Mazen Adi is fine. But Rutgers University wouldn’t dream of hiring an “Islamophobe,” i.e., someone opposed to jihad terrorism.
“Jewish Leaders at Rutgers University Denounce Hiring of Ex-Syrian Diplomat Who Accused Israelis of Trafficking Children’s Organs,” by Shiri Mosh, Algemeiner, November 17, 2017:
Two leading Jewish campus groups at Rutgers University in New Jersey have expressed concern over the university’s continued employment of adjunct professor Mazen Adi — a former spokesperson for the Syrian regime who accused Israeli officials of trafficking children’s organs.
As The Algemeiner first reported last week, Adi worked on behalf of Syria’s Foreign Ministry for 16 years, most recently as a diplomat at the United Nations in New York between 2007 and 2014 — defending Syria as it was accused of gassing, torturing, and starving its own citizens.
He joined Rutgers’ Political Science Department in 2015, and will teach a class on international law this spring. The university told The Algemeiner last week that its faculty members had a right to free speech, and said Adi was hired due to “his expertise in international law and diplomacy.”
Rabbi Yosef Carlebach, who heads Rutgers’ Chabad House, told The Algemeiner that he has been at the university for 39 “excellent” years and felt compelled to emphasize that it “is not a center or a hotbed of antisemitism.”
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“The administration, from the very top and down, has worked with us over the years on many different projects, on many different issues,” he stressed.
However, Carlebach acknowledged that over the years, the university is “going to hire people and claim academia takes precedence over everything — they’re going to use the freedom of expression line to give license to absolute wrong.”
“Antisemitism is around us, and there are going to be pockets of places that exhibit antisemitism, and [Mazen Adi] and others like him are perfect examples of that,” he warned. “We have to do our best to get our students aware of it.”
Carlebach said the revelation that Adi — who most recently worked as a Syrian diplomat at the United Nations in New York between 2007 and 2014, when the regime of President Bashar Assad was accused of multiple war crimes — was now a faculty member at Rutgers sparked “tremendous concern” in his community.
“There’s a feeling that … our school, that we so much love and care for, is once again allowing itself and its good name and reputation to be tarnished in the name of academia,” the rabbi said. “It’s something that we have to do everything in our power to deal with.”
He called on members of the Jewish community to “do their utmost to make the administration aware that you cannot have people who call Jews baby-killers talk loudly in the name of academia.”
The Jewish campus group Rutgers Hillel similarly urged university leaders this week “to condemn Adi’s statements as the mouthpiece of the murderous Syrian regime and to investigate the process by which a man like Mazen Adi was hired in the first place.”
“There are no doubt, Arab, Yazidi, Druze, or other students at Rutgers whose own relatives were murdered by the government for which Adi was a spokesman and apologist,” Rutgers Hillel wrote. “How must they and their families feel knowing this man is now a Rutgers ‘educator?’”
The group pointed out that the university was “already reeling from revelations” that Professor Michael Chikindas — whom The Algemeiner first interviewed — published multiple antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic social media posts.
Adi has been accused of making antisemitic remarks while representing the Syrian regime at the UN — notably at 2012 Security Council meeting, when Adi claimed that “international gangs led by some Israeli officials are now trafficking children’s organs.”
This “racist conspiracy theory,” Rutgers Hillel observed, has been advanced “by another Rutgers professor, Jasbir Puar,” who reportedly repeated allegations in a 2016 talk that the bodies of “young Palestinian men … were mined for organs for scientific research.”…
mortimer says
How can Rutgers expect scrupulous, academic objectivity from a teacher who has advanced the groundless speculation that Israel traffics the organs of dead Arab prisoners?
Obviously, they cannot expect objectivity from such a delusional or biased person as Mazen Adi. So why hire him in the first place.
Mazen Adi can only be relied on to disseminate biased, one-sided message, otherwise known by the name ‘propaganda’.
Is RUTGERS UNIVERSITY the proper place for POLITICAL PROPAGANDA? Should Rutgers University not rather seek teachers renowned for their SCHOLARLY OBJECTIVITY?
I think Rutgers board members know the answer.
J D S says
Infiltration of our schools of higher learning, along with many other things, and still is, an original concept of the communist, now taken over by the Islamist Is the undermining of our democracy, and it needs to be stopped but is that going to stop?…Most doubtful!
Wellington says
Rutgers also produced students and faculty aplenty who went into hysterics about Condeleezza Rice, Bush 43’s Secretary of State during his second term, giving the commencement address at Rutgers back in 2014. Rice, to avoid further controversy, withdrew from the speaking engagement of her own accord (frankly, wish she hadn’t, because it just constituted another victory for leftist fascism).
