Rashid Khalidi: Lightweight Bout at Harvard
If you tuned into the live stream of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Gaza “debate” [“The Road to Peace After Gaza” — A conversation with: Shai Feldman, Rashid Khalidi, Moderated by: Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns] last night, you got an earful of what’s wrong with the University culture of Israel bashing. In spite of the virtual shutout of Israeli and Zionist arguments, ideologues like Rashid Khalidi, President Barack Hussein Obama’s dinner party buddy and their apologists like the evening’s moderator, Nick Burns, Foggy Bottom’s unofficial Secretary of State, perpetuate the interminable whine that their opinions never get heard by the American public. Spare me. Of the dozen questions fielded by the speakers, 10 were hostile to the Jewish State.
Burns set the tone for the evening by citing The Twin Horrors That Justify-Every-Horrendous-Act-of-Arab-Violence: THE OCCUPATION and THE SETTLEMENTS. There is no longer any debate, any questioning these axioms. If you disagree with these eternal truths, you will be banished to the dark realm of “fascists”, “colonialists” or into the ninth circle inhabited by “Zionists”, child molesters and serial killers…