Yes, Virginia, there's a lid for every pot. Hatem Bazian-Cynthia McKinney
Last Thursday, UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian and Cynthia McKinney spoke before a packed hall of about 40 students.....
..... from the Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Student Association as part of the week-long festival of hate against Israel at UC San Diego. No, I wasn't there, but people I know were, and they took copious notes.
According to my reports, Bazian was his usual complaining and boring self while McKinney gave one for the ages. It will be forever known as the Cynthia McKinney San Diego Address-as opposed to the Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg address. The only similarity was that both consisted of few words, but at least Lincoln's made sense. Already rambling from apples to French fries, about half way through, she completely lost her train of thought and paused repeatedly for painfully long periods at one point trying unsuccessfully to put a film up on the screen as a student had to run up from the audience to help her. I am told it was embarrassing.
But that's nothing new for Cynthia.
Bazian, as usual, whined about the "harassment and discrimination" that pro-Palestinian students face on University of California campuses then went on to complain about US support for Israel.
Here is a summary of McKinney's speech:
"Oh, I'm sorry........"
"What I'm trying to say is that one team shows up on election day. Another team shows up and the other team wins......Uhh....
....."try to talk about the way we organize................." PAUSE
......"What is this? ...Well, where I wanna go is............"(long pause)
"One moment.....Ok, uh.. That's it."
And this woman is a former US Congresswoman and studying for a PhD at Antioch University!!
Kinda makes ya wonder where this woman got elected congresswoman. (Hat tip John Speedie)
To be sure, she made references to AIPAC and that pro-Israel lobby that has such an influence on all political aspects of our lives. She referred to an article by (Jewish Daily) Forward that described how the lobby is able to get Jews elected to Congress. She even quoted that great statesman (and Jew-hater) Gus Savage, who spoke about the influence of the pro-Israel lobby on the House floor back in the early 1990s.
Gus Savage: Sexual predator, corrupt Congressman, race baiter, anti-Semite. And this is who McKinney quotes.
I should also note that McKinney quoted Savage in May 2009 at UC Irvine when I asked her a question about how much the Jews had cost her her last election. She was too stupid not to take the bait.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2009/05/cynthia-mckinney-speaks-at-uc-irvine.html
In addition, McKinney told the "audience" that she had just returned from a 17-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur the night before. She also told of being recently in Capetown, South Africa at the -get this- Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Palestine and being told by "many" South Africans that the apartheid of the former South Africa "paled in comparison to the apartheid in Israel."
http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/sessions/south-africa/south-africa-session-%E2%80%94-full-findings/cape-town-session-summary-of-findings
I note that among the "luminaries" at the above clambake was the crackpot American-born Israeli professor Jeff Halper, who concocted the "spectral dust" story which he related at UC Irvine. (You gotta read this.)
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2011/02/jeff-halper-at-uc-irvine-cont.html
Which begs the question: Who is paying for this dim bulb (McKinney) to travel around the world-or any of them for that matter?
From what I am told, the UCSD week of hate was pretty much like the UCI week of hate. The average turnout was about 30-40 MSA-types, 3-5 pro-Israel types, and 3-5 curious students here and there-probably getting extra credit to attend from their radical professors.
"Ah wunnerful, ah wunnerful, ah."
No wonder they don't want their events videotaped.
Remember that McKinney also seriously alleged that Pres. George W. Bush not only knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance but was actually complicit in them. Yes, she did.
ReplyDeleteA dim bulb indeed. Shows you something about some voters.
It bugs me that this particular lie is so often repeated by the genius students at UCI is "... being recently in Capetown, South Africa at the -get this- Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Palestine and being told by "many" South Africans that the apartheid of the former South Africa "paled in comparison to the apartheid in Israel."
ReplyDeleteIn South Africa the vast majority of the population was black and were exploited by minority of whites. Discrimination was institutionalized.
In contrast, in Israel, there is a 20% minority of non-Jews who have all the rights of citizenship as the majority. In fact, they have more freedom and opportunity than in the surrounding Arab countries. They have political freedom and even Muslim political parties and members of the Knesset. They ONLY discrimination the Muslims have is that they are not inducted into the IDF. They are not obliged to be put in a position of possibly confronting other Muslims in defense of their country. They would not then get veterans benefits because they never served which appears to be the basis of this Apartheid comparison. There are no restrictions for Israeli Arab citizens.
They are not automatically admitted and given citizenship as Jews get. Of course if a Jew expected to immigrate to and get citizenship in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or any other of the scores of Arab / Muslim countries but it is not called oppression or Apartheid.
Have the UCI students no idea of historical facts or circumstances? No critical thinking at all?
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Hate Week at UCSD was definitely toned down this year. I noticed two remarkable things about this year compared to previous years:
ReplyDelete1. SJP's "apartheid wall," while still offensive, was not nearly as offensive as in previous years. Gone were the fabricated Ariel Sharon quotes about how "the Jewish people control America" and the American flag with a Jewish star instead of the 50 stars (an image that's basically borrowed from mid-20th century white supremacist rags). I say the wall is still offensive this year, though, because they still had a few highly objectionable panels, such as one comparing the Palestinian territories to the Warsaw Ghetto and using the rhetorical phrase "Never Again?"
I don't know exactly why it was toned down this year. Did someone in the organization recognize the classic anti-Semitism? Did someone in the administration say something to them? Did they get sick of getting called out for it? Whatever the reason, some progress has been made, and there's still a long way to go.
2. The pro-Israel crowd did a great job fighting back this year--much more than in previous years. The pro-Israel crowd had their own displays up nearby, managing to stay proud and positive.
In fact, I almost (but not quite) felt bad for the SJP crowd, since they clearly put so much effort into their anti-Israel display, and almost nobody seemed to care, and a lot of people got the pro-Israel story 50 yards away.