Bottom line: Rutgers, like so many other institutions of higher learning (now lower learning), most recently evidenced by events at Stanford, have become places where Islamic haters and liars, like Mazen Adi, are welcome but those who dare criticize Islamic hatred (which is voluminous for all you leftist snowflakes out there who know didly shit about Islam) or in any way even slightly oppose Islamic supremacism (and Rice hardly did even this, making excuses for Islam, as did her boss, Bush 43, many times over————-you know, that stupid, indefensible, even lethal distinction between “radical Islam” and “Islam”), are persona non grata.
The descent of universities and colleges across America continues. Truth is the real victim here and so is free speech. Meanwhile, fascism waxes at American colleges and universities. Indeed, there is something rotten going on in America and the time is out of joint, no “better” example can be found for this reality than what used to pass for institutions of higher learning.
Finally, I just needed to say this: Rutgers, you suck. And so do you, Stanford.
eduardo odraude says
According to David P. Goldman,
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/trumps-unsung-success-middle-east/
Wellington says
Yep, Rice is clueless but most interesting is that those at Rutgers who sought to silence her (and successfully so) are even more clueless. One thing’s for sure, there are a hell of a lot of clueless people out there (for instance, how many in Congress, in the House or Senate, really know much about Islam?).
mortimer says
Please sign the petition to fire Mazen Adi:
https://www.change.org/p/rutgers-fire-prof-mazen-adi-who-represented-syria-abetted-genocide?recruiter=26992994&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition
UN Watch calls on Rutgers University to fire Mazen Adi, a professor on war crimes law, on grounds that as a Syrian diplomat and legal advisor he justified the war crimes of the genocidal Assad regime.
While serving as a Syrian delegate and legal advisor at the UN, Mr. Adi systematically acted as an apologist for the mass murder committed by the Assad regime against his own people, helping Syria win impunity at the UN to conduct continued war crimes.
Mr. Adi joined Rutgers in September 2015, where he teaches international criminal law, political science, and United Nations and global policy studies.
mgoldberg says
I guess they don’t figure anyone will need a safe space when these two Mazen Adi and Jasbir Puar speak and ‘teach’ others their venal lies. Nor will they demand any…. and I mean the ‘administration’.
gravenimage says
Rutgers hires Syrian ex-diplomat who accused Israelis of trafficking children’s organs
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I’m glad Jewish groups are pushing back against this.
There is a petition to fire Mazen Adi:
“Rutgers should fire Prof. Mazen Adi who represented Syria, abetted genocide”
https://www.change.org/p/rutgers-fire-prof-mazen-adi-who-represented-syria-abetted-genocide
Voytek Gagalka says
I.e., hiring the wolf (or the fox) to guard the chicken house.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Funding cuts.
Stan Lee says
Rutgers is the state university of NJ. NJ is a Democrat-Socialist state. NJ very recently elected a Democrat kook as its Governor, who promises to turn the state into a sanctuary state.
Also, there are Muslim enclaves in north NJ, right across the Hudson River from the State of NY, where more of them live. Former Governor of NJ Christie(R) in speaking of the migration coming into NJ, said he discovered that Muslim migrants were being flown in covertly, on private passenger planes, and landing at UPS transport plane airfields, where they were quickly hustled onto waiting chartered buses and driven to Muslim areas in NJ. He stated that the Governor’s Office was never informed of this also it got by the U.S. Customs Service, and that he discovered it, quite by coincidence. This all happened during Obama’s time in office. The planes and buses were financed by Leftist financiers via the Democrat Party.
I don’t recall this issue ever being reported in the B.A..P..F. media,
Angemon says
And yet, some people believe Assad to be a protector of religious minorities….
R Russell says
Point 1.
Why did he not bring to the world’s attention the FACT that ISIS sold the organs of its victims – the Christians? The media seems to have amnesia when it comes to Christians being used for spare parts.
Point 2. Organ harvesting in some countries is by an opt out clause. IE unless there is in place a legal document stating a person’s organs are NOT to be used for transplantation, the organs can be taken once death has been confirmed. In this case death is deemed to have happened when the person is pronounced brain dead, not when his heart has stopped beating. The heart continues to beat until after the organs have been harvested.
Israel admits that in the 1990s she did use the organs of dead people, cadavers, Arabs and Israelis. This no longer happens.
Point 3. Israel was investigated by ? UN and found to be innocent.
Point4. Once readers familiarise themselves with the procedures necessary for the harvesting of organs, they will know that the only parts of a human which can be harvested after the heart has stopped beating, ie a cadaver, are the corneas, the bone and the skin.
Point 5. How many war dead lie brain dead with their hearts still beating? I would contend very few.
Point 6. How many field hospitals are capable of keeping the hearts of potential donors beating in conjunction with caring for the many other wounded?
Point 7. How many field hospitals have the capability of keeping harvested organs in the condition necessary to use for transplant worldwide?
Point 8. Those who continue to make these spurious claims need to see how risible they are and stop making fools of themselves about procedures they have no knowledge of.