135 A.D., after having defeated the Jewish rebellion under Bar Kochba, changed the name of Judea to “Palestina” in order to eradicate all memory of Judea and the Jews; he outlawed Judaism and renamed Jerusalem “Aelia Capitolina,” “Aelius” being his gens name.
The consequence was that the name “Palestine” became synonymous with “land of the Jews.” That is why Great Britain, after World War I, was granted the “Palestine Mandate,” to be “the homeland of the Jews.”
In Cairo in 1964, Gamal Nasser of Egypt and the Soviet Union, haters of Jews, founded the “Palestine Liberation Organization,” (P.L.O.), whose name shows its Soviet origin. This organization came to fame by the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, since which time Arabs have been miscalled “Palestinians.”
Miss (or Mrs.) Hass is ignorant, as well wanting to destroy her country Israel.
nacazo says
She should invest her subversive energy in becoming a muslim third wife of a Palestinian wife-beater.
Rob says
Nah!
She’s over 13 so she is completely unsuitable.
Jerry says
Shame.
Poor Amira Haas was deprived of her opportunity to uphold the best traditions established during WWII by the honourable members of the Judenrat
(Jewish collaborators with the Nazi SS and GESTAPO).
There are, unfortunately, some confused left wing self hatingJews and even some super Orthodox idiots who collaborate with the Jihaddists doing that hoping with the hope of appeasing the beast and being spared when the Islamic “day of judgment” comes.
She obviously never properly read Article Seven of the “Hamas Covenant” or the Hadith it is based upon.
Just like the “liberal left” and misguided Dhimmi Christians including “Archbishop” Tutu and the “Pope”.
Some of the delusional non-Jewish deluional Leftist Christians and Hindus who read Article Seven of the “Hamas Covenant” might even boldly question:
I am not Jewish so what the heck it has to do with me?
They can relax, at least for a while. The Jews are clearly first on the list.
Christians and Hindus are only next.
Problem with Islam is what happens when there not enough Jews around to satisfy the Islamist bloodlust for genocide?
No problem: Where and when there not enough Jews conveniently available ISIS/ISIL, Boko Haram settle for murdering Christians.
And where and when the Christians are becoming scarce, the Sunny Jihaddists happily exterminate Shiites, and no surprise, the Shiites try to exterminate Sunny all in the name of a fake God called Allah following the teachings of a fake self proclaimed Prophet called Mohammed.
Zimriel says
Rosa Luxemburg… where have I seen that name before…
http://www.rosalux.de/english/foundation.html
The Foundation in that murderous communist’s name was founded by the Party of Democratic Socialism, which is made of the SAME GUYS who ran East Germany until 1989.
Hass is, in short, Stasi. She has no interest in Judaism as a faith, none in Jews as a people except where specific Jews were seeking world conquest and death. She is not going to change.
Bezelel says
Pamela Geller has used the term “Jewicidal” and I think it would apply here.
Rebecca says
She is not the first and won’t be the last. There were Jews like her in Germany. When the time came to round up the Jews and sent them off on cattle cars, these Jews were shocked when their German friends sent them along! The palestinians hate her as much as they hate the Zionists, and she is so naive to think otherwise.
carpediadem says
I other words, she still chooses to remain stupid, in the face of Jewhatred whatever one’s leftist or other persuasion.
It has amazed me for years that she doe not simply name herself Juden Hass.
But maybe that would be too confronting.
“Jewish privilege” indeed!! Huh!Moron.
citycat says
This hatred to Jews is wilful tribalism.
To say it’s karma for killing Jesus is an excuse. Karma is personal, only the killers get it, if it exists.
R Davis says
It is being rumored that Egypt will give a portion of their territory to create a Palestinian State.
Which means that Israel will have it all including Gaza.
Elliott says
This was an offer made by the Egyptians; seemingly rejected by Hamas.
Israel doesn’t NEED Gaza. It IS part of the “Land of Israel”, but if the “autonomous region” offered to the balestinians includes part of Northern Sinai which borders on Gaza, Israel can live without the Gaza strip, AS LONG AS THE balestinians CAN LIVE WITHOUT THEIR ROCKETS, TUNNELS, ETC. But when you read the hamas Charter, which Hass should do – out loud – every day before breakfast, you see that it’s most unlikely to happen.
Dhimmiwit says
Well, at least the green grocer apologised. My local green grocer Mr Chaudary always looks towards me a bit apologetic after his co-religionists have hacked another head from a kuffar neck. In fact he’s recently taken to apologising in advance by giving me a free bunch of bananas.
Henry says
Will it occur to this woman that she’s just had a bit of a sampler of what’s to be if the supremacist fanatics were in total control.
Uncle Vladdi says
Can’t fix stupid masochists.
Alberto Taure says
“It is contradictory and impossible (and dangerous) to enjoy the benefits of being Roman, while cheering barbarians”
Arturo Perez-Reverte.
Sligoker says
Another self-loathing Jew. Leftists portray themselves as people who care about the plight of the down trodden and less fortunate. In fact, the typical leftist despises the down trodden and less fortunate, and in many cases wants to maintain the status quo.