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Editorial ArticleUSC – Yigal Arens (Dept of Computer Sciences) – the Al Awda Jew of the Jihad
Yigal Arens is a self-proclaimed Marxist (a bit
strange since Marxism is about as opposed to pacifism and
non-violence as anything you can find on the planet). And just as
the most radical leftists in Israel do, he joins in cheering the
worst Arab irredentist groups, like Al Awda, the Palestine Right of
Return Coalition, whose clear cut goal is not only the complete
destruction of a Jewish state, but the annihilation of the Jews.
Daddy's Little Demon – Yigal Arens (computer sciences, University of Southern Califronia) wants the Jews thrown into the sea cause that will really upset his daddy!
By Lee Kaplan,
www.Isracampus.org.il
"What's done was well done. Thou canst never shake "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"—William Shakespeare Many an Israeli lives in America and still helps Israel. When war breaks out, many go back at a risk of their lives. But there are some genuine ex-Israeli haters of Israel out there, like the director of the Information Sciences Institute's Intelligent Systems Division at the University of Southern California. His name is Yigal Arens. Sigmund Freud could write an encyclopedia about him. He wants to see Israel destroyed because it will really upset his daddy. Yigal Aren's father is Moshe Arens, who has spent his life serving the Jewish people, first fighting alongside the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish state, then as Ambassador to the United States and finally as Israel's Defense Minister. When it came time for Yigal Arens to do mandatory service in the IDF, he fled the country and took up residence in the United States. Some have accused him of cowardice and others have attributed his activities to an infantile passion for "dissing his daddy." Yigal claims he abandoned Israel because he is a "pacifist." But for him, it becomes clear that "pacifist" is a description of war against Israel. Ironically, it's precisely because he is Moshe Arens' son, and of Jewish descent, that he has gained a bit of notoriety. Yigal Arens is a self-proclaimed Marxist (a bit strange since Marxism is about as opposed to pacifism and non-violence as anything you can find on the planet). And just as the most radical leftists in Israel do, he joins in cheering the worst Arab irredentist groups, like Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition, whose clear cut goal is not only the complete destruction of a Jewish state, but the annihilation of the Jews. I myself have gone undercover at Al Awda conferences. The last one down in San Diego found one of Al Awda's founders, Zahi Damuni, refusing even to answer an Arab student's question about what the Palestinians would do with the Jews whose houses they would ultimately "take back." The missing answer of course is they would kill them or deport them. Al Awda doesn't work for any "two state solution." It considers all of Israel inside the 1967 Green Line borders as "occupied." That is its concept of "Palestinian rights." Despite this, Arens signed an Al Awda petition on a communist website. It reads in part: Tremendous pressure is being put on the Palestine Authority to deny the legal and moral rights of the expelled Palestinian refugees. Nearly 200 Jews have signed a statement in favor of the Right of Return. (names listed below) In a few days I'll be sending those names to every major paper in the U.S. and Israel as a small form of countervailing pressure. If you haven't already joined in the statement please read on. Research has shown that the return of refugees and the compensation of others who choose not to return is well within the means of Israel and its international backers in addition to being morally and legally right. It would be incredibly helpful if Jews were identified with the cause of the refugees. Beside the right of return there are other refugee rights, too. Refugees should be able to work in the countries in which they live in and should enjoy the full range of political rights wherever they reside. For more information about the Right of Return movement click on: www.al-awda.org Al Awda is such a virulently anti-Semitic organization that it is part of the Radio Islam website, which runs titles such as "The Blood Orgy of the Jewish Devils" and "Satan's Jewish Soldiers preparing for their crimes." That site still promotes the Mohammed Al-Dura hoax in which a fake killing of an Arab child in Gaza was staged by a French TV crew. Al Awda activities are sometimes held in cooperation with the U.S. Nazi Party website, or at least it was until I divulged this in an earlier article. Arens often speaks at Al Awda conferences as the faithful Jew of the Jihad, who will help protect the organizers from charges of anti-Semitism. After all, he is not only a Jew, but the son of Israel's former Defense Minister! He spoke in Long Beach, California in 2001 at an Al Awda Conference that was also sponsored by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a group linked to the communist PFLP terrorist group and that is a Hamas support group that promotes the boycotting of Israel. Arens was the token Jew invited to deflect criticism