Thursday, January 28, 2010
Well, Judge Goldstone made his appearance at Yale yesterday (previous: Welcoming Goldstone to Yale), and it sounds like he got a reception far different than he expected (or you or I would expect, much to our pleasant, and his unpleasant, surprise). In fact, I heard that his presentation was short and unimpressive, that almost every questioner was either skeptical or downright hostile, that he was even confronted repeatedly at the reception and had to beat a hasty and premature exit from the premises. So, good news from the campus for once.
Richard Landes was there and has a great write-up: The Coke-Lite of International Law: Goldstone Speaks at Yale
Update: Here's a video from a Yale Rabbi:
[h/t: Noah Pollak]
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Who the heck is "BBS News?" I noticed many comments by him/her/them in the linked article.
Most of the comments didn't really answer any questions but merely asserted that, for example, pointing out the content of the Hamas Charter constitutes "hasbara".
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Comments at the Yale paper? Looks like some anti-Israel troll. I've seen the handle before.
BBS hangs out quite a bit @ Pajamas attacking the likes of Ledeen and anybody who has a neutral word to say about the Zionists.
BBSnews is affiliated with the Sea Shepherd Society, I believe.
He and I tangled on the webpage of the Watertown Tab.
Claims to be native American.
Ah - thanks - that rings a bell now - something about being Cherokee?
Interesting - I wonder what about "indigenous people" doesn't apply to Jews in the Middle East?
"I wonder what about "indigenous people" doesn't apply to Jews in the Middle East?"
The following is a cut&paste from a comment on The New Republic by poster called roidibouloi:
"A tiny shard of a vast Arab colonial empire, that was re-recreated for them by the Western powers following World War I, was reserved for its aboriginal inhabitants, the Jews (such people as the Caananites who proceeded them being lost to history). The Arabs at the time had no interest in a Palestinian state. There were already 20 odd Arab states. None of them objected when the Arab partition was taken over, annexed, by Egypt and Jordan following Israel's War of Independence. All the rage was directed at the possibility that in some tiny corner of the Arab world, encompassing millions of square miles, the Jews might be the governing majority. Just how offensive would it to your morality if some piece of the United States were made an independent homeland for Native Americans? How offensive to your morality would it be if some piece of Canada were made an independent homeland for the Inuit or of Australia for its Aborgines? How offensive to your morality is the independence of Kosovo, or Croatia, or Bosnia?"
Wafa Sultan once in a confrontation with some cleric on Al-jazeera asked: "Can you as a Muslim deny the massacre of the Jews of the Bani Qureyza tribe, by Muhammad and his followers?"
She meant, I think, to remind him that if the massacre of Jews is recorded in the Quran then it means that there were Jewish communities in the middle East long before Muhammad. Why then do Arabs and Muslims insist on spreading the myth that there was no Jewish history in the Middle East?