University of Haifa
Taking the "academic" Jihad to Harvard:
Dalit Baum (University of Haifa) and Ilan Pappe (University of
Exeter) are Slated to Participate in Rwandan-Style "One State
Solution" Conference
Harvard
University
is going to be hosting a
conference entitled "One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the
One State
Solution," scheduled to take place
March 3-4.
…
Speakers include, Ali Abunimah, the
Executive
Director of the Electronic Intifada; Dalit Baum, of the
BDS organization Coalition of Women for
Peace; Ilan Pappe, radical left Israeli academic and fervent
supporter of the BDS movement; Marc Ellis, Director of the Center
for Jewish Studies at Baylor
University, who compares Zionism to colonialism and Israel's
treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi treatment of Jews; as well
as a number of other academics and scholars who advocate similar
beliefs.
"Most of the speakers are heavily
involved in anti-Israel advocacy. The
conference program
features an activist workshop, in contrast to an academic or
research framework in which different perspectives are presented…
Such events represent the antithesis of constructive academic
dialogue and peaceful coexistence," the NGO Monitor claimed.
"Those who promote a one-state
'solution' advocate creating an entity which would, through its
merger with the Palestinian Arab population of the West Bank and
Gaza and an influx of Palestinians from neighboring states, lose its Jewish
majority and its Jewish character. In effect, Jewish
self-determination would be nullified," the Committee for Accuracy
in Middle East
Reporting in America (CAMERA) reported. The forum is clearly
focused, therefore, on "dismantling the
Jewish
State of Israel."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/152908
Harvard to Host
Conference of Hate
Harvard University to host
conference based on a "one state solution," calling for dismantling
the Jewish state of Israel.
By Rachel Hirshfeld
First Publish: 19/2/2012
Harvard
University
is going to be hosting a
conference entitled "One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the
One State
Solution," scheduled to take place
March 3-4.
According to the "Vision and Goals" of
the conference, as outlined by its website:
"To date, the only Israel/Palestine
solution that has
received a fair rehearsal in mainstream forums has been the
two-state solution. Our
conference will help to expand the range of academic debate on this
issue. Thus, our main goal is to educate ourselves and others about
the possible contours of a one-state
solution and the
challenges that stand in the way of its realization."
The conference was organized by a
number of student groups including, Students for Justice in
Palestine, the Palestine Caucus, the Arab Caucus, the Progressive
Caucus, and the Association for Justice in the
Middle East, all of which
perpetrate an ideology based on the belief that Israel is an
"apartheid state," responsible for the "ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinian population."
Speakers include, Ali Abunimah, the
Executive
Director of the Electronic Intifada; Dalit Baum, of the
BDS organization Coalition of Women for
Peace; Ilan Pappe, radical left Israeli academic and fervent
supporter of the BDS movement; Marc Ellis, Director of the Center
for Jewish Studies at Baylor
University, who compares Zionism to colonialism and Israel's
treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi treatment of Jews; as well
as a number of other academics and scholars who advocate similar
beliefs.
"Most of the speakers are heavily
involved in anti-Israel advocacy. The
conference program
features an activist workshop, in contrast to an academic or
research framework in which different perspectives are presented…
Such events represent the antithesis of constructive academic
dialogue and peaceful coexistence," the NGO Monitor claimed.
"Those who promote a one-state
'solution' advocate creating an entity which would, through its
merger with the Palestinian Arab population of the West Bank and
Gaza and an influx of Palestinians from neighboring states, lose its Jewish
majority and its Jewish character. In effect, Jewish
self-determination would be nullified," the Committee for Accuracy
in Middle East
Reporting in America (CAMERA) reported. The forum is clearly
focused, therefore, on "dismantling the
Jewish
State of Israel."
"According to the working definition of
anti-Semitism developed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental
Rights (FRA), and recognized by the
United States Department of State, the One State Conference, in
implicitly 'denying the Jewish people their right to
self-determination,' is an exercise in anti-Semitism," CAMERA
explained.
In a conversation recorded on February
9, 2012 at Imperial College in London, Norman Finkelstein, who
describes himself as having devoted his life to the "Palestinian
cause" told his interviewer, "You know and I know exactly what we're
talking about because if we end the occupation, and we bring back 6
million Palestinians, and we have equal rights for Arabs and Jews,
there's no Israel. That's what it's really about."
Israel was declared a state on May 14,
1948 and is a full fledged member of the United Nations. Its
Declaration of Independence clearly states: "On the 29th
November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a
resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel;
the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to
take such steps as were necessary on their part for the
implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United
Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State
is irrevocable. This right is the natural right of the Jewish people
to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their
own sovereign State."
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