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Posted on 12/02/2018 10:47:49 AM PST by SJackson
do not know if Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill adopted his extreme pro-“Palestine-as-Arab” position due to a deep delve into the history of Zionism, Arab nationalism, and complex political and diplomatic developments in the Middle East over the past century and more, or simply because, as a self-defined progressive, he felt that must be part of his identity.
Or maybe he reached out to the cause due to his own racial intersectionality. Whatever galvanized him, his speech at the United Nations not only lost him his CNN commentator’s contract, but highlighted the dangerous intellectual course that anti-Zionism has taken recently.
As CAMERA’s Ricki Hollander pointed out in June, Hill’s May 17 opinion column describing “7 Myths About the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict”
“is devoid of anything resembling intellectual arguments or factual information. Quite the contrary. His essay represents the sort of disinformation that is rooted in a bigoted worldview in which the Jewish state is considered illegitimate and a terrorist regime like Hamas should be bolstered.”
In other words, Hill was well into a deep slide at that time — one displaying all of the hallmarks of ignorance, willingness to accept propaganda claims, and self-righteous haughtiness.
Following the outbreak of attacks on him, Hill took to Twitter to mount a defense. I think it only fair to detail his thinking, the better to counter his opinions, which I can only conclude are held by many in the academic milieu, lecturers and students. He clarified that
“I believe in a single secular democratic state for everyone. This is the only way that historic Palestine will be free.”
He added,
“My reference to ‘river to the sea’ was not a call to destroy anything or anyone. It was a call for justice, both in Israel and in the West Bank/Gaza. The speech very clearly and specifically said those things. No amount of debate will change what I actually said or what I meant.”
And he continued…
“It’s also ABSURD and illogical to suggest that a speech that explicitly called for redrawing borders and granting full citizenship for Palestinians IN Israel was also calling for its destruction. People either didn’t listen to the speech or they’re being dishonest.”
As directly to his geography, he noted,
“I concluded my remarks with a call to ‘free Palestine from river to sea.’ This means that all areas of historic Palestine — e.g., West Bank, Gaza, Israel — must be spaces of freedom, safety, and peace for Palestinians.”
And,
“In my speech, I talked about the need to return to the pre-1967 borders, to give full rights to Palestinian citizens of Israel, and to allow right of return. No part of this is a call to destroy Israel. It’s absurd on its face,” adding, “I was talking about full citizenship rights IN Israel and a redrawing of the pre-1967 borders.”
Typical of the defense mounted by radical non-Zionist Jews, IfNotNow demanded in an online petition that “CNN reinstate Marc Lamont Hill because advocating for Palestinian rights should NOT be a fireable offense. In supporting Palestinian freedom, Marc Lamont-Hill was in no way being anti-Semitic.”
They neglected to include his “river to the sea” remark, which was the easy way for Jews-bereft-of-rationality to avoid the central essence of his thinking.
We need not forget what framework Hill was speaking in. Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine, said at that Nov. 29 meeting,
“The Palestinian people’s struggle is not directed against Judaism as a religion, but against the colonial occupation of their land and people, said during a special observance today.”
As Hill knew, he was not attending a neutral forum of discussion, but was yet another actor castigating Israel, Zionism, and the Jewish people’s right to national identity. This is the framework in which Hill spoke during that 393rd meeting of the UN’s Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on Nov. 29.
Let us now take advantage of Hill’s words and try to set the record straight, for our attention should be devoted less toward Hill himself (although this cross-fertilization process among progressive politics, fanatical Islam, and simple Jew-hatred deserves its own analysis) and more about the actual content of what he spoke, and the truth of his words and his insights.
No other people until the 20th century, except Jews, had a national identity in “Historic Palestine.” Arabs conquered and occupied it only in 638 CE, and lost it quickly to Crusaders, Mongols, Mamelukes, and Turks, and then the British. They never established a state or even an entity of geopolitical character. They insisted throughout the first two decades of the British Mandate over Palestine that they were Southern Syrians and that Palestine should be united with Syria.
Moreover, “Historic Palestine” includes Jordan, founded in 1922 when the Mandate for Palestine was territorially limited, temporarily, as the language was “postpone or withhold application,” to the lands west of the Jordan River as per Article 25 of the League of Nations decision. What do we do with the king? Is Hill a monarchist? Would he want to leave Abdullah in charge of all the so-called “Palestinians” there?
