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Zinn, Daniels, and the Professor Detmer

In a recent column by Jerry Davich in the Gary Post-Tribune, he called Purdue University Calumet professor David Detmer some kind of knight for taking on Mitch Daniels and Purdue University over Howard Zinn the author of the "People's History of the United States."  Davich as usual is wrong on all fronts.  (Remember he is Croatian.  He hates Jews and other minorities.  It is part of his upbringing.  Look at his recent column.  Zimmerman is one of his families last names.  Although he says he is related to Robert Zimmerman, Bob Dylan, he never explains how a Jewish name, or person, came into his family.  Could he be ashamed?  Or as is true of all Croats, he denies it could ever be.  Remember that Croatians, beside killing Serbs, loved to kill Jews.  That was their goal in life.) 

Daniels as Indiana governor took on Zinn, and good for him.  That is Daniels.  See what occurred in the following: In July 2013, the Associated Press revealed that former Republican Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels asked for assurance from his education advisors that Zinn's works were not taught in K–12 public schools in the state.[95] The AP had gained access to Daniels' emails under a Freedom of Information Act request. Daniels also wanted a "cleanup" of K–12 professional development courses to eliminate "propaganda and highlight (if there is any) the more useful offerings."[96] In one of the emails, Daniels expressed contempt for Zinn upon his death:[97] This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away...The obits and commentaries mentioned his book, A People’s History of the United States, is the ‘textbook of choice in high schools and colleges around the country.’ It is a truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page. Can someone assure me that it is not in use anywhere in Indiana? If it is, how do we get rid of it before more young people are force-fed a totally false version of our history? At the time the emails were released, Daniels was serving as the president of Purdue University. In response, 90 Purdue professors issued an open letter expressing their concern.[98][99][100][101] Because of Daniels' attempt to suppress Zinn's book, the former governor was accused of censorship, to which Daniels responded by saying that his views were misrepresented, and that if Zinn were alive and a member of the Purdue faculty, he would defend his free speech rights and right to publish.[102]   Remember that Daniels was always right about Zinn.  Zinn dominated American History as it was taught in K-12 and in college.  Zinn was the most used book in education as a history book of the United States.  The problem is that Zinn was all wrong and so is the Professor Detmer from Purdue Calumet who defended him.  Zinn always criticized America by Zinn using today's standards of behavior and morality.  So does Detmer practice the same thing.  They are all both completely wrong and their fellow historians show that this is the case.  see the following historians on Zinn.  Remember he was even critical of his role in World War II when he was a lowly bomber.  He second guessed everyone in his role.  He did not like it end of story.  I wonder if he second guessed Churchill or Hitler etc.  Churchill would not be the leader against Hitler if he did not believe, falsely, that the British Empire was coming back and Hitler would not have lost the war if he did not have a human weakness to believe in astrology.  But that is the criticism of Zinn.  He is a fake historian but Professor Detmer defends him because he is also a fake. He is a fake in all, and I mean all, that he writes.  He is still writing about existentialism that dies after 1970.  But he can make a name for himself because he is the only one writing about it.

But Zinn would not become a multimillionaire if he stuck the the known truth about America.  He found out at the end of WWII that he could be very popular if he questioned the premise of people's decisions after the fact, especially when it came to Germany and Japan during WWII.  So to sell he had to make American look bad and the Europeans look bad.  And he did, which is all he did.  And Zinn became very wealthy.   At the same time he always said he was anti-American.  He said he was communist, an anarchist, or a democratic socialist what ever that meant to him.P

Zinn's book was used to teach almost all the high schools in Indiana, among most other states. and it was uses to teach future historians by Purdue University Education School how American History is to be taught.  The all uses Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States."  No other book.  And it was used by historians in college such as Professor Lerner.  He thinks of himself as an historian by he is just a liberal pontificate, actually way to the left of liberal as it Detmer.  Like his compatriot in crime Senator Sanders, Zinn is a Marxist multi-millionaire.  Go figure. 

This is what Daniels tries to oppose.  Both as governor of the State of Indiana and as President of Purdue University.  He wanted diversity it historical thought about the United States.  But it was not to be because of people like Detmer.  Who once in their lives proves that they hate America, and all that it stands for.  He prefers the European perspective and especially the high thinking French.  His specialty is existentialism and that is what he wrote his books on.  Jean Paul Sartre a Frenchman who was, depending what was happening at that time, was either an existentialism or a Marxist.  Depending on the day and he never ever condemned the killing of innocent civilians by Communists.  He liked it.  As a matter of fact he was the last and only French intellectual to defend it -- except for Detmer.  Neither is any longer taught or taken seriously.  Why should you?

