Posted on 02/11/2018 2:58:35 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Rutgers under fire for numerous incidents of anti-Semitic activity
Rutgers University announced it no longer employs the former Syrian diplomat who represented President Bashar al-Assad's regime in the United Nations and accused Israel of organ-trafficking, after the administration defended the hire publicly.
Mazen Adi, who was hired as a part-time lecturer in 2015, is not currently teaching in the political science department and has not done so since the summer of 2017, Rutgers President Robert Barchi said in a Jan. 25 meeting with Jewish leaders to address anti-Semitic activity at the New Jersey school, New Jersey Jewish News reported.
Adi issued defenses in the classroom of terrorism as a legitimate form of "resistance" against Israeli "occupation."
During his time as the Syrian government's United Nations representative between 2007 and 2014, Adi accused "some Israeli officials" of "trafficking children's organs," in what Israel slammed as a modern-day blood libel.
Following reports last fall of Adi's employment at the state university, Barchi justified the hire for Adi's "expertise in international law and diplomacy, and other fields."
The president also claimed Adi's rhetoric was protected under academic freedom at a student town hall.
Hillel Neuer, head of UN Watch, which monitors the UN for anti-Israel activity, told the Algemeiner, "If true, the apparent removal of Mazen Adi, who defended the genocidal policies of the Assad regime as its spokesman at the United Nations, is a small but important victory for moral clarity on our university campuses. UN Watch calls on Rutgers University to stop playing word games and confirm that this advocate of war crimes will never again teach their students about human rights and the laws of war."
Barchi also addressed in last month's meeting the issue of two other Rutgers professors condemned for anti-Semitic rhetoric and scholarship, including Michael Chikindas, a microbiology professor who was demoted in December for posting anti-Semitic, racist, and sexist comments on Facebook, and Jasbir Puar, a gender studies professor whose most recent book accused Israel of purposely maiming Palestinians.
The president announced that a university symposium on diversity, inclusion, and tolerance will be held March 27, to address remaining concerns about the campus climate for Jewish students.
Keith Krivitzky, CEO of the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey, told the NJ Jewish News that he was disappointed in Barchi's response to these controversies.
"My perception coming out of this meeting is that the university administration feels it needs to manage and balance the sensitivities of many groups on campus such as the large Muslim population," Krivitzky added.
What's the Israeli equivalent to Planned Parenthood? Israel does have state-funded abortion, as well...Might be a kernel of truth.
Odd, the man sounds like a PERFECT MATCH for today’s universities.;
Thanks MarvinStinson.
Do a web search for Israel and organ Trafficking. Not pretty.
Rutgers used to be a great brand; this year they are having Queen Latifah speak at the Newark (North Zimbawbwe) campus commencement and Anita Hill speak at the Camden (Northwest Zimbabwe) campus.
How far they have fallen; what could either of these two say to serious college students?
All muslim sites?
You're right, though if we use abortion rate to legitimize that libelous, anti-Semitic accusation as you do, we have to make the accusation against most of Europe and the US, all of whom have higher abortion rates. Canada too. And Australia. So your accusation that Israel sells Palestinian organs doesn't hold water, it's a Jewhater canard. Muslims and others
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No, some of the contributors at those sites are Syrian Christians. Why?
Some people swallow anything.
Back in 2007-2009, I did a lot of work in the northern NJ/NYC area and based myself out of a hotel in Piscataway, NJ, right to the north of New Brunswick/Rutgers. There was a Wal-Mart near the hotel where I’d get most of my necessities and even then I was stunned at the sea of hijabs be and burkhas I’d see every time I went in there. To my dismay, many of them were worn by obviously American, college aged females.
Did those American college age females in burkas know how muslims treat women?
That was 10 years ago. I’m sure they do by now.
On a minor, I was referring to Israel, not Jews. And the Syrian in question may well be anti-Israel, but as Arabs are Semitic, I don't know if his claims, true or otherwise, would quite qualify as anti-Semitic. Frankly, the term is tossed around far too lightly theae days.
It is not pretty a freeper would spread Muslim lies.
Israeli site
https://www.haaretz.com/israelis-exposed-in-organ-trafficking-1.5259773
Israeli site
New Zealand site
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10637024
Sadly, as a form of Stockholm syndrome, a lot of the local Nazarene groups are even crazier than the Muslims under whose foot they live.
Think Sirhan Sirhan, for example.
This has changed a fair amount in the last decade as they figure out Jews are good neighbors.
Sorry, the meaning of your post is clear, there might be a kernel of truth that Israel traffics childrens organs. And I've no doubt you know the history of the blood libel. Tying it to abortion, nice try. But per your post, is Israel is trafficking organs so is the US and most of the western world. An absurd claim, both as the the US, Europe and Israel.
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