Said, Abowd, Kovel, Elahi Attacked

Followup -- WSU: Thought Control in Michigan

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

Connections and Dots

[Update: I misread one of the blog entries. SAFE is a pro-Palestinian group and has no connection to Jonathan Schwartz.]

 

In response to the attack on Wayne State Professor Thomas Abowd (WSU: Thought Control in Michigan, Fight Zionist Thought Control), Karin Friedemann wrote the following open letter to Wayne State University with regard to Amy Stirling.

To Whom it May Concern at Wayne State University:

Ms. Amy Stirling, the director of the Office of Equal Opportunity has *ironically* been caught acting as an agent of the racist hate organization, CAMPUS WATCH, in the harassment of Professor Aboud. I would strongly recommend that WSU conduct an official investigation into Ms. Stirling's affiliation with racist right-wing Zionist groups connected with Daniel Pipes. Daniel Pipes is a professional anti-Arab, anti-African racist spokesperson who strongly advocates denying Arab-Americans and African-Americans their Constitutional liberties. For Ms Stirling to be associating with Daniel Pipes as an employee of the university's Equal Opportunity office is as outrageous as if she were inviting the KKK to campus to organize Nazi skinheads to harass African American professors. Ms. Stirling should be forced to resign, but not before her emails and phone calls are thoroughly discovered, so that her links to professional hate-mongerers can be exposed and prosecuted.

Karin Friedemann, WSU Alumna

Friedemann also noted the following interesting information:

There is an Alan J. Kaufman who is an honorary director of MSU Hillel [and] who lives in Farmington Hills.

Alan J. (Jay) Kaufman is president and chairman of Kaufman Financial Group as well as of the law firm of Kaufman, Payton & Chapa, whence emails harassing Thomas Abowd's brother Paul have originated. Kaufman's wife Sue Singer Kaufman seems to handle day to day management of the law firm.  The Kaufmans are large contributors to Jewish education in the Detroit area as well as directly to the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Detroit. Robert Cohen heads the Detroit JCRC and often makes racist and defamatory attack on Imam Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom. (See Jewish Racist Bullies Imam Elahi.)

 

Amy Stirling and Sue Singer Kaufman both received their law degrees from University of Detroit Mercy, but their ages differ by about 18 years, and there is no evidence as of yet that they know each other through some sort of alumni network.

 

The wealth of Kaufman Financial Group is based in insurance, and Alan Jay Kaufman has heavily pushed terrorism insurance since the attack on the World Trade Center.

 

The attack on Thomas Abowd is probably part of a broader criminal conspiracy against rights in violation of 18 USC 241.

 

The Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC),

• which is intimately associated with the International Hillel Society (IHS) and
• which generally coordinates with regional Israeli Consulates,

worked with StandWithUs and Wayne State Students for Israel to thwart the employment of Wadie Said by WSU. Wadie Said is the son of Edward Said. Christian Zionist Jonathan Harris heads the Michigan Chapter of StandWithUs and may have attended the same school as Amy Stirling at a pre-college level, but I have not been able to verify any overlap.

 

As part of the effort, Jonathan Schwartz,

• who created http://antiracist.blogspot.com,
• who was a WSU law student, and
• who lives in Farmington Hills,

appears to have founded Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) at WSU in order to aid the effort against Wadie Said and to fight anti-Zionism at WSU. Daniel Pipes and his CAMPUS-WATCH organization seem to have provided some assistance to StandWithUs.

 

After attacking Said, StandWithUs, SAFE, CAMERA, and the Michigan ADL headed by Betsy Kellman tried to suppress the distribution of Joel Kovel's book entitled Overcoming Zionism by the University of Michigan Press. (See Dissident Veteran for Peace: Against Zionist Censorship, Zionist attack on Pluto Press, Kovel Pulls No Punches.)

 

While continuing the effort against Overcoming Zionism, the group moved onto other efforts, and StandWithUs brought Daniel Pipes to speak at WSU and at University of Michigan Ann Arbor.  The WSU presentation was disrupted, and in retaliation SAFE, WSU Students for Israel, CAMPUS-WATCH, and StandWithUs began to target Abowd. (National Review commentator Candace de Russey also became involved to craft the coverage of WSU in the national media. She played a similar role in the attempt to deny Nadia Abu el-Haj tenure at Columbia University.)

 

The visit of Walt and Mearsheimer to the two campuses seems to have especially angered Betsy Kellman of the ADL, and she complained to both universities about increasing anti-Semitism on campus. Abowd was used as an example at WSU, In response to such complaints, Amy Stirling interrogated Abowd inappropriately.

 

In the Boston area, the ADL is generally considered a hate group because of Armenian genocide denial. (There is a large and important Armenian community in Watertown, MA.)

 

The ADL has been involved in spying (http://www.counterpunch.org/adlspying2.html),

 

The ADL lost a defamation suite brought by the Quigleys of Colorado in response to false accusations of anti-Semitism and was forced to pay $10.5 million in compensatory damages.

 

Because Amy Stirling apparently is ill-informed about the unsavory nature of the ADL and its apparently numerous civil and criminal violations of the rights of US citizens, she was enmeshed in yet another conspiracy against rights by Israel advocacy groups. As an agent of WSU, she involved the University in the conspiracy. She should be dismissed forthwith, and the University should apologize to Professor Abowd.

 

In any case the collective assault put together by the web of Israel advocacy organizations provides support for my analysis in Updating "The AJC attacks".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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