His mistake, and all who have followed him, is to assume that history is all about 2019.  Zinn also presumes that he is the arbitrate of all human actions and he is the only human of any value in making decisions.  This is the overall mistake that they all make.  Can I think that Christopher Columbus, that is all Latinos, have hated and always hate Jews?  Yes it is true.  As history as always shown.  But I do not act on it.  I know that the Latinos were following the accepted belief about Jews in most of human history.  Nothing more and nothing less.  It cost the Latinos plenty.  Since they got rid of Jews, during the 15th Century, they have been useless to humanity.  Is it because of their lack of Jews? or God's punishment? or something else? I do not know.  But I do not publish a stupid and idiotic book called: "The People's History of Latino People."  It would all be a lie.  As Zinn is but an effective one.  

What the dumb columnist did not deal is with any critical views of the professor and Zinn.  Remember they all evaluated Americans of over 500 years ago by today's standards of action, belief, and morality.  It is easy to do that.  In addition, not Detmer or Zinn viewed any of the people making decisions and actions as being human.  Only the professors are.  Why is Detmer teaching on Sartre at a second rate school?  It was decisions he made or were made for him.  Zinn is the same and so it Columbus.  The Indians hated the Indians.  Can you blame them?  They were slaves and human sacrifices for other tribes.  It is still going today.  Ritual Contemporary Child Sacrifices  Where is Detmer and Zinn?  I hope they are all dead.  It would explain their silence all these years.

Zinn is so Jewish.  He leaves no, and I mean no, legacy to anything Jewish.  It just happened.  He is the big laugh of American academics.  Remember only the Jewish bible talks and is in fact against any human and especially child sacrifices to gods and anything else.  But Detmer and Zinn do NOT know anything about the Jewish faith.  Nothing.

 

The cowardice of American Jewish academia

The cowardice of American Jewish academia.

Three weeks ago, Professor Alan Dershowitz gave a speech at the University of California-Berkeley in which he laid out......

When South Africa Kills Jews

It is ironic that this is the face of a Jew killer which most Jews worked to make free.  I think it would be nice if she just died.  It is funny, if not comical, that South Africa is now the leading Jew killing nation in the world.  Go for it.  We Jews will show them that we can kill South Africans as well as we saved them.  Is that not always the case for Jews?

http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/politics/israel-to-reprimand-south-africas-envoy-over-ministers-remarks-27142?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Netanyahu+tells+Putin+Israel+is+against+Iran+keeping+forces+in+Syria++and+more+news+from+JerusalemOnline&utm_campaign=EveningNewsletter+-+Recurring

 

Why Obama and His Democrat Party Continues to Hate Jews

Michael Oren knows the details well and the secrets well.  He was Israel's ambassador to the United States for four years.  He is now a member of Israel's parliament.  The following is his final plea to "rescue" the Jews of Israel. 

How would you vote if your children's lives were at stake? | Michael Oren | The Blogs | The Times of Israel.

In the administration, and with Democrats generally, it will fall on deaf ears.  It is the same as it was before and during the Holocaust.  There are always excuses not to act to save the Jews.  Obama is the leading anti-Semite; but not the only one and he could not do this on his own.  There are many Court Jews who love their position and are going along with him -- in full support. 

Thankfully, there are still some exceptions in the Democrat party:  Mendez of NJ, Cardin of MD, Schumer of NY, among others; but not many.  Whenever push has come to shove.  That is putting your vote in for the Jews, it has been the Republican party that has stood with Israel, by the way and Blacks too.  What is interesting is that neither group has given credit to the Republican party for it electorally.

It is now done.  The Jews for Democrat are to go through another death threat they have not experience since Germany in the 1930's to 40's.   That is ok with Obama.  He has always hated Jews who do not toe his line and are able to defend themselves.  Just look at his history.  The sole difference today is that there is an Israel, a wholly Jewish Nation/State, and its Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  The IDF is a bunch of Jews with loaded guns etc.  That will make the Obamas of this world think twice about attacking Jews.  Jews can now defend themselves with bullets and kill the Progressives as they should have done with the Germans.  

