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(Columbia Professor) Massad's Theory: The Zionists Are The Anti-Semites
NY Sun ^ | 2/22/05 | JACOB GERSHMAN

Posted on 02/22/2005 5:20:56 PM PST by wagglebee

The Palestinian intifada against Israel may have been a blessing in disguise for Jews, according to a Columbia University assistant professor, Joseph Massad.

Mr. Massad, who teaches in the university's Middle East studies department, argues in a recently published essay that Palestinian Arab "resistance" against Israelis is not anti-Semitic but an expression of goodwill toward Jews living in the Jewish state.

Mr. Massad in his writings and teaching has articulated the view that Zionists have adopted the identity of the anti-Semite and Palestinians have taken on a Jewish identity. In one of his latest essays, in the Winter 2005 issue of the scholarly journal Cultural Critique, Mr. Massad argues that Palestinian resistance is a struggle against anti-Semitism and that Israel as a Jewish state represents the most vicious form of anti-Semitism.

"The irony of an anti-Semitic Zionism depicting the Palestinians as the real anti-Semites is not a simply rhetorical move, but instead is crucial to Zionism's fashioning of Jewish public opinion, both in Israel and on a global scale," Mr. Massad writes in the essay, "The Persistence of the Palestinian Question."

Palestinian terrorists have killed more than 700 Israeli civilians since the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada in the fall of 2000, according to the Web site of the Israel Defense Force.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; columbiau; columbiauniversity; jihadists; josephmassad; leftists; tenuredradicals; terroristapologists
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To: Alouette

Something bothers me about this "Turnspeak" article and analysis. It smacks of some new-age rationale and reasoning which completely obscures what the Arabs and their media allies are doing: LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It almost seems as if the article is saying that "Turnspeak" is part of Arab Culture, so we must accept it.

Among these people, you can't find the truth with a magnifying glass. Everything they say is manufactured out of thin air (luft). The real tragedy is the media buys so much of this garbage.

Their main objective of course is to get rid of Israel and the Jews any way they can, whatever it takes, with a little help from CNN.


21 posted on 02/22/2005 7:02:40 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: Zivasmate
Something bothers me about this "Turnspeak" article and analysis. It smacks of some new-age rationale and reasoning which completely obscures what the Arabs and their media allies are doing: LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It almost seems as if the article is saying that "Turnspeak" is part of Arab Culture, so we must accept it.

I think you are right. That good turnspeak arguments are considered clever with the Arabs.
"All war is deceit" - Muhammad

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22 posted on 02/22/2005 7:20:18 PM PST by dennisw (Seeing as how this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world .........)
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To: wagglebee
Parents spend billions of dollars each year to educate their children and they get turned over to some moronic neanderthal like this, with the IQ of a cucumber .

We need to scrap the whole system of higher learning and start over again with the one room cabin and a chalk board and see if we can get it right.

We couldn't be much worse off.

23 posted on 02/22/2005 7:47:48 PM PST by mississippi red-neck
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To: wagglebee
Mr. Massad, who teaches in the university's Middle East studies department, argues in a recently published essay that Palestinian Arab "resistance" against Israelis is not anti-Semitic but an expression of goodwill toward Jews living in the Jewish state.

I guess Israel is showing it's affection in return. And here I been worried all this time about war, and they are really having a big love-in over there.

24 posted on 02/22/2005 8:08:30 PM PST by WindOracle
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To: wagglebee

Its called...being a sociopath


25 posted on 02/22/2005 8:35:20 PM PST by Alex Marko
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To: wagglebee

I kinda thought that he is the anti-semit!

But now I see that I am the anti-semit! Wow those are astonishing news for me, I didn't know that I hate Jews, considering the fact that I am a Jewish Zionist myself...

Massad, I hope the Mossad is after you.


26 posted on 02/22/2005 9:26:42 PM PST by IAF ThunderPilot (The basic point of the Israel Defense Forces: -Israel cannot afford to lose a single war.)
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To: wagglebee; SJackson; Salem; Alouette; IAF ThunderPilot; dennisw; Slings and Arrows; ...
"professor" (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I knew I couldn't type that word or say it without cracking up) Massad is the latest poster boy for the "this is your brain on drugs" campaign.

Memo from Virginia and Dixie to "professor" Massad:






27 posted on 02/23/2005 4:48:47 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (tired of all the shucking and jiving)
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To: Convert from ECUSA

I f*rt on his beard..


28 posted on 02/23/2005 7:09:05 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty

Now that could get a bit messy! LOL!


29 posted on 02/23/2005 7:29:51 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (tired of all the shucking and jiving)
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