YOU brought the matter into the argument so we are just abiding by your rule's.
YOU CAN OF COURSE GO BACK AND EDIT THE VIDEO OUT OF YOUR POST.
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YOU brought the matter into the argument so we are just abiding by your rule's.
YOU CAN OF COURSE GO BACK AND EDIT THE VIDEO OUT OF YOUR POST.
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More deflection.
As soon as I show that your post was crap, you jumped ship on the topic.
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What does that have to do with agriculture?
American_Jihad
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Moral Narcissism and the MLAs Obsession with Israel
January 8, 2014 by Richard L. Cravatts
Characterized by the same paroxysms of self-righteousness as were evident in the much-maligned and tendentious academic boycott by the American Studies Association (ASA) last month, members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) head to Chicago during the first week of January for the organizations 129th convention. The annual meeting, which is generally attended by a third of the MLAs 30,000 members, has, as New Criterion editor, Roger Kimball, wryly noted, customarily provided observers of the academic scene with a spectacle as appalling as it is rich in unintended comedy, complete with a full range of barbarous jargon, intellectual pos*turing, and aggressive politicization that has infected the academic study of the human*ities in this country . . . .
But this years conference promises even more intellectual acting out, given that the MLAs Radical Caucus has proposed a resolution that will call on the U.S. State Department to contest Israels arbitrary denials of entry to Gaza and the West Bank by U.S. academics who have been invited to teach, confer, or do research at Palestinian universities. Why the focus on Israel by these scholars of the English language and humanities? Because, as presiding officer Samer M. Ali smugly put it, as far as the MLA is concerned, Israel deserves to be demonized for its perceived transgressions, and the question that [attendees] will be debating is not whether Israel is violating the rights of Palestinians, but what to do about it.
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One might expect that the MLA would also be concerned with womens rights in the Middle East, given members like Berkeleys feminist philosopher, Judith Butler, who notoriously delivered a paper at a past MLA conference entitled, The Lesbian Phallus: Or, Does Heterosexuality Exist?, and who more recently, and almost surreally, commented that it is important to view Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left. Perhaps MLA resolutions should be passed to help offer Muslim women greater educational opportunities, since statistics indicate that while only 22 percent of men in the Middle East and North Africa are illiterate, that rate soars to 42 percent for Muslim women. Hamas also imposes dress codes on girls, and a UN report noted that in Egypt, over 99 percent of women and girls had experienced sexual harassment in some form.
And, finally, if MLA members are so concerned with education and Israel, and the side effects of social strife, perhaps they should also ask for State Department reports on the unrelenting rocket fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza into southern Israeli towns, such as Sderot, where over 43 percent of middle school students suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of prolonged shelling of civilian neighborhoods and schools since the 2005 disengagement.
Of course, the MLAs Radical Caucus is silent on all of these obstacles to education and the free exchange of ideas, both in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and the wider world of Israels neighbors. It is easy to demonize Israel, and certainly it requires no bravery in academia, where moral narcissists console each other in an echo chamber of good intentions, willing to sacrifice academic integrity, true scholarship, and vigorous, honest debate in the process.
Moral Narcissism and the MLA?s Obsession with Israel | FrontPage Magazine
January 8, 2014 by Richard L. Cravatts
Characterized by the same paroxysms of self-righteousness as were evident in the much-maligned and tendentious academic boycott by the American Studies Association (ASA) last month, members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) head to Chicago during the first week of January for the organizations 129th convention. The annual meeting, which is generally attended by a third of the MLAs 30,000 members, has, as New Criterion editor, Roger Kimball, wryly noted, customarily provided observers of the academic scene with a spectacle as appalling as it is rich in unintended comedy, complete with a full range of barbarous jargon, intellectual pos*turing, and aggressive politicization that has infected the academic study of the human*ities in this country . . . .
But this years conference promises even more intellectual acting out, given that the MLAs Radical Caucus has proposed a resolution that will call on the U.S. State Department to contest Israels arbitrary denials of entry to Gaza and the West Bank by U.S. academics who have been invited to teach, confer, or do research at Palestinian universities. Why the focus on Israel by these scholars of the English language and humanities? Because, as presiding officer Samer M. Ali smugly put it, as far as the MLA is concerned, Israel deserves to be demonized for its perceived transgressions, and the question that [attendees] will be debating is not whether Israel is violating the rights of Palestinians, but what to do about it.