Jewish faculty on US campuses paying a heavy price for standing up for Israel - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post

Jewish faculty on US campuses paying a heavy price for standing up for Israel Profs on the frontlinesDemocrats, Republicans rebuke White House for stance on Israel boycotts40 Columbia University professors sign BDS petition

'The Jerusalem Report' looks at the academicians being bruised and battered by BDS on campuses across America. Zeina Ashrawi, of the Students for Justice in Palestine Society of George Mason University, participates in an anti-Israel rally in Washington, DC. (photo credit:JIM WATSON / AFP)

“SOMEONE MUST have been telling lies about Josef K., because he had done nothing wrong, but one day he was arrested.”So begins Franz Kafka’s novel, “The Trial,” which sums up the dread felt by Doron Ben-Atar, an American history professor at New York’s Fordham University in the spring of 2014 when he was accused of some vague misdeed that had to do with his strong stand against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

It began with an emotional faculty meeting to discuss the American Studies Association’s resolution to boycott Israeli universities, the first academic group to vote for a ban. Some US universities severed ties with ASA, and Ben-Atar urged Fordham to do the same. The Israeli-born professor further stated that he would resign from the Fordham branch of the association if it did not break with ASA and would fight it until it did. For that statement, Ben-Atar was charged with a spurious Title IX violation (a US federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex) and had to defend his reputation in a Kafkaesque process in which he was never shown anything in writing nor told what he had done wrong. He says that, according to the university official in charge of the investigation, the fact that he had retained a lawyer was proof of his guilt.Eventually, he learned that the charge against him was religious discrimination – ironic, given that he was protesting anti- Semitism. The charge was later dismissed. “I will pay, for the rest of my life, the price for standing up for Israel. I am a tenured professor, but I will never become a candidate for an endowed chair, the next step in my career, now that I’m outed as a troublemaker,” he tells The Jerusalem Report in a telephone interview.  “Please understand that I paid no significant personal price. I am an Israeli, two meters tall, I’m not afraid to say what I think. But the reality is that those who are not as fortunate as I am need to be very careful because their careers could be destroyed.

I have junior faculty colleagues who are afraid to be identified with anyone associated with Israel.”Andrew Pessin, a Connecticut College philosophy professor, read about Ben- Atar’s ordeal, sympathized, but moved on with the daily grind of teaching philosophy to undergraduates and being a father of three small children. It wasn’t until he, himself, was targeted on his campus by pro-Palestinian students that he reached out to Ben-Atar.Convinced they are part of a wider phenomenon,

Pessin and Ben-Atar are collaborating on a book of essays contributed by academicians bruised and battered by BDS.Prof. Denise Nussbaum, chair of the sociology department at Mt. San Jacinto College in California, refuses to set foot on campus, and teaches online from home since being ostracized and labeled an Islamophobe. Nussbaum had complained to the college’s Amnesty International club about their choice of speaker, a known Israel-hater, Miko Peled, an Israeli Jew. The complicated Middle East conflict should be presented in a balanced and scholarly manner, she argued, and signed her e-mail “Proud Zionist and Jew.” The club’s Iranian-born faculty adviser, associate math professor Shahla Razavi launched a campaign against Nussbaum accusing her of stifling free speech.“I received hateful text messages, phone calls and comments when I walked across the campus every day,” she tells The Report. At a large faculty meeting several months later, an associate professor of history, Gary Vargas, assaulted Nussbaum grabbing her by the arm; no one came to her assistance, she says. Nussbaum is suing the college’s Governing Board for $9.5 million for a long line of charges, including assault and “intentional infliction of emotional distress.  ”To add insult to injury, says Nussbaum, the college had hired an attorney to defend Vargas. “I had to stop going to campus, because I had such anxiety I would pull over at the side of the road,” says Nussbaum.

Prof. Corinne E. Blackmer of Southern Connecticut State University had a large map of Israel on her office door. In March 2008, someone ripped it to shreds and threw it on the floor. Shortly afterwards someone left a swastika on her car. The college police decided it was a hate crime because she is gay rather than because she is Jewish. The English and Judaic Studies professor now teaches a class on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The more Israel is hated, the more I love her,” she tells The Report. “Since that time, I became more active in defending Israel.”Two Jewish professors at Wheelock College in Massachusetts have recently filed federal workplace discrimination complaints against the school alleging they were subjected to anti-Semitic discrimination that damaged their reputation and careers.

