Israel must undergo “settler-decolonization” in which Jewish “settler-colonists … could leave as the French left Algeria, or they could stay as they did in South Africa,” declared George Mason University Professor Noura Erekat last month. Her presentation at Washington’s Middle East Institute (MEI) revealed that nothing is beneath such an Israel-hater, who masks her lies and propaganda with sophistry and a smiling face.
During the speech, the niece of Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat discussed her recent book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, before approximately 80 people. Her fellow panelist, Brookings Institute non-resident fellow Khaled Elgindy, examined his recent publication, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump.
Befitting her longstanding anti-Israel extremism, including praise for terrorist Rasmea Odeh and conspiracy-mongering Princeton law professor emeritus Richard Falk, Erekat spewed vitriolic falsehoods. She gushed over the “youth” and “courageous vision” of Yasser Arafat, upon his accession to Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leadership in 1968. She even claimed that the PLO “renounced violence” through its 1998 charter amendments, a cold comfort to Israeli victims of the PA’s current “pay to slay” terrorist payment program, as well as the various terror intifadas.
In Erekat’s remarks — a de facto legal brief for terrorists — she exulted in the PLO “legislating the right to fight” by creating a “new law during the 1970s in order to further their cause for liberation,” the 1977 Geneva Protocol. American opposition to terrorism led to the rejection of this agreement.
Erekat simply lied about assaults against Israel from Hamas-ruled Gaza. Repeating her past slanders about the Israeli military targeting civilians, she claimed that Israeli shrapnel killed a one-year old infant in Gaza in early May, despite evidence proving that the death was due to a misfired jihadist rocket.
Gazans’ recent attempts to breach Israeli security barriers also elicited her praise. Her whitewash presented the violent 2018 “Great March of Return” as a “resistance path to freedom, using non-violent means, which should make us all celebrate” and “inspire the entire world.”
Predictably, Erekat denounced (non-existent) Israeli “apartheid.” As proof, she cited Falk’s notorious 2017 UN report, which even the anti-Israel UN disowned in embarrassment. She also described Israel’s lifesaving security barrier as an “apartheid wall.” For good measure, she complained that the PA “has not even endorsed the very minimum of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) in seeking Israel’s destruction through economic warfare.
Without defining the term, Erekat claimed that “two-thirds of Palestinians do not live in Palestine at all” and invoked the Palestinian refugee lie, by which millions of descendants of perhaps 600,000 Arab refugees from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence now have a “right of return” to Israel. Even she acknowledged that what was once a refugee “family of ten is probably now an extended family of 150.”
Concluding her remarks with yet another hackneyed accusation, Erekat described the Jewish state as a colonial implant. Jews “have not returned to their Arab Middle Eastern roots,” she complained; “they have returned to basically achieve acceptance within Europe” and to “demonstrate their eligibility as part of a European civilizational project.”
Erekat then appropriated the struggle of Mizrachi Jews, who emigrated to Israel from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) diaspora, for her anti-Israel propaganda. Much like the antisemitic Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill, who calls Mizrachi Jews “Palestinian,” Erekat called them “Arab Jews,” a term they reject. In fact, Mizrachi groups have denounced these distortions as anti-Zionist propaganda; they also celebrate their increasing prominence in Israel.
Erekat’s ahistorical, mendacious claims demonstrate the decadence of contemporary Middle East studies, where ethnic and religious bigotry masquerading as virtue has replaced the search for objective truth. Her presentation also revealed the depths of an Israel-hatred that is increasingly accepted on American campuses.
Andrew E. Harrod is a Campus Watch Fellow, freelance researcher, and writer who holds a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from George Washington University Law School. He is a fellow with the Lawfare Project. Follow him on Twitter @AEHarrod. This article was cross-posted from The Algemeiner.
Shirley Ann says
I would be very pleased if Professor Erekat would be placed on our “NO FLY” List. These Phony Academics get away with Verbal-Murder, Everyday.
Encitement of the Muslim Mob to Cause Mayhem in America, Israel, or any other Civilized Country, should be grounds for Charges!
CRUSADER says
Others as well…. such as conspiracy-mongering Princeton law professor emeritus Richard Falk
— who no longer are in “service to the nation’s interest” (which had been Princeton’s long standing motto)….
CRUSADER says
Notable opinions promoted by Richard Falk at Princeton….
3.1 Nuremberg Defense of violent protesters
3.2 Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979
3.3 9/11 and the Bush administration
3.4 Israeli-Palestinian conflict
3.5 2011 intervention in Libya
3.6 Boston Marathon bombings
4.0 Accusations of antisemitism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Falk#Notable_opinions
CRUSADER says
One of those deluded Jewish “thinkers” who believe in good intentions but only really serve to cut their own throats!, Falk’s thinking was influenced by readings of Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, and C. Wright Mills, and he developed an “overriding concern with projects to abolish war and aggression as social institutions”….
As if !!!!!
