Columnist Nixed as Speaker for Comparing Israel to ISIS

Arutz Sheva ^ | 29/12/14 | Cynthia Blank

[Eleutheria5]

Former New York Times Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges was uninvited from speaking at a University of Pennsylvania conference following the publication of an incendiary column.

That column, from December 15, closely compares Israel to the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization.

Hedges, who now works as a columnist for Truthdig.com, was scheduled to speak April 3 at a forum on prospects for peace in the Middle East sponsored by the Philadelphia university's International Affairs Association.

Zachary Michael Belnavis, a student leader of the association, complained to the lecture agency that his group felt Hedges was not a "suitable fit" to speak at the upcoming peace conference.

“We’re saying this in light of a recent article he’s written in which he compares the organization ISIS to Israel,” Belnavis wrote. “In light of this comparison, we don’t believe he would be suitable to a co-existence speaker based on this stance he’s taken.”

Hedges, in a column titled, "ISIS - the new Israel," wrote “ISIS, ironically, is perhaps the only example of successful nation-building in the contemporary Middle East, despite the billions of dollars we have squandered in Iraq and Afghanistan."

"Its quest for an ethnically pure Sunni state mirrors the quest for a Jewish state eventually carved out of Palestine in 1948," he continues.

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[Eleutheria5]

You mean, like ISIS, Israel is just misunderstood, too?/s

[faithhopecharity]

It’s truly amazing just how crazy these people can be. (Or else they’ve sold out to the islamonazis of Arabia, Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, Iran, turkey, or the Muslim bros. $$). Either way, they’ve no business on the payroll of an American newspaper. Even the Infamous nyt

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Hedges is a Marxist-lite but very vicious, like a half-breed pitbull with his nuts in a vice. That is why he wrote for the New York Times.

[faithhopecharity]

I see. I just hope someone saves the crossword puzzles when the NYTimes finally is put out of its misery

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