RhodyPatriot
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Admittedly, my eyes inexorably roll into the back of my head whenever anyone raises the topic of Middle Eastern politics.
But this is some next level shit.
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.”
Clearly the issue here should not be one's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - but the fact that a terrorist for any cause would be invited to speak at a supposedly prestigious institution of higher learning.
The reality is that anything seen as subversive will be weaponized by the Left to divide and demonize segments of the population.
And what better instrument of propaganda to commandeer than the diploma dispensing Universities that act as gateways to ostensible success?
Quite the Alinsky move.
But this is some next level shit.
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.”
Clearly the issue here should not be one's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - but the fact that a terrorist for any cause would be invited to speak at a supposedly prestigious institution of higher learning.
The reality is that anything seen as subversive will be weaponized by the Left to divide and demonize segments of the population.
And what better instrument of propaganda to commandeer than the diploma dispensing Universities that act as gateways to ostensible success?
Quite the Alinsky move.
