Fury as academics are sacked for being Israeli

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 07/07/2002 | Charlotte Edwardes

[sleavelessinseattle]

Though, it would raise plenty of ire outside of the university system and its subjects.

Now THAT is a useful metaphor...I had never thought of using the Feudal system for our Higher learning institutions...kind of puts them in the prospective where they SHOULD be...PRIVATE SECTOR SINK OR SWIM FACTORIES...rather than the lofty papal untouchability and fourth estate unimpeachability that they currently enjoy without earning AT ALL!

[monkeyshine]

A native of Egypt

Rediculous, transparant, political. The university should sack her for such an unwarranted, transparantly political move.

At least she didn't shoot up the El Al terminal at Heathrow.

[monkeyshine]

Yep, it is pathetic. If Al-Arian just said how much he hated Israel, there would be no grounds to fire him. But he has raised money for terrorists and used his postion as a public employee to further the well being of violent criminals, and they still won't do it.

In this case, the victims were 2 peaceniks. But that didn't save their arses from losing their jobs based simply on their race (yes, in Europe race is defined very loosely to include "nationality", as in "the German race").

Face it. America is simply a more tolerant place than the UK and Europe, no matter what those crooked teeth crumpet eating croissant breath sourkraut stuffing smoked salmon waffle eating fools think.

[VOA]

“My husband and I receive hate mail every day, up to 50 [letters] a day,
some of it extremely obscene,” she said.....
The Americans are the worst offenders.

I think I'm having a "Proud To Be An American" moment.....

[Nam Vet]

"I called her Jihadist slut. I feel terrible and promise not to do this again."

Still the poet I see. heh heh

Nam Vet

[LarryLied]

it's be not only stupid but dangerous for us to sit back and watch the left eat each other, because we're going to get damaged in the process.

What can they do to the right? They already censor conservatives at universities. It is no accident that the vast majority of tenured professors at major universities are marxists. Conservative student newspapers are almost routinely stolen from news stands. Justice Clarence Thomas has been "dis-invited" to speak at universities after left wing protests. David Horowitz has to hire armed guards when he appears on some campuses.

It is better to let them go at each other. Perhaps they will begin to understand the value of the "diversity" and free speech they pretend to honor.

[jonascord]

You forgot the sarcasm tag...

[Timesink]

“My husband and I receive hate mail every day, up to 50 [letters] a day, some of it extremely obscene,” she said. “I can’t read it out it is so obscene and very threatening. It is also sent to my university, to my vice-chancellor and to some of my colleagues, and they threaten people who want to stay on the board. The Americans are the worst offenders.

May it increase by several orders of magnitude, until you are suffering daily panic attacks, you vile, Jew-hating savage.

Oh, I forgot, I think the proper EU phrase is "You shitty little woman."

[Timesink]

I doubt the same actions would raise opposition from within American universities either.

I would argue from the article that it already has. And at least here it's illegal. Apparently, Jew-firing is quite acceptable in the ultracivilized, superior European Union.

[Aleksandar Vojvoda]

He described any policy of singling out a group for collective punishment as “grotesque”.

This is what I have been saying here for awhile.

He added: “Excluding scholars because of the passports that they carry or because of their skin colour, religion or political party, corrupts the integrity of intellectual work.”

Personally,if the institution took any statist money,I would prefer that it was mandatory that they hire only fellow countrymen.

[dixiechick2000]

". A native of Egypt, Baker has lived in England for 20 years."

Aaahhh...
'splains a lot.

[537 Votes]

I'm not sure I see the problem here. If the journal is privately operated, the editor and publisher have a right to print what they want to print. If you don't like it, then start an international journal of your own. If people pay the money, they get to call the tune. It's called capitalism and freedom, get over it.

If the journal is subsidized in some way by the British government, then that's another matter, and it points up once again how 'impartial' and 'objective' governments really aren't, and why a truly free market of ideas requires a free market economy.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Now I see! Mona is of Middle Eastern descent. Probably a Muslim. It figures.

[Dan Day]

We should then get in contact with whomever the new grand kegle of the Klan is and demand she be immediately inducted into that august organization. They should also have an international press conference to announce this great event.

I haven't written her a letter yet, because I'm trying to figure out the best approach to use.

One of my ideas is to write her a letter in the style of a rabid neo-Nazi, heartily applauding her actions and treating her like a compatriot, suggesting other ways she can help "the cause", and asking her what her favorite forms of extermination are.

On the other hand, maybe she'd be flattered.

[Dan Day]

“My husband and I receive hate mail every day, up to 50 [letters] a day, some of it extremely obscene,” she said. “I can’t read it out it is so obscene and very threatening. It is also sent to my university, to my vice-chancellor and to some of my colleagues, and they threaten people who want to stay on the board.

You know what they say: "If everything seems to be coming your way, consider that you might be in the wrong lane."

[homeschool mama]

**Native of Egypt**

Big surprise, huh?

[WaterDragon]

Actually, dennisw, I've been rethinking that post. Yes, the Leftists attack each other, using any excuse, but it's also true that the Left really does hate Israel and it hates Jews, and will attack both at the drop of a hat.

Just remembering how brutally anti-semitic Leftist Berkeley is. That's just one example.

[gitmo]

Don't forget Jesus.

[gitmo]

What's also funny is that the liberals (both here and in Europe) are hair-trigger quick to label anyone two inches or more to the right of themselves "Nazis" or "fascists", and yet I've been astounded over the past few years how closely the liberals are retracing the Nazis' early footsteps, apparently down the same road.

Interesting that "Fascist" is the lowest insult of the liberal. After their "Great Patriotic War" it was the favorite insult of the Soviet communist as well. Must be a coincidence.

fas[cism

n.

a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, and racism, etc.: first instituted in Italy in 1922

Sounds exactly like the left to me.