This is your brain on Leftism. But when the actual figures (as opposed to those supplied by Hamas’ “Health Ministry”) come out regarding casualties in Gaza, a great many Leftists and Islamic apologists are going to have egg on their faces. Will they, however, retract and apologize? Of course not. Pillen did, but most will not.
“UCL investigates one of its senior academics after she claimed Israel’s bombardment of Gaza was ‘worse than Auschwitz’ at pro-Palestine rally,” by Danya Bazaraa, Daily Mail, November 29, 2023:
University College London is investigating one of its senior academics after she claimed Israel’s bombardment of Gaza ‘is worse than Auschwitz.’
Dr Alex Pillen, who is an associate professor of anthropology, made the comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in London.
The 54-year-old said she was participating in the march because the situation is ‘absolutely unacceptable.’
‘It’s an insult to humanity. What is happening in Gaza today is worse than Auschwitz,’ Dr Pillen told the Evening Standard at the event. ‘It’s a shame for humanity,’ she added.
The professor later apologised unreservedly for hurt caused and said she was totally opposed to all forms of racism and antisemitism….
somehistory says
Anyone who makes that claim, has no idea, or they are in favor of mozlums committing the same kinds of crimes, terror, etc. hitler and his mozlum cohorts committed nearly a century ago.
If this woman truly was an expert in her *field,*
“the study of human societies and cultures and their development. Also called cultural anthropology, social anthropology.
the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution. Also called physical anthropology.
she would know that.
So she is dumb as a rock, or she does favor mozlums and their terror.
She wants to keep her job, though; hence, the apology..
Phil says
Well, evolutionists claim that they come from a rock, so I don’t really expect them to be smarter than one.
somehistory says
True. They have to keep up with their beginnings.
bill says
You display your own ignnorance of evolution. So best keep quiet until you have done some reading, In any case your ‘god’ created is alleged to have a man from some clay so how credible is that?
somehistory says
Perhaps, bill, you are unaware that “man” has in his body the same elements in the same proportions, as the earth. The water of earth is just about the same proportions as the human body.
You pretend that you are wiser than The All-Wise Creator Who is able to do anything He pleases in any way He pleases and at any time He pleases. While you, as an imperfect human, are subject to the frailties of the flesh….which needs a constant resupply of the minerals, the trace elements, and the water that make up every human body. One gets these elements by eating the “fruit” of the Garden, which bring them up out of the soil by their roots, and transport them into the fruit that humans consume. Those are proven facts.
The saying is True: “From dust you are and to dust you will return.”
People turn to dust after death. And that is a proven fact, too.
Ben says
Any fool can become a college professor nowadays. You just have to spout enough leftwing & woke nonsense.
tim gallagher says
That must be the case, Ben. What this idiot says is absolute bullshit. She surely has shit for brains. Imagine the complete garbage she must be inflicting on her students. Some of these western academics seem to be as braindead as those islamic “scholars” who keep getting reported here at Jihad Watch for making the most idiotic comments imaginable.
Barbara says
Her attitude explains how and why the British government looks the other way when a Muslim repeatedly rapes English women. They all think the Muslim is better than anyone else.
She more open about expressing her thoughts than the cowardly politicians.
B K says
IHRA definition of anti semitism includes :
“Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
She is just parroting current anti Jewish thought…
The fact that she claims to be an intellectual is sad…but most today are just copying their ideas from others so it fits well!
mgoldberg says
“It’s an insult to humanity. What is happening in Gaza today is worse than Auschwitz,’ Dr Pillen told the Evening Standard at the event. ‘It’s a shame for humanity,’ she added.
The professor later apologised unreservedly for hurt caused and said she was totally opposed to all forms of racism and antisemitism….
Apologized? She didn’t apologize, she deflected. That the IDF engages in the most moral restrictions of any nation- period- in it’s counterattack, is what should be noted, not the idiotic dissimulation about all forms of racism and antisemitism. If she was, she’d quoted the Hamas Charter and show it’s vicious jew hatred as well as hatred of others, and it’s history doing just that. What nonsense.
