The general outrage over the barring of Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel, although they are both working earnestly for the destruction of the Jewish state, is crazy enough, and it calls to mind an incident from last year that was beyond crazy:
A Rutgers University professor who accused Israeli forces of deliberately sparing the lives of Palestinians in order to debilitate them has been awarded [sic] by the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA).
Jasbir Puar, an associate professor of women’s and gender studies, co-won the NWSA’s 2018 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize for her work The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability.
Published by in November 2017 by Duke University Press — which has come under scrutiny for its editorial advisors’ ties to the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel — the book posits that the “Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have shown a demonstrable pattern over decades of sparing life, of shooting to maim rather than to kill.”
How diabolical can those Israelis get, deliberately “sparing the lives of Palestinians”? Thank god for Jasbir Puar, “associate professor of women’s and gender studies,” for seeing through the Israeli strategy, which is to “debilitate” the “Palestinians” by sparing their lives. In fact, they don’t even “shoot to maim,” but only to stop rioters attacking soldiers or attempting to breach Israel’s security fence. They shoot only after all other means, such as rubber bullets and tear gas, have failed, and aim at their legs to halt, not to “maim” them. Jasbir Puar might add, to the next edition of her award-wining book, a chapter on Israeli doctors who provide care for both Israeli Arabs and, in emergencies, for “Palestinians” from Gaza and the West Bank, in Israeli hospitals where treatments is available to “Palestinians” in medical need, and — most diabolical of all — frequently that care given by the Israelis is free. What could be more sinister than that? Obviously such care can only weaken the resolve of the “Palestinians” to remain steadfast in demanding their rights from the occupier. Israeli kindness is only a facade for cruelty.
But no one should be fooled. The Israelis have used the same clever strategy of fake “kindness” even with other Arabs. Since 2013, Israel has been providing medical care to many thousands of wounded civilians in southern Syria. They are treating them, of course, not because Israel wishes them well, but only in order to “debilitate” them, that is, in order to control them, though admittedly it’s still unclear just how Israel will control Syrians in Syria.
“Yet it [Puar’s prize-winning book] contends that this “purportedly humanitarian practice of sparing death by shooting to maim” is not rooted in a desire to minimize fatalities, but rather seeks to maintain “Palestinian populations as perpetually debilitated, and yet alive, in order to control them.”
The NWSA award’s review committee called The Right to Maim a “major milestone book,” which argues “that debilitation and the state production of disability are biopolitical projects both useful and productive for states under Neoliberal capitalism.”
“Debilitation and the state production of disability are biopolitical projects both useful and productive for states under Neoliberal capitalism”? Could the awards committee, which called The Right to Maim a “major milestone book,” and proves itself to be a dab hand at the same kind of gobbledygook as is in the book, please explain what “biopolitical projects” means?
Puar — a supporter of BDS who wrote that the book’s “ultimate purpose … is to labor in the service of a Free Palestine” — has attracted controversy over the work, with critics accusing it of advancing a blood libel against the Jewish state.
The book, its author unashamedly admits, has a tendentious purpose, which is not to write history, but “to labor in the service of a Free Palestine.”
Seth Mandel, an op-ed editor at The New York Post, accused Puar on Twitter on Saturday of receiving an “award for book-length medieval blood libel because academic anti-Semitism is not just tolerated, but encouraged and rewarded.”
Andrew Getraer, director of Rutgers Hillel, added in response, “the fact that this unreadable piece of dreck received an academic award is unsurprising.”
The book has raised concerns since it was first published, with Richard Cravatts — president emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a network of academics that seeks to counter “anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism” — asserting that its core notion was “an outrageous and grotesque resurrection of the classic anti-Semitic trope that Jews purposely, and sadistically, harm and kill non-Jews.”
Kenneth Waltzer — executive director of the Academic Engagement Network, which opposes the BDS campaign against Israel on university campuses — said at the time that Puar was “more interested in defining and theorizing than in getting things as they are.”
He also accused the professor of advancing “terrible (and unapologetic) antisemitism” during a 2016 event at Vassar College, when she said that Israel “manifests an implicit claim to the right to maim and debilitate Palestinian bodies and environments,” according to a transcript of the talk provided by the Vassar alumni group Fairness To Israel.
During that appearance, Puar repeated allegations that the bodies of “young Palestinian men … were mined for organs for scientific research.” She also asserted that Israel’s actions could be called a “genocide in slow motion,” and said, “We need BDS as part of organized resistance and armed resistance in Palestine as well. There is no other way the situation is going to change.”
