Sunday, August 24, 2008
Post-Zionist "Academic" Uri Davis converts to Islam (not a spoof)
Ilan Pappe has been hired:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127310
Post-Zionist Jewish Academic Converts to Islam
23 Av 5768, 24 August 08 12:34
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Dr. Uri Davis, who has often termed Israel an "apartheid 
state" and refused to serve in the IDF, converted to Islam about a week 
ago and married a Fatah activist in Ramallah.  The conversion ceremony 
involved two oaths in which Davis recognized Allah and the Muslim prophet 
Mohammed.  Davis said he plans to follow the laws of Islam, but not 
devoutly.
The conversion took place in a Moslem religious court in Baka el-Garbiye, 
an Israeli-Arab town just outside northwestern Samaria (Shomron).
Davis's lawyer explained that the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority know 
him for his great sacrifices on behalf of the "Palestinian problem" and 
the "realization of their rights."  He noted that the consent of the Arab 
woman and her family to the marriage to a Jewish activist is an "admirable 
social development."
Just two months ago, David took part in an Arab-sponsored "Haifa 
Conference," billed as "defend[ing] a secular democratic state in historic 
Palestine."  A summary of the conference written by Yoav Bar states that 
the Conference "was our moment to raise our heads from the exhausting 
daily struggle and promise ourselves and the world that the suffering of 
the Palestinian people may be brought to an end and there can be a bright 
future for everybody in Palestine after we get rid of the racist Zionist 
disorder."
Bar himself, an initiator of the Haifa Conference, is an Israeli member of 
the political bureau of Abnaa el-Balad - Sons of the Land, a secular 
movement that seeks the return of all Arab refugees, the abolishment of 
Israel as a Jewish state and the establishment of a Palestinian state in 
its place.
Dr. Davis gave one of the three Hebrew speeches at the Conference; the 
others were delivered by Yehuda Kupferman of the "Committee for a Secular 
and Democratic state in the Whole of Palestine," and Dr. Anat Matar, a 
leading supporter of the rights of Palestinian prisoners and the rights of 
Israeli youth to refuse to serve in the IDF.
Davis, who has described himself as an "anti-Zionist Palestinian Hebrew," 
has been advocating support for Palestinian issues for over 40 years, and 
was arrested more than once on charges of illegal activities in this 
connection.  He is a founding member of the Movement Against Israeli 
Apartheid in Palestine, is a former member of the Executive Committee of 
the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, and is 
actually an Observer Member of the Palestine National Council.
2.  From Isracampus:
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Joel%20Amitai%20-%20Yael%20Koren.htm
Yael Korin.s War on Israel
by Joel Amitai
.As an Israeli-born Jew, that my family survived the Holocaust, it.s an 
incredible pain, and very difficult for me,. proclaims Yael Korin in this 
video, .to keep watching Israel committing war crimes, crimes against 
humanity, crimes against the Palestinian people, and now the Lebanese 
people..
Yael Korin, an immunologist at the UCLA medical school, speaking here at a 
rally against the Second Lebanon War in Los Angeles on August 12, 2006, is 
introduced as a member of the far-Left Women in Black. Korin.s Los Angeles 
branch of the organization describes itself here as supporting .the right 
of Palestinian refugees to return [to Israel]..recognized by all Israeli 
governments, Right and Left, as a formula for Israel.s destruction.
Korin goes on to tell the gathering: .What we need to remember is that 
Israel is born in a sin, 1948 the al-Naqba [.catastrophe. in Arabic] was a 
war of ethnic cleansing, of grabbing land by force and cleansing it from 
its inhabitants, the Palestinians.Israel consistently and persistently 
have been continuing this strategy, continuing grabbing more land, 1967 
the whole historic Palestine.Israel wants land but it doesn.t want the 
people on the land, the Zionist ideology is calling for a state of Jewish 
people only...
She goes on to explain that Israel is now applying this same .strategy. to 
southern Lebanon, where it wants to grab the land and the water sources, 
and so it has to be gotten out of southern Lebanon totally (something 
that, in the real world, Israel was actually all too glad to do on its 
own).
