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Muslim Professor Attacks Jewish Students At Yale: The new academic order
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| Monday, June 2, 2003
| By James Kirchick
Posted on 06/01/2003 10:18:04 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
An e-mail sent by a Yale professor naming Jewish students from an Israel advocacy group as a "pro-war cabal" has caused an uproar at the elite Ivy League university.
Students charge that listing the Jewish names was anti-Semitic; many claim they are outspoken opponents of the war against Iraq.
"Just to insinuate that people who espouse pro-Israel views at Yale are automatically complicit in promoting the war is ridiculous and offensive," said Nelson Moussazadeh, co-president of Yale Friends of Israel.
The e-mail, sent Saturday by an associate professor of genetics, Mazin Qumsiyeh, to the several hundred members of Yale’s anti-war Coalition for Peace, contained the names of 64 students, nearly all of them Jews.
According to Mr. Qumsiyeh’s e-mail, the group "subscribes to the same Straussian theology that the no-cons [sic] around Bush have been pushing [Wolfowitz, Perle, Wurmser, Kristol, Feith].I think you will find the list informative.Note that there is significant overlap of this list with the ‘Yale Friends of Israel’ list serve."
The e-mail went on to state that the list was that of the Yale College Students for Democracy, which supported the war in Iraq.
The "Straussian philosophy’’ reference was to Leo Strauss, the late University of Chicago political philosopher credited with inspiring the so-called neo-conservative’ movement. In fact, all of the students named are on the Yale Friends of Israel list, said Mr. Moussazadeh, the YFI co-president. Not all are members of YCSD.
"I don’t like being misrepresented, regardless of my political opinions,’’ said Zvika Krieger, a student spokesman for YFI. "I was advertised as being part of a group I’m not part of.’’
Mr. Moussazadeh is one of only two students able to access YFI’s list. He claims that Mr. Qumsiyeh’s action is "violating people’s privacy," and he believes the professor obtained the list improperly.
When reached by phone, Mr. Qumsiyeh refused to comment beyond what he had written in his previous e-mails. Mr. Qumsiyeh is an outspoken critic of the Jewish state and speaks and writes frequently on the subject of the Middle East. This is not the first time that he has sent out a controversial e-mail. In late April, Mr. Qumsiyeh issued a mass e-mail that linked to an article containing a list of "Prominent Jews in the Media."
In a January 24, 2003, column for the Yale Herald, Qumsiyeh wrote that "…Hitler thought highly of Zionists and Zionists regularly collaborated with the Nazis."
When the Yale Political Union hosted a speech by an Israeli military officer in January of 2001, Mr. Qumsiyeh staged a walkout with about 10 other people.
He is a co-founder of the New Havenbased Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, which advocates for the "right of return" of the Palestinian Arabs into Israel proper. The professor is also involved with the Yale Coalition for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Yale Divest from Israel Campaign, which advocates that Yale disinvest all financial holdings in Israeli companies or companies that conduct business in Israel.
After an outcry by those Jewish students who were wrongly listed as being members of the campus pro-war in Iraq group, Mr. Qumsiyeh backtracked and stated that he had confused the e-mail lists of the two organizations. Writing the students whom he listed in his original e-mail, Mr. Qumsiyeh stated, "In my message listing your e-mail addresses, I obviously made a mistake. For this, I am sorry."
Mr. Qumsiyeh claimed that he obtained the individual e-mail addresses of the students when an e-mail he sent to both groups came back as undeliverable, but contained names of the individuals.
Matthew Louchheim, a Yale senior from Los Angeles, said Mr. Qumsiyeh’s sending a list of supposed pro-war students "smacks of McCarthyism."
TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; jewishcabal; mazinqumsiyeh; neocons; qumsiyeh; yale
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To: JohnHuang2
Is this another example of Muslim hatred for Jews?
2
posted on
06/01/2003 10:23:17 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: Jorge
is there any other possible explanation?
3
posted on
06/01/2003 10:35:36 PM PDT
by
rontorr
(It's only my opinion, but I am RIGHT)
To: JohnHuang2
Muslim Professor Attacks Jewish Students At Yale: The new academic order Why was my very first thought upon seeing this headline, "How many dead? How many wounded?"
