My latest in PJ Media:
The Women’s Studies department at Boston University is considering hiring a noted academic named Sarah Ihmoud; the offer is “imminent.” It’s easy to see why: Ihmoud would be a plum hire for the department, as she represents the cutting edge in academic thinking today. Her paper, “Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism,” claims that the “rape and killing of Palestinian women was a central aspect of Israeli troops’ systematic massacres and evictions during the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948.”
What could be trendier or more in demand? As colleges and universities all over the country follow the establishment Left into ever more vicious and open anti-Semitism, it is surprising that Ihmoud isn’t at the center of a bidding war among the nation’s top institutions of far-Left indoctrination, that is, what used to be known as institutions of higher learning.
Even in an environment that increasingly rewards and encourages anti-Semitism, Ihmoud’s venom is striking. “Israeli officials’ repressive policies and incitement against the Palestinian people,” she rages, “work to empower and embolden Israeli settler society to embody the power of the state and viciously attack Palestinians. This is clearly exhibited in the attacks on Palestinian women’s bodies inside Al-Aqsa mosque these last weeks in Jerusalem, by both settler publics empowered by the state’s military protection, and members of the state security forces.”
None of that happened of course. Nor did any of Ihmoud’s other claims. Israeli troops did not engage in “systematic massacres and evictions during the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948.” As the forthcoming book The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process shows, the Arabs, for the most part, left Israel because they were ordered to do so by Muslim Arab leaders. The Arab Higher Committee actually exhorted Arabs to leave the new State of Israel, and they obeyed in large numbers.
This action had been contemplated for a considerable period: in May 1946, fully two years before the State of Israel proclaimed its independence, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, secretary-general of the Arab League, stated that “Arab circles proposed to evacuate all Arab women and children from Palestine and send them to neighboring countries, to declare ‘Jehad’ and to consider Palestine a war zone.”
When the war came, many of the Arab Muslims left of their own accord, to the consternation of others who were determined to wage jihad. The Arab newspaper Ash Sha’ab, based in Jaffa, lamented on January 30, 1948 that “the first group of our fifth column consists of those who abandon their houses and businesses and go to live else- where…. At the first sign of trouble they take to their heels to escape sharing the burden of struggle [jihad].”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Wellington says
BU is where AOC graduated from. Detect a trend?
mortimer says
BU = Bolshevik University. All glory to the Vanguard of the Proletariat.
Sarah Ihmoud wouldn’t be interested in studying the rape culture of Mohammed and his Companions.
Celia Gelber says
I am thinking the exact same thing!
Ade Fegan says
but Palestine can do no wrong ?
gravenimage says
Boston University Set to Hire Professor Who Accuses Israeli Soldiers of ‘Rape’ and ‘Systematic Massacres’
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Of course, this is false. Even Leftists found no evidence of Israeli soldiers raping “Palestinian” Muslim women, and so instead accused them of being racist for *not* raping them:
“Refusing to Rape = Racism If You Are An Israeli Soldier”
https://phyllis-chesler.com/articles/refusing-to-raperacism-if-you-are-an-israeli-soldier
Then there is this similar insanity:
“Israel Charged with “Deliberately Sparing the Lives of Palestinians””
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/israel-charged-with-deliberately-sparing-the-lives-of-palestinians
In other words, Israelis are *not* raping and gratuitously killing “Palestinians”–but the accusations keep coming, and even when debunked are considered proof of something bad…
mortimer says
It’s an obvious case of PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION: claiming that one’s opponents are committing behaviors that a person is actually doing himself.
The Muslims have official doctrines that make ‘halal’ rape, systematic massacres, mutilation, plunder and racism.
Only Nazism had the same political policies as Islam for the punishment and subjugation of conquered people.
gravenimage says
True Mortimer.
Westman says
Just as the 2008 crash of the economy was created by banks issuing “liar loans”, fully knowing they were fraudulent and could not be paid off, the nation’s universities – including BU – are issuing, “Liar Degrees”, fully knowing the graduates cannot get good jobs, based on many of the institution’s non-STEM fluff degrees; what jobs they can get will not support or give those students a future while burdening them with the university version of “liar loans” that some students will be unable pay off in a lifetime.
The universities have no more moral fibre than the banks, and for some students, are an outright scam. Now BU expands on its worthless Women’s Studies program with another Israel hater. The enrollment must be burgeoning. One feels sorry for the students in this echo chamber where they will have cradling support and camaraderie until graduation then find themselves dumped out in the cold of real competition. But there is always Graduate School! Back to the bank….
Ray Jarman says
The one outrage in the article is that this woman, Sarah Ihmoud, writes a paper for which I would have received an “F.” I would love to see the whole paper to see if there were any foot notes or end notes that most of us had to employ to validate a statement or objective in term papers, much less a thesis used as part of an application for a position at an accredited university. I would never have made a statement that I did not back up with references.
AP says
I am sure given the chance, she would surely strike at your neck or finger tips.
Sally Donaldson says
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Sally Donaldson says
Why should we be surprised? Inbred Inmoud’s father and Uncle are on the executive at the Islamic cancerous CAIR ,the Qatari funded racist terrorist organization
gravenimage says
You know things are bad when she was considered too vicious and flaky for the Sociology Department:
“Anti-Israel academic Ihmoud rejected for job by BU Sociology department”
Reports indicate that Anti-Israel Sarah Ihmoud has been rejected by Boston University for a position as professor in the school’s Sociology department but is still being considered for the Women’s studies department…
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Anti-Israel-academic-Ihmoud-rejected-for-job-by-BU-Sociology-department-607456
“Women’s Studies” has even lower standards…
Angemon says
““Women’s Studies” has even lower standards…”
Well, it’s a scam – “pay us hundreds of thousands of dollars to know how women are taken advantage of in the Patriarchal Western World”.