Monday, December 5, 2005
What a load of you-know-what. The campuses are full of Jew haters and Israel-smashers, and three men willing to step forward and tell it like it is from their own experiences are the ones who get shut out. Disgusting.
From Walid Shoebat's site:
PRINCETON, NJ: In clear violation of free speech, Princeton University has cancelled a speaking event by three former Middle East terrorists because it says that the use of the word "terrorist" in the promotion for the event is "too inflammatory."
The speakers will hold a press conference near the campus on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 6:00 p.m. The location will be announced in an updated media release the morning of the press conference.
"We believe Princeton is using red tape to stop the event," said Keith Davies, the executive director of the Walid Shoebat Foundation.
The event organizers planned to bring Walid Shoebat, Ibrahim Abdallah and Zak Anani to the Ivy League school to lecture on the terrorist mindset and how they were indoctrinated into terrorism.
Walid Shoebat is from a prominent family in Bethlehem. After joining the PLO, he took part in numerous acts of violence against Israel including the bombing of a bank. He was also involved in the attempted lynching of an Israeli soldier. Feature stories on Mr. Shoebat have aired on the BBC, FOX News, MSNBC, CBS and have been published in the Telegraph and Calgary Sun.
Zak Anani was a leader of the most notorious Arab gangs prior to Lebanese civil war. Before he age 16, he killed numerous Arabs in gang warfare and hated the West.
Ibrahim Abadallah was born and raised in Dearborn Michigan to a Jordanian father. At 17 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the PLO. He injured many Israelis while rioting and throwing Molotov cocktails at them.
"Disgusting" undeniably is the right word. In academe you have to worship from the right pew and sing in the right, duly accepted choir in order to pass muster. And this is Princeton no less, the creme de la creme - of sclerotic, establishmentarian group-think. We live in a broader milieu of incoherent group-think where it's exceedingly difficult to get someone like John Bolton affirmed for a post to an institution which badly needs someone of Bolton's character, Fallaci is raked over the coals in Italy's legal system, Finkielkraut similarly in France, Walid Shoebat at Princeton, and then of course there's the all too pervasive occlusions and elisions which are similarly indicative of MSM machinations and revelatory of the status quo powers which need to be thoughtfully and consistently and trenchantly challenged and, when necessary, upended.