of Arab anti-Semitism. He spent the day comparing Israel, the only state in the Middle East that does not practice apartheid, with South Africa in the 1980's. Arens tried to distort a comment by Raphael Eitan to prove Israel seeks to oppress the Arabs. He also lied by implying that Israel is an apartheid state run by a minority of Jews persecuting an Arab majority. Aside from the fact Israel is the only state in the region that does not practice apartheid, he ignored the fact that Israel's Jews are in fact a four- fifths majority. In 2005, Arens supported the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. He spoke in favor of divestment from Israel and denounced supposed "spying" by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee against the United States. Here's a typical Arens rant: "I surely live a sheltered life in the halls of academe and in a middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles, but the dividing line I see among people and their views of Israel is as I just described it.' 'Most people are simply afraid to talk about the Middle East with anyone they think is inclined to support Israel (say, because they're Jewish). But once they discover that they are dealing with a critic of Israeli policy their relief is palpable, and they burst forth with complaints about how ridiculous Israeli actions and US support for them are. And then there's the minority of those who support Israeli actions, people who are typically complete fanatics. 'No doubt, in some places the fanatics are the majority. Perhaps that's the case in the Bible Belt. But in the circles where I travel, they're a small minority. So depending on where the fanatics are, I believe Israel's support in the US is quite unstable. If a situation arises that will make that large group of frightened critical folks confident enough to open their mouth, Israel may find itself in lots of trouble very quickly, fueled also by a building resentment of the state of fear the critics find themselves in now. 'To use the already forgotten favorite cliché of supporters of the war in Iraq only a few weeks ago, such potential "tipping points" are not beyond the realm of imagination. A spread of the currently weak religious divestment campaign to universities. Clear proof of AIPAC spying for Israel. Maybe some crazy thing right-wing Israeli fanatics will do. Maybe a collapse of Bush's policy in Iraq, or a new US president with different ideas about what to do in the Middle East. Maybe something else, who knows?
'Ever the optimist," Yes, the spoiled scion of Moshe Arens in his cushy Los Angeles home is "ever optimistic" that the Palestinians will some day toss the Jews into the sea. But poor little Yigal - he lacks the courage of his conviction and prefers the yuppie LA style to going to live among his beloved Palestinians. They may not turn out to be all so pacifistic! But, wait! There's so much more. Yigal wrote an article wherein he whined he was cut out of an Israeli academic conference that dealt with government communications to fight terrorism. Arens sometimes says he is opposed to boycotts, but always lends his supports to groups like Al Awda whose co-founders, Jess Ghannam, Zahi Damuni, and Mazen Qumsiyeh, started the boycott and lead it to this day. Here are some more Arens comments from that event: "Unrelated to my professional life, but relevant to this story, is that for many years I have been an outspoken critic of Zionism in general and Israeli policies in particular, including the occupation of the Palestinian territories and the treatment of Palestinians there and in Israel itself. I hold these views despite the fact I grew up in Israel—or perhaps because of it." When he was "disinvited" to attend a conference in Israel; because of his participation in economic warfare against Israel, he whined about his rejection: "I was pretty amazed by this whole thing. NOT so much by the fact that Israeli government personnel would not want me to be present at a terrorism-related meeting. Not even so much by the fact that an Israeli researcher would accept government influence on academics. But by the fact they would be so brazen as to state precisely what their reasoning was to an American outsider at a time when a boycott of Israeli academics was being fought, and that the American professor would go along with it!" Arens also has made donations to virulently anti-Semitic groups such as MoveOn.org. He whined loudly when he learned his name was in files kept by the ADL of anti-Semitic organizations, braying that "The ADL believes that anyone who is an Arab-American or who speaks politically against Israel is at least a closet anti-Semite."(See also, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, (06/93), which promotes him. WRMEA is a Saudi-funded anti-Israel rag. Ah the scion of the great hero, Moshe Arens, can always find solace with other Jews who will gladly lend their names to the academic and political movements of Jew-killers. After all, what fun to annoy Daddy! ======================================== Op-Ed articles appearing on IsraCampus.Org.il are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the opinion of IsraCampus.Org.il
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