It's come to this: Ramaz has to ban Rashid Khalidi
It's come to this: Ramaz, one of the most prominent Jewish high schools in the New York City area, where one of the most prominent anti-Islam, pro-Israel Jewish bloggers sends their children, had to ban Rashid Khalidi to prevent him from appearing at the school. The students wanted him.
Students of a Jewish modern orthodox upscale high school in New York City are demanding that the administration permit its political society to host the noted Palestinian-American academic Professor Rashid Khalidi after the head of the school barred his appearance.
The controversy erupted earlier this week when the anti-Zionist blogger Mondoweiss reported that the Ramaz day school had nixed an appearance by Khalidi, who was invited to the Manhattan campus by the student-run political society.
The move angered some students, who were moved to circulate an online petition that called on the Ramaz headmaster, Paul Shaviv, to reverse his decision.
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In a statement issued to JTA on Friday, Shaviv said he was working with students to “navigate a delicate political situation, respecting their wish for open exchange of ideas, but also being mindful of multiple sensitivities within our varied school constituencies.”
The statement from Ramaz said, “The issue is not whether or not students should hear another view – they should. Our question was: ‘Is this the appropriate program?’”
The school’s administration said it believed the controversy would “massively overshadow any conversation and would make an educational experience impossible,” and that Khalidi was not the right partner for dialogue with high school students. Shaviv said he met with Khalidi and amicably explained the situation to him, and Ramaz’s statement said the school is “working with the politics club to arrange an event that will provide the program content they originally envisaged.”
Sorry but as far as I am concerned a private school has the right to ban whomever they want from appearing at their school, and if the families don't like it, they have the right to vote with their feet and send the kids elsewhere.
It's almost important to remember who Khalidi is.
Khalidi, a professor at Columbia University, was born to a Saudi-Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. According to the Jewish Telgraph Agency, Khalidi was an adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization during the Madrid peace negotiations in the early 1990s. Khalidi has generated controversy in the past for stating that the Palestinians were legally entitled to resist Israel’s occupation by targeting soldiers.
Prior to taking up his current post as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia, Khalidi also taught at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University.Not mentioned: Khalidi is a close friend of President Hussein Obama. When Khalidi left Chicago, there was a going away party at which it was rumored that the future President made anti-Semitic comments. The videotape of that party has never been released.
Labels: American Jews, Barack Hussein Obama, Leftist Jews, liberal Jews, Rashid Khalidi
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:26 PM
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What a disgrace!
The late Rabbi Joseph Lookstein is rolling over in his grave because of the monster he created.
I am a Ramaz alum from 1958, when the upper school was on 82 nd st between Madison and Fifth, when traveling to the 86 st/ Lexington Ave subway meant, maybe, walking along Park Avenue past Loyola and Regis, back when we were still Christ Killers. We kinder- (“children”)-juden would be attacked on the street. So we were told not to and of course I did, and of course I was attacked. So next day I rounded up the kids and decided to counterattack. I organized thirty kids in groups of two, sent the little kids up first and the bigger kids hung back, we were attacked, the big kids came to the rescue and the Catholic kids ran away. (High point of my life).
Next day, the Catholic kids complained to the priests who complained to the rabbis who complained to us, demanding that we Confess!, (no Hail Marys or Our Fathers I remember), but 'Confess!' was a Hail Mary of sort by Ramaz management. We stood tough,silent, tall and proud, second proudest day of my life, juden-waffen, upper east side version, as it were, the cry of incredulity by the Germans in Warsaw liquidation (original Nazis were a lot more real in 1958 than 2014).
SO now these kinder- juden want to hear on-site from a Pal-advocate. Ah youth.
Rosh Beit Midrash Paul Shaviv has uninvited Professor Khalid; I am invited to reply.
Mr Shaviv cites to “Ramaz Politics Club, known as RamPo,“ they call themselves
“The Ramaz Politics Society” (http://ramazpolitics.wix.com/rampo#!) - helps to get the names right...
Jurisdictionally, does Rosh have veto power over student decisions, a general question. And there is a free speech or educational issue as well.
There is no question that Mr Said has a one-note presentation; he will NOT say anything new, or not said before, so there is no 'suppression' issue; the uninvitation is defended as 'education being diverted by sensationalism.'
Hereabouts, I hope Mr Said is presented with an alternate narrative: had the Pals accepted the 1947 UN vote, they would have everything they seek now and more, excepting only the JEWISH state. They are the authors of their own misfortunes and deserve no sympathy whatsoever, only contempt, as they whine whine whine, they went to war and lost lost lost and now they whine whine whine.
They are international outlaws for defying the UN , war criminals for their tactics, and criminals against humanity for their butchery. They must pay reparations for sixty years of war, rewrite their history books, accept nakbah as their own, and hang their war leaders.
Mr Said claims the right to resist. So do we! Go for it! The Jews held out two thousand years, you are up to sixty, get a good seat.
Meanwhile the safest place for a Muslim in the entire arc of of Islam from Tunisia to Indonesia, is inside Israel, where shia and sunni do not kill each other, oy gevalt a shanda, Muslims not suiciding their children per Moloch, god of child sacrifice; Jews got past child sacrifice five thousand years ago with Abraham and Isaac.
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