Disgraced Professor Speaks for UCI MSU
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 05/09/2008 8:26 AM
The central theme was the issue of whether criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, but most of Finkelstein's speech was dedicated to defending his own scholarship and pressing one sided and dubious legal charges against the legitimacy of Israel. Though he made an incalculable amount of baseless assertions, I was especially puzzled by the following claims:
1. Israel violated international obligations after achieving 1967 land levels
2. International bodies and human rights organizations are legitimate because of their perceived absence of interest.
3. The recognition and independence of Israel proper in 1948 was an ethnic cleansing campaign of Arab majorities.
4. Israel, not Palestine is a serial human rights abuser.
5. Terror organizations are willing to talk, while Israel plays constant aggressor. I will address all five claims in a series of later posts.
Correspondingly, all five were argued on the premise of the indisputable nature of Finkelstein's claims. This attitude was especially apparent during the Q and A period of his discussion. Though Finkelstein stated that dissenting opinions were welcome, he did not make clear the condition that he would only answer softball questions. So when I took him to task on his speculated appearance to the Holocaust Denial Conference in Tehran, he became especially indignant. But why? After all, he was happy to express solidarity with Iran's proxy Hezbollah. Instead of directly answering the question or even addressing the controversy, Finkelstein tried to berate me with the same ad hominem attacks he usually directed to his former academic counterparts. At first he tried to disarm the question by calling my motives filthy, but as I pressed his answer was finally no, invoking his parent's experience in the Nazi Holocaust. Finkelstein was obviously uncomfortable with the question because it put him on the other side of the ledger from an overly sympathetic audience of Muslim radicals and Holocaust deniers. This is hardly the mark of an honest educator, and yet another example of why he was disgraced from academia in the first place.
How the Heck is Dr. Finklestein disgraced?
Because he doesnt agree with your Zionist, Jewish-controlled mindset.
Please tell.
Jonathan,
Congratulations on sitting through the marathan speech. I wasn't there. It started too late (and apparently ended too late was well.)
Is it true someone from the administration told you to sit down and shut up while you were asking a question?
Jewish-controlled mindset? Ha! Only a true anti-semite writes trash like that. Nice group of trashy subhumans you have stalking you on this site Jonathan. Any critisism from them is a badge of honor- wear it proud.
And anytime Im called an "anti-semite" I consider that an honor, since the retard who called me that has surrendered their intellectual abilities and resorted to ad-hominem's.
Also Jews are not really semites to begin with. As a generalization, Jews are just rejects of the white race pretending to be Middle-Eastern. Jews are wanna-be semites; posers.
When "X Marks the Spot" describes Jews as "rejects of the white race", he reveals himself as a racist-not someone who is against Israel-but as a racist, period.
He considers the label-anti-Semite as an honor but hides behind a psuedonym. But then again, when you uses language that would make Nazis proud, you should hide behind a pseudonym.
Gary Fouse
adjunct teacher
UCI ext
X,
Maybe if you had a date on Saturday night (assuming that anyone would, bother with the likes of you) you wouldn't be such a miserable self loathing anti-Semite. Try developing some social skills, get out a bit. Leave your copy of Mein Kamph at home. Being a lonely shut in will only make you more bitter.
great performance Mr. Constantine!
antiisrael.blogspot.com
Your flashy rhetoric fails to convince me that you've recovered from that beatdown Finkelstein gave you.
Pitiful, pitiful Constantine, it took you awhile to recuperate after being publicly exposed by Professor Finkelstein as a conniving, unimaginative hatemonger. The only thing you and your honchos can do when confronted by Truth is to scramble for some pathetic, ad hominem barking. Indeed, not a single one of you was able to put forth a scholarly question, instead you attempted to discredit professor in front of the audience, but all you got is getting discredited and disgraced yourself.
By all accounts this was a successful event with about 600 people in attendance, majority of whom were UCI students, who came to learn the real story of the conflict. As many of them confessed afterwards, professor Finkelstein's lecture succeeded in dispelling many myths they had about the conflict. They were particularly entertained and educated by the Q&A session which exposed to them the real extremist like you and those who came with you.
You've suffered a major beating Constantine, but don't relax just yet, there is a whole week to go.
Jonathan make a fool of Finkelputz. MSU terrorist supporters should stop inviting anti-semites to campus and throwing bricks at the FBI and instead take some tolerance classes.
AS Sarll,
What room were you in. The majority UCI students? If you are including the overweight, over 50 balding, CAIR members and Hezbolah supporters along with their neighbors and cousins from Anaheim as" UCI students", then you might have an argument. Keep on bringing back the same disgraced "professors" like Ward churchill and "Dr." Schmeckelstein and parade them in front of these frothing at the mouth ant-Semites. Schmeckelstein could whistle Dixie our of his rear end and your imaginary UCI students would applaud him. By the way do you get a discount from Derek, (I mean Maleek) and al ASSI) Since al ASSI got thrown out of his DC Mosque, his income must largely depend on UCI MSU employment.
Finkelschmuck needs to get another gig, like working at a pig farm, or digging graves. He is just a failed academic, with nothing better to dom than aid the enemy because they are the only fools willing to pay him to drone on and on and on and on....he must get paid a penny for each word. YAWN!