Posted on 08/28/2002 5:33:34 AM PDT by catonsville
SFSU Persecutes The Jew.
Tatiana Menaker, the token Jew against whom charges were brought in the SFSU riot, has wrapped up her kangaroo court trial at SFSU and headed off to Mexico for vacation. There, was that enough hyperbole for you?
Let's take a look at the case. The two pro-Palestinian students settled, and PR director Ligeia Polidora refuses to disclose any information regarding the terms of the settlement. Because after all, it's a public university, paid for by taxpayer funds, so why should the public have the right to know?
Let's take a look at the list of witnesses: During the Aug. 12 hearing, Menaker said seven witnesses -- including campus police, the leader of the General Union of Palestinian Students and the leader of the Muslim Student Association -- testified against her. While she agrees with two accusations leveled at her -- that she called a pro-Palestinian student a sharmoota (the Arabic word for "bitch") and told another, "Go f--- your camels" in response to other defamatory words -- she continues to deny a third -- that she used the derogatory phrase, "sand nigger." "I never even heard that word" before being accused of using it, she said. "I feel like someone's inventing that thing to frame me up."
Fascinating, isn't it, that the leader of GUPS and the Muslim Student Association both claim to have heard Menaker utter the pejorative? What are the odds, hmm? They couldn't possibly be making it up to make a point, could they? But wait. There's more.
A mother of three who immigrated to the United States in 1985, Menaker has shown little remorse for her words at the May rally. Following her arrest later that month, Menaker received a groundswell of support from the Bay Area's Russian-speaking Jewish community. Many emigres felt an unsympathetic American-Jewish community and the University had scapegoated her in order to look even-handed in the aftermath of the rally.
Menaker's attorney, Alexander Anolik, who is also an instructor at SFSU, has continued to criticize the university for pursuing charges against his client. He called her behavior at the rally "minor" considering the hardships she endured in the former Soviet Union. A former refusenik and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, she has been "inundated with anti-Israel rhetoric in a hotbed of anti-Zionism, anti-Jewish, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism at SFSU," he said.
This is my favorite quote: "They're not going to ruin my vacation," said the Russian émigré before her departure. "There are too many people standing by me -- I received approximately 3,000 letters of support from the Russian community. If this university tries to suspend me I will fight it. "If I can fight KGB back in Russia, I can fight this." Yeah, but we can help. Drop an email to President Corrigan. He hates it when this case gets publicity. Life's tough sometimes.
I also love that quote. But she should be careful. Administrators of very liberal California colleges can be as devious as the KGB:-)
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