Comments on: ‘Islamophobic’ Talk Cancelled

By: Antone Berman

Antone Berman — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:00:58 +0000

Incredibly great read! Honest..

By: Who is fanning the flames of this campus conflagration? | Azzam Tamimi « International Globe

Tue, 04 May 2010 11:37:12 +0000

[...] Today, the war on campus is raging more fiercely than ever. There is no debate or discussion among Muslim and Jewish students, but campaigns to bar and tarnish and to demonise and deny. I’ve repeatedly told my fellow Muslim students that I was opposed to any such campaigns and I made this position clear to them after Benny Morris was recently denied a platform at Cambridge University. [...]

By: Jaffer

Jaffer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:54:50 +0000

I think everything would take care of itself if the topic was "Why I believe in ethnic cleansing" and have Benny speak about justifying this…and then follow it up with a real intellectual who would counter the vile, racist proposition. Morris' journey to fascism needs to be exposed…and I would have preferred to limit him to a topic that actually reveals his racism…

By: zachary esterson

zachary esterson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:52:56 +0000

I think Ben White, who also led this campaign, has been pretty discriminatory in his rendering of Palestinian, Israeli and other Jewish history, distorting and misrepresenting Jewish nationalism and Zionism for his own polemical political purposes; and that his profession to accord with some kind of absolute, Christian justice is belied by the manifestly unjust way in which he portrays Palestinian and Israeli Jews, erasing or omitting equivalent Palestinian Muslim and Christian threats and atrocities from the historical history.

Laughably, whereas he portrays Zionism and Jewish nationalism in Palestine and Israel as characterically racist, he literally says that only a few 'individual' Palestinian Muslims and Christians have ever been racist or prejudiced.

This in a book in whose historical narrative no Palestinian Muslim or Christian, let alone leader, is named; let alone the first leader of the Palestinian Muslim and Christian national movement, Haj Amin Al Husseini.

Al Husseini, who promulgatied elimination of European and Arab, as well as Palestinian, Jews; who was Hitler's guest in Berlin, from 1941-45; who in 1946 insisted that Jews number no more than 1/7 of the population of Palestine.

I suppose this was one of the few 'individual' Palestinians to whom White alludes.

Routinely White has misrepresented the origins of Zionism, rooted in Jews' being regarded as dispossessed 'Palestinians' for most of Christian and Islamic history, a serious omission by a professed devout Christian.

I think such discrimination constitutes a kind of racism against Israeli Jews, a misrepresentation intended to redound to their hurt.

While he adduces every instance of notion or threat of transfer or dispossession in Jewish nationalist discourse he can, evangelical Anglican Christian Ben White subjects Palestinian Muslim and Christian national and nationalist discourse to no such rigour or investigation.

That is, as I said, manifestly unjust, and tantamount, I think, to a kind of racist discrimination.

By: zachary esterson

zachary esterson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:51:05 +0000

The campaign's success has led to Morris' being invited to speak at a bigger venue at CU, tomorrow, at Cambridge’s Department of Political and International Studies.

You can ask him about his racism there.

By: Stifler

Stifler — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:04:41 +0000

Shame on you, on the student union and university. Challenge him, contest him, probe him and have a debate. Cambridge students seem to be frightened of this.
How does the university justify giving a platform next week to Daud Abdullah, a Hamas supporter who the government has banned after he called for attacks on the Royal Navy!!

By: JamieSW

JamieSW — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:16:06 +0000

"Note Jamie's words: "to be able". Don't expect a university society "to be able" to invite a "racist" without provoking any opposition, i.e. barring him from talking"

The words you should be highlighting is "without provoking any opposition".

By: cheeky booayy!

cheeky booayy! — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:15:45 +0000

Why don't we put you all in 'a cage,' together… and then tab tv can film why you rip each other's throats out!

By: khadurri

khadurri — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:34:19 +0000

Note Jamie's words: "to be able". Don't expect a university society "to be able" to invite a "racist" without provoking any opposition, i.e. barring him from talking. The day that each mosque and Islamic Society in the UK bars speakers claiming that Jews are the sons of pigs and monkeys (as, funny enough, in the hadith) and that Muslims will forever be at war with Jews (funny that, in the Qur'an and replete throughout the entire trajectory of Islamic tradition) then I think it might be fair to bar someone who holds views on the surface comparable but in fact no where close. Islam is not a race for a start and comments on Arab culture must what – be policed for their "niceness"? A farce and a blow to the discussion of such matters. If you and your Muslim friends have confidence in your views there was your chance to debate. Gone.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:01:16 +0000

Ben the simple point is there is nothing to attack about the "Jewish mentality"… unless you have a problem with the old Jewish maxim of 'love thy neighbour'