Let us be forthright: the sole national group with any genuine “historic” connection to Palestine is the Jews, and again I quote from the Mandate’s preamble:
“Recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country…”
Hill said in his remarks that “he called for embracing the movement to adopt boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel,” and that “solidarity means recognizing the Palestinian right to self-defense, stressing that Palestinians must not be shamed for resisting in the face of State violence and ethnic cleansing.”
In a July 26, 2014 CNN broadcast (that is, four years ago), Hill granted that “the murder of children is indefensible,” but then charged Israel with that indefensible crime, noting “but children died a month before, Palestinian children died a month before the Israeli children died.” And since Arab children died, his conclusion was
“This starts with occupation. There’s an apartheid state in Gaza. There’s an apartheid state in the region. That’s what we need to talk about. That’s what starts as resistance. It’s not terrorism” (my emphasis).
On May 3, 2017, Hill had tweeted: “Trump’s position on Israel/Palestine is repugnant. His call for Palestine to ‘reject hatred and terrorism’ is offensive & counterproductive.” So, nothing the Arabs of Palestine do is terrorism?
Hill should know that “resistance” by the Arabs of historic Palestine means one thing and one thing only: killing Jews. Violently. Thousands of Jews had been ethnically cleansed from their historic homeland in Judea and Samaria, and also Gaza, during the 1920-1948 period by Arabs.
The “resistance” continued into the 1950s and 1960s on the part of the fedayeen and then the PLO. Professor Hill needs be asked, by his students and his colleagues, if the PLO is the Palestine Liberation Organization and it was founded in 1964 — before there was an Israel occupation of Judea, Samaria and Gaza and before any “settlements” had been constructed — then why did that 1967 war break out? Was the reason the very existence of Israel?
But Hill knows the answer since he wants no Jewish state.
Hill has rolled down to rock-bottom anti-Zionism.
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What in the world was he doing speaking at the UN?
I guess most of the UN is buying what he’s selling;
rhetorical garbage and scapegoating.
My only guess is that the Jewish Girls in his Classroom didn’t put out but some Arab and Iranian Girls did.
No amount of sophistry can let Hill off the hook that he is an anti semitic dirt bag...
Just one on the Temple U board criticized the jackass' hate speech, for which he should be fired. So far, the spineless or perhaps merely Jew-hating Temple U mgmt stands behind Hill.
I guess no more laughs on Tucker.
Lamont Hill never did a deep delve into anything in his life. He's a loud-mouthed fast talker who does not even make sense. His mouth finally got him in trouble.
The Extreme Makeover of Fox News: Analyst Marc Lamont Hill ["Black Liberation" revolutionary communist]
Accuracy In Media - AIM Column ^ | October 2, 2009 | Cliff Kincaid
Who would plaster his Twitter page with police mug shot photos of convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur? Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill did. At least until David Horowitz and Accuracy in Media took notice and wrote about it. Now the page features photos of boxing great Muhammad Ali. Hill's MySpace page is also gone.
There are other changes as well. The tributes to Shakur and black racist Khallid Muhammad, known as "America's Black Hitler," have disappeared from his web pages. The articles were saved, however, and can be found here.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
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"I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid [Muhammad] for what he truly was: mentor, teacher and revolutionary hero" -Marc Lamont Hill
Source: Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (AIM) - pdf file:
http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/MarcLamontHillarticles.pdf
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: KHALID ABDUL MUHAMMAD
Muhammad referred to Jews as people whose ancestors were cannibals who “crawled around on all fours in the caves and hills of Europe” and “slept in [their] urination and [their] defecation... for 2,000 years.” He characterized contemporary Jews as “slumlords in the black community” who were busy “sucking our [blacks’] blood on a daily and consistent basis.” He said that Jews had provoked Adolf Hitler when they “went in there, in Germany, the way they do everywhere they go, and they supplanted, they usurped.” And he declared that blacks, in retribution against South African whites of the apartheid era, should “kill the women,…kill the children,…kill the babies,…kill the blind,…kill the crippled,…kill the faggot,…kill the lesbian,...kill them all.”