...
One might expect that the MLA would also be concerned with womens rights in the Middle East, given members like Berkeleys feminist philosopher, Judith Butler, who notoriously delivered a paper at a past MLA conference entitled, The Lesbian Phallus: Or, Does Heterosexuality Exist?, and who more recently, and almost surreally, commented that it is important to view Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left. Perhaps MLA resolutions should be passed to help offer Muslim women greater educational opportunities, since statistics indicate that while only 22 percent of men in the Middle East and North Africa are illiterate, that rate soars to 42 percent for Muslim women. Hamas also imposes dress codes on girls, and a UN report noted that in Egypt, over 99 percent of women and girls had experienced sexual harassment in some form.
And, finally, if MLA members are so concerned with education and Israel, and the side effects of social strife, perhaps they should also ask for State Department reports on the unrelenting rocket fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza into southern Israeli towns, such as Sderot, where over 43 percent of middle school students suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of prolonged shelling of civilian neighborhoods and schools since the 2005 disengagement.
Of course, the MLAs Radical Caucus is silent on all of these obstacles to education and the free exchange of ideas, both in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and the wider world of Israels neighbors. It is easy to demonize Israel, and certainly it requires no bravery in academia, where moral narcissists console each other in an echo chamber of good intentions, willing to sacrifice academic integrity, true scholarship, and vigorous, honest debate in the process.
Moral Narcissism and the MLA?s Obsession with Israel | FrontPage Magazine
As I posted YOU brought Rachel Cory into the argument, so you got answers that you did not like. The video had nothing to do with the subject matter that was boycott Israel, it was just another of your cheap digs at the Jews and it backfired big time.
To remedy the situation why don't you go back and edit the video out of the post
What does that have to do with agriculture?
What does her suicide in gaza city have to do with boycotting Israel ?
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Israeli supporters always jump off the substance and attack the messenger.
That is because they are losers when it comes to substance.
So then Adolph just what has the suicide of a disturbed girl defending a house got to do with the boycott of Israel.
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Black State Senator: Academic Boycott of Israel Antisemitic
January 9, 2014 by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Pennsylvania state senator Anthony Williams (D-8) is condemning as anti-Semitic the American Studies Associations recent decision to boycott Israeli academics. Williams introduced a resolution into the Pennsylvania legislature on Tuesday, Jan. 6, in which he calls out the ASA and calls on all colleges and universities in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to reject antisemitism and refuse to participate in the ASAs boycott of Israel.Ive been greatly disappointed by recent actions taken by people lauded as scholars, and particularly offended by them as someone who fights for equal justice for all. The only glimmers of hope Ive seen in this debacle are the rigorous and principled retorts and rebukes of the ASA boycott by academic leaders in our area, across Pennsylvania and across the country, Williams said in a statement released to the public on Jan. 6.The rationale offered for this boycott is flimsy at best; intellectually dishonest at worst, and seems to indicate an encroaching anti-Semitic sentiment that was shameful a century ago, but even more so as we enter 2014. Intolerance will not lead to acceptance or understanding. An exchange of ideas, even conflicting ones, will bring us closer to that desired outcome, which once was the goal of higher education. Lets hope it will be again.In Williams Pennsylvania Senate Resolution 279, the background of and the backlash to the ASA Israel boycott is laid out clearly. Important facts, such as that a mere 16 percent of the ASAs membership voted in favor of the boycott, and that so many presidents of leading universities and academic associations have condemned the ASA boycott, are spelled out.
To date, 145 college and university presidents have condemned the ASA boycott, including the president of every Ivy League institution and nearly all of the top ranked schools in America.
What is emphasized most strongly in the Resolution is that Israel is a Jewish democratic nation which promotes academic freedom and free speech and educates students from around the globe.
