Boycotts and Principles of Academia

Open Letter to Brown University President Ruth Simmons
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com) 

 

Dear President Simmons:

 

I have been studying the Boston area Israel advocacy organizations since I became involved in the controversy over former Harvard President Lawrence Summers. Extremist Israel advocates were exerting undue influence because of a midlife crisis and his relationship with Harvard Professor Elise New. In particular Summers was closely linked to CAMERA and to the David Project, which has in a probable Title 18 USC Section 241 violation (conspiracy against rights) been running a campaign to drive Arab and Muslim scholars out of US academia in order to fulfil its self-avowed mission "to diminish the impact of critics of Israel." 

 

Targeted academics include Columbia's faculty members Rashid Khalidi, Georges Saliba, Joseph Massad, and Hamid Dabashi as well as Barnard Professor Nadia Abu el Haj and Harvard University's Hillary Rantisi, who is the director of the MEI initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The David Project has produced a film entitled Columbia Unbecoming for the purpose of slandering Arab and Muslim academics and in order to intimidate Columbia University.

 

This campaign is national. The David Project works with organizations like CAMERA, StandWithUS,  Campus Watch, and SANE, which is headed by white supremacist David Yerushalmi. The Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC) has provided a lot of coordination among these organizations and with local university and community Israel advocacy organizations. In the Boston area, the Israeli consulate provides guidance to the ICC. Rupert Murdoch has strongly assisted the campaign in Boston and New York through his media enterprises. These groups have been involved in greater or lesser ways in the Stop-the-Madrassa effort in New York City.

 

In effect, the State of Israel has organized a stealth one-by-one illegal racist boycott and defamation campaign against Arab and Muslim American faculty and staff both at US universities and also at American primary and secondary schools.

 

On your website you write in Letter-to-UK.pdf (http://www.brown.edu/Administration/President/Documents/Letter-to-UK.pdf).

A boycott of the sort your organization is considering -- a measure that attempts to silence or marginalize the scholars of an entire nation -- is inimical to those fundamental principles and could do great harm to colleges and universities. Supporting such a boycott of scholars from Israel or any other part of the world is not an option for people who are dedicated to the core principles of the academy.

As president of Brown University, I write to inform you that we strongly support Israeli universities and will assist them in efforts to protect scholars from political pressure of the kind the forthcoming debate intends.

You are worrying about the wrong boycott. 

 

If you were truly concerned about the core principles of the academy, you would be organizing your fellow university presidents to undertake a boycott of Israeli academia until the State of Israel knocks off its program to bring un-American Zionist Arabophobic and Islamophobic norms to the USA.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Joachim Martillo

President

Telford Tools, Inc.

 

PS. CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, who is African American, circulated information from the SANE website.

David Yerushalmi informs us:

"There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote."

The article "On Race: A Tentative Discussion, Part II"
(http://www.saneworks.us/On-Race-A-Tentative-Discussion-Part-II-article-64-25.htm) contains many similar gems.

Another SANE article states:

Is there something unique about the Black American (or, at least the Black New Yorker) that leads him to murder so disproportionately and to most often kill and victimize his own? Do we see patterns of Black culture that arise out of Africa and the wanton murder of blacks by blacks there? Why have the colonized blacks of the African continent, after having acquired their freedom and independence, so willingly slaughtered their own and live in despicable disease and squalor despite a land of enormous riches while Indians of the Indian sub-continent have successfully moved from British rule to democracy and relative civility even in a country that still maintains social inequalities as a fact of their culture?

You really should contact Mr. Hooper before jumping to the defense of Zionist racists.

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