UCSB Professor Expelled from Israel

What explains the deafening silence from non-Jewish Americans on US entanglement with Israel, or Israeli-Palestinian issues? Could it be that they think that Jews should take care of that, because it's OK for Jews to do so? No, Jews get no free pass. Jews who dissent face hostility or at least strained relations with other Jews.

So what's everyone else's excuse? Is apartheid just cool nowadays? It's time for more non-Jewish Americans to cast off the Stockholm Syndrome. We're a nation of suckers, AKA shnooks or freiers. And nothing is more despised by Israelis than a sucker. Didn't we use to have national self-respect?

To get elected, Obama had to be taken by the hand by Rahm Emanuel to AIPAC to promise them an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital. And it's not just Jewish gelt that determines politics - look at how Barney Frank, Obama and other Democrats (mostly) were trading favors with Freddie, Fannie and other sub-prime operators to damage the nation.

Individuals who give a hoot should support public campaign financing / clean elections (google up some organizations), if we expect to fare better than Greece, Iran, Mongolia and other former world powers. Messiahs don't work when the system is broken.

This story proves again that Anti Semitism ill is not connected to non Jews only. The Jewish Lord How-How is living to day and his name is Richard Falk

If Latinos can have Aztlan, why can't Jews have Israel? UC Riverside Chicanos Studies Professor Armando Navarro himself has made this argument.

On a more significant note, why is the Independent singularly obsessed with Israel and the Palestinian conflict? There are far, far worse abuses of human rights involving tens of millions throughout the world. Here's a challenge to the Independent -- do a feature on the mass deaths and rapes in the Congo.

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2...

And comparing the Israeli occupation of Gaza to the Holocaust, as Professor Falk has done, is just as offensive as comparing local gangsters to holocaust survivors.

http://www.independent.com/news/2008/sep...

If Professor Falk compared Israel's actions to those of the perpetrators of the Holocaust, it's no wonder he was not admitted to a country that was built by Holocaust survivors. Some academics are acutely brainless, particularly those, like Professor Falk, who try to sow division with overblown propaganda, between people struggling to reach peace. It's always easier to destroy than to build.

And I agree with "revisionist". There are far worse examples of suffering than that experienced by either side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Every 2 seconds, a starving child dies. Disabled people are caged for life in stinking insitutions worldwide. In the Congo, rogue soldiers are forcing women to be raped by their sons, then forcing them to watch as they kill their sons, and finally thrust machetes into their vaginas: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/07/...

But somehow this isn't worthy of more than fleeting coverage, because the antics of rich people who've allowed their privileges to lull them to stupidity - including socialites, entertainers, and this time a professor - are more important.

Simcha Udwin

Ever since I made my first Jewish friends as a freshman in college and was introduced to the culture and history of the Jewish people, I have remained, shall I say, very sympathetic.

But as I grow older, something continues to bother me about the festering Israel-Palestine problem. I know Palestinians are suffering. And I don't think that suffering is always deserved.

But what especially troubles me is how difficult it is to have a reasonable discussion related to Israel and Palestine. As soon as the subject is broached, people take their sides and begin denigrating, if not plain insulting, the other side. You're an anti-semite if you don't favor the conventional pro-Israel ideology. And you're a proponent of apartheid if you do. If you're pro-Israel you're surrounded by enemies and proud of it. If Israel is unjustly occupying your land, then Israel has no right to exist.

Is there no middle ground? Do your neighbors always have to be enemies? Do you have to think of the other side as an evil caricature and smite them to exist? To win? What is victory?

Ahem. Sorry, its Christmas. I don't know why I thought there could be peace in the Middle East.

Bottom line: Israel has been violating international law and ignoring UN mandates for decades regarding their illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. It's sad when ignorant morons label a person an "anti-semite" or worse just because they have the balls to speak unfavorably about Israeli policies. It's time we stop blindly defending everything Israel does and start demanding their compliance with human rights laws.

Just because they are Jewish, does not give them the right to act as of they are above the law - that right is reserved only for our own band of lawless thugs in Washington!

And I agree, I am sick of hearing about Israel - there are far more important international issues worthy of attention, however, this elite, who's-who-and-where-were-they-seen-sipping-an-appletini, new-age tofu rag is not the proper forum for intelligent news. So, let's quit whining and pick up the New York Times or a copy of Foreign Affairs if we want real news.

Yes, there are crimes against humanity happening all over the world, some worse than in Israel and the occupied territories, but that is not this story. I love humans of all colours and nationalities. Polytricks divide us all as does religion. I am not dissing anybody's god of choice as I have my own. What is ugly is that both sides in this conflict act like children (who have guns & bombs). I don't know if calling it a holocaust is appropriate, but a UN investigator was denied entrance into a country where human rights abuses occur. This not only makes Israel look bad, it amplifies the fact that there are places in this world that do not know peace or justice. On second thought, that applies to the entire Earth - you can't fool mother nature. Right now, justice is punishing murderers, pardoning shoe throwers, and indicting VP's for torture. We shall see if there is any justice left ....

iSRAEL HAS IGNORED EVERY HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION BY THE U.N. THEY ARE A ROGUE NATION SUPPORTED BY THE U.S. I LIKEN THEM TO A BULLY WITH A BIG BROTHER.THEY'RE THE BULLY IN THE REGION, KNOWING THEIR BIG BROTHER WILL SUPPORT THEM NO MATTER WHAT ATROCITES THEY COMMIT. IS IT ANY WONDER THEY DESPISE THE UN, AND OVERTLY MURDERED SEVERAL UN TROOPS IN THE LAST CONFLICT . ONLY WHEN THE U.S. SEE THE TOTAL EROSION OF ISRAELI POWER IN THE REGION WILL IT TRY AND COERCE ISRAEL TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE GOOD OF ALL. PALESTINIANS HAVE NO PLANES, HELICOPTERS, TANKS, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, ETC,...... THEY HAVE ROCKS AND DESPERATE PEOPLE WHO COMMIT DESPERATE ACTS. iSRAELI SOLDIERS STOOD IDLY BY IN BEIRUT WATCHING AS CHRISTIAN MILITIA SLAUGHTERED DEFENSELESS MEN,WOMEN AND CHILDREN. AFTER FOLLOWING THE SOUTH AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT FOR MANY YEARS, IT'S BECOME CLEAR ISRAEL CLEARLY PERPETUATES THE INHUMANE TREATMENT AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS AS THE WHITES AGAINST THE SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKS, AND THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION, HOWEVER PARANOID THE NATION MIGHT BE. IF SOUTH AFRICANS HADN'T RID THEMSELVES OF THEIR PARANOIA OF THE BLACK MAJORITY, THEIR NATION WOULD SURELY HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. THE ARC OF THE UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE. NEEDLESS TO SAY, ANY ACT OF AGRESSION ON INNOCENT iSRAELI CITIZENS SHOULD BE PUNISHED, BUT NOT BY AN ACT OF REVENGE ON INNOCENT PALESTINIANS.