Friday, May 06, 2011

Can you imagine if a board member of a major US university got away with such racist bigoted views against Jewish people? NATO would have intervened

"On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Wiesenfeld took a phone call about the events at the board meeting, and said he was surprised to get enough support from other trustees to block the Kushner degree. He had thought, he said, that he was going to register his dissent for the record and move on.   I tried to ask a question about the damage done by a short, one-sided discussion of vigorously debated aspects of Middle East politics, like the survival of Israel and the rights of the Palestinians, and which side was more callous toward human life, and who was most protective of it.  But Mr. Wiesenfeld interrupted and said the question was offensive because “the comparison sets up a moral equivalence.”  Equivalence between what and what? “Between the Palestinians and Israelis,” he said. “People who worship death for their children are not human.”  Did he mean the Palestinians were not human? “They have developed a culture which is unprecedented in human history,” he said.""