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Saturday, March 07, 2009
University of Toronto President is condemned by SAIA
The Students Against Israeli Apartheid made this video:
The pictures of the war machines as President Naylor talks about Israel's scientific achievements is disgusting. Groups like this like to reduce all of Israel into a country of war-loving murderers. Regardless of what you think of the Middle East conflict, this is a gross exaggeration. The SAIA should be ashamed of themselves. President Naylor should be proud of his school's connections to the international community.
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on March 7, 2009 | Permalink
Comments
See what has become of the Harvard of Canada. It is truly an embarrassment. Well, not as much as the lack of compassion UT students show towards the homeless around the campus. I say raze the city and rebuilt it into a truly socially responsible community.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2009-03-07 12:36:05 PM
What do you expect when you put old campus radicals in charge of the campus?
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2009-03-07 12:42:34 PM
Normally, I don't say too much about Canada. However, I'd like to say that the university president is spot-on with his reach towards the Israeli scientific community. By contrast, the Islamic community has shunned scientific studies and advancements for centuries. It is good to see that Canada despite its socialistic government tries to embrace science. Bravo! Keep up the good work and try to ignore the social decenters.
Mike P
Cleveland OH
Posted by: Mike Prokop | 2009-03-07 1:07:54 PM
There is nothing wrong with the Israelis other than they have a nest of mosquitoes (people who hang out at mosques) who just won't stop biting them.
Palestinians are a disease just like the rest of radical Islam.
The only good thing about Iran's plan to Nuke Israel is that they will be murdering all the Palestinians, many Syrians, a hell of a lot of Jordanians, and perhaps even a handful of Lebanonians.
There are many confused Canadian students ... firstly we must remember that their heads are empty and most of them also think Che Guevara was a hero.
Brutal reality that is now at our door will change a lot that.
Posted by: Momar Throckmorton | 2009-03-07 1:59:44 PM
Tragic how they protest "apartheid" in Israel but actually support it in their own city. What a horrible atrocity Toronto is.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2009-03-07 2:10:50 PM
Momar, do not refer to an entire people as a disease. That sort of talk is exactly what I condemn the SAIA for doing.
Posted by: hughmacintyre | 2009-03-07 2:20:47 PM
It's not a good idea to refer to the people of Islam as a disease, but you have to admit, they have, what appears to be, an infection.
Posted by: dp | 2009-03-07 2:59:37 PM
I wonder what would happen if someone wore an Israeli t-shirt near one of these rallies? I loved the one that reads "There is no God but Yahweh, and Moses is His Prophet."
Of course if someone wore a Canadian Forces uniform, they'd say "where's your snowshovel." Losers.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2009-03-07 3:15:06 PM
There can be no doubt that for "progressives" Jew-hatred has become chic and à la mode. They have regressed back to the late 30s.
Posted by: Alain | 2009-03-07 7:31:04 PM
Whether or not the campaign is right or wrong, the ad rubs me the wrong way. It's dishonest and smacks of the type of propaganda used by the Third Reich. I would expect nothing less from campus politics.
Posted by: Realist | 2009-03-07 8:06:10 PM
This is not about Jews. It is about a State that practices Apartheid and maintains an illegal occupation of other peoples lands.
It is about the only Middle Eastern nuclear power that wants to subjugate not only the Palestinians, but the entire M.E., by denying the millions of Palestinian Refugees their right of return as per UN resolution #194 and by threatening Iran militarily in order to extinguish any possibility of developing nuclear technology.
It is about maintaining a racist state where exclusive Jewishness is a goal of most of its politicians.
...And we still believe that Israel is a "democracy". How Naive?!!
Posted by: Albert Samtu | 2009-03-07 9:45:05 PM
Anyone supporting a "right of return" for Palestinian refugees who have procreated tenfold while every Arab country refused them entry (what does this say about Arab opinion of Palestinians?) is actually supporting the demographic destruction of Israel as a Jewish state so let's have that on the table honestly.
