Killing Muslims Under Humanitarian Cover

Harvard Carr Center's Murderous Agenda

 

Edward S. Herman, "Richard Holbrooke, Samantha Power, and the 'Worthy-Genocide' Establishment" (Kafka Era Studies Number 5), ZNet, March 24, 2007

 

Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - Military - Law - Social Sciences - Academia - New York Times

 

Harvard's Humanitarian Hawks

 

So far the critics of the Havard Kennedy School Carr Center and Samantha Power have not addressed the Zionist subtext of the marriage of humanitarianism and American hegemonism.

 

Below is the print-publication-style version of Harvard Supports Incinerating Arab Countries. It appeared in the Khartoum-based Sudanese English language newspaper Sudan Vision on Dec. 16, 2007.

 

Harvard-Based Incitement Against Sudan

Carr Center Shills for Neocons

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

For over two years the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Carr Center for Human Rights has provided a podium for incitement against Sudan.

 

Here is a recent event.

Thursday, December 6:  Premiere of Sand and Sorrow , a documentary on Darfur featuring Professor Samantha Power

SAND AND SORROW details the historically tragic events in Darfur that have given rise to an Arab-dominated government's willingness to kill and displace its own indigenous African people, and examines the international community's "legacy of failure" to respond to such profound crimes against humanity in the past. To date, as many as 400,000 civilians in Darfur have perished from violence, starvation and disease.

The documentary offers an exclusive look at the situation on the ground inside Darfur, drawing on unprecedented access to a contingent of African Union peacekeeping forces. SAND AND SORROW follows human rights activist John Prendergast, Harvard University professor Samantha Power and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as they journey through burgeoning refugee camps along the Chad-Sudan border, past mass graves inside Darfur itself, and into offices of the United States Senate to plead on behalf of the innocents of Darfur. They have helped fuel a growing and vocal international advocacy movement that is determined to make the phrase "never again" mean something.

From Khartoum to New York to London, experts interviewed in the film include such varied individuals as Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, U.S. Senators Barak Obama and Sam Brownback, Sudan scholars Alex de Waal and Gerard Prunier, and rebel leader Minni Minawi, each of whom provides a powerful argument for ending this conflict now, and finally learning the lessons of recent history. The behind-the-scenes coverage of the historic but failed Darfur peace signing in Abuja, Nigeria, and the inspiring rally on the Washington Mall confront the viewer with the power of hope and the face of evil.

In the U.S., efforts extend from rural high schools and big college campuses all the way to the halls of power. SAND AND SORROW follows a group of concerned Illinois students who organized a grass-roots campaign to draw attention to the tragedy. Such regional activities are echoed in larger demonstrations in places like Washington, D.C., where a huge crowd gathered in 2006 to demand action and raise awareness.

SAND AND SORROW exposes conditions in the vast, violence-ridden Internally Displaced Persons camps of Darfur, bringing viewers face-to-face with the collective sorrow of a people devastated by the indifference of others. These people have joined the growing spectral chorus of those who waited for help in genocides past - help that once again may never come.

Director Paul Freedman observes, "The tragic events taking place in Darfur unfortunately are a continuation of the lack of response from the international community in protecting millions of innocent lives from their own government. Without humanitarian aid and political resolve from the U.S. and other countries, these displaced people from Darfur could suffer the same fate as those innocents from Eastern Europe, Cambodia and Rwanda."

SAND AND SORROW will be streamed in its entirety on hbo.com from Dec. 7 through Dec. 9; the documentary will be also available on HBO On Demand from Dec. 7 through Jan. 7. HBO is working with Campus Progress and the ENOUGH organization on an extensive outreach campaign, which includes organized house screening parties on the night of the documentary's debut (Dec. 6) and a live hbo.com online chat and podcast with John Prendergast, Samantha Power and Nicholas Kristof immediately following the network premiere.

SAND AND SORROW was the closing night film of the 2007 International Emerging Talent Film Festival in Monte Carlo.

SAND AND SORROW was directed, produced, written and edited by Paul Freedman; producer, Bradley J. Kaplan; co-producer, Aarti Sequeira; composer, Jamie Dunlap; executive producers, George Clooney, Natalie Lum Freedman, Michael Mendelsohn.

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Sara N. Simonds
Marketing and Communications Manager
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
sara_simonds@ksg.harvard.edu
617-496-2457

According to her Harvard Profile

Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, where she was the founding executive director [1998-2002]. Her book "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy. Power's New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan, won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. In 2007, Power became a foreign policy columnist at Time magazine.

Power's book deserved the Pulitzer just as Walter Duranty's 1930s coverage of the Soviet Union for the NY Times did. Both authors failed to mention of the leading role of Soviet Jewish officials in mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide from the Russian Revolution through the 1930s. Without this context, Power cannot provide any rational analysis either of the WW2 killings of Jews or of the subsequent history of the process to create an international convention against genocide.