There are no cases, none, of Israel mining “the bodies of young Palestinian men” for organs for scientific research. But that hasn’t stopped Jasbir Puar, for whom the truth is irrelevant, from making the charge. Puar is a fighter; her work is intended to complement the armed resistance inside “Palestine” with whatever nonsense and lies she can produce, outside, that is, of her grotesque pseudo-scholarship in the service of “Palestine.”
If Israel is committing a “genocide in slow motion,” as Jasbir Puar charges, it is certainly going about it the wrong way. In The Weekly Standard, Jonah Cohen discussed the “genocide” charge:
At the end of the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel took over the territories from Jordan, the average Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza expected to live just 49 years, according to a U.N. report. In 1975, Palestinian life expectancy rose to 56; by 1984, it climbed to 66. Since 1984, Palestinians have lived an average of 75 years. That’s not only higher than the global average, but longer than the life expectancy in many Arab and South American countries—and even in some European countries. Israeli Arabs, meanwhile, have the highest life expectancy in the Muslim world.
Infant mortality is another marker of genocide and it’s been declining in Palestinian life, having shown dramatic improvement since 1967. The high birth and low death rates of Palestinians in Gaza put the territory near the top of the world in population growth. It is a strange kind of “genocide” that creates the conditions for a population of people to flourish.
With improvements in physical well-being have come advances in culture. Palestinian literacy is impressive indeed: an astonishing 91 percent adult literacy rate. That makes the Palestinians the most educated population in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, according to a 2006 World Bank report.
And if voting with their feet is any indication, a majority of Israeli Arabs prefer to live in Israel rather than other countries, as suggested in various polls. Many even favor Israeli-ruled East Jerusalem over Palestinian citizenship in the territories.
In 1967, the Israelis conducted a census of both the West Bank and Gaza. The West Bank then had 661,700 inhabitants; it now has 2.16 million Arabs, an increase of almost 300%. Gaza in 1967 had 354,700 inhabitants; today it has 1.84 million, an increase of 400%. Only someone as hate-addled as Jasbir Puar could describe that as “genocide.”
As for Israel, you can be sure it is going to continue with its diabolical scheme of deliberately sparing the lives of “Palestinians” in order to “debilitate” them. And it will no doubt continue to offer free medical treatment to “Palestinians” in need, and to thousands of wounded Syrian civilians, too. But don’t be fooled. In the end it’s all part of a “genocidal” plot by Israel that has been so cleverly hidden behind that steep rise in the “Palestinian” population, that it takes someone as unfoolable as Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, to pull back the curtain on the real story, that of Israeli malevolence and cruelty. And sparing “Palestinian” lives is a typical Israeli trick. But don’t be fooled; just read Puar’s breathtaking analysis. For revealing that “biopolitical” plot, Puar has certainly earned her award. Rutgers must be very proud.
Beverly says
She is right about one thing – shooting to maim usually takes 3 people out of the fight. The person wounded and 2 others to carry them. But the rest of her theory is pure bunk. I would like to point out that one way the Palestinians have not tried is peace. Stop threatening and killing Jews. Try it for a week. You know, just to see if it could possibly work. Stop sending your children to die. What are you going to do when the food and money runs out? Cry for the world to help you because you’re children are starving. Stop spending all your money on terrorism.
b.a. freeman says
sadly, Beverly, being rational with a cultist – especially a member of a gang-banger cult like islam – does not work. their response would be to kill U.
Cicero says
From her name one might construe that Ms Jasbir Puar is a Sikh woman. From her looks it would appear that she is of Indian ethnicity ( please note that I do not use the appellation “ South Asian “ which is now the politically correct term being forced into our psyche by the School of Oriental and African Studies to now describe Pakistan, India and Bangladesh).
Somehow the Sikh community abroad seem to have lost the plot and forgotten the atrocities committed on their ancestors in the Punjab by the Religion of Peace . They convenientl6 have elided from their collective memories the torture and murders inflicted on several of their founding Gurus by the Islamic rulers of India.
They now align themselves with Islam and its followers . In fact there were several hundreds of them within the 5000 strong Islamic crowd who descended on theBritish Indian Embassy in London on August 15 th.
It seems to me that they exhibit all the signs of muddled and Dhimmified thinking
mortimer says
Beverly’s every point is correct. However, the Pally terrorists punish those who think like that, so the decent, peace-loving people get intimidated into silence. We see modernist Muslim leaders attacked, punished, charged and killed in Muslim countries several times a year.