In the telling of this self-professed daughter of Holocaust survivors, 
then, Israel in 1948.at the same time it was already absorbing tens of 
thousands of Holocaust survivors.was already behaving monstrously, a 
savage juggernaut of land theft and ethnic cleansing. Indeed Korin.s 
Israel is in some respects worse than Nazi Germany, which, while 
exterminating certain populations, didn.t try to ethnically cleanse, for 
instance, Poland of all Poles or France of all French. But for Korin.s 
version of the .Zionist ideology.calling for a state of Jewish people 
only,. this would be too moderate.
So for Yael Korin, 1947-1948 was not the story of the UN Partition Plan 
(accepted by Israel, totally rejected by the Arab side) or of seven Arab 
armies massing to strangle Israel in its cradle, but rather of the newborn 
state of 600,000 Jews, fresh Holocaust memories and all, actually seeking 
war with the surrounding Arab world in a vicious land-grab. In 1967 there 
was no Nasser and no Soviet Union, in 2006 there was no Hizballah; it was 
all Israeli avarice and racism. A Jewish state that .consistently and 
persistently. behaves this way for sixty years running is not actually 
different from what Hitlerian doctrine would have expected of it.pure evil 
and a menace to other peoples; Korin.s and the Mein Kampfian views of 
Jewish collective goals and behavior are strikingly similar.
Yael Korin has been propagating this sort of vicious tripe during years in 
which there have been numerous deadly terrorist attacks on Israeli Jews by 
people who have the same emotions that she flaunts and incites: rage 
against Israel and Israelis and a yearning for the Jewish state.s 
destruction. Indeed, Korin.s sympathy for exterminatory passions toward 
Israel and Israelis could not have been more explicit than on March 27, 
2004, when she spoke, having donned Arab garb for the occasion, at a rally 
outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles to protest Israel.s 
assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.the Hamas leader responsible for the 
murders of over three hundred Israelis including many children.
Korin was there at the consulate again on October 17 that year.this time 
to protest .Israel.s latest assault on Gaza. amid demonstrators carrying 
signs saying .Stop Use of U.S.-Supplied WMDs on Civilians. and the 
like.again, the clear and emphatic link between supposed Israeli behavior 
and Nazi-style mass-murdering behavior. Korin and a fellow speaker at the 
rally had .returned days earlier from Palestine, where they had frequently 
joined Machsom Watch,. an Israeli women.s organization that harasses 
Israeli soldiers doing difficult and lifesaving anti-terror work at 
checkpoints. Korin .said she doesn.t want anyone to do to another people 
what was done to her parents..again that fundamental, recurrent confusion 
in someone who announces herself as a Jew and dresses as an Arab, who 
can.t seem to process the notion of post-1945 Jews as victims and so 
instead turns them into Nazis.
Not surprisingly, Korin.s sympathy for Palestinian terrorism doesn.t stop 
with Ahmed Yassin and Hamas. Just recently she signed a petition for the 
release of Sami Al-Arian, the University of South Florida computer 
scientist convicted in 2006 of aiding Palestinian Islamic Jihad. That 
organization.s charter calls for the elimination of .the Zionist entity,. 
the establishment of an Islamic state .from sea to sea,. and .Jihad 
against the Jewish existence in Palestine..right after Yael Korin.s 
twisted heart.
In addition to Women in Black, Korin is listed here by Al-Awda (the 
Palestinian Right to Return Coalition) as a .founding member of the 
Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Southern California.. Attach any 
vicious terminology to Israel..born in sin,. .war crimes,. .ethnic 
cleansing,. .apartheid..and Yael Korin is there to endorse and propagate 
it. Her pathological loathing of Israel and Israelis, if not literally 
murderous (and that is an open question), certainly encompasses 
identifying with those who do murder Israelis en masse. Psychologically 
speaking she is a frightening phenomenon of reality-distortion and evil, 
exploiting her democratic freedoms to spread her message of incendiary 
hatred.
Joel Amitai is an independent researcher and filmmaker. Reach him at 
jamitai40@gmail.com