Next, to be morally coherent, the same people must also support a "right of return" for the comparable number of Jews flushed out of Arabic states following the war started and lost by Arabs. Clearly, any reparations to the TWO displaced populations should be mutual so that comes to a wash.
Finally, those who call Israel a racist state are hypocritically silent about the near complete ethnic cleansing of Jews from all other (Arabic) mideast countries (so zero rights) and the awkward fact that Arabs in Israel have more rights than in any Arabic/Muslim state.
Even granting that Israel can and should improve, what credibility do pretend human rights activists have when they natter only at the country with the best human rights record of a bad lot? Why not start with improving the worst? Logic and morality dictates it. That leftists spread partial truths while trampling logic and morality makes them anti-Jewish, not the unbiased critics of human rights violations that they pose as.
Posted by: abiline | 2009-03-08 3:16:27 PM
Albert Samtu: There are 57 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference that are rather keen on being Islamic and are part of the reason why it is apt that there be one state that is Jewish.
Posted by: greenmamba | 2009-03-09 6:33:08 AM
Unfortunately, this kind of a la mode thinking infects the very highest echelons of our society. Louise Arbour was only the most prominent example of this kind of thinking. Of course their supporters will argue that these people are sensitive and cultured and have the very best education available. Then again, Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s was highly cultured too.
The fact that prejudice is associated with ignorance tends to make people think that educated people are immune to bias. They aren't. In fact they're frequently the worst offenders, and often in a position to affect public policy with that bias. Some of history's worst butchers were deeply religious, in thrall either to a Supreme Being or even just some noble crusade to better the lot of mankind.
The ingredients of a successful Holocaust are these:
1. A population, or simply a passionate minority thereof, harbouring a deep-rooted resentment against another population.
2. A charismatic leader (or several) with the energy and the talent to cultivate that resentment.
3. For those in power to do nothing.
Sound familiar?
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2009-03-09 11:33:05 AM
This is not about Jews. It is about a State that practices Apartheid and maintains an illegal occupation of other peoples lands.
There are numerous states on this planet that fit that description, notably Mugabe's Zimbabwe. But they don't receive a tenth the attention focused upon Israel, whose methods are tame in comparison. Why is that, Albert? Is it because you hold Jews to a higher standard than Africans?
It is about the only Middle Eastern nuclear power that wants to subjugate not only the Palestinians, but the entire M.E., by denying the millions of Palestinian Refugees their right of return as per UN resolution #194 and by threatening Iran militarily in order to extinguish any possibility of developing nuclear technology.
As the events of the last few years prove, U.N. resolutions are worth absolutely nothing. The majority of countries in the U.N. (and all of those from the Middle East) have a much worse human-rights record than Israel. No measure is ever passed against them because they vote en bloc. And are you truly supporting the notion of nuclear weapons in the hands of a country that has publicly denied another country's right to exist? Perhaps you should read your history books; Arab nations attacked Israel, not the other way round.
It is about maintaining a racist state where exclusive Jewishness is a goal of most of its politicians.
Very well, then, how stands your view towards the fact that many Middle Eastern nations punish apostasy with death? Or the fact that Saudi Arabia expressly forbids members of non-Islamic clergy from performing any religious services in the country, and even the distribution of non-Islamic religious materials, in public or private? Are you as loud in your declamations of that?
What it is about, my friend, is an overt and unrepentant double standard. You expect more of Israel (and probably also of America) than of anyone else. But you can't justify that expectation. Neither can the U.N. But like the U.N., you expect it anyway.
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2009-03-09 11:46:54 AM
"Palestinians are a disease just like the rest of radical Islam."
Posted by: Momar Throckmorton
It would be at least comprehensible to suggest that Palestinians are diseased by radical islam, but to call people a disease is just beyond the pale of decency.
Live by the sword and you will die by the sword. By liberal denialism or, frankly, bloody minded dehumanization of others (palestinian or jew), the end result is the same: to live and die by the sword instead of the cross.
Posted by: Timothy Zak | 2009-03-10 2:09:57 PM
For the most part well said Tim, but I'm not sure what the last phrase means
Posted by: hughmacintyre | 2009-03-10 2:14:35 PM
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