Professors Eric Silverman and Gail Dines allege that they were harassed after speaking out about a lack of Jewish perspective on campus, according to copies of the complaints filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.Many of these cases never reach the mainstream media.“I didn’t have a strong sense of how pervasive this is,” Pessin tells The Report. “These are very personal wounds when you are attacked on your own campus. It rattles you. A lot of people tell us how uncomfortable they feel to continue at their campus. I have not set foot on my campus since this happened to me. ”

IF BEN-Atar felt like a protagonist in a Kafka novel, Pessin feels more like Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish officer falsely accused of treason. Pessin fell victim to a coordinated digital lynch by pro-Palestinian students that hinged on a deliberate misinterpretation of his words.“I was incredibly naïve,” he says. “I believed long after the evidence suggested otherwise that these were normal college students of good will and no ulterior agenda.”The story begins with a Facebook post Pessin penned denouncing Hamas in August 2014 during the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge and comparing Israel’s blockade on Hamas to someone keeping a “rabid pit bull chained in a cage.” The context of the post made it clear Pessin referred to the Hamas terrorism and not to Palestinians in general.Indeed, the post was one of a series of 17 he wrote during the war – the other 16 of which all explicitly named Hamas.Seven months later, in a coordinated attack, three editorials accusing Pessin of racism and promoting Palestinian genocide appeared in the Connecticut College student newspaper taking his comment out of context.They were written by a Muslim student active in Students for Justice in Palestine and three others majoring in the college’s Global Islamic Studies program. The student paper published the comments without giving Pessin an opportunity to respond.He had previously clarified via email to the Muslim student that his post referred to Hamas and not Palestinians in general. He apologized, deleted it and thought that was the end of the matter.“What happened to Andy is terrible,” says Ben-Atar.”  He is a well-respected scholar and they turned him into Public Enemy No. 1.

”Pessin became the center of a campaign of vilification with various academic departments and even the university president falling in lockstep, denouncing Pessin’s alleged “hateful” rhetoric. An online petition calling on administrators in this small, private liberal arts college to condemn Pessin’s “racism” was started by the student paper editor – the same one who had not given Pessin a chance to respond.The college president canceled classes for a day about a month later when racist graffiti against blacks was found on campus and called for a mandatory campus-wide forum on racism in which Pessin’s name was brought up and his few defenders were jeered. A Palestinian flag was draped on a banister near Pessin’s office and he received death threats.“The entire campus exploded,” says Pessin.“Not a single person contacted me to ask what the post was about, and apparently no one bothered to read the 16 other posts in the series, which made it clear what the post was about and which I left up on Facebook until the death threats started coming.  It was so devastating; I was minutes away from a nervous breakdown.“What pulled me back from the edge was when people outside campus started reaching out to me, hundreds of emails from Jews around the world.  A petition on my behalf was circulated with 10,000 signatures. I saw how important it is, not just psychologically, but also for the cause. When you’re being attacked, you can feel very alone. When you see there are thousands of virtual soldiers ready to support you, I started to feel strong to fight back and to reach out to any other individual to help them. It made me even more committed to Jewish and Israel advocacy.

”In the aftermath, the college gave Pessin a three-semester sabbatical, and he is scheduled to return to Connecticut College in the fall of 2017.“The damage can never be repaired,” he says. “Friendships and relationships are permanently destroyed. I don’t believe I can ever respect more than a handful of people on that campus.”The plan to silence Pessin has backfired, however.With time on his hands, Pessin, the author of several popular books on philosophy, is channeling his energies to battle BDS on several fronts, including a weekly newsletter, articles for a Jewish newspaper and helping other academicians.Another plan that backfired was the campaign to silence Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz. After being the subject of “a wellplanned, well-orchestrated and well-funded campaign of harassment to make an example of me,” in her words, Rossman-Benjamin stepped up her efforts to speak out on behalf of Jewish students through her work with AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization devoted to investigating, documenting and combating campus anti- Semitism, which she co-founded in 2012.In 2009, Rossman-Benjamin, who taught Hebrew and Jewish studies, filed a 32-page complaint with the US Department of Education’s office of Civil Rights alleging a hostile environment for Jewish students on her campus.“I gave so many examples of instances in the classroom where professors used academic freedom to promote their own anti-Israel agenda, an intellectual and emotional harassment of Jewish students,” says Rossman-Benjamin. It took two years, but in March 2011, a federal investigation of her complaint was launched only to later be dismissed due to intense lobbying by pro-Palestinian groups, she says.“Their argument was that, by virtue of us complaining of anti-Semitism, we are creating a hostile environment for Arab Muslim students. It’s Orwellian. The hypocrisy is breathtaking and they get away with it,” she relates to The Report.Rossman-Benjamin gained a reputation as someone willing to stand up for Jewish students and paid the price. “They wanted to make an example of me because they knew I’m high profile, not only as a faculty member, but also because I spoke nationally on the subject.If they could demonize me, they could use me as an object lesson. If you speak out against us, this is what we will do to you.”As in the Pessin case, her enemies conducted an archaeological dig to find something they could use against her. They came across a two-minute YouTube clip of a talk she had given at a Boston synagogue in the summer of 2012 in which she stated that some members of pro-Palestine student groups were foreign students who came from Arab countries where anti-Semitism is endemic.

