Israeli Students Cancel Speech by UN Commissioner for HumanRights:“She's AntiSemitic"

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Israeli Students Cancel Speech by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “She is Anti-Semitic”

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Students at Israel’s Bar Ilan University cancelled a planned speech by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, claiming that she is "anti-Semitic."

Commissioner Pillay was invited by Bar Ilan University to speak at its Faculty of Law. University students affiliated with the right-wing "Forum for Eretz Israel" plastered the campus with posters against Pillay and sent a sharply worded letter of protest to the university’s administration.

"Ms. Pillay stands at the head of a commission…which is biased and tendentious in everything concerning the Israeli-Arab conflict," the letter stated. "This commission explicitly promotes an anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist agenda, and a large number of her statements concerning Israel as like blood libels of the worst kind."

Examples noted in the letter include Pillay’s statements that during Israel’s military attack on the Gaza Strip in December 2008-January 2009 (Operation Cast Lead), Israel bombed hospitals for no reason and in several cases, soldiers killed Palestinians in cold blood. According to Israel’s daily Israel Hayom, the letter also contends that a report issued by Pillay concerning these military attacks repeat contentions of the Goldstone Commission that Israel committed war crimes.

"Just as the university would not allow a Holocaust denier to speak, there is no room to provide a platform for an anti-Semitic personality such as her."

Bar Ilan University failed to respond to questions in this matter.






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[The Fighting_Crusnik]

I have but one hope for the world... that the revolutions in the middle east will bring good change and that the world will look upon the arab-israili conflict with as little bias as possible and punish those who deserve to be punished, liberate those who deserve to be liberated and bring an end to the hate, the racism and the cruelty that has arisen on all sides of the conflict.

[NGNM85]

This is so shameful, the minute you start to criticize Israel's foreign policy you immediately get tagged as an anti-Semite.

[Mather]

Israel's body politic and the tone of it's public discourse has become a lot more anti-democratic and much less tolerant of dissenting opinions in recent years. This is not just in relation to the Palestinians, as that has always been the case, but has now extended to Israel proper and those Jewish people (Israeli and non-Israeli) who question the policy of the Israeli state and /or Zionism.

Here is an article here on the issue, not that long but worth a read:

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/201126123643463123.html