On subsequent occasions, Muhammad praised Colin Ferguson, a black man who had shot some twenty white and Asian commuters (killing six of them) in a racially motivated 1993 shooting spree aboard a New York commuter train, as a hero who possessed the courage to “just kill every goddamn cracker that he saw.” He advised blacks that “there are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.” He told a Donahue television audience in May 1994 that “[t]here is a little bit of Hitler in all white people.” He characterized black conservatives as “boot-licking, butt-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized Nigger[s].” On May 21, 1997 he told a San Francisco State University audience that the "white man" is "a no-good bastard. He's not a devil, the white man is the Devil." In September 1997 he said, "If you say you're white, goddammit I'm against you. If you're a Jew, I'm against you. Whatever the hell you want to call yourself, I'm against you."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2045
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"I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid [Muhammad] for what he truly was: mentor, teacher and revolutionary hero" -Marc Lamont Hill
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From the David Horowitz Freedom Center, October 6, 2009:
Marc Lamont Hill isn’t Just An Admirer of Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, He’s His Publisher
Marc Lamont Hill, Sept 7, 2009:
"I am thrilled to announce that Mumia Abu-Jamal has joined the Barbershop as a weekly contributor!! His column, “Live From Death Row,” will appear every Wednesday starting next week.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the world’s most celebrated journalists, freedom fighters, and political prisoners. Since his early days in Philadelphia, Mumia was an active member of the Black freedom struggle. From his award-winning journalism to his involvement with the Black Panther Party, Mumia has devoted his life to Black liberation. Wrongfully incarcerated since 1981 for the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner, Mumia has continued to place a spotlight on various forms of injustice around the globe through his numerous columns, commentaries, and books. Mumia has generated international support for his own case, which has been one of the most glaring and repugnant reflections of the criminal (in)justice system."--Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Lamont Hill isn’t Just An Admirer of Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, He’s His Publisher:
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/10/06/marc-lamont-hill-isnt-just-an-admirer-of-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal-hes-his-publisher/ ____________________________________________
“From his award-winning journalism to his involvement with the Black Panther Party, Mumia [Abu-Jamal] has devoted his life to Black liberation.”—Marc Lamont Hill
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/10/06/marc-lamont-hill-isnt-just-an-admirer-of-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal-hes-his-publisher/
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"I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid [Muhammad] for what he truly was: mentor, teacher and revolutionary hero" -Marc Lamont Hill
Levin enrolled at Temple University and graduated summa cum laude. He was Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree in Political Science (at age 19 !)
He has a J.D. (doctorate degree) from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
It would take darn near this whole thread to list the multitude of Mark Levin's legal, educational, high governmental positions (under Reagan and elsewhere), communications and intellectual achievements.
Again, I ask again...if commie/CNN flack Marc Lamont Hill can address the world from a United Nations building microphone, why not Mark Levin or some other similarly qualified American communicator???
(I think we all know the answer to my hypothetical question !)
Leni
He’s the only person I’ve ever seen that thinks that cramming forty words into a five second sentence makes him look like some kind of intellectual.
Hi. I hope you are doing well.
Pardon if this is a duplicate ping.
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Take note: EVERY LIEberal does that!
AND, they talk over whoever is sharing the stage with them!
There are a number of black racists in America; M.L. Hill is at the top of the list for most hateful racist in America!
The UN is anti-western and anti-Jewish. They are pro-muslim and pro-Palestine.
Nasty little punk. Without affirmative action, he’d be washing my car.
Doubtful, most likely stripping it for parts in some garage in da hood.
Getting the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US is right at the top of my wish list!
“Shutter down LeRoy! She’s sucking mud!”
#10. I graduated from Temple Un. a good number of years before Levin so there are at least two of us on the conservative side out there supporting America.
Over the years, the Left has made great inroads into getting their hardcore Marxists in colleges as teachers (or the schools ignored the well-known backgrounds of leftists and hired them anyway).
At Temple, they hired one or both hardcore Marxists/sympathizers for their Law School, David Rudovsky and David Kairys. Their Marxist ties go back to at least the late 60’s/early 70’s, and have been members of any or all of these congressionally identified Communist Party USA created legal fronts and split-offs, resp. the National Lawyers Guild, its child, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
More information on these groups can be found at www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org and www.keywiki.org., either as the individual’s name or as the organizational name.
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