Some of the groups, she said, have ties to international terror groups.“They made it seem that I had said this to students in my classroom and started a petition with the video clip calling on the president of the University of California to condemn me for racism and Islamophobia,” says Rossman-Benjamin.  “They got people from all over the world to sign but that wasn’t enough. They took pictures of Muslim students with a description ‘I am not a terrorist but Hebrew professor Benjamin says I am.’ They made fliers and put them all over campus. This is my campus. I walk through this campus every day. Then they put up more than a dozen YouTube testimonials.”The campaign then expanded to other California campuses.

“I had cause to be fearful for my personal safety,” says Rossman-Benjamin, who since the incident and after 17 years of teaching is now on leave for several years of her own volition.Several professors in litigation with their universities declined to be interviewed by The Report.The American Center for Law and Justice, which is representing some of them, stated: “The ACLJ is concerned about the recent upswing in actions against Jewish students and professors on our nation’s university campuses. We are in the process of assisting several faculty members dealing with discriminatory and harassing conduct – both by anti-Jewish/pro-BDS student organizations and by university administrators – based on nothing more than their Jewish ethnicity and/or their protected pro-Israel speech.”Much of the antisemitism against Jewish faculty is subtle and nuanced, and does not make headlines or reach the courtroom.

“It’s part of contemporary academic life,” Kenneth Waltzer, professor emeritus of Jewish studies at Michigan State University, tells The Report. “Junior faculty members have to stick their head in like a turtle and not be open about their politics because they are coming up for tenure.”Waltzer and Mark Yudof, former president of the University of California, recently founded the Academic Engagement Network, which enlists faculty members on campuses throughout the US as allies in the battle against BDS. More than 200 have enrolled so far, and Waltzer and Yudof hope to form a nucleus of pro-Israel faculty on each campus.It has been surprisingly easy to recruit faculty, even in the sciences, law and medicine, says Waltzer. “Especially the older tenured faculty has reached their fill with stuff. A number of people said they have been waiting for this and say, ‘I’m fed up, we have to do something.’” Although there is consensus about the significance of the problem, there is disagreement about whether BDS is a passing fad or here to stay.

Waltzer believes it will run its course and peter out. “I think there is a sell-by date sticker on it, but I’m not sure how close we are to that,” he says.Rossman-Benjamin, however, worries it will get worse. “Right now, it’s bad but it’s going to get far worse to the point where there will be real physical violence on campus. In my opinion, that day is not far away,” she says, worrying mostly about the students.

“The clear and present danger is not only for the safety of Jewish students, but also for their souls,” she says. “It is difficult to be Jewish and they have to turn off their identity in the critical years when students form their identities. And some go over to the other side. We are losing a whole generation of Jewish students to this conflict.”

via www.jpost.com

House condemns Israel boycott movement

House condemns Israel boycott movement : Politics.  This has been a while coming; but, it is a good thing it finally did.  Thank you Representative Bill Fine and the State of Indiana.

BDS has been the biggest promoter of Antisemitism and Jew Hatred that has occurred since the German attack on Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.  When will Congress act?  It is probably too afraid of Muslims and their reaction. 

The one item that needs to be stated.  Most of the BDS movement is on university campuses.  Purdue University is no exception and it led the nation in the FBI's measurement of hate crimes.

