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Harvard Law Student Asks Israeli Official Why She’s ‘So Smelly’
"On Thursday, April 14, at an event hosted by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Tzipi Livni, a former Israeli minister and member of the Knesset, spoke to roughly 150 students and faculty members. During the Q & A portion at the end of the presentation, a Harvard Law School Student directed an ad hominem attack on the Israeli guest:
“My question is for Tzipi Livni—how is it that you are so smelly?” The student, a male third-year who is also the president of a student organization on campus, added, “It’s regarding your odor—about the odor of Tzipi Livni, very smelly.”"
http://observer.com/2016/04/harvard-law-student-asks-israeli-official-why-shes-so-smelly/
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Gee, I wonder why.
https://canarymission.org/individuals/husam-el-qoulaq/
Attempt to Conceal his Past
Following an anti-Semitic incident on April 14, 2016, details of El-Qoulaq’s identity and his affiliations with different anti-Israel organizations began disappearing.
According to Angel.co, he was listed as having been an employee at Morgan Lewis Law Firm, the American Civil Liberties Union and Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic. By April 21, 2016 the listing had been removed.
El-Qoulaq was also listed as a member of the Harvard Arab Student Association until April of 2016. On April 21, 2016, El-Qoulaq’s name was removed from the group’s website.
El-Qoulaq is an organizer for Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine (JFP), an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). He was also a member of SJP at UC Berkeley (SJP Berkeley).
He was listed as an organizer of an October 20, 2015 JFP event titled, “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech.” The Facebook event was removed and reinstated on April 21, 2016 without El-Qoulaq’s name on the page.
He organized a JFP event scheduled for April 20, 2016 titled: “Using Water As A Weapon: How Israel Uses Water to Oppress Palestinians.” At some time on April 21, 2016 the name of the event organizer was changed from El-Qoulaq to “Student Orgs Events.”
Anti-Semitic Hate Speech
At an April 14, 2016 Harvard panel discussion on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations — hosted by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and co-sponsored by the Jewish Law Students Association and Harvard Hillel — El-Qoulaq was recorded heckling Jewish-Israeli politician Tzipi Livni during the question and answer session.
“How is it that you are so smelly?” El-Qoulaq demanded. When his question went unanswered, El-Qoulaq doubled down, insisting: “[a] question about the odor of Ms. Tzipi Livni, she’s very smelly, and I was just wondering.”
The event was widely reported on by eye-witnesses present at the panel discussion. Harvard Law then went to lengths to conceal El-Qoulaq’s identity and their published video of the panel was edited to exclude El-Qoulaq’s question.
On April 18, 2016, three members of the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association demanded a public apology to Ms. Livni, the Jewish students of HLS, and Harvard Law School at large — and observed in response to El-Qoulaq’s question:
“A quick Internet search will show that the stereotype of “the Jew” as “smelly” or “dirty” has been around since at least the 1800s. The Nazis promoted the idea that Jews “smell” to propagandize Jews as an inferior people. The idea that Jews can be identified by a malodor is patently offensive and stereotypes Jews as an “other” which incites further acts of discrimination. The fact that such a hate-filled and outdated stereotype reemerged at Harvard Law School is nothing short of revolting.”
The following day, Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, sent an e-mail to the Harvard Law community denouncing El-Qoulaq’s question, writing: “The comment was offensive and it violated the trust and respect we expect in our community. Many perceive it as anti-Semitic, and no one would see it as appropriate. It was an embarrassment to this institution and an assault upon the values we seek to uphold.”
By April 20, 2016, news of El-Qoulaq’s abusive comment had spread across social media, prompting comment from celebrities like Roseanne Barr.
On April 21, an opinion piece on the incedent published in the Harvard Law Record was updated to contain what was titled “an apology” from El-Qoulaq, identified only as “the individual who made the comment.” The text of the update stated that he never intended to perpetuate an anti-Semitic stereotype and was “entirely unaware” that such a stereotype existed. He encouraged members of the Jewish community who were hurt by his question to “reach out” and to give him “an oppurtunity to make it right.”
However, details of the El-Qoulaq’s identity were not provided in order for individuals to be able to reach out to him.
Championing Anti-Israel Activity
On October 20, 2015, El-Qoulaq organized a JFP event called “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech.”
The event was slated to “challenge to the longstanding orthodoxy in the United States that excuses, justifies, and otherwise supports discriminatory Israeli government policies” and to discuss what was described as “heavy-handed tactics” purportedly used against the anti-Israel lobby.
Disseminating a Libel
El-Qoulaq organized a JFP event scheduled for April 20, 2016 titled: “Using Water As A Weapon: How Israel Uses Water to Oppress Palestinians.” On April 21, 2016, the event organizer was changed from El-Qoulaq to “Student Orgs Events.”
