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In yet another sign of the thoroughgoing corruption of American academia, Indiana University’s McKinney School of Law and its Muslim Philanthropy Initiative recently co-sponsored a conference with a man who admitted to being a key member of a jihad terror group and was accordingly deported from the United States. According to an Investigative Project on Terrorism report Tuesday, and to his great credit (although he was acting after a barrage of complaints), Amir Pasic, dean of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, apologized for the university’s role in showcasing this terror leader, Sami al-Arian. Pasic did explain, however, that the university had hosted al-Arian because he had done such great work combating “Islamophobia.” As “Islamophobia” is a manipulative propaganda term designed to inhibit criticism of jihad violence and Sharia oppression, this is hardly reassuring.
Sami al-Arian pleaded guilty back in 2006 to a charge of “conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds to or for the benefit of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Specially Designated Terrorist” organization. He was then deported from the United States, but he remains a darling of American academia. Back in 2021, according to JNS, al-Arian organized a conference that was co-sponsored by the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School for International Studies. Conference speakers denounced Israel as the “apartheid Jewish Zionist colonial state” and called for its eradication. The program, JNS reported, was “replete with Palestinian propaganda, revisionist history, and blatant anti-Semitism and anti-Israel vitriol.”
At that conference, Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Arian denounced Israel in the hysterically false terms that are now becoming familiar in America thanks to the likes of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah): “There is no doubt we are talking about a settler, colonialist movement. What we see here today is an attempt to depopulate the indigenous people, and bring in as many Jews from around the world and try to bring a system that is properly being identified now as apartheid. There is no doubt about this.”
Israel, al-Arian thundered, was a “racist movement,” a “Zionist onslaught” that was directed toward replacing the “indigenous people.” The solution? Israel’s total destruction: “the essence of the struggle should be to dismantle this structure.”
Neither Indiana University nor the University of Denver can plausibly claim that they didn’t know what they were getting into. Al-Arian has been quite clear about his views for decades. Back in 1991, during a speech in Chicago, al-Arian screamed: “The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our path … Victory to Islam… Death to Israel… Revolution… revolution till the victory.”
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Daniel Bielak says
It’s immoral of Indiana University to host this libelous Jihadist genocidally ant-Jewish speaker.
In 1934, Harvard hosted Nazi and Harvard graduate Ernst “Putzi” F.S. Hanfstaengl as an honored guest. When some Jewish people and a decent non-Jewish person protested against that, they were arrested. In the 1930’s, U.S. universities engaged in student exchange programs with Nazified German universities. U.S. industry did business with Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. In the 1930’s, in the U.S., Jews who advocated for financially and politically isolating Germany were called “warmongers.” The 1936 Summer Olympic Games were held in Nazi Germany. Time magazine named Adolf Hitler “Man of the Year” in 1938. Western Socialists, such as George Bernard Shaw, verbally defended and praised Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.
What’s happening now is like what happened in the 1930’s but on steroids.
I doubt that Indiana University would host a pro-Israel speaker.
A moral rule of thumb for every generation: Side with vilified Jews against their attackers.
Daniel Bielak says
Correction:
“…who advocated for financially and politically isolating Germany…”
Should be:
“…who advocated for opposing Germany…”
I don’t know in what way of opposing was advocated.
bill carr says
To be fair Shaw also praised the Soviet Union having been shown the Potemkin villages. The Soviets were just as adept at propaganda as the Nazis