Former United States president Bill Clinton came under fire from Russian-born Israeli politicians on Wednesday, a day after he told the media that the Russian immigrant population in Israel is an obstacle to peace with Palestinians.
"An increasing number of the young people in the IDF [Israel Occupation Forces] are the children of Russians and settlers, the hardest-core people against a division of the land. This presents a staggering problem," Clinton told a round table with press in New York. "It's a different Israel. Sixteen percent of Israelis speak Russian." ---------Russian-born Israeli fascists are more so than the US-born ones? News to me..
<span>"Russian-born Israeli fascists are more so than the US-born ones? News to me.."</span>
ReplyDelete<span>I was thinking the same. Maybe Clinton wanted to make a contribution to the discussion without alienating all those super-rich right-wing zionists in the US.</span>
That's pretty funny that Clinton said that-his administration gave billions to Israel over eight years. And that windfull has emboldened Israel to act slightly aggresive. Israel has been around for over sixty years, and during the whole time it has been disenfranchising the native population and encroaching on its neighbors' territory. The Russian immigrant thing came about more recently. There won't be peace in the Mideast until the root of the problem is addressed-that Zionism is a cruel and unfair system. Whether it is promoted by Russians, Americans, or Jewish Arabs is immaterial.
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<pre>ADC Calls on Harvard University to Rescind Decision to Honor Peretz
ReplyDeleteWashington, DC | www.adc.org | September 24, 2010 -- The American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is dismayed that Harvard University
is proceeding with its decision to honor Martin Peretz by creating a
research fund in his name despite his long public record of racism. In
addition, Harvard has chosen to include Mr. Peretz as part of the
program for its 50th anniversary celebration of the Social Studies
Program, on Saturday, September 25th, bestowing an additional honor on
Mr. Peretz for that occasion. ADC joins the many faculty, students,
alumni, staff and other members of the Harvard Community that have
opposed extending these honors to Mr. Peretz and have requested that
these decisions be rescinded.
ADC notes that in a previous instance, Harvard University reportedly
undertook an investigation of allegations of bias against Shaykh Zayed
al-Nahyan of the UAE when he made a substantial donation in 2003. That
investigation resulted in the termination of the donation in question
in 2004. At that time, the Harvard Crimson argued that "no
donation is worth indebting the university to practitioners of hate and
bigotry." ADC concurs with this view and calls on Harvard to
remain consistent to its own prior record by declining donations
connected to bigotry, including any donation creating a fund to be
named for Mr. Peretz. Mr. Peretz's recent public comments that
Muslim-Americans are not "worthy" of First Amendment rights
and alleging that all Muslims are complicit in "the routine and
random bloodshed that defines their brotherhood" are deeply
offensive and not worthy of being honored. These comments are also
consistent with Mr. Peretz's 25-year record of bigoted statements
against minority communities in the United States, including
African-Americans, Latinos, Arabs and Muslims. This record has been
amply documented in recent media coverage and in the open letters
addressed by concerned Harvard students and alumni to university
officials. Mr. Peretz's recent effort at a public apology for his
comments concerning free speech rights of Muslims only underscores his
inability to rise above his own legacy of bigotry. After his original
comments were exposed and denounced in the pages of the New York Times
and elsewhere, he retracted his statement on the First Amendment while
adding insult to injury by reiterating his view that "Muslim life
is cheap." Indeed, he went on to affirm that his observation about
the cheapness of Muslim life was "a statement of fact, not
value."
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ADC Calls on Harvard University to Rescind Decision to Honor Peretz Washington, DC | www.adc.org | September 24, 2010 -- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is dismayed that Harvard University is proceeding with its decision to honor Martin Peretz by creating a research fund in his name despite his long public record of racism. In addition, Harvard has chosen to include Mr. Peretz as part of the program for its 50th anniversary celebration of the Social Studies Program, on Saturday, September 25th, bestowing an additional honor on Mr. Peretz for that occasion. ADC joins the many faculty, students, alumni, staff and other members of the Harvard Community that have opposed extending these honors to Mr. Peretz and have requested that these decisions be rescinded. ADC notes that in a previous instance, Harvard University reportedly undertook an investigation of allegations of bias against Shaykh Zayed al-Nahyan of the UAE when he made a substantial donation in 2003. That investigation resulted in the termination of the donation in question in 2004. At that time, the Harvard Crimson argued that "no donation is worth indebting the university to practitioners of hate and bigotry." ADC concurs with this view and calls on Harvard to remain consistent to its own prior record by declining donations connected to bigotry, including any donation creating a fund to be named for Mr. Peretz. Mr. Peretz's recent public comments that Muslim-Americans are not "worthy" of First Amendment rights and alleging that all Muslims are complicit in "the routine and random bloodshed that defines their brotherhood" are deeply offensive and not worthy of being honored. These comments are also consistent with Mr. Peretz's 25-year record of bigoted statements against minority communities in the United States, including African-Americans, Latinos, Arabs and Muslims. This record has been amply documented in recent media coverage and in the open letters addressed by concerned Harvard students and alumni to university officials. Mr. Peretz's recent effort at a public apology for his comments concerning free speech rights of Muslims only underscores his inability to rise above his own legacy of bigotry. After his original comments were exposed and denounced in the pages of the New York Times and elsewhere, he retracted his statement on the First Amendment while adding insult to injury by reiterating his view that "Muslim life is cheap." Indeed, he went on to affirm that his observation about the cheapness of Muslim life was "a statement of fact, not value."
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ReplyDeleteADC strongly affirms Mr. Peretz's First Amendment rights, including his right to make bigoted or racist statements. However, neither principles of free speech nor a commitment to academic freedom require a university to bestow honors on an individual who, like Mr. Peretz, has repeatedly made racist statements, deeply offensive to communities worldwide and specifically offensive to members of the university community itself. ADC calls on Harvard University to rescind its decisions both to honor Mr. Peretz as part of Saturday's anniversary celebration and to create a research fund in his name.
What percent of Israelis speak American English? With a Brooklyn accent? Just sayin!
ReplyDeleteSeems like 90% of those interviewed on British TV.
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