The event promoted the libel that Israel denies Palestinians water rights negotiated under the Oslo Accords. This falsehood has long been used as a weapon to attack Israel.
Defending Speech Disruptors
In October 2011, El-Qoulaq demonstrated in support of UC Irvine students dubbed the “Irvine 11,” who were arrested for repeatedly disrupting former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren’s talk at the university on February 8, 2010.
El-Qoulaq branded the arrests of those who attempted to silence Michael Oren a “concentrated effort to quell the Palestinian narrative.”
SJP
SJP was co-founded by Hatem Bazian and Snehal Shingavi in 2001 at UC Berkeley. Their intention was to advance the radical anti-Israel mission of the Muslim Brotherhood, but masked as a secular organization.
SJP members frequently intimidate and harass Jews and pro-Israel students. SJP Members have physically assaulted Jewish students, vandalized communal property and violently disrupted pro Israel speakers and events. SJP-run rallies regularly include hate-speech and chants such as “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free” — a call for the destruction of the Jewish State.
SJP runs inflammatory campaigns against Israel including Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolutions, Israel-Apartheid initiatives, drives comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, mock check-points, “die-ins”, as well as rallies and protests.
SJP chapters regularly host speakers who use language considered anti-Semitic by the U.S. State Department. Chapter events routinely include individuals and organizations linked to terrorist activity and call for violence against Jews.
When confronted, SJP demonizes and defames critics, branding attacks against them as “Islamophobic” — a term popularized by co-founder Hatem Bazian.
SJP, is rapidly creating a hostile and unsafe environment on U.S. campuses. For this reason, they have been labeled by some as “Hamas on Campus.”
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Attempt to Conceal his Past
Following an anti-Semitic incident on April 14, 2016, details of El-Qoulaq’s identity and his affiliations with different anti-Israel organizations began disappearing.
According to Angel.co, he was listed as having been an employee at Morgan Lewis Law Firm, the American Civil Liberties Union and Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic. By April 21, 2016 the listing had been removed.
El-Qoulaq was also listed as a member of the Harvard Arab Student Association until April of 2016. On April 21, 2016, El-Qoulaq’s name was removed from the group’s website.
El-Qoulaq is an organizer for Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine (JFP), an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). He was also a member of SJP at UC Berkeley (SJP Berkeley).
He was listed as an organizer of an October 20, 2015 JFP event titled, “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech.” The Facebook event was removed and reinstated on April 21, 2016 without El-Qoulaq’s name on the page.
He organized a JFP event scheduled for April 20, 2016 titled: “Using Water As A Weapon: How Israel Uses Water to Oppress Palestinians.” At some time on April 21, 2016 the name of the event organizer was changed from El-Qoulaq to “Student Orgs Events.”
Anti-Semitic Hate Speech
At an April 14, 2016 Harvard panel discussion on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations — hosted by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and co-sponsored by the Jewish Law Students Association and Harvard Hillel — El-Qoulaq was recorded heckling Jewish-Israeli politician Tzipi Livni during the question and answer session.
“How is it that you are so smelly?” El-Qoulaq demanded. When his question went unanswered, El-Qoulaq doubled down, insisting: “[a] question about the odor of Ms. Tzipi Livni, she’s very smelly, and I was just wondering.”
The event was widely reported on by eye-witnesses present at the panel discussion. Harvard Law then went to lengths to conceal El-Qoulaq’s identity and their published video of the panel was edited to exclude El-Qoulaq’s question.
On April 18, 2016, three members of the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association demanded a public apology to Ms. Livni, the Jewish students of HLS, and Harvard Law School at large — and observed in response to El-Qoulaq’s question:
“A quick Internet search will show that the stereotype of “the Jew” as “smelly” or “dirty” has been around since at least the 1800s. The Nazis promoted the idea that Jews “smell” to propagandize Jews as an inferior people. The idea that Jews can be identified by a malodor is patently offensive and stereotypes Jews as an “other” which incites further acts of discrimination. The fact that such a hate-filled and outdated stereotype reemerged at Harvard Law School is nothing short of revolting.”
The following day, Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, sent an e-mail to the Harvard Law community denouncing El-Qoulaq’s question, writing: “The comment was offensive and it violated the trust and respect we expect in our community. Many perceive it as anti-Semitic, and no one would see it as appropriate. It was an embarrassment to this institution and an assault upon the values we seek to uphold.”
By April 20, 2016, news of El-Qoulaq’s abusive comment had spread across social media, prompting comment from celebrities like Roseanne Barr.