 

When Power discusses the legacy of Polish Jewish jurist Rafael Lemkin, who first formulated the concept of genocide as a crime against humanity, she omits his opinion that the destruction of the Eastern European German communities after WW2 was an example of genocide. Because this instance of ethnic cleansing has a superficial resemblance to the Holoexaleipsis (Great Erasure or Nakba), inclusion of any such elaboration of Lemkin's ideas would have made it much harder for Power to ignore completely the Zionist genocide of Palestinians and the US role in facilitating Zionist crimes against humanity for the last 60 years.

 

Power's article "Dying in Darfur" appeared in the August 30, 2004 issue of The New Yorker about four months after Boston Jewish activist Ken Sweder and a contingent from the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) persuaded the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) to make an issue of the conflict in Darfur because "it would be good for the Jews."

 

Jewish American Israel advocate Charles Jacobs, who founded and serves as President of both the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) and of The David Project (DP) developed the script that Sweder brought to the JCPA to use in its ongoing anti-Sudan campaign.

 

Jacobs used the conflict in Southern Sudan and false charges of rampant enslavement of non-Muslim Sudanese by Muslim Sudanese to poison the discourse on human rights in a convoluted but quite successful effort to forestall criticism of Israel. The DP retooled the marketing and advertising campaign of the AASG to apply to the conflict in Darfur.

 

Power's New Yorker article follows the DP-JCPA analysis of the Darfur situation and starts with an erroneous explanation of the term janjaweed as a compound of jaan (according to her Arabic for evil -- jaan is actually a word for criminal -- probably closer to scrounger -- or the collective plural of a word for demon) and jawad (Arabic for horse) even though the word is simply the local Darfurian pronunciation of a standard Arabic idiom jund jawa'id, which means literally army on horses and which has been used commonly as a term for militia or armed gang.

 

Then the article tries to describe the conflict as a race war between African Blacks and Arabs even though practically everybody in the Sudan is a Black African. To her credit Power does mention some of the issues of counterinsurgency and greed, but she leaves out the issue of US destabilization efforts that go back to the 60s and that went into high gear after Sudan refused to join the coalition against Iraq in the first Gulf War. In a similar sort of near omission, Power just barely and only indirectly alludes to the effect of climate change in the Darfur region.

 

In line with the DP-JCPA program Power makes the case that Darfur is the worst contemporary humanitarian crisis, which, of course, should draw the attention of Americans from Zionist and Neocon crimes in Palestine and Iraq. At the time Power wrote her article, estimates of the size of the Neocon-inspired disaster in Iraq already reached one million refugees and several hundred thousand deaths from violence.

 

On page 11 of the article Power tries to put the Darfur situation within the parameters established by Neocons and the organized Jewish community for discussing the conflict in Darfur as genocide in order to justify intervention.

The campaign of massacres, rapes, and ethnic cleansing may well fit the definition of genocide established by the Genocide Convention, which does not require a Rwanda-style extermination campaign but, rather, an attempt to "destroy" a substantial "part" of a group "as such." But genocide is a crime based on intent, and pin-pointing who has acted with the goal of destroying Darfur's non-Arab groups will remain difficult unless investigators dig up the wells, examine the ravines, apprehend perpetrators, and ascertain the command-and-control relationships among Sudanese leaders, Air Force pilots, and Arab militiamen.

Yet in agreement with Zionists and Neocons, Power has explicitly told me that she does not consider the Zionist murder of Arab Palestine to be genocide even though by the plain meaning of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to which she refers above, not only do Zionist actions in Palestine constitute the archetypal 20th century genocide, which still continues to the present day, but the intent of murder Arab Palestine is easily demonstrable on the basis of Zionist writings since the 1880s!

 

A little more than a year ago, Power took part in the following Carr Center panel.

Obstacles and Options for Intervention
Monday December 4, 2006
6:00 p.m.
Malkin Penthouse, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street
Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Omer Ismail, Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Samantha Power, Professor of Practice in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government , Harvard University
Sarah Sewall, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government (moderator)

According to his biography on an MIT web site,

Omer Ismail [was] born in El Fashir, Western Sudan. After graduating from Khartoum University, he worked as research assistant to Dr. Mansour Khalid, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sudan. His work with international relief and development organizations continued until 1988 when he became the Operations Manager for the United Nations Operation Life Line Sudan, the largest relief operation in the world at the time.

He fled Sudan after the NIF (National Islamic Front) took power in 1989 and since lived as a refugee in the US. He returned to the United Nations to serve in Somalia between 1992-1994. In Washington, he helped found the Sudan Democratic Forum, a think tank of Sudanese intellectuals working for advancement of democracy in Sudan. He is the spokesperson for The Darfur Union an advocacy group and the co-founder of Darfur Peace and Development. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Max Boot is an extremist Zionist Neocon associated with Charles Jacobs through Benador Associates, which is a leading Zionist speaker agency and public relations firm. He is Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Affairs and was "named one of 'the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy'" according to the World Affairs Councils of America (2004);

 

As a member of the above Harvard panel in which Omer Ismail tried to play the role of Ahmad Chalaby in Iraq and in which Max Boot argued for the use of mercenaries like those from Blackwater, Power advanced ideas that amounted to destroying the Sudan by intervention just the way that Iraq has been ruined. Since then the organized Jewish community has gone into high gear to push this program of nation wrecking by involving that part of the American film industry that is semi-openly a part of the Israel Lobby.