This Jew didn’t learn from the Torah, after all, that we live in a broken, fallen world, and to think our way back to the Garden won’t cut it!
mortimer says
This overconfident historical revisionism ignores the evidence that Jews were always in the region. In fact, the DNA of at least half of the invented ‘Palestinians’ is highly Jewish due to their Jewish ancestors living in Ottoman Syria (ca 1600-1700AD) who were forced into Islam, but practiced Judaism secretly.
Many of the very Palestinians who are claiming Jews to be invaders (rather than indigenous) unwittingly carry the evidence in their very cells that Jews are the indigenous people of Israel.
mortimer says
By the way, the phenomenal growth of the Palestinian Arab population reveals that the Israeli Jews have been phenomenally unsuccessful at their alleged genocide. As genocidists, Israelis are totally incompetent, if that was truly their intention. Clearly, this teacher is making up her own facts and her conclusions fall apart under close examination.
How can such an irresponsible teacher retain a job? Teachers should not be hired to promote such racialist propaganda … one might justifiably accuse this woman of ‘hate speech’ against Jews.
gravenimage says
Yes–where else under a supposed “genocide” has the population *grown*?
Savvy Kafir says
Whites are being slaughtered in South Africa — sometimes after being tortured for hours. If Palestinins had their way in Israel, that’s exactly what would happen to the Jews.
mortimer says
But captured Israeli soldiers have been tortured for hours by the jihadists and detained in miserable hideouts for years. Israelis are slaughtered by terrorists every month, but it is not reported as widely as when a Muslim is killed by a Western person. Clearly, the Pallies are not held to the same high standard. This is called the racism of low expectations.
CRUSADER says
There is indeed a phenomenon infecting the world opinion on such matters.
It is indeed the bigotry of low expectations. And it was orchestrated by PR programs from the Soviet era, and infused into the modern answer from Islam to the world stage: Islamism.
Angemon says
I wonder if this bint also think Israel is “genociding” Fakestinians…
CRUSADER says
Funny — your use of “bint” — since there are at least two known meanings
which oddly mean nearly the same thing! 😉
“Bint” is used as a derogatory slang word in the United Kingdom, meaning ‘woman’ or ‘girl’. Its register varies from that of the harsher bitch to an affectionate term for a young woman, the latter being more commonly associated with the West Midlands.
and
The nasab (نسب) is a patronymic or series of patronymics. It indicates the person’s heritage by the word ibn (ابن “son”, colloquially bin) or ibnat ( “daughter”, also بنت bint, abbreviated bte.). Ibn Khaldun (ابن خلدون) means “son of Khaldun”.
Angemon says
I only had the former in mind >_>
CRUSADER says
But isn’t it funny that there is that other correlation?
(Remember that Monty Python skit, where the fellow can only say b in front of words which instead begin with c ? So, in that case, “what a silly bunt!”)
Angemon says
XD
CRUSADER says
Academia is under siege !
Notre Dame covers over Columbus murals….
Christian symbol of the BELL being removed….
(This “El Camino Real” Bell cast is also everywhere in California.
So, are all the Bells going to be removed due to its offense?
Smelling more than anti-Christianity, more than “RACIST” fear mongering,
also smells of stealthy and creeping Cultural Jihad….)
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A university in California removed a historical symbol from its campus Friday in an effort to be “more inclusive” after a years-long campaign by Native American community members argued the marker highlighted a period of racism in the state.
The El Camino Real Bell was removed from the University of California Santa Cruz after administrators had several discussions with members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and other community members who felt that the bell marker glorified a period of time when Spanish missionaries dehumanized their ancestors and culture and enslaved those who converted to Christianity.
Vice Chancellor of Business and Administrative Services Sarah Latham said the school moved forward with the removal “in support of efforts to be more inclusive.”
The cast-iron bell, named after the route connecting 21 Franciscan missions, was one of hundreds of displays placed across highways in California in 1906 as a way to honor the state’s “Hispanic past” and “expand tourism,” UCSC said in a press release.
A detailed view of graffiti on an El Camino Real bell marker located at UC Santa Cruz is shown before being officially removed on Friday, June 21, 2019, in Santa Cruz, Calif.
“The bell marker, which memorializes the California Missions and an imagined route of travel that once connected them, is viewed by the Amah Mutsun and many other California indigenous people as a racist symbol that glorifies the domination and dehumanization of their ancestors,” the release continued.
Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Valentine Lopez called the bells a “painful” reminder that “celebrate the destruction, domination and erasure of our people.”
“It is shameful that these places where our ancestors were enslaved, whipped, raped, tortured and exposed to fatal diseases have been whitewashed and converted into tourist attractions.”
The university hasn’t decided on the bell’s fate, but the Amah Mutsun have suggested what the school called the only “two acceptable options” for its future: display it in a museum with the proper context or melt it down and “recycle for peaceful purposes.”
The removal comes as college campuses across the country take down symbols deemed racist by some community members.
Earlier this year Notre Dame announced it would cover campus murals depicting Christopher Columbus in “an attempt to tell the story of the native peoples.”
(Columbus — and Henry the Navigator — represented the efforts of the Templar legacy, and their symbol of the Cross has become “offensive” …. despite what their achievements accomplished.)
mortimer says
Under Ottoman rule, the area that became the Mandatory Palestine was organized into three administrative units, Jerusalem, Gaza and Nablus, all linked to the general Damascus Province. It was all thought of as ‘Syria’. The Ottomans drew entirely different lines on their maps.