On April 21, an opinion piece on the incedent published in the Harvard Law Record was updated to contain what was titled “an apology” from El-Qoulaq, identified only as “the individual who made the comment.” The text of the update stated that he never intended to perpetuate an anti-Semitic stereotype and was “entirely unaware” that such a stereotype existed. He encouraged members of the Jewish community who were hurt by his question to “reach out” and to give him “an oppurtunity to make it right.”
However, details of the El-Qoulaq’s identity were not provided in order for individuals to be able to reach out to him.
Championing Anti-Israel Activity
On October 20, 2015, El-Qoulaq organized a JFP event called “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech.”
The event was slated to “challenge to the longstanding orthodoxy in the United States that excuses, justifies, and otherwise supports discriminatory Israeli government policies” and to discuss what was described as “heavy-handed tactics” purportedly used against the anti-Israel lobby.
Disseminating a Libel
El-Qoulaq organized a JFP event scheduled for April 20, 2016 titled: “Using Water As A Weapon: How Israel Uses Water to Oppress Palestinians.” On April 21, 2016, the event organizer was changed from El-Qoulaq to “Student Orgs Events.”
The event promoted the libel that Israel denies Palestinians water rights negotiated under the Oslo Accords. This falsehood has long been used as a weapon to attack Israel.
Defending Speech Disruptors
In October 2011, El-Qoulaq demonstrated in support of UC Irvine students dubbed the “Irvine 11,” who were arrested for repeatedly disrupting former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren’s talk at the university on February 8, 2010.
El-Qoulaq branded the arrests of those who attempted to silence Michael Oren a “concentrated effort to quell the Palestinian narrative.”
SJP
SJP was co-founded by Hatem Bazian and Snehal Shingavi in 2001 at UC Berkeley. Their intention was to advance the radical anti-Israel mission of the Muslim Brotherhood, but masked as a secular organization.
SJP members frequently intimidate and harass Jews and pro-Israel students. SJP Members have physically assaulted Jewish students, vandalized communal property and violently disrupted pro Israel speakers and events. SJP-run rallies regularly include hate-speech and chants such as “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free” — a call for the destruction of the Jewish State.
SJP runs inflammatory campaigns against Israel including Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolutions, Israel-Apartheid initiatives, drives comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, mock check-points, “die-ins”, as well as rallies and protests.
SJP chapters regularly host speakers who use language considered anti-Semitic by the U.S. State Department. Chapter events routinely include individuals and organizations linked to terrorist activity and call for violence against Jews.
When confronted, SJP demonizes and defames critics, branding attacks against them as “Islamophobic” — a term popularized by co-founder Hatem Bazian.
SJP, is rapidly creating a hostile and unsafe environment on U.S. campuses. For this reason, they have been labeled by some as “Hamas on Campus.”
....
From Wikipedia:
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Masada2000 is well known for its criticism of Jews it considers "self-hating." Among those singled out are Rabbi Michael Lerner, linguist Noam Chomsky, journalist Amira Hass, politician Dedi Zucker, professor Israel Shahak, and filmmaker Woody Allen.
The site is also notorious for its "Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening" LIST, known as the "S.H.I.T. List." (From time to time, the S.H.I.T. List has been renamed. For a while it was the "Dense anti-Israel Repugnant Traitors" LIST, or "D.I.R.T. List." Then it became the "Self-Hating and/or Intentionally Israel-Threatening Ediots LIST" or "S.H.I.I.T.E. List."
More than 7,000 names long, the list consists of Jews whose opinions fall to the left of those of Masada2000's creators. The site described its targets as "radical, leftist, academic, socialist, 'progressive,' enlightened know-nothings [who] are not even worthy of the name 'Jew.'" People on the list are often described using profanities, vulgar insults, racial epithets, and portrayed with photographs of animals. In some cases, their email addresses, telephone numbers, home addresses, and other private contact information are included as well.
The site is also notorious for its "Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening" LIST, known as the "S.H.I.T. List." (From time to time, the S.H.I.T. List has been renamed. For a while it was the "Dense anti-Israel Repugnant Traitors" LIST, or "D.I.R.T. List." Then it became the "Self-Hating and/or Intentionally Israel-Threatening Ediots LIST" or "S.H.I.I.T.E. List."
More than 7,000 names long, the list consists of Jews whose opinions fall to the left of those of Masada2000's creators. The site described its targets as "radical, leftist, academic, socialist, 'progressive,' enlightened know-nothings [who] are not even worthy of the name 'Jew.'" People on the list are often described using profanities, vulgar insults, racial epithets, and portrayed with photographs of animals. In some cases, their email addresses, telephone numbers, home addresses, and other private contact information are included as well.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada2000
Note: Fortunately, it seems as if the www.masada2000 website is down. But the question remains - it this the kind of thing you support?
I don't.