The terrorists silence opposition to their supremacist ideas. All Muslims live in constant fear of being denounced to the terrorists.
gravenimage says
Very true.
Abraham Fox says
The Palistinians cannot stop hating Jews. It is required of them by edict of the Koran. No Muslim will live for long if he/she pursues peace and co-existence. They will be killed by their fellow Muslims.
SAFI says
I doubt the Palestinians will ever decide to try pacifism especially with Iran, Turkey, the western “anti-zionist” Left and other such rascals who like to sponsor the “Palestinian cause” urging them to remain intransigent
william carr says
A moments thought destroys her theory’ As the terrorists usually end up in long term Israeli custody. ‘Maiming’ them is actually adding to the costs of their imprisonment. Shooting them dead would actually be economically more sensible.
Attempting to disable targets is actually quite difficult and dangerous to the shooter which is why soldiers and law enforcement are trained to aim for centre mass which is more likely to kill
b.a. freeman says
maybe rational people need to start a BLU movement: Boycott Leftist Universities. if we did, however, they would no doubt start saying that it’s OK to shoot “extreme” right-wingers, since anything we of the stupid stinking masses do is by definition evil.
b.a. freeman says
oops – posted the wrong sentence; should have ended with:
… is by definition extremely right-wing and evil.
Edmund Carey says
Scrutinizing this stuff and responding to it is like battling a Hydra. The heads just never stop coming back, each one more poisonous than the last. It is a consolation to know that someone is doing the job of answering this trash – Hugh Fitzgerald here, and the critics he quotes – but it is nonetheless depressing to watch.
Victor Hugo told us that there was no defeating an idea whose time has come. But he never said that the idea in question might not be brainless, bigotry-driven, balderdash. We cling to the hope that some ideas’ time can also go.
mortimer says
Yes, well said. And speaking about brainless balderdash and drivel, what do you make of an Islamic supremacist who pretends to be a feminist? Islam is the most misogynistic ideology on earth.
SAFI says
“what do you make of an Islamic supremacist who pretends to be a feminist?” I personally see it as proof that the islamic supremacists are masters of psychological warfare. They’ve actually managed to convince the world that muslims are always the victim of the non-muslims, and especially so when it comes to “Palestine” being the victim of Israel. “War is deceit” as Pr Moe once said.
No matter how many times they’ve lost to Israel on the battlefield they keep dominating the “mindfield” through these well orchestrated psy-ops and black propaganda by which they’ve already convinced much of the world that the “jews are the new nazis” carrying out horrific atrocities against the poor “palestinian” victims and that Israel is a racist abomination with no legitimacy to exist whatsoever, occupying and brutally oppressing a historic country called “Palestine” that just wishes to live in peace and means no harm to them. And the world (and not only. And they’ve been so effective that the most of the world has fallen for this cr@p hook, line and sinker.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
And speaking about brainless balderdash and drivel, what do you make of an Islamic supremacist who pretends to be a feminist?
……………….
Especially blatant Taqiyya.
mortimer says
Jasbir Puar is a highly educated fool, but not educated about policing or firearms. When police shoot the legs of a suspect they are indeed trying to spare the person’s life, but this is not always possible in the emotion of the moment. A handgun held shakily in a shootout is not as accurate as a rifle with a scope. A slight adjustment in aim at a distance means that the shot goes not to the head or heart, but to the stomach or feet.
The Israeli police and soldiers have been trained to have the highest respect for human life.
Moreover, it is foolish to blow away terrorists for a number of reasons 1) bad optics for public relations leading to more bitterness by creating ‘martyrs’ for the terrorist cause 2) living detainees can provide intelligence leading to the arrest of other terrorists, thus taking a number of terrorists off the street 3) police follow a doctrine of using as little violence as possible to achieve an arrest, thus reducing complaints and lawsuits.
Jasbir Puar isn’t a teacher but a worthless propagandist. The students deserve more VALUE FOR THEIR COLLEGE FEES. The university should fire Jasbir Puar … a worthless and even a harmful teacher.
gravenimage says
The “Palestinians” don’t have any legitimate reasons for criticizing Israel so they pull ludicrous crap like this.
mortimer says
Jasbir Puar’s contention that Israel commits genocide is totally absurd on the face of this claim. It is obvious to anyone that the population of Pallies has been exploding for decades (no pun intended).
The Israelis are hopeless failures if they are trying to commit genocide … they are actually causing a Pally population explosion!
