Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Richard Miniter takes on the case of Joseph Massad in the pages of the New York Post: Hatemonger U? Columbia May Tenure Extremist
...COLUMBIA University is about to give tenure to an anti-Israel ex tremist. Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics, has a history of shouting down his students. He compares Jews to Nazis and bizarrely accuses Israel of "anti-Semitism" for its treatment of the Palestinians. (Massad is a Palestinian.) In a course description, he describes his class on Israeli-Arab relations as "not balanced."...
...To students, Massad often seems less like a scholar than a prosecutor presenting his case. Three students recently came forward to say that Massad "repeatedly likened Israel to apartheid South Africa, dismissed its legitimacy as a Jewish state and almost never addressed human-rights abuses in countries such as Iraq, Iran and Syria."...
You may remember those 10 outrageous things Massad has said: The Crackpot Scholarship of Joseph Massad. Anyone got anything new to add to the list?
"Jewish colonists were part of the British colonial death squads that murdered Palestinian revolutionaries between 1936 and 1939"
The legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre
by Joseph Massad
Al-Ahram
February 5, 2003
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1777
"Israel had no choice but to isolate [Arafat] keep him under house arrest, and possibly poison him at the end.
Al Ahram
15 - 21 March 2007
Israel's Right to be Racist
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/836/op1.htm
"It is the very discourse of the Gay International which produces homosexuals, as well as gays and lesbians, where they do not exist"
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_30-2007_10_06.shtml#1191124928
"Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World," Volume 14, issue 2 of the journal Public Culture
It is Gay International, not nature that has produced gay men in the Arab world, where none existed before the concept of "gay" was introduced by Western inperialists.
“It is the very discourse of the Gay International which produces homosexuals, as well as gays and lesbians, where they do not exist” (pp. 162-3).
Desiring Arabs, by Joseph Massad
"the Palestine Liberation Organisation and most Palestinian intellectuals have spoken and written since the 1960s of their solidarity with Jewish holocaust victims and have attacked those who deny it took place. Unlike the official and unofficial Israeli denial of the expulsion of the Palestinians and the numbers of the refugees, those who deny the holocaust among Palestinians have no position whatsoever inside the PLO nor any legitimacy among the Palestinian intelligentsia."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/op63.htm
Joseph Massas
Al Ahram
9 - 15 December 2004
Issue No. 720
Semites and Anti-Semites
"searching" women "with the penises of US soldiers"
"During the US invasion of Vietnam, the atrocities committed against the Vietnamese... there were also important torture mechanisms that the US military reserved... for female "Viet Cong" fighters. Their torture included rape, otherwise known as "searching" them with the penises of US soldiers, as they could be hiding weapons inside their sexual organs."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/691/op2.htm
Imperial Momentos
20 - 26 May 2004
Issue No. 691
"Iraqis are posited by American super- masculine fighter-bomber pilots as women and feminised men to be penetrated by the missiles and bombs ejected from American warplanes. By feminising the enemy as the object of penetration (real and imagined), American imperial military culture supermasculinises not only its own male soldiers, but also its female soldiers who can partake in the feminisation of Iraqi men."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/691/op2.htm
Imperial Momentos
20 - 26 May 2004
Issue No. 691
Brits sodomizing Iraqi prisoners - but only "white" Brits, also, "white" American GI's
"It is in this context that both male and female white American (and British) soldiers can participate in sodomising Iraqi soldiers with chemical lights, beat them, urinate on them, force them to perform homosexual acts (while hurling racial and sexual epithets at them), unleash dogs on them, and kill them. It is also this context that has permitted the torture and actual rape of Iraqi women prisoners."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/691/op2.htm
Imperial Momentos
20 - 26 May 2004
Issue No. 691
" 'The types of torture employed are varied. They include beatings with fists and [stomping] with boots..., as well as using canes for beating and flogging to death. They also included... the penetration of the rectums of the victims with canes, and then moving the cane left and right, and to the front and back. They also included pressing on the testicles with the hands and squeezing them until the victim loses consciousness from the pain and until they [the testicles] get so swollen that the victim would not be able to walk or move except by carrying his legs one at a time... They also included the starving of dogs and then provoking them and pushing them to devour his flesh and to eat off his thighs. It also included urinating on the faces of victims... [Another form of torture included the soldiers'] sodomising them, as it seems that this was done to a number of people.'
"This report, which describes in almost identical terms what the Iraqi prisoners experienced, was actually written in August 1938 describing how British and Zionist Jewish soldiers treated revolutionary Palestinians during the Palestinian anti-Colonial Revolt. The author of the report, Subhi Al-Khadra, was a Palestinian political prisoner detained in the Acre prison. He came to know of the torture of these prisoners, which had taken place in Jerusalem, because the prisoners were relocated later to his prison in Acre, and told him of their experiences and showed him the physical signs of torture on their bodies."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/691/op2.htm
Imperial Momentos
20 - 26 May 2004
Issue No. 691