Harvard Supports Incinerating Arab Countries

Carr Center Shills for Neocons

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

Muzzlewatch, Tikun Olam, and The Magnes Zionist have been covering efforts of the American Israel Cooperative Exchange (AICE)  to infiltrate an Israeli propagandist and Zionist propaganda as the instructor and course materials for a standard undergraduate course at George Washington University.

 

The relevant articles are: 

• GWU instructor backed by propaganda organization quits because too "pro-Israeli?"
• Scandals at Shalem Center; Pro-Israel Academic Partisanship at George Washington University
• Schusterman Foundation Funding Zionist Propaganda On Campus?
• Mitch Bard's Apologia for AICE
• The Magnes Zionist: What Can Be Learned from the Hannah Diskin Affair at GWU
• The Magnes Zionist: Further Thoughts on the Hannah Diskin Affair, AICE, and Israel Studies .

The Harvard Kennedy School of Government Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has recently exhibited an even more disturbing example of Zionist subversion of academia.

 

Here is the 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's Profile at Harvard University)

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 Lemkin, she omits his opinion that the destruction of the Ostdeutsch communities after WW2 was an example of the crime for which he coined the word 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 A Reporter at Large: Dying in Darfur: The New Yorker appeared in 2004 about four months after 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" according to the script that Charles Jacobs, the American Anti-Slavery Group, and The David Project developed first in Southern Sudan to poison the discourse on human rights in order to forestall criticism of Israel. (See excerpt from Forward article below.)

 

The article starts out 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 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 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)

As a member of a panel that also included Omer Ismail trying to play the role of Ahmad Chalaby, and Neocon Max Boot arguing 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 Hollywood personalities like Mia Farrow, who testified before Massachusetts legislators in the spring of 2007 on behalf of divestment from Sudan. 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 of William Kristol, released the film The Devil Came on Horseback. (See Devils with Film Crews.)

 

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 executive producer (i.e., funder) Michael Mendelsohn at Patriot Advisors, Inc. - Patriots.

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 genocide discourse.

 

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.

 

When Arabs, Muslims or anyone concerned about this ongoing perversion of human rights and anti-genocide discourse donate money to Harvard, they should complain to President Faust about the transformation of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy into the Carr Center for the Zionist Right to Incite Mass Destruction Throughout the World.

 

Relevant Links

 

If you liked Iraq, you will love Sudan

 

5th Question: Darfur

 

Profiteering from humanitarianism

 

Poisoning Human Rights Discourse

 

Singing HaTikvah while inciting a disastrous US invasion

 

Holoexaleipsis, Holocaust, Holosphage and Holodomor

 

From http://www.forward.com/forward-50/

Charles Jacobs and Roz Rothstein

 

When it comes to defending Israel in the media, on campus and in the streets, America's long-established Jewish groups no longer have a monopoly. Increasingly, the agenda is set by scrappy startups like Boston's The David Project and the Los Angeles-based StandWithUs ― often dragging the rest of the community along behind them. StandWithUs was founded in 2001 by a group of activists assembled by Roz Rothstein, a family therapist driven by what she saw as the larger community's anemic response to growing anti-Israel activism. The David Project was launched the following year by Charles Jacobs, co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group, which targeted slavery in Sudan. Neither Rothstein, 55, nor Jacobs, 63, shies from confrontation. The David Project captured headlines in 2003 with a documentary alleging faculty intimidation of pro-Israel students at Columbia University. More recently, it waged a high-profile legal and media battle with the Islamic Society of Boston over its controversial associates and its plans for a new mosque. This summer, StandWithUs took the lead in responding to a planned pro-Palestinian rally in Washington. While the D.C. Jewish Community Relations Council opted to ignore the demonstration (which was a dud in the end), StandWithUs organized a counter-protest and answered pro-Palestinian ads on Washington's subway system with ads of its own. Both groups have focused on campus activism, multimedia projects, leadership training and curriculum development. The courses Rothstein and Jacobs charted have proven popular with action-hungry donors: Their two startups already boast multimillion-dollar budgets and sizable staffs.

 

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