Nonetheless, it continues to boycott Israel.  It is against Purdue University policy to have, and it therefore does not, any contractual activity with Israel, in any way.  This started before Mitch Daniels became president; but although he was informed of this anti-Jewish policy he has continued the Purdue boycott of Israel.

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Professor Kamalipour is a Muslim who has an ongoing relationship, paid for by Indiana Tax Payers with Tehran University.  Not only was he born and spend most of his upbringing in Iran; he has continued to enjoy the support of the Iranian Mullahs and most anti-American Iranians, if not other Muslims with the equivalant agenda.  Otherwise, how would it be possible for him to go back and forth between America and Iran without some one questioning his intention -- on either side of the equation. 

The following is a direct quote from him, in a Muslim journal of the problems of the world.

"My realisation, as a person who has travelled to more than 50 countries, is that different societies are more alike than different. The more I travel the more I realise this fact. The need of the hour is to get along with one another and,make friendship, and networks based on mutual respect and under- standing. The cause of majority of existing global problems is mere ignorance."

He completely ignores the acts of Muslims in killing Jews and Christians.  He is the justifier of Islamic hatred and death squads against women, Jews, Gays, Christians, and other infidels.  He defends by his statements and actions the beheading and hanging in Iran of all Gays and Lesbians.  He would seem to be a great supporter of the misogynistic beliefs of Islam.  He never says otherwise.  He never criticizes the actions of his fellow Iranians.

According to Prof. Yahya Kamalipour all the problems with Islam are just a matter of misunderstanding and have a moral equivalency to Christians and Jews.  A stand which is at its core anti-American and yet still funded by American taxpayers.  What he says in America is not what he can or does say in Iran.  How will Iran deal with him if they knew that most of his American supporters were homosexuals.  How will the middle-east Muslims interact with him because he has lied about his association with homosexuals, women, Jews, etc.  

I do not fault these various groups.  They are all good courageous people.  It is Professor Kamalipour who continuous his fraud of advancing himself on the backs of the oppressed.

It is time that Hoosier tax payers informed Purdue University that there is a limit to anti-American behavior, even from academics.

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Bachmann's Allegations on Clinton - Jewish Defense - Why?

Congresswoman Bachmann is attacked for asking questions about Muslim Brotherhood at the heart of American National power -- Huma Abadin as the number one aid to Hillary Clinton, America's Secretary of State. 

Allegations on Clinton ... JPost - Jewish World - Jewish Features.

In the article above, who is doing the attacking: old line Jewish organizations who still believe that Islam is just a run of the mill religion -- the religion of peace.  That is just factually not the case.  As America and many other countries have found out, Islam is at the center of all attacks on the West and the modern world. 

What Congresswoman Bachmann brought up should be lauded, not attacked under the umbrella of political correctness.  The same attacks that are being made on Bachmann today, the political correctness and Islam is a peaceful religion, got us 9/11.  How can Bachmann be criticized?   Have we really learned nothing from our past 12 years of negative experiences.

There is every reason for Jews to question Clinton and support Congresswoman Bachmann?  Who has consistently supported Israel?  Not Clinton -- as First Lady she embraced the PLO and Arafat.  As Secretary of State, she has pushed Israel and its leaders impolitely more than even Obama himself has.   Why would anyone think that somehow Huma Abadin is beyond reproach?

Abadin's whole family is part of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Is it not a fair question to ask: how has she distanced herself from them?  If she has.  Anyone else who would have done what she has, including marrying a Jew, would have had a death fatwa issued against them at least once.  Why not her?  It would only have happened if she is of value to the Muslim Brotherhood where she is -- and she is of value to them.   Congresswoman Bachmann only asked the question of how much value.  That this is deserving of investigation.

The mainstream Jewish organizations are so afraid of being considered as being politically incorrect that they are willing, maybe unconciously, to risk the Jewish State for their belongingness. 

The simple question for Huma Abadin is what is you Islamic affiliation?  If there are any, which tenants do you accept?  For most Muslims in the world the tenants would include Islamic anti-Jewishness and anti-Americanism.  How is she different when her whole family support these very tenants?  Why, Senator McCain, is this question not allowed? 