Poetcomic1 says
I was looking at an AP article that sited death tolls verbatim given to them by The Hamas Medical leadership. They just give the totals without even saying “these have not been independently verified’. The Hamas sewage empties directly into the world’s leading ‘democratic’ papers.
Westman says
Why is Islam the only religion that that responds to resistance with violence?
A Christian is not offended if you tell him that his religion is not for you.
A Buddist is not offended if you tell him that his religion is not for you.
A Hindu is not offended if you tell him that his religion is not for you.
A Jew is not offended if you tell him that his religion is not for you.
A Muslim will be offended if you tell him his religion is not for you, tell you that you’re a squatter on the land meant for Muslims, his religion will take over the entire earth, if you’re gay you should be killed, if you’re a woman you are inferior to a man, and Allah will torture you forever for not accepting Islam.
If young people knew this was the atitude of Hamas and its employers, Palestinians and Iran, they would not support Hamas. And they would realize there is nothing Israel can do that will stop the desire of Muslims to annihilate it. One state, two state, nothing. Hatred of Jews is promoted by Allah in the Quran.
To survive Israel must do whatever it takes to ensure its survival amongst a forever-hating enemy.
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“If young people knew this was the attitude of Hamas and its employers, Palestinians and Iran, they would not support Hamas.”
They cling to the bogus Leftist and islamic propaganda narratives.
Some may eventually see the truth, many will never…
Pray Hard says
Young leftists aren’t going to “realize” anything.
Paul says
Hamas’s attack on 07 October 2023, could, quite rightly, be compared to the actions of the Einsatzgruppen in Eastern Europe.
OLD GUY says
Just another academic idiot with no common sense, teaching the young of our world her ideas.
Pray Hard says
Meth addict, I presume.
Lisa T says
When I was in Jr. High school at the end of the year they started collecting the books. Then with nothing else to do the teachers showed movies the last few days. My Speech teacher showed movies of the Holocaust and concentration camps like Auschwitz. I will never forget seeing mounds of floppy nude bodies no longer in rigor mortis being pushed into mass graves with earth movers. There was also Nazi footage of people being shot in groups and falling into ditches. I will never forget it and this “professor” doesn’t know what she is talking about.
somehistory says
Most people do not know half of what went on in the “camps.” But, that doesn’t keep many from “comparing” and saying how things are “worse.”
jewdog says
Have you noticed a pattern? Every “pro-Palestinian” person cites sympathy with oppression or victimhood. Every one! The ideological basis is cultural Marxism (i.e. wokeism), which posits oppression by white colonizers (Israelis) over non-white victims (Palestinians). Never mind Islam; never mind reality; it’s all about the evil West and racism.
This absurd meme is popular among naive members of certain groups who actually have a past experience with real oppression, so they are vulnerable, and so they project their own history in a sort of mirror image fallacy. As proof, just consider who the groups are that stand out as pro-Palestinian: Blacks, Jews, gays and the Irish. South Africa is the most pro-Palestinian country, undoubtedly gulled by transference of identity as non-whites oppressed by whites in apartheid. And the Irish experience under British rule leads them to think of Israel as the British equivalent. And many Jews back the jihad, thinking that the Palestinians are like persecuted Jews!
It just proves that so many people are incapable of doing much more than looking in the mirror, and are too lazy to investigate.
Donovan Nuera says
Another Woman professor who doesn’t know anything about islam or WWII. Heck, how many young women know any of the basic history of WWII? Maybe 1%?? I went to an elite college around the time of the 50th anniversaries of many WWII events and not one female student knew what I was talking about when explaning the importance of a certain anniversary event. Sadly, only maybe a handful of male students knew.
The memorial church on our campus, dedicated to the hundreds of dead alumni of WWI had added after WWII along an entire side of the nave wall a marble memorial listing by each Class Year all the dead alumni of WWII. Most of the students never had stepped foot into that church until graduation week and I noticed quite a few staring for a long time at the all the names of these gallant students and ignoring the reverend’s sermon.
If not for Saving Private Ryan, there would not have been somewhat of a renewed appreciation of these Vets that we have seen as of recently and new films of their exploits. They will be at Rest soon and the stories will be silent.