Comments on: Desmond Tutu, anti-Semite

By: ras

ras — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:34:25 +0000

He is speaking now…

Speaking of Ann Coulter, please comment. She is an equal opportunity offender.

By: Ahlawi

Ahlawi — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:53:58 +0000

“Ahmedinejad … is greeted warmly by a Dean after his speech.”

It takes a special kind of ignorance of the event to make such a statement. other problems with your response already covered.

By: Nadine

Nadine — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:56:50 +0000

I have a question that seems to be loaded, as if I want to lead you into a trap, but really I am just curious and I’d like an honest answer (or as honest one can be on blog):

What goes through your mind when you hear/read an activist use the word “Jewish” when he meant (or should have meant) to say “Israeli” or “Zionist”?

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:54:25 +0000

“Coulter can speak at UST.”

I highly doubt that. Coulter has thrown her fair share of barbs at the Catholics.

By: alle

alle — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:17:28 +0000

darn, you beat me to it

By: alle

alle — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:16:46 +0000

Actually, I’m not sure Brigitte Gabriel qualifies as a moderate ex-Muslim.

By: fwm

fwm — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:04:15 +0000

One more thing.
I tried to read your comments again and it makes no sense. i would like to think you were drunk at the time because otherwise you don’t really have an excuse.

By: fwm

fwm — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:01:38 +0000

Mike,
Do get your facts straight before opening your mouth.
1. Brigitte Gabriel was, is and will probably remain a Christian.
2. Pres. Ahmadinejad was greeted with applause at Columbia because he was a guest although Columbia president Bollinger has proven himself, to the eyes of many, a disgrace. Obviously, his actions continues to be debated.
3. The issue remains that any criticism of Israel and the policies of its government towards Palestinians and its neighbors are immediately shut down through accusatory and often misplaced conclusions of anti-Semitism. This is a card that has been abused to stifle debate and dialogue.
4. Joseph Massad is a respected professor at an Ivy League university. If you actually have any concrete knowledge of what occurs behind the scenes, you would know that an accusation hurled at Prof. Massad was rebutted by his students who were present when the contentious incident took place.
5. The insipid comments you made based on rumor and relying on insult to excuse your inchoate quasi-arguments, are juvenile. Someone once wrote that insults are the ammunition of the ignorant. You just proved him right.

By: Mike Nargizian

Mike Nargizian — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:26:20 +0000

Jose,
Afraid to criticize Israel? keep sucking down your Kool Aid..
Yeah, those all powerful Joooooooooooooos are lurking behind every corner… Keep brushing up on your Protocols of Zion rapped in laid out thick “concern” and “caring”……….

Jose, maybe we should ban Jooooooooooooos from DC or at least limit their #’s? Wouldya say…. yeah those all powerful Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos….
LOL….

Right after Arabist posted about “prejudice” you get a perfect example of the result of the racist over the top bullshit from people like Tutu, Joseph Massad, etc… and talk about racists? that guy is a tenured teacher at Columbia… GEE? how did he slip in from the grasp of the all powerful Joooooooooooooooooooooooos Jose?

You’d laugh if it wasn’t so sad…

MIke

By: Mike Nargizian

Mike Nargizian — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:22:45 +0000

Ann Coulter is an idiot for sure… but noone in their real mind believes that she said that and meant that in any serious way… it was tongue and cheek.
Desmond Tutu actuallly believes the hurtful garbage he is saying… not that I’m against him speaking… but if you want to complain about speakers…. perhaps you can explain why Muslim speakers regularly speak at Universities about the “Apartheid State” etc…. while ex Muslims like Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel and others a lot more moderate than them get the runaround and are often flat out rejected by schools? Yet fringe elements in Isral like Pappe and the like will be invited whole heartedly by leftist dominated Universities where someone like Coulter is treated groughly but Ahmedinejad actually gets applause and is greeted warmly by a Dean after his speech.

Walking down the who doesn’t get to speak at Universities path is a sure loser for you… you have 1 example here, but the overwhelming majority of cases goes against your supposition.

Mike

By: jose

jose — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:07:15 +0000

“My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?”[8] He argued that Israel could never live in security by oppressing another people, and continued, “People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what? For goodness sake, this is God’s world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.”

-Desmond Tutu

By: Brian Ulrich

Brian Ulrich — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:29:58 +0000

Ahh, the ZOA. Yglesias once described them tongue-in-cheek as “the right-wing alternative to AIPAC American so badly needs.” They attacked Barack Obama for saying he hoped for peace in the Middle East on the grounds such sentiments were clearly out of touch with the reality of Palestinian treachery.