HUGE CONTROVERSY Brewing Over Princeton's Censoring of Ex-PLO Speakers
HUGE CONTROVERSY Brewing Over Princeton's Censoring of Ex-PLO Speakers
by "Barak"
Update 1:: The Daily Princetonian claims the event was not cancelled, only postponed, and that a serious argument occured between the head of the student group hosting the event and Walid Shoebat's representative. Unfortunately for the Mr. Shoebat, the head of the student group also happens to be the editor of the school newspaper. The newspaper's account of the incident paints Shoebat in an extremely negative light, contrary to everything I know about him. (Hat tip: Patrick D. O'Brien)
Update 2 : I just spoke to Keith Davies, Walid Shoebat's representative, for his side of the story.
According to Davies, that is exactly what has happened in this case. Princeton's Communication Director led the effort to censor the event, and the students capitulated.
Davies denies the claim by the Princetonian story that the event was only postponed and not cancelled. According to Davies he was told this directly by the Dean who said that without a contract, there would be no event.
I should note that I witnessed the pattern of Jewish student leadership capiltulation a number of times first-hand when I was at Princeton. The Jewish student organizations were generally allergic to controversy. For example, Rabbi Meir Kahane (who was later assasinated in what many regard as the first American strike of the Global Jihad) delivered a heavily attended pro-Israel and pro-Judaism speech without the endorsement of any Jewish organization. Another large pro-Israel and pro-Judaism speech by a popular Princeton student (Yoram Hazony) had to be hosted by a non-Jewish group in the end because of its potential controversy. Yoram is now a best-selling author and founder of Israel's leading think tank, the Shalem Center. At the time, Yoram and I were co-authors of a one-page bulletin containing pro-Jewish and pro-Israel quotes by the likes of Mark Twain and Herman Wouk, as well as general and campus news clippings (similar to this blog) that we started mailing monthly to Jewish students. It had to be shut down after the first few editions because of attacks by much of the Jewish student leadership because of the potential offense that students might take over the unwelcome Jewish intrusion into their lives and the potential that some non-Jewish student might inadvertently receive a mailing.
Stay tuned to this entry. There is an interesting development in the story that I cannot reveal yet.
Posted by Jerry Gordon at December 6, 2005 10:43 AM
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John Lee
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The link to this excellent story appears to be broken. The correct one is:
http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/722-Princeton-Censors-Ex-PLO-Speakers;-Likely-to-Hire-PLO-Professor.html
Posted by: John Lee on December 6, 2005 11:12 AM
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Bill Levinson
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See http://www.omdurman.org/traitors/academic.html#princeton We need to rub Princeton University's nose in this excrement.
Posted by: Bill Levinson on December 6, 2005 11:32 AM
HUGE CONTROVERSY Brewing Over Princeton's Censoring of Ex-PLO Speakers
by "Barak"
Update 1:: The Daily Princetonian claims the event was not cancelled, only postponed, and that a serious argument occured between the head of the student group hosting the event and Walid Shoebat's representative. Unfortunately for the Mr. Shoebat, the head of the student group also happens to be the editor of the school newspaper. The newspaper's account of the incident paints Shoebat in an extremely negative light, contrary to everything I know about him. (Hat tip: Patrick D. O'Brien)
Update 2 : I just spoke to Keith Davies, Walid Shoebat's representative, for his side of the story.
According to Davies, that is exactly what has happened in this case. Princeton's Communication Director led the effort to censor the event, and the students capitulated.
Davies denies the claim by the Princetonian story that the event was only postponed and not cancelled. According to Davies he was told this directly by the Dean who said that without a contract, there would be no event.
I should note that I witnessed the pattern of Jewish student leadership capiltulation a number of times first-hand when I was at Princeton. The Jewish student organizations were generally allergic to controversy. For example, Rabbi Meir Kahane (who was later assasinated in what many regard as the first American strike of the Global Jihad) delivered a heavily attended pro-Israel and pro-Judaism speech without the endorsement of any Jewish organization. Another large pro-Israel and pro-Judaism speech by a popular Princeton student (Yoram Hazony) had to be hosted by a non-Jewish group in the end because of its potential controversy. Yoram is now a best-selling author and founder of Israel's leading think tank, the Shalem Center. At the time, Yoram and I were co-authors of a one-page bulletin containing pro-Jewish and pro-Israel quotes by the likes of Mark Twain and Herman Wouk, as well as general and campus news clippings (similar to this blog) that we started mailing monthly to Jewish students. It had to be shut down after the first few editions because of attacks by much of the Jewish student leadership because of the potential offense that students might take over the unwelcome Jewish intrusion into their lives and the potential that some non-Jewish student might inadvertently receive a mailing.
Stay tuned to this entry. There is an interesting development in the story that I cannot reveal yet.
Posted by Jerry Gordon at December 6, 2005 10:43 AM