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Other SchoolsTel Aviv-Jaffa College - Ofer Cassif (Dept of Political Science) is Ultra-Sensitive to a Politically Incorrect StatementBut is OK with Stalin the Mass Murderer
The professorial chat lists have been filled with hand-wring by
eye-rolling leftists expressing their horror at the comments
by Hetsroni, whose
freedom of speech was in their opinion forfeited the
moment he dared utter a politically incorrect sentiment. But
the irony is that the
campaign against Hetsroni on these chat lists was
launched and led by one Ofer Cassif, who teaches political
science at a minor
community college in Israel. Cassif, it turns out, is a
member of the central committee of the Stalinist Israeli
Communist Party. See So the same guy leading the charge against the Ariel professor who dared in an insensitive manner to dismiss Silman as a "parasite" is also a leader of the party that celebrates and defends the mass murders by fellow communists of tens of millions of people as parasites. So his ultra-sensitivity about the word and the concept appears to be a bit selective, would you not say, Comradeski?
http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2012/07/fireflies-and-mousketeers.html Fireflies and Mousketeers
posted by Steven Plaut 1. Fireflies The Caring Classes in Israel, including much of the leftist media, are suddenly all aghast because of the attempted suicide by a leftist "social justice" protester. The "protester," one Moshe Silnan, attempted to commit Oslo by lighting himself on fire. It is of course possible that Silman was mentally ill, in which case his failed attempt at suicide (which left him badly injured) is indeed a tragedy. It is also possible that he is an attention junkie.
He was active in radical leftist groups, including those engaged
in protest over "social justice." His personal grievances
seem to be over the
refusal of
Israel's
National Insurance Institute (similar to
Social Security, but also in charge of welfare payments) to
keep him on the dole. The
guy in fact owed back money to the Institute. He is
57, and I say this as someone older than him - that there is
no visible indication
that he could not seek a job. And trust me when I
say that he is healthier than I am physically (I do not know
about mentally). He
claimed he was trying to commit suicide because he was
angry at the state of
Israel
and its Prime Minister. See Silman instantly became the poster boy for the leftist "social justice" protesters. You see, they bleat in unison, Israel is so unjust and so anti-egalitarian that inequality is driving people to SUICIDE! Never mind that the suicide rates in those lovely egalitarian Scandinavian countries are much, much higher than those in Israel and much higher than those in the worst most inequitable capitalist societies! Copycats began to show up hours after the Silman story. A welfare recipient in Beer Sheba came to the City Hall this week and also threatened to set himself on fire. He failed to deliver on the threat. A Russian 36 year old committed suicide recently by hanging himself. The Left (and Haaretz) decided that he must have also been upset over inequality. Meanwhile, the tenured Left got REALLY REALLY upset when it turned out that a professor at Ariel College commented on his Facebook page about Silman and referred to him as a parasite. Amir Hetsroni teaches communications there. The leftists grasped onto the "incident" in part because the government is debating this week whether to upgrade Ariel College to full university status. The tenured Left is leading the jihad to prevent that from happening, because the upgrade would eat into the loot divvied out to the OTHER universities and of course because they disapprove of the fact that Ariel is located on the correct side of the old Green Line. Never mind that Ariel is a more serious academic institution than Ben Gurion University and never mind that lots and lots of Ariel students are in fact West Bank Arab "Palestinians."
The professorial chat lists have been filled with hand-wring by
eye-rolling leftists expressing their horror at the comments
by Hetsroni, whose
freedom of speech was in their opinion forfeited the
moment he dared utter a politically incorrect sentiment. But
the irony is that the
campaign against Hetsroni on these chat lists was
launched and led by one Ofer Cassif, who teaches political
science at a minor
community college in Israel. Cassif, it turns out, is a
member of the central committee of the Stalinist Israeli
Communist Party. See So the same guy leading the charge against the Ariel professor who dared in an insensitive manner to dismiss Silman as a "parasite" is also a leader of the party that celebrates and defends the mass murders by fellow communists of tens of millions of people as parasites. So his ultra-sensitivity about the word and the concept appears to be a bit selective, would you not say, Comradeski? 2. Minnie Mouse, better known as Abigail Disney, is the daughter of Walt and she is the bimbo mogulette scioness mouseketeer of the Disney fortune and dynasty. She is upset with the Israeli cosmetics firm Ahava (whose name means LOVE) and is boycotting it. She owns some stock in the company and says she is so upset that the company harvests minerals from the "Palestinian" Dead Sea that she will be donating all her stock dividends from her investments in AHAVA to those who are protesting this "injustice" and "exploitation." I suppose by that she means the Hamas terrorists. She says she is horrified by "occupation," but not enough to turn the territories she owns in Anaheim and Orlando over to any Indian tribes. She wants a Palestinian state? Let her wait for it in the endless queue to ride Thunder Mountain, from which few ever return in tact. ======================================== 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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