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“There is no way we can avoid the existence of Palestinians. It is of no significance if we accept the political leadership or not. They are a nation with different interests from other Arabs. When I served in Lebanon. I saw Lebanese and Syrian murder Palestinians. We have to face it; Palestinians are not Arabs, as Jews are not Israelis.”

Amor just got two F's in sociology for THAT quote!

Concordia University - Colonist and Refuser Meir Amor (Dept of Sociology) bashes Israel while Occupying Quebec

By Lee Kaplan, www.Isracampus.org.il
30/4/2010

Concordia University has long been in the news as a center for violent anti-Israel agitation and harassment of Jewish students. Concordia faculty and students have repeatedly denied pro-Israel speakers the right to express themselves on campus, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli flags defaced with Nazi swastikas are commonplace at Concordia. Concordia has emerged as one of the worst centers for anti-Semitism in North America. And into this cauldron comes an ex-Israeli faculty member, to help stir the Bash-Israel fires.

According to his bio: Dr. Meir Amor studied in Tel-Aviv University where he completed his BA and MA in sociology. In 1988, as an IDF veteran he refused to serve in the Occupied Territories and was jailed for 21 days in a military prison for disobedience, even becoming one of the better known army resisters for New Profile. He somehow equated what he perceived as “discrimination” against Israel’s Mizrahi community (Jews from Arab lands) with the occupied territories where he refused to serve. He also refused to serve as a guard at Megiddo prison holding Palestinian terrorists (some are under administrative detention). After sitting a mere 21 days in jail for refusing to serve, he began a speaking tour of the US for the radical anti-Israel organization Yesh Gvul. He later decided to become a Canadian citizen, an imperialist interloper colonist occupying Quebec.

Amor has been at Concordia since 2002 and is tenured in Sociology and Anthropology. He holds a Ph.D. (1999) in sociology from the University. His “research” and public talks are largely bashings of Israel for supposedly carrying out ethnic cleansing of Arabs and racist discrimination.

Meir Amor’s real “research agenda” is trashing Israel. He is clearly anti-Israel, another member of the gaggle of Israeli academics who have hitched their wagons and fortunes to blaming Israel for all the problems in the Middle East. But Amor goes well beyond trendy anti-Zionism and signing every anti-Israel petition that comes his way.

Quoting Amor from an article titled I am an Arab Jew:

Amor just got two F's in sociology for THAT quote!

He continues:

“To be an Israeli, you must serve in the Army. To serve in the Army means to fight Arabs. So fighting Arabs means fighting your own identity. We are Jews, not Moslems, but in Morocco my family lived with Arabs for the past 500 years. Part of my culture is Arab. Because in Israel Arabs are defined as the enemy, having a trace of Arab culture means being on the enemy side. It’s contradictory.

‘I am an Arab Jew, I have no complexes about it. Living with Arabs was not paradise but it was a lot better than living with Christians. Therefore we should find a way to talk to Palestinians. This is not romanticism, it is in my family life. We speak Arabic, we eat Arab food. We listen to Arab music.

‘I fully represent the effective integration of Mideastern (Sephardi) Jews in Israeli society. I graduated from high school and university. I served in the Army and became an officer. But now I have these questions, and that’s how I became a refusenik (sic – he means someone who refuses to serve in the army).”

All Amor is missing is a kaffiyah and an explosives belt to prove his devotion to being an Arab. Needless to say, almost no other Sephardic Jews share his passion for morphing into an Arab.

He claims he represents “effective integration of Mideastern (Sephardi) Jews in Israeli society,” but the main form of his "integration" into the Arab Middle East is his joining Israel's enemies in denouncing Israel.

A passage from Amor’s PhD thesis concerning Marx and the Jews is very telling and just as ambiguous:

“Marx argues that religion as the basis for group identification is an obstacle on the way to universal human sociability. Contemptuously judging ethnic religion and nationality (ethnicity), Marx deems Judaism to be a force of the past. All religions are ordained to disappear in the socially humanized world. But Judaism, the religion of self-interest and huckstering, should have disappeared in the politically emancipated world of North America, but it did not. This raises two questions. The first concerns alienation. Can alienation be expressed in other ways than religion?”