4
posted on
06/01/2003 10:36:38 PM PDT
by
Imal
(If I had a dime for every time Bush's critics were right about him, I'd need to borrow a dime.)
To: JohnHuang2
bttt
5
posted on
06/01/2003 10:41:19 PM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
To: JohnHuang2
P#ss be unto him...may he reach Allah very soon!
To: JohnHuang2
The professor is also involved with the Yale Coalition for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Yale Divest from Israel Campaign, which advocates that Yale disinvest all financial holdings in Israeli companies or companies that conduct business in Israel.Ahh, yes....
Another shining example of the "religion of peace," right???
Islam is a religion of conquest and DEATH.
To: Jorge
This is an outrage. A professor engaged in blatant anti-semitism even to the point of going after the students of a university. This smacks of nazism.
To: JohnHuang2
Professor of genetics...good Muslim so probably really is a professor of eugenics
9
posted on
06/01/2003 11:38:36 PM PDT
by
jnarcus
To: sheik yerbouty
I believe the better curse would be "May you be annointed with lard, and wrapped in the hide of the swine for your funeral."
May one ask what Allah did to deserve the company of this "academic"?
10
posted on
06/02/2003 12:02:17 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
To: Black Agnes; rmlew; cardinal4; LiteKeeper; Lizard_King; Sir_Ed; TLBSHOW; BigRedQuark; yendu bwam; ..
Leftism on Campus ping!
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Regards...
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posted on
06/02/2003 5:28:54 AM PDT
by
Hobsonphile
(Hollywood: "Arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you." / Londo)
To: JohnHuang2
See tagline...
12
posted on
06/02/2003 5:33:24 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Islam: it's a religion of peace...and they'll try to kill you to prove it...)
To: JohnHuang2
Islam is NOT a religion
– it is a CULT OF HATE
ACTION PLAN:
1) Assemble fleet of troop transport vessels in port cities; 2) move, via bus and/or train all US dwelling Muslims (immigrant or American Born Muslims ABM) to said ports; 3) Load all muslims onto ships, send forthwith to any middle east muslim country; 4) Bulldoze all mosques and islamic schools in US;
5) Concurrently, close borders with military; 6) Pop any American brewed beer, gloat over job well accomplished and relax.
13
posted on
06/02/2003 5:39:41 AM PDT
by
Imagine
To: GladesGuru
I believe that what he thinks is "Allah" may be someone a bit different.
To: sheik yerbouty
Regardless of Heavenly administration, this 'professor' will have lots to explain.
15
posted on
06/02/2003 11:51:29 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
To: GladesGuru
"smacks of McCarthyism."It sure does. Everytime I hear someone use the term neo-con anymore, Charlie McCarthy comes to mind, sitting on Joe Sobran's knee.
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posted on
06/02/2003 5:19:46 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
To: JohnHuang2
***An e-mail sent by a Yale professor naming Jewish students from an Israel advocacy group as a "pro-war cabal" has caused an uproar at the elite Ivy League university. ***
Seems to me what we should be yelling about is that there's an uproar at Yale because a professor thinks being pro-war was bad.
17
posted on
06/02/2003 5:28:47 PM PDT
by
kitkat
To: gcruse
All part of that Socileft lexicon.
Neocon, hegemon, Zionist entity, the list goes on,
and when you hear people use these terms in the socileft
context, it tells you exactly where they are coming from.
I read a column by Molly Irvins the other day ( I keep hoping she will spew and finally choke on her own bile.)and she dropped "Zionist entity" right in the middle of some obscure
paragraph. Bingo!
18
posted on
06/02/2003 5:30:06 PM PDT
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: gcruse
McCarthy was wrong - history has made that plain.
There were far more Commies in both State Department and elsewhere throughout the government than he ever guessed.
Russian records made available after the USSR tanked were clear and unambiguous about the extent of Communist infiltration of America.
19
posted on
06/02/2003 5:34:36 PM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
To: tet68
Yeah, I read Ivins when her column runs in Amarillo. She is one of the bitterest women writing, a distaff Paul Krugman.
20
posted on
06/02/2003 5:36:00 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
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