Presbyterians reject divestment: Israel's Loss

The Presbyterian Church "decided" not to divest from companies doing business with Israel by a minuscule .03% margin.  If the divestment was approved, the Presbyterian Church would have decided that Israel was so evil that the only proper reaction would have to equal that which was done to the white regime in South Africa, and, by the way, was not done to Nazi Germany.  This is not even something that is being done to countries like Saudi Arabia. which ban all churches and all Christians, Jews, etc.

This was not a win.  Just by making it an issue, Israel made any result a defeat.  What needed to be done to win is for Israel to vote a ban of all relations with the Presbyterian Church for being an antisemitic organization.  If divestment was a new or unique phenomena, then it would make sense to expend time and effort on defeating this move.  But it has been the contrary.  The Presbyterians know it.  As a consequence, they have been acting as though they still matter as a religion, which they do not.

I find it very ironic that the Jewish organizations, the usual old-line organizations that are still fighting WWII antisemitism, care this much about such a defunct and useless organization as the Presbyterians.  Why?  What can they do?  Are they going to divest from cell phones? or IM? Not a chance.  Even the Arabs decided to look the other way. 

Israel must start taking charge and begin acting like a "mensch."  Israel and the Jewish Community has been groveling and begging these "Christians" to please accept me, take me in, love me.  It is degrading for Jews and it is unbecoming for any nation.

It is ironic because it would be impossible to get this kind of support, as a matter of fact almost any support, from these same Jewish and Israeli organizations to work at gaining support from the Evangelical Christians.  Why would anyone care about a church that is going out of business, while rejecting the future direction of Christianity.  The future is with the Evangelical Christians and they do not operate as monolith and by far a majority are pro-Zionist. 

CUFI, Christians United For Israel, which is Pastor John Haggee's Evangelical Christian group, is so pro-Israel, they almost put AIPAC to shame.  And yet, you will not find any mainline Jews or Jewish organizations supporting them.  They are having there annual meeting this summer, about now, and there is not a single piece of information available anywhere about them in any Jewish magazine, journal, or newspaper.  Why?

This failure of Jews to support their friends and reject antisemitism will be the 21st Century's equivalent of their bad behavior in the 1930s.  The Jews love the the Presbyterians for what they used to be: a pro-Jewish religion in the 1930s.  It is also still known as the academic religion because if it infusion with higher education since the Church has no set religious standards.  It has become post-modern through it individual oriented theology.  Many Jews love this because they realize that the Presbyterians really do not have a religion that is substantive and so they really cannot care about how substantive the Jew's religion is.

This is not the 1930s and academia is not the playing field.  Israel is not a powerful state and this is being organized ont he political level, using academia; but not of it.  Israel needs to provide political and international force behind the substantiation of its own legitimacy.  What nation would be considered "legitimate" that cared about the support of a vanishing organization for its justification?  That is how Israel is behaving.

Israel and American Jews need to take the initiative on all such issues and reject the premise that there is any consequence to whatever the Presbyterian Church decides to do.  Israel and the Jews are now one and have their own Country.  Thanks Presbyterians; but, this is not WWII and we will not be treated as such any longer.

 

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Professor Sues Purdue for Violation of his Free Speech Rights on Islam | FrontPage Magazine

Frontpage magazine and Jamie Glasov did a wonderful job of interviewing me and getting out the issues that "got me here."  You can read about this in the following link:

Professor Sues Purdue for Violation of his Free Speech Rights on Islam | FrontPage Magazine.

I have to say that the only issue that needs to be further understood is that I, and honestly some others, have been fighting this battle for over 19 years on campus.  If you are not a Muslim, but religious, if you are pro-Israel, if you are right of center politically, you will constantly be harrassed, intimidated, and demonized on almost all of our universities. 

What is sad is that most of this is being done with our own tax dollars.

This is what the people of America need to understand very, very quickly.  The Muslims and their liberal allies are attacking religion, not Islam of course, and undermining the First Amendment, using your money.  All state institutions need to immediately audit their state universities for their usage of funds and their rules and regulations that permit Muslims to undermine the First Amendment and replace it with their version of Sharia Law. 

How is this done?  Very simply -- in Islam being "offended" is a legal term.  You are not allowed to "offend" Islam or Mohammad.  It is punishable in a variety of ways up to and including execution.  In the United States, offending someone is a badge of honor especially at a university.  To paraphrase a man who knows much about higher education and the First Amendment, Adam Kissel of FIRE, if you, a student, are not being offended once a week, someone is cheating you out of an education.

That is the fight I have to finish.