Amor was a guest speaker at an event in Toronto titled, “3D: Diversity, Democracy and Dissent in the Jewish Community,” which offered “a chance to hear alternative Jewish voices.” You can translate “alternative Jewish voices” to mean anti-Israel radicals who support Islamofascist and Arab designs against a Jewish state. As one of the organizers described the event, “The teach-in is also an opportunity for activists in the Jewish community to get together and strategize around a number of issues including Israel's continuing occupation of Palestinian lands, disability and access in Jewish life (meaning oppression of women and homosexuals -- ed), and other issues of diversity (sic) in the Jewish community. Workshops and panels include campus activism, morally responsible investment (a.k.a. divestment from Israel), and Israel's separation wall.” The description continued, “Many Jews are concerned about Israeli policies. Anti-occupation Jewish voices often don't make it into the press. Here is a chance to hear those voices."

And specifically Meir Amor’s anti-Israel voice.

When the United States moved to rid the world of Saddam Hussein, who was paying $30,000 a pop for Arabs to blow themselves up on buses in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and was calling for the “ethnic cleansing” of Jews from the Middle East, Amor was gung-ho to sign a petition accusing Israel of planning “crimes against humanity”:

“We, members and friends of Israeli academe, are horrified by US buildup of aggression towards Iraq and by the Israeli political leadership's enthusiastic support for it….” It concluded, “We call upon the International Community to pay close attention to events that unfold within Israel and in the Occupied Territories, to make it absolutely clear that crimes against humanity will not be tolerated, and to take concrete measures to prevent such crimes from taking place.”

In other words, Meir Amor, the expert on “ethnic cleansing” with his anti-Israel Israeli academic buddies created an anti-Semitic blood libel that Israel was going to “ethnically cleanse” itself of Arabs.

Of course, Amor and his co-signers have nothing to say about demands of the Arabs that the “Palestinian zones” in Gaza and the West Bank be Judenrein (Jew-Free). They are only selectively opposed to ethnic cleansing.

Then there’s the Free-Tali-Fahima petition that Amor quickly signed. Tali Fahima is an Israeli Jewish woman who did jail time for aiding her Palestinian terrorist boyfriend plan terrorist attacks against Jews.

According to the petition, Amor “followed closely” Fahima’s case and with his fellow academics, felt that “we strongly believe that the legal grounds for her detention and prosecution are insubstantial and verge on the ridiculous. We believe it is used to deter Israeli and international peace activists who seek direct contacts with Palestinians in grassroots activities.” Amor personally has said, “The rule of law should be applied first and foremost to the institutions and people who administer the law in Israel. Ms. Fahima should be treated as innocent until proven otherwise.” In other words, Israel is a law violator and since Israeli leaders who protect the population are not jailed, Fahima should also not be incarcerated until proven guilty in court. This, despite what she was doing that could be classified as attempted murder and giving her a chance to flee.

But wait, there’s more:

Naturally, Amor wants Israel to be boycotted. He was one of the participants in creating an “Imperial Israel News,” which stated in 2001 at the start of the Second Intifada:

Now, with the new bloodshed, we are renewing the publication of the Israel Imperial News. We confront the Israeli authorities with three basic demands:

1) To end the occupation of Palestine.

2) To evacuate all settlers from their illegal settlements inside Palestine

3) To allow the return of the Palestinian refugees to their or to their ancestors' homes. Until these demands are met, we call for a boycott of Israeli goods, trade and tourism.”

Of course, the right of return in point 3 is the slogan the Arabs use to make sure Israel will be destroyed from within by flooding it with make-pretend “Palestinian refugees.”

Interestingly, on one anti-Israel boycott petition only 35 Israeli scholars signed it, while his name appears first on the list. It included this statement:

“We call on the world community to organize and boycott Israeli industrial and agricultural exports and goods, as well as leisure tourism, in the hope that it will have the same positive result that the boycott of South Africa had on Apartheid.

‘This boycott should remain in force as long as Israel controls any part of the territories it occupied in 1967. Those who squash the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians must be made to feel the consequences of their own bitter medicine.

‘We urge every recipient of this appeal, irrespective of origin and nationality, to:

‘1. Start practicing the boycott on a personal level immediately, and make sure that the steps taken are known in the community (for example: tell your shopkeeper why you will not buy Israeli products; avoid leisure travel to Israel).

‘2. Add your name to the appeal, circulate it to your friends, and do whatever you can to have it endorsed by groups concerned about human rights.

‘3. Organize activities to put pressure on your government to cut economic and commercial ties with Israel and to rescind preferential economic treaties with Israel.”

So there in the Canadian True North, on the lands of dispossessed Indian tribes and Quebec nationalists, sits an ex-Israeli Arab Jew, a-wannabe Canadian sociologist occupier and colonist, who makes a career out of working for the elimination of his native homeland.

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