Comments on: Campuses of Repression – by Richard L. Cravatts

By: mike902

mike902 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:47:02 +0000

Horowitz does not represent “ultra” anything. He represents those of us who are and forever will be patriotic middle America. Please tell yourself what you think you need to hear to smooth over your projection and denial of the left-wing idiocracy. The blind left as usual…

By: mike902

mike902 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:43:04 +0000

St Loius U receives Federal and State funding…thus by litigious definition is not “private” anymore…strings come with big-brother-dollars.

By: Tar_and_Feathers

Tar_and_Feathers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:39:20 +0000

The Left has had an intense disdain for Horowitz ever since he became an outspoken conservative. It was interesting for awhile, then tedious, and now boring. When did the animosity of the Left become such dull monotony?

I suspect Horowitz will continue to write, lecture, and appear on the cable news outlets, as well as continue to irritate all of his detractors. Good work if you can get it.

By: trickyblain

trickyblain — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:42:10 +0000

Wait. I thought that, according to “conservatives,” private business should be free to run their companies as they see fit. St. Louis University is a private business. Why does Horowitz have a “right” to speak there? Horowitz is neither an employee of the university, let alone a member of a protected class — where does his right to spew come from?

If the university indeed wanted to present “a close examination of radical Islam,” there are thousands of infinitely more qualified individuals than a man angry that he is not taken seriously as an intellectual. A man whose degree is in English Lit. Academic qualifications are not attained by running a Web site geared for an extreme political faction.

Should St. Louis University invite the managing editor of “Stormfront” to give a discussion on African-American culture? Whoever that is, I'm sure he considers himself an expert on such matters. But he's not — his views are contaminated by bigotry and hate. Just as Horowitz is not an expert on “Islam,” “The LEFT” or much else, save self-aggrandizement.

By: robertschneider

robertschneider — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:21:59 +0000

I grew up near St. Louis. Back in the late 50s and 60s, I remember St. Louis Univ. being hard on the Protestant infidel. Why in the world does Islam deserve more respect than Calvinism?

By: CrispusAttucks

CrispusAttucks — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:37:55 +0000

hatred? because I'm stating the obvious? what could I possibly resent? That Horowitz doesn't have a moderate bone in his body? Is that not true? The man went from the ultra left to the ultra right and believes that his ideas are absolute truths. He is just another TV and online figurehead, like Glenn Beck, who is full of frustration, anger and self loathing. I feel sorry for these people.

“Thinly veiled hatred and resentment towards those who effectively criticize and de-bunk the orthodoxies of the Left.” – So how has Horowitz effectively debunked anything? Who is his audience, aside from a marginal minority of ultra right people who visit this site and watch glenn beck?

By: CrispusAttucks

CrispusAttucks — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:33:58 +0000

I'm lying? You clearly do not know a thing about Horowitz's history…

By: sflbib

sflbib — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:21:51 +0000

What you say is true for public institutions, but St. Louis is a private one and can "censor" what it pleases, although not a good idea, especially when your website says, "We don't so much embrace ideas as challenge them, always looking for larger, stronger answers. As a consequence, not only will you learn to defend your ideas, you will learn to improve upon them, developing the intellectual wherewithal to think clearly, argue pointedly and express yourself beautifully." http://www.slu.edu/x844.xml

By: antioli

antioli — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:38:06 +0000

What do you think of Bobby Fischer?
Do you think his views on Jews was valid . Did his views in any way resemble those of Finkelstein

By: antioli

antioli — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:31:14 +0000

The College is deciding for the students what they have the right to hear. The students should not let the administration play favorites as the forum belongs not to the administration but to the people of the state and the decision to listen or not to listen is up to the student.If the student does not wish to listen he does not have to attend;if the student does wish to hear then no one has the right to prohibit him from listening
No administrators and no group of hecklers should be allowed to violate the rights of the students to listen or to play guardian of the students minds.
For the Administration or group that censors a speaker who has been invited by the students by denying him access to the students forum is acting like a dictator. The College is an appendage of the government and thus the administration either by banning or by allowing hecklers to silence the invited speakers is engaged in illegal governmental censorship and is acting in lawless retrograde manner
with respect democracy and with respect to the will of the people.
Does the Administrator wish to act against people as if he were a primitive dictator? If so he should not be a control person of an institute dedicated to learning.

By: Jp

Jp — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:11:11 +0000

Anyone who can read and think critically can easily discover that Finkestein's views are not what is stated in this article. He fought vehemently to get his Mother, a Holocaust survivor who lost her entire family, reparations and was only able to get a few thousand. He wrote the Holocaust Industry to indict those who stole Holocaust reparations money from the real victims and extorted governments, using the memory of the Holocaust for personal financial gain. A just and worthy cause for any Jew. I admire him greatly. And so did the late great Raul Hilberg author of "The Destruction Of European Jews" and considered the leading scholar on the Holocaust. Hilberg stated, regarding Finkelstein's writings and tenure dispute, "That [his work] takes a great amount of courage in and of itself. So I would say that his place in the whole history of writing history is assured and that those who in the end are proven right triumph, and he will be among those who will have triumphed, albeit, it so seems, at great cost." He also said regarding the attacks on Finkelstein due to his work in The Holocaust Industry,
“I was also struck by the fact that Finkelstein was being attacked over and over. And granted, his style is a little different from mine, but I was saying the same thing, and I had published my results in that three-volume work, published in 2003 by Yale University Press, and I did not hear from anybody a critical word about what I said, even though it was the same substantive conclusion that Finkelstein had offered. So that’s the gist of the matter right then and there." The source for this is easily found on I'm sure what is every reader of frontpage's favorite website democracynow.org. In regard to his "firing" from St. Paul. Not true. He was denied tenure due to a witch-hunt by Dershowitz. His peers unanimously voted to give him tenure. In arbitration he agreed to resign and received a settlement package that included an acknowledgement of his great work as an Assistant Professor at St. Paul. I suggest everyone read first "The Case for Israel" by Dershowitz, as I did when some family wanted me to make Aliyah (move to and live in Israel), and check the sources then read "Beyond Chutzpah" by Finkelstein and check the sources to see what kind of men Finkelstein and Dershowitz really are. This article is simply false and misleading. Let the bashing begin.

By: patriotwork

patriotwork — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:53 +0000

We must work with David Horowitz to roll back this poluted tied of leftist activity and antisemitism at universities across this land.

CP,No.3,you don't know much about Horowitz,or you are lying. Either way,you are the small person with the big mouth. Add small mind,too.