Comments on: Israel-bashing at UCLA – by Eric Golub

By: ilonaisrael

ilonaisrael — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:26:25 +0000

Its another way of anti-israel propaganda, this time its kinda of Pseudoscientific researches.

By: PAthena

PAthena — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:54:59 +0000

Williamsmart is not so smart, engaging in history-rewrite. A letter in the Wall Street Journal of Tuesday, November 10 (I think) rebuts Shlomo Sand. Does Williamsmart think that the Bible is fiction? Note that the Bible never refers to “Palestine” or “Palestinians,” only to “Philistines” who were defeated by Kings David and Saul. (Herodotus refers to them as Greeks living on the coast.) So the Arabs who now call themselves “Palestinians” have no claim to being descendants of Canaanites or of the ancient Jews. Modern Jews are not mainly descendants of converts, but descendants of the Jews in the Bible. (There have been some converts.)
Williamsmart also insists on rewriting the history of the Roman Empire, as well as that of Assyria (which conquered the northern kingdom of Israel) and Babylon, which destroyed the first temple of Solomon. See the latest on this in Biblical Archaeology, September/October 2007, about the defeat of the second Jewish revolt by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135 A.D.

By: williamsmart

williamsmart — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:41:23 +0000

You too will be interested to read “The Invention of the Jewish People” by Shlomo Sand, out in English for the first time yesterday. It only pulls together what scholars have known for years, there was no Exodus, no “Solomon's Temple”, no ethnic cleansing by the Romans and the first-class population of Israel is overwhelmingly descended from converts.

Meanwhile, the US is not going to bomb every rocket-making factory in Iran and Syria and Russia and China in order to stop Israel's neighbours getting the technology to defend themselves. In 2006 the Lebanese discovered that, if they want Israel to leave them alone, they can enforce it.

By: williamsmart

williamsmart — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:30:53 +0000

It is hasbara to blame “the Arabs” for rejecting a solution that the Yishuv had no intention of accepting. Partition would enable the terrorists to ethnically cleanse the 225,000 Palestinians left stranded in the new Israel, which would be a stepping stone for seizing all of it. David Ben-Gurion was quite open about it (and about rejecting every other UN Resolution – so don't try to pretend you have any intention of abiding by resolutions or law!)

The Zionists had never been interested in peaceful co-existence – Jabotinsky in 1923 was a relative dove “Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonialization” compared with those who came later, the terrorists who attacked the British even as they were fighting Hitler and went on to carry out assassinations all over Europe.

And you've failed to notice that Israelis now almost all accept that they didn't come from Palestine, overwhelmingly they're descended from converts (many of them not even that!). The Hebrew book “When and How the Jewish People Was Invented?” was published yesterday in English as “The Invention of the Jewish People” and is selling like hot-cakes all over the world.

By: PAthena

PAthena — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:51:45 +0000

Don't insult Uncle Tom, who is a Christ-like figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”
These Jew-haters are Jews-of-convenience, who claim to be Jewish in order to bash Jews. They are better described as Communists, sinning the Soviet line on Jews and Israel.
As for “indigenous” inhabitants: Arabs are not the “indigenous” inhabitants of Eretz Yisrael (if “indigenous” means “ancient,” since no human being has just sprung from the soil) – the Jews are. The phony propaganda calling Arabs who live in what was the Palestine Mandate “Palestinian,” is history rewrite, caused by the Soviet Union and Nasser in Cairo in 1964, when they founded the “Palestine Liberation Organization” (P.L.O.). The name “Palestine” always meant “land of the Jews” or “the Holy Land” since 135 A.D. when the Roman Emperor Hadrian, after defeating the last Jewish rebellion led by Bar Kochba in 135 A.D., renamed Judea “Palestina” in order to eradicate all memory of Judea and the Jews (he also outlawed Judaism. “Palestinian” was always synonymous with “Jew.” The Zionists wanted the “Palestine Mandate” because it was to be the homeland for the Jews.

By: Raymond in DC

Raymond in DC — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:28:01 +0000

I was doing grad work in International Politics and, in fact, helped teach a course on the Arab-Israeli Conflict (yes, that's what we called it then) at the time of the UN's “Zionism is racism” resolution. That was disturbing enough, but few of us could have imagined how far “scholarship” would fall within our lifetimes. My students at least were fortunate to have been spared such nonsense as described here.

As outrageous as these gatherings are, let's not forget that parents of college students and all of us as taxpayers are paying for these nutjobs.

By: maryallene

maryallene — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:30:28 +0000

Excellent content, beautifully written. You are a pro, Mr. Golub. Your article is an example of what journalism should be.

By: CowboyUp

CowboyUp — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:23:59 +0000

You'll know if Israel ever loses militarily, because it won't be there anymore. You'll know when they are losing, because the arabs won't be squeeling for another cease-fire. Don't get your hopes up though, because the hostiles surrounding Israel wouldn't stand for the cultural changes required for the them to field a military capable of defeating the IDF.

Most of the Israelis I've talked to aren't going anywhere, pariah state (hilarious considering the states that call them that) or not.

Jews colonizing Judea, or Jerusalem, is kinda like Greeks colonizing Athens, it makes no logical sense. It probably takes a degree in ME Studies to come up with a post that ignorant.

By: williamsmart

williamsmart — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:15:53 +0000

Maybe you'd not noticed – the Palestinians are not simply the indigenous people from 1400 years ago, but most people now accept they've been there for 3,000 years plus. They're the Jews of Jesus's time and probably the Canaanites before that. There was no ethnic cleansing in 70 AD. The entire basis of modern Israel is fraudulent.

Hence, the Zionists are indeed colonialists. Furthermore, after 120 years of having it all their own way, they're losing militarily. Most Israelis now know they'll end up having to return to Russia and America, there's no future for them as a pariah state.

By: abrahamstubenhaus

abrahamstubenhaus — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:23 +0000

Thank you for reminding us what already knew about, but your article saved us from forgetting completely!
Clearly, “political correctness” which I hate anyway, but which is loved by all the liberals, is totally forgotten when it comes to Jews. It's okay to bash Jews because it's been happening for a few thousand years and these haters in your article and pictures are just the newest editions to the typical, expected, ordinary haters. There are even Jews amongst them who enjoy showing off how “open” minded they are while they strut and expose themselves for the Jewish Uncle Toms they are.

By: therealend

therealend — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:34:08 +0000

I don't see how anyone could attract much of a following with this seminar. These people are sub-pathetic. It's amazing that you can get that far in life with so little intellect or talent.

By: Laurie Cardoza-Moore

Laurie Cardoza-Moore — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:44:24 +0000

The “new” anti-Semistism in alive and well on UCLA's campus. My question is, where were the Christians standing in defense of their Jewish brethren and the State of Israel? If Christian's do not rise-up in this hour to uphold a biblical worldview, who will?