Harvard hosts conference to eradicate Israel

[Mediocrates]

On March 3 and 4, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government is hosting a conference on the 'one-state solution.' That would be the state that makes the 'Palestinians' of Judea, Samaria and Gaza into

Israeli

'Palestinian' citizens, allows millions of descendants of 'refugees' to return and then calls a plebiscite to negate the idea of Jewish self-determination. The conference, which is an officially sanctioned event at Harvard,

does not have a single pro-Israel speaker

on any of its seven panels. So much for academic integrity.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/201...o-promote.html

[Mediocrates]

More specifics on this and op-ed

The list of speakers is chock-full of virulent anti-Zionist professors, rabbis and activists, some of whom are of course Jewish, giving legitimacy to the anti-Semites in their midst. The media monitoring group CAMERA issued a notice about the Harvard event with short bios on some of the speakers:

• Ali Abunimah has intentionally understated Hamas violence and disseminated false quotations to make Israeli leaders appear cruel.

• Diana Buttu has repeatedly and falsely understated the extent of Palestinian terrorist violence and mischaracterized international law. She has even gone so far as to claim that Hamas rockets have no explosive heads. This is an obvious falsehood.

• Marc Ellis wrote a column describing how a Palestinian friend of his was murdered because Jewish settlers coveted her family’s land, falsely implying she was killed by Jews when, in fact, her murderer was an Arab. Ellis is currently defending himself against charges by Baylor University that could lead to his dismissal.

• Leila Farsakh falsely asserted in a French newspaper that the PLO had agreed to share land with Israel in 1974. The truth is that in 1974, the PLO reaffirmed its rejection of a land-for-peace deal in what is known as the “Phased Plan” for the destruction of Israel.

• Ilan Pappe repeatedly published a fabricated quotation to make Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, appear to endorse ethnic cleansing. Pappe has so little regard for historical facts that he freely admits, “I am not as interested in what happened as in how people see what’s happened.”

• Nadim Rouhana was denied tenure at Boston College due to the insufficient quality of his scholarship.

• Stephen Walt is best known for his book, written with John Mearsheimer, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.” The book claims American Jews are a fifth column that controls American policy.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/news...on.php?id=1405

[Sharn]

I'm no economist, I admit, so am open to correction, but this single-state solution with its potential for, what, up to 5 million people to flood in. strikes me as a motion that might garner interest with an under-18yr old school debating society but surely doesn't merit attention from an institution like Havard?

Five million is roughly two-thirds of Israel's current population and its landmass is tiny. The equivalent here in the UK would be an intake of 40million people in a short period of time. Never mind the impact on the cultural ethos or the past and present political difficulties / implications, where would the socio-economic resources come from? Houses, jobs, schools, colleges, emergency services, food and utility resources - and so on? To say this 'return' would create civil unrest is an understatement.

In their eagerness to deligitimise and destroy Israel, so-called supporters of the Palestinian people seem quite keen to inflict hardship on those they claim to care about.