The League of Nations divided the Ottoman provinces among Arab emirs who had fought on the side of the Allies against the Ottomans. These are verifiable facts. Arabs in the region were either ‘town’ Arabs who moved freely between towns and cities within the Ottoman Empire or Bedouin migrant-shepherds. They were Arab subjects of the Turkish empire … that was their political status and identity.
mortimer says
MAPS OF PROVINCE OF SYRIA UNDER OTTOMAN EMPIRE
‘Palestine’ did not exist as a defined, legal terroritory until 1923, when the League of Nations drew lines on a map. ‘Palestine’ was not a term used by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans thought of it as Southern Syria.
cf. Ottoman VILAYET OF SYRIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine#Early_Ottoman_rule
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
RichardL says
Cute: University Professor 😉 She has not a single publication to her name (check Scholar Google). I have doctoral students who have four papers in journals…
gravenimage says
George Mason University Professor Noura Erekat Lies About Israel, Offers De Facto Legal Brief for Jihad Terrorists
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Disgusting–but who can be surprised?
More:
Concluding her remarks with yet another hackneyed accusation, Erekat described the Jewish state as a colonial implant. Jews “have not returned to their Arab Middle Eastern roots,” she complained; “they have returned to basically achieve acceptance within Europe” and to “demonstrate their eligibility as part of a European civilizational project.”
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What crap. Jews are not Arab, and Jews in the Levant *much* predate the Arab invasion there.
As for the rest, Erekat is castigating Israel for being a civilized country, and not a barbaric third world Muslim crap hole like those surrounding her.
Northern Virginiastan says
Hmmm … Canary Mission has not profiled this witch.
FYI George Mason University accepted $1.5 million from the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) to set up an endowed chair in Islamic Studies. For more, visit Islamist Infiltration of American Universities, https://clarionproject.org/islamists-infiltration-american-universities/
Frank Anderson says
How many “settler-colonist” groups can be identified in history. Considering that humans are thought to have originated in Africa and spread through settlement and colonization over most of a million years, and islam started in “Arabia” and spread by colonization and conquest, is “The Pot calling the Kettle Black?” What is allowed for one that is not allowed for anyone else is hypocrisy-normal for islam and its slaves.
lisa says
Unless we start emailing these entities that are either pushing false propaganda or blatantly lying, we are no better than the blind, brainwashed public. Who was it that said the pen is mightier than sword? Let’s start to fight back…its not that hard. Let them know what you think.
president@gmu.edu (email address of the president of George Mason University)
Why would an American University have a Professor who has publicly backed terrorist? https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/noura-erakats-mad-love-for-convicted.html
When the news broke late last week that convicted terrorist and US immigration fraudster Rasmea Odeh had decided to accept a plea bargain that requires her to leave the US while allowing her to avoid prison, no one needed to rally the “usual suspects”: anti-Israel activists at Ali Abunimah’s Electronic Intifada and the Orwellian-named Jewish Voice for Peace were quick to reaffirm their support for Odeh by eagerly amplifying the odious statement put out by the “Rasmea Defense Committee.” But these notorious fringe voices were soon joined by Noura Erakat, an assistant professor at George Mason University, “where she teaches in the legal studies, international studies, and human rights/social justice studies concentrations.” Erakat also seems to have some credibility with the US mainstream media; she has e.g. appeared on CNN and PBS and has voiced her views on terrorism in the New York Times, as EoZ highlighted in a critical post last year.
Arguably, Erakat now clarified her views on terrorism when she took to Twitter and described Odeh as “[o]ur sister, our beloved leader;” she also re-tweeted a claim that Odeh was the victim of a “political expulsion;” eventually, Erakat followed up with a lengthy piece at Jezebel, professing her “mad love and respect” for the convicted terrorist and immigration fraudster.
Let’s take a look at the terrorist:
Odeh was convicted in 1970 of involvement in two terrorist bombings in Jerusalem in 1969, one of which killed two people, and in 2014 by a US federal jury of immigration fraud. She was sentenced to life in prison in Israel and involvement in an illegal organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She spent 10 years in prison before she was released in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP in 1980.[11] In a 1980 interview she confessed to participating in two bombings with PFLP, though says the intent was not to hurt anyone.[12]
Odeh was convicted of immigration fraud on November 10, 2014, by a jury in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, for concealing her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment for the 1969 bombings.[13][14] On December 11, 2014, she was released on bond pending sentencing.[14][15][16] Odeh’s counsel maintains she did not receive a “full and fair trial” because the judge ruled as irrelevant her testimony that her confession to the crimes had been extracted by torture while she was in the custody of Israeli Police in 1969. [17][15] After investigating Odeh’s claims of torture, federal prosecutors concluded that such claims were “certainly false” and that Odeh had been “serially untruthful for decades.”[18]
It makes me wonder how much money the foreign governments have DONATED to your university….and how much of that does the federal government know about?