Saturday, October 7, 2006
Good for the Columbia College Republicans who, fresh off that ugly incident with the Minutemen, are not backing off one bit, but instead have invited Walid Shoebat and friends to speak: Columbia Faces New Challenges By GOP Group
...Next week's event, scheduled for October 11, is expected to draw an even larger crowd, according to a university spokesman, Robert Hornsby. It will feature a former Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist, Walid Shoebat, a former Lebanese terrorist, Zachariah Anani, and a former member of the Hitler youth and Nazi soldier, Hilmar von Campe.
Messrs. Shoebat and Anani, who both committed terrorist attacks against Israel, now say they are ardent supporters of the Jewish state.
Mr. Shoebat runs an eponymous organization, the Walid Shoebat Foundation, which "cries out for the justice of Israel and the Jewish people," according to the group's Web site. Messrs. Shoebat and Anani oppose the creation of a Palestinian state. The foundation's Web site displays gory pictures of Palestinian Arab atrocities and asks, "Is this the justice the Western supporters of a Palestinian State wish for?"...
...Messrs. Shoebat, Anani, and von Campe plan to criticize members of the Columbia faculty who "teach America hatred and pro-extremist messages," Maria Silwa [sic -- Sliwa], the trio's public relations representative, told The New York Sun. Ms. Silwa said Messrs. Shoebat, Anani, and von Campe favor free speech but "worry about the problem of indoctrination."
"When people from right leaning views go onto a campus they often get shut out," Ms. Silwa said...
If you're in New York and can manage to get in, this looks like something not be missed.
Update: Please note: Anyone who wishes to attend who is not a Columbia student needs to email their name to shoebatatcolumbia@gmail.com to be on a special list to attend. Cut off is 5 pm Tuesday evening.
In the above poster picturing 3 men, the man in the middle wearing the nazi helmet looks like the singer Glen Campbell.
Anyhow I love the song "Wichita Lineman".
Bwahaha! I thought he looked familiar!
Is that the Shoebat Foundation's poster or the poster the lefties made about the event?
Btw, I saw 2 Columbia students on Oreilly about the Minutemen incident and the lefty Jewish guy (with a lisp of course) said that this was not indicative of the University and that when Finkelstein spoke they organized a protest to him as well, though peaceful.... blah blah blah....
At least Columbia is allowing Shoebat to speak I guess as their "new found Freedom of Speech" or at least to try and appear "unbiased"... wonder where each respective event was held on campus or if the Shoebat speech will actually be off campus....
Mike