Harvard student apologizes for calling Livni a 'smelly Jew'

inn ^ | 4/20/16 | Ben Ariel

[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 The fact that such a hate-filled and outdated stereotype reemerged at Harvard Law School is nothing short of revolting…”

[Kenton]

Still hiding the idiot’s name, I see.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Had a conservative insulted a muslim this way, the media not only would print his/her name, but the organization they led, their home address and the fact he/she was white. It would be the lead 24/7 on the alphabets publicizing all known information.

But it was a liberal muzzie who said it, so she must be defended at all costs.

[Stosh]

Even if one takes this student’s “apology” at face value (ridiculous, I know) under what justification does one call a guest “smelly” - and do so *twice* - unless one is trying to insult that guest personally?

In this case, that personal insult was obviously inspired by that fact that Livni was a Jew, but what if she wasn’t? Is it then okay to insult a guest speaker personally if anti-Semitism isn’t your motivation? Any meaningful apology (and I wouldn’t expect that from this sort of scum) would be an unqualified apology - not some sort of crap like “oh, I didn’t know people would think I meant to be anti-Semitic”.

Any rational person reading evaluating this episode would readily come to two reasonable conclusions: the student was (and is) almost certainly filled with hatred for Jews, and that student was (and is) almost certainly willing to be as dishonest as needed to justify her behavior.

In other words, not just a bigot, but a liar and a bigot.

[Feckless]

If his target had been any of a number of "Protected Class" people, he would have been escorted off campus never to return.

All pigs are equal...

[butterdezillion]

Somebody needs to ask her, “Why do you have such bad breath and why do you wipe your poopy bottom with your bare hand?

Because that is an appropriate, non-racist question to ask somebody in a public forum, as everybody at Harvard surely knows.

Even if an elected official had body odor - as, for instance, Charlie Rangel has been said to have body odor - what self-respecting “lawyer” type person would make that their only question for that public official? This is a person who has no common decency, which is even worse than being racist.

[Zman]

Parents must be very proud. No sarcasm intended.

[gogeo]

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

I was just thinking...