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Black State Senator: Academic Boycott of Israel Antisemitic | FrontPage Magazine
January 9, 2014 by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Pennsylvania state senator Anthony Williams (D-8) is condemning as anti-Semitic the American Studies Associations recent decision to boycott Israeli academics. Williams introduced a resolution into the Pennsylvania legislature on Tuesday, Jan. 6, in which he calls out the ASA and calls on all colleges and universities in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to reject antisemitism and refuse to participate in the ASAs boycott of Israel.Ive been greatly disappointed by recent actions taken by people lauded as scholars, and particularly offended by them as someone who fights for equal justice for all. The only glimmers of hope Ive seen in this debacle are the rigorous and principled retorts and rebukes of the ASA boycott by academic leaders in our area, across Pennsylvania and across the country, Williams said in a statement released to the public on Jan. 6.The rationale offered for this boycott is flimsy at best; intellectually dishonest at worst, and seems to indicate an encroaching anti-Semitic sentiment that was shameful a century ago, but even more so as we enter 2014. Intolerance will not lead to acceptance or understanding. An exchange of ideas, even conflicting ones, will bring us closer to that desired outcome, which once was the goal of higher education. Lets hope it will be again.In Williams Pennsylvania Senate Resolution 279, the background of and the backlash to the ASA Israel boycott is laid out clearly. Important facts, such as that a mere 16 percent of the ASAs membership voted in favor of the boycott, and that so many presidents of leading universities and academic associations have condemned the ASA boycott, are spelled out.
To date, 145 college and university presidents have condemned the ASA boycott, including the president of every Ivy League institution and nearly all of the top ranked schools in America.
What is emphasized most strongly in the Resolution is that Israel is a Jewish democratic nation which promotes academic freedom and free speech and educates students from around the globe.
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Black State Senator: Academic Boycott of Israel Antisemitic | FrontPage Magazine
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They were bulldozing down the house of a doctor who had no weapons inside.
Corrie was in plane sight when that IDF prick deliberately ran her over, then backed up onto her, before proceeding on.
Your posts are a joke.
Were you there to see it happen.
If the militia use a property as a staging post for attacks then under the Geneva conventions that property becomes a valid military target. It does not matter if there were no weapons inside it was still a valid military target.
The blade of the bulldozer was so large that it obstructed the drivers view forwards, any idiot knows you don't stand in front of a bulldozer with such a large blade. Here is an eye witness account of just how stupid she was
Joe Carr, an American ISM activist who used the assumed name of Joseph Smith during his time in Gaza, gave the following account in an affidavit recorded and published by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR):
Corrie in the aftermath of the incident
Still wearing her fluorescent jacket, she knelt down at least 15 meters in front of the bulldozer, and began waving her arms and shouting, just as activists had successfully done dozens of times that day.... When it got so close that it was moving the earth beneath her, she climbed onto the pile of rubble being pushed by the bulldozer.... Her head and upper torso were above the bulldozer's blade, and the bulldozer operator and co-operator could clearly see her. Despite this, the operator continued forward, which caused her to fall back, out of view of the driver. [sic] He continued forward, and she tried to scoot back, but was quickly pulled underneath the bulldozer. We ran towards him, and waved our arms and shouted; one activist with the megaphone. But the bulldozer operator continued forward, until Corrie was all the way underneath the central section of the bulldozer.[47]
It took at most 6 seconds and there is no way such a large machine could stop its forward momentum in that time frame. But it still does not alter the fact that she put her own life in danger and that she was a traitor to the USA.
Burning a USA flag
Rachel Corrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Hamas representative, busy at his station as per usual, seems to forget that he was the one who brought up a video with Rachel Corrie in it, so my statement is worth repeating. If he didn't want Rachel Corrie brought up, he shouldn't have posted the video.
Actually, Billy, they were bulldozing the landscapping besides the house because there were tunnels there smuggling weapons. Your posts are the ones which are a joke since you apparently care nothing about the innocent people who were killed and wounded at Mike's Place by the armed terrorist who was hiding in the offices of the ISM, to which Rachel Corrie belonged. A good Irish Catholic man (like you supposedly are) who was there filming a documentary about the place since it was owned by a Christian and a Jew was horribly wounded when this terrorist blew himself up, and those who went to Catholic school with him in the Bronx were asking for contributions for him so that he could continue his rehabilitation in the Bronx.
Who cares what you think ? You have zero credibility and you make up everything you say. On top of that you never provide links for your claims.
You are pathetic Tinmore.
You jumped of the substance and did not like the replies you got regarding the TRAITOR and CHILD MURDERER SUPPORTER. Listen her interview and see just what American colleges are turning out, inarticulate drug addled supporters of terrorism
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