Posted on 04/20/2016 8:53:42 PM PDT by Nachum
A Harvard student has apologized for calling MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) a smelly Jew during a panel discussion last week.
The incident occurred last Thursday when the Harvard Law School hosted a panel discussion with guest speakers Dennis Ross and Livni.
During a question and answer session a president of a student organization mocked the Israeli leader, asking her, How is it that you are so smelly?
When his question drew stunned silence, he clarified his "question" and said, A question about the odor of Ms. Tzipi Livni, shes very smelly, and I was just wondering.
The question was condemned by Harvards Jewish Law Students Association, which pointed out that the student invoked a classic anti-Semitic stereotype.
Discussions about Israel cannot devolve into ad hominem attacks against Jews, the association said, as quoted by Tablet Magazine. A quick Internet search will show that the stereotype of the Jew as smelly or dirty has been around since at least the 1800s. The Nazis promoted the idea that Jews smell to propagandize Jews as an inferior people. The idea that Jews can be identified by a malodor is patently offensive and stereotypes Jews as an other which incites further acts of discrimination. The fact that such a hate-filled and outdated stereotype reemerged at Harvard Law School is nothing short of revolting
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
I hate Harvard Nazis.
Yikes. I hate to hear what happens to her after her Imam finds out she did that.
I imagine she smells of conk and cheap perfume.
She is NOT fit to be an officer of the court and that should be noted by whatever bar association she attempts to join.
Some American kid didn’t get a seat at Harvard so this dune coon Saudi could come in an act like this.
THIS is the caliber of Harvard Law.
alexander likes his muslims.
Reflections of Stupidity at Harvard.
Seems to me I have seen that post somewhere before.
Who is the student? Muslim?
Aya Saed, 2016
JD, Harvard University
Soros Fellowship awarded to support work towards a JD at Harvard University
Aya was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Sudanese parents. Her family migrated to the United States in 1999 to escape political and economic turmoil at home.
Inspired by youth-led protest movements in the US and abroad, Aya spent two summers curating technologies for activists during the Arab-Spring protests as a Google intern.
Down in the comments attached to the article, "Roger Marks" confirms that ID: Aya Saed, head of the Harvard Muslim Law Student Association, at HLS on a Soros fellowship.
Most of the accounts of the incident apply the masculine gender to the perp. However, this account differs: "The name of the student and the group she represented have been kept out of the media."
My, how they circle the wagons when a 'tard goes over the line! God damn Harvard!
It’s bred in their mother’s milk as one guy put it.
They spend their whole lives learning how to hate.
Hmmm......sounds familiar.
Probably force her to marry yet another cousin.
Scary.
This gal is deadly.
Woodrow Wilson School, Jane Harmon (D), Soros, pursuing “community organizing”.
It is time Americans did a little community organizing of their own.
We are not even trying to compete. Why is that?
Read the thread.
whose identity is being withheld. we need know by who?
Harvard Bin Laden Law School
Since when is I’m sorry if anyone was offended, I didnt say it
I wouldn’t say it, I didn’t realize it was wrong, an apology?
Why is the anti-semite allowed to remain anonymous? Why have they not been suspended? Why has the organization they represent not been disbanded? Maybe its because the administration is too busy suspending people who write a Repub Presidential candidates name in chalk on sidewalks, or building sandbag walls with a Repub candidate’s name on them?
The “so called” apology:
I am writing to apologize, as sincerely as I can via this limited form of communication, to anyone who may have felt offended by the comments I made last week. To be very clear, as there seems to be some confusion, I would never, ever, ever call anyone, under any circumstances, a smelly Jew, the student wrote.
Such a comment is utterly repugnant, and I am absolutely horrified that some readers have been led to believe that I would ever say such a thing. With regards to what I actually did say, I can see now, after speaking with the authors of this article and many other members of the Jewish community at HLS, how my words could have been interpreted as a reference to an anti-Semitic stereotype, one that I was entirely unaware of prior to the publication of this article, he continued.
I want to be very clear that it was never my intention to invoke a hateful stereotype, but I recognize now that, regardless of my intention, words have power, and it troubles me deeply to know that I have caused some members of the Jewish community such pain with my words.
Wait ...
The article identifies the offender as “he”. That looks more like a “she”. A real, XX “she” not some ‘transgender’ thing.
That’s SEXIST!
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