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Harvard student apologizes for calling Livni a 'smelly Jew'
inn ^ | 4/20/16 | Ben Ariel

Posted on 04/20/2016 8:53:42 PM PDT by Nachum

A Harvard student has apologized for calling MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) a “smelly Jew” during a panel discussion last week.

The incident occurred last Thursday when the Harvard Law School hosted a panel discussion with guest speakers Dennis Ross and Livni.

During a question and answer session a president of a student organization mocked the Israeli leader, asking her, “How is it that you are so smelly?”

When his question drew stunned silence, he clarified his "question" and said, “A question about the odor of Ms. Tzipi Livni, she’s very smelly, and I was just wondering.”

The question was condemned by Harvard’s Jewish Law Students Association, which pointed out that the student invoked a classic anti-Semitic stereotype.

“Discussions about Israel cannot devolve into ad hominem attacks against Jews,” the association said, as quoted by Tablet Magazine. “A quick Internet search will show that the stereotype of ‘the Jew’ as ‘smelly’ or ‘dirty’ has been around since at least the 1800s. The Nazis promoted the idea that Jews ‘smell’ to propagandize Jews as an inferior people. The idea that Jews can be identified by a malodor is patently offensive and stereotypes Jews as an ‘other’ which incites further acts of discrimination. The fact that such a hate-filled and outdated stereotype reemerged at Harvard Law School is nothing short of revolting…”

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Sorry piglet, apology NOT accepted.
1 posted on 04/20/2016 8:53:42 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Does ‘A Harvard Student’ have a name and face to be photographed? Let all of us know who this bottom-feeder is.


2 posted on 04/20/2016 8:55:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Nachum

apologize, hell. Expelled should be more like it.


3 posted on 04/20/2016 8:56:25 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: lee martell

Muhammad perhaps?


4 posted on 04/20/2016 8:58:38 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Nachum

Overt anti Zionism, if not Antisemitism is becoming the norm in the Democratic Party and the Left.


5 posted on 04/20/2016 8:59:59 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Nachum

“The student is a leader of Harvard Law’s Justice for Palestine chapter whose identity is being withheld.”


6 posted on 04/20/2016 9:00:17 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: blueplum

Well, if he made a gay slur he would have been expelled.


7 posted on 04/20/2016 9:02:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Nachum
WTF??? Real negative actions are resolved with only an apology?...but fake grievances are only solved by expulsions, protests, marches, & capitulation?

Plus...why is this person being protected by not naming them?

8 posted on 04/20/2016 9:02:44 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Harvard student apologizes for calling Livni a 'smelly Jew'

The student's question represents the height of rudeness, and should be severely condemned - but he/she did NOT call Livni a "smelly Jew," i.e., the student did NOT employ the word "Jew" in posing his/her question - hence, the title is misleadingly inciteful.

And, yes: It would have been interesting to learn the NAME of the student.

Regards,

9 posted on 04/20/2016 9:06:09 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Nachum

what is “the student’s” name and what is the “organization” he is the “president” of?


10 posted on 04/20/2016 9:12:50 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: alexander_busek

Sorry, but her ‘smelly’ insult is straight of ‘Der Sturmer’, and is often used as an insult of Muslims to Jews in the middle east. So, you are not only wrong, but very wrong.—

“And, yes: It would have been interesting to learn the NAME of the student.”

In another thread, someone posted her name. First name was ‘Aya’ and she is the head of a Muslim group at Harvard.

Here is the post from the other thread:

SEE BELOW THE HARVARD STUDENT WHO ASKED LIVNI

“How is it that you are so smelly?”

She is on a Soros fellowship and is president of the
HARVARD MUSLIM LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION.

She worked for Google during the “Arab Spring.”

The Harvard Muslim Law Students Association is a student-run organization that serves Muslim law students by acting as a nexus of community-building, increasing awareness of issues that particularly impact Muslims, and organizing events to foster relationships between Muslim students across Harvard.
LEARN ABOUT OUR LATEST CAMPAIGN, #YOURVOICEMATTERS

Aya Saed JD ’17, President

Aya Saed, 2016
JD, Harvard University
Soros Fellowship awarded to support work towards a JD at Harvard University
Aya was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Sudanese parents. Her family migrated to the United States in 1999 to escape political and economic turmoil at home.
Inspired by youth-led protest movements in the US and abroad, Aya spent two summers curating technologies for activists during the Arab-Spring protests as a Google intern.

She helped to launch the Speak2Tweet product in 2012, which allowed protesters across Sudan and Ethiopia to tweet using their analog phones despite sporadic Internet connectivity.
As a Quest Bridge Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, Aya conducted independent research on Islamic finance with Professor Andrew Lamas, served as chair of UMOJA, an umbrella organization for student groups of the African Diaspora, and was a columnist forThe Daily Pennsylvanian. Upon graduation, she worked with the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project as a Henry Luce Scholar in Malaysia
Aya is pursuing a joint JD at Harvard Law School and a Master’s in public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is a student-attorney for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, president of the Muslim Law Students Association, and a research assistant to Professor Intisar Rabb. She hopes to pursue a career in litigation and community organizing in Muslim and Muslim-American communities to challenge national security policies that violate civil rights and civil liberties.
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11 posted on 04/20/2016 9:14:49 PM PDT by Nachum (ISIS is alive... and Chris Stevens is dead)
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To: vladimir998

The only ‘good part’ to this rudeness, is that it still causes people at Harvard to become ‘shocked’ and apparently ill at ease.


12 posted on 04/20/2016 9:15:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: sten

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3422992/posts?page=37#37


13 posted on 04/20/2016 9:15:08 PM PDT by Nachum (ISIS is alive... and Chris Stevens is dead)
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To: PghBaldy
"We expect this kind of thing," Poirot said. "There's always been a price to pay in America for being pro-Palestine."
14 posted on 04/20/2016 9:17:31 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Nachum
This is the depraved nazi:

And by no means was her apology an apology. It was pure Clintonian parsing. Remember, this bitch explicitly repeated her filthy insult "to be clear."

Rotten scum.

15 posted on 04/20/2016 9:27:35 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: sten

The “student” is clearly a pig.


16 posted on 04/20/2016 9:36:51 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Nachum
Non-apology apology:

Original quote: “How is it that you are so smelly?”

Apology; "my words could have been interpreted as a reference to an anti-Semitic stereotype"
17 posted on 04/20/2016 9:37:46 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Nachum

The same Harvard Law Omuslim allegedly attended...piglet is a perfect candidate for a Hitlery 2016 WH or State Dept.


18 posted on 04/20/2016 9:37:59 PM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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To: Nachum
This idiot's name pops-up an awful lot. Community organizer and graduate of UT-Austin and now at Harvard. Active member of the JFP group.

Collin Poirot at LinkedIn

19 posted on 04/20/2016 9:38:22 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama = ISIS Fanboy)
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To: Nachum

The way things are going these days, I’m surprised he didn’t get a trophy.


20 posted on 04/20/2016 9:39:04 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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