 

Mia Farrow, who built her Hollywood career on meager talents and as wife or lover to important Jewish film people like Exodus director Otto Preminger, served as the opening act of the Hollywood anti-Sudan extravaganza. In the spring of 2007 she testified before Massachusetts legislators  on behalf of divestment from Sudan but has been effectively dropped from the roster of anti-Sudan Hollywood personalities because she inadvertently offended Steven Spielberg, who is the most important Hollywood Jewish director. Shortly afterward in July, the Save Darfur Coalition, which is a front group for the JCPA and whose local Massachusetts co-chair Eric Cohen is a close Neocon associate and collaborator of preeminent Neocon ideologue William Kristol, released the film The Devil Came on Horseback, which closely follows the Charles Jacobs-DP propaganda line.

 

According to the movie's web site,

[u]sing more than a thousand uncompromising and exclusive photographs taken by former US Marine Captain Brian Steidle during his role as a military observer with the African Union, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK propels the viewer through the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on destroying its black African citizens.

According to the Philadelphia Weekly, Steidle is "a gung-ho, battle-scarred 27-year-old vet," but the newspaper like Steidle himself neglects to report where he fought.

 

The Sand and Sorrow documentary shown this past Thursday at Harvard represents a surge or escalation of Zionist efforts to destroy yet another Arab or Muslim country. Here is the final paragraph from the biography of the executive producer (i.e., funder) Michael Mendelsohn at the website of the film investment fund Patriot Advisors, Inc.

A graduate of The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Mr. Mendelsohn studied Economics with a major in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management and minor in English and Russian Literature. He often lectures at his alma mater, as well as AFI, Harvard, NYU, UCLA and USC. Mr. Mendelsohn resides in Los Angeles, California and is on the Los Angeles Board of Directors of the United States Holocaust Museum, Friends of The Israel Defense Forces, Variety Children's Lifeline, and C.O.A.C.H. for Kids at Cedars Sinai Hospital.

Mendelsohn does not have a personal profile that indicates much concern about genocide directed against Africans or Muslims, but like the Israel Lobby, to which he belongs, he almost certainly wants Jews to keep control of any discussion of genocide.

 

A talk given last spring (2007) at Harvard by Tom Ashbrook of NPR gives some insight into the goals of Mendelsohn and other Israel advocates in this high-powered media campaign against Sudan that recalls the similar campaign of Neocons, the Israel Lobby, and the organized Jewish community against Iraq.

 

Ashbrook described how the Neocons manipulated the media in the lead-up to the Iraq War by imposing "the world is a dangerous place" as the frame of discussion. Then by depicting "evil" as being a single many-headed phenomenon, they rendered Iraq a plausible front in the War on Terror even though the idea that Saddam Hussein would work with al-Qaeda to attack the WTC was patently ridiculous.

 

Nowadays after the disasters in Iraq, the backsliding in Afghanistan, the mess in Somalia, the cluster-bombing of Lebanon, and no progress in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the old frame is rather worn out, and Neocons are working on reframing the discussion with the assertion that genocide is so evil that the US has to intervene anywhere that Neocon, Zionist, or Jewish leaders ring the alarm bell that a genocidal situation has arisen. Then just as Pavlov's dogs slobbered at the sound of the food bell, the US government will send its military forces to do Zionist dirty work.

 

While powerful, this frame is fraught with perils from the standpoint of Neocons, Jews and Zionists if they ever lose control of the genocide discussion and Americans realize that the State of Israel is itself founded on genocide and -- thanks to the USA -- is trying slowly but surely to finish the job so that ultimately no Palestinians will be left anywhere in historic Palestine.

 

For Zionists to maintain general American cluelessness on Palestine, an academic whore like Samantha Power is extremely useful, for she has very successfully based her career on writing and saying exactly what wealthy or powerful Jews in the news media and in academia want to read and hear. With her soapboxes of a Harvard professorship and the Carr Center, she can indoctrinate the American public with Zionist disinformation and transform the Carr Center into a tool to make the world safe for Zionism by laying the groundwork for the incineration of one Arab or Muslim country after another in the name of human rights and anti-genocide -- first the Sudan, then Iran, and then any country the Carr Center's Zionist puppeteers will choose. 

 

Not only will the USA bear the entire cost of policies that benefit only Israel, but Americans will feel good about the wanton destruction that the US will create or orchestrate throughout the world.

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Here is a relevant article that addresses Power and the Carr Center from a slightly different perspective.

Edward S. Herman, "Richard Holbrooke, Samantha Power, and the 'Worthy-Genocide' Establishment" (Kafka Era Studies Number 5), ZNet, March 24, 2007.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=80&ItemID=12404

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