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Jasbir Puar is actually revealing her opinion that Israelis can do nothing right. This shows a disturbed, biased and irrational mind overwhelmed by prejudice.
Such a non-objective person should be removed from any teaching role. Teaching should be empirically objective and fact-based, rather than emotionally-driven and politically-driven.
Norger says
Yet another demonstration as to why Palestinians are the least sympathetic “victims” ever.
SAFI says
To rational people perhaps, but the world at large has more of less bought their lie.
elee says
Hey people of New Jersey, look what you’re subsidising!
Emilie Green says
Maiming is the policy of their Mohammad, their earthly BIg Guy. But does this phony professor have a word of criticism of this bedrock practice of Islam?
Chopping off hands and feet, often one of each but on opposite sides, was Mo’s method of both teaching the thief a lesson (for the rest of his life) and serving as a warning to others.
mortimer says
Well seen by EG. Maiming is obviously in the Koran, hadiths and Sira. This is nothing but psychological PROJECTION … attributing to others what you do yourself.
paul budrunas says
What’s all this nonsense about Palestinians? Palestine never existed as a nation with borders or a government! Check all the area maps that you choose and you’ll never find a nation called Palestine, its just a region of desert where wandering Arabs lived. This issue of Palestine is bogus Muslim crap!
mortimer says
Most Arabs HATED the term ‘Palestine’, since they associated it with Jewish settlers who used the term. Arabs preferred to call the region ‘Lower Syria’ until the KGB invented a new nationality called ‘Arab Palestinians’ in the 1960s. After this propaganda manipulation was thought up, a ‘Palestinian’ meant only an Arab, but not a Jewish setter as before.
gravenimage says
True–when I was a child, “Next year in Palestine” was said by Jewish people planning on moving to Israel.
Rarely says
If a cure for cancer were to be discovered by Israeli researches people such as her would ask things like; “What took them so long?”. They would claim that “Israel’s known the cure for a long time but only used it on Jews” or, worse yet — “of course they knew the cure because they created cancer in the first place”. With some people so deep is their hatred that you just can’t win.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Rarely.
Lauren Hermann says
Brilliantly stated, Rarely.
mortimer says
The word ‘Palestinian’ is a propaganda manipulation of language invented and implemented by the KGB in Moscow.
Rarely says
Of course.
James Lincoln says
Students are going into serious student debt listening to Palestinian propaganda from a Rutgers University professor.
As I’ve said before, unless you have a STEM or business major in a US college, you are literally throwing your money away.
Fred Dawes says
keep her out of all free nation send her to Muslims counties eating a ham food in her mouth !!!! also do not forget the pole up her butt. SHE IS a brown Nazis, And had a picture of Hitler on the wall next to her bad
Angemon says
Yup. Puar is of those people, the enlightened few, who can see the truth above and beyond the ever increasing pile of evidence that says they’re wrong. They start with the conclusion and then only need to “interpret” the evidence to explain how it leads to the conclusion they started with.
gravenimage says
Israel Charged with “Deliberately Sparing the Lives of Palestinians”
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Oh, the humanity!
Israeli soldiers were also condemned for *not* raping Palestinian women:
“Why in the World Are IDF Soldiers Not Raping Anyone?”
https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/why-in-the-world-are-idf-soldiers-not-raping-anyone/
“Two years ago, a young Israeli student at Hebrew University attempted to address this issue in her thesis.
The student’s conclusion was that IDF soldiers don’t rape because they are racists. “It is impossible to rape someone who is not human,” she wrote…”
Can’t make this sh*t up…
SAFI says
“IDF soldiers don’t rape because they are racists”
Wow! I honestly feel so utterly stupefied by the absurdity of the allegation… I guess the fact that muslims (and muslim armies in particular) have such a strong fondness for raping women and children is proof of how deeply humanitarian muslims are. Only someone who can truly see the humanity in his fellow humans can have the decency to rape them. Hmmm but then again muslims are known for often extending that “tenderness” to other spieces like sheep, goats, cows, donkeys, etc when there are no human targets to receive their affection.
gravenimage says
True, SAFI–this is utterly bizarre.
Lauren Hermann says
“Bizarre” is too weak of a word for this subject. As you stated, you just can’t make this stuff up. It makes me wonder what the next more-than-bizarre anti-Israeli subject Puar will come up with.
gravenimage says
True. Lauren–often there are not strong enough words to deal with the insanity of Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
What does she offer up as a final solution to this obviously racist problem?! Asking for a friend!