Bloggers notebook Part II, a "Landmark Event"

I am ashamed to say I was unfamilar with Phyllis Chesler's work before this conference but she was one of the most powerful speakers there. WOW. Author and feminist, Ms Chesler is Emerita Professor of Psychology and Wome' Studies and I've posted her website on my sidebar. Familiarize yourself with her work.
Chesler details the whole of the propaganda campaign. She explains how the Islamists have "hijacked the Jihad". When describing the impossible standards to which the Israelis hold themselves and the extremes to which the Israeli soldiers go to so as not to endanger Palistinian civilians (going without air cover in Jenin and losing 24 Israeli boys), Chesler is heckled by Pro-Palistinian inciters in the room. Inciters? Yes, these fools had the temerity to have their phones play music and walkie talkies go off (electronic white noise particularly when the spokesmen from Sudan, Dafur, Moratania spoke of the atrocities in their countries, but we'll get to that later). Anyway, this really big fool (true) starts heckling Chelser and the guy behind me gets up and starts making threats, I tell him not to feed this putz, that that ist exactly what this shmendrick wants but the tough guy behind me wants to beat him up (oy). I implore him to calm down, other people start hammering and they call the cops in........."anyone heckling or disrupting will be forced to leave". Things calm down and the guy behind hands me his card, East Coast Director, Connecticut State chairman of the Jewish Defense League (oy!) but he was strong and tough and I cannot lie I felt better with him sitting behind me.
Back to Chesler, a noted feminist and liberal, she has written several books but after she wrote the book that questioned the left's position on Israel and muslim women etc, her circuit froze her out. Shows and radio appearances she had made for 35 years refused her. She could not get her book reviewed.. Chesler explains passionately "the leading offender of "APARTHEID IS ISLAM" (wild applause). "Humilation of Palistinians at checkpoints? Not nearly as bad as killing a daughter for wanting to go to college, honor killings, and gential mutilation". What is happening is 'GENDER CLEANSING"..............Go to her site!

After is impassioned Chesler, the brilliant erudite Dr. Martin Kramer spoke via live feed. He called this a "landmark gathering". The author of Ivory Towers on Sand:the Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, Kramer was really the first to bring the crushing reality of academic perversion inot the light of day. He spoke of the "impact the Columbia crisis has had outside the campus". "Scholarship has taken a backseat to Advocacy". "Dissenting views are THOUGHT CRIMES". Kramer thought the great awakening on campuses would surely come after 9/11. But not so...........even after 9/11, the Higher Funding Act was passed with most of thos funds going to Middle Eastern studies.
Title VI attempted reform (to right the wrong as it were) of the Higher Education Funding Act by instituting a reviewboard/ panel.................it passed handily in the House, it languished and expired in the Senate due to opposition from Hillary Clinton [giant surprise, ugh] and Christopher Dodd [another shocker]. We must pass Title Vl. I (Atlas) urge all in the Blogoshere to do your homework and write your congressman urging passage. Back to Kramer, the change on campuses will take a "turnover in generations" because of tenure and how ingrained the mindset has become. It took years for this happen, it will take years to unravel it. KRAMER SAYS "BE POLITICALLY ACTIVE".

Charles Jacobs spoke. I think Jacobs is a very special, really one-o- a-kind man. Rand's ideal man as it were. He is the Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group and the David Project. He is attempting to reform Middle East Studies and the Blackout of Oppressed Minorities. When everyone (and I mean everyone) turned Rachel Fishdown, Jacobs supported her, backed her, sponsored her (which is why Fish now works for the David Project). Jacobs is a human rights activist, helped found CAMERA, and underwrote COLUMBIA UNBECOMING. Need I say more? Jacobs says the "code of silence [on college campuses] is their omerta". It is "a campus of thought police" .............. and its not just a Jewish issue. Islamic arab governments oppress their non-muslim populations worldwide. Mr. Jacobs brought with him four elegant, gentlemen made of steel. Simon Dang, enslaved by Arabs in the Sudan, Farhoud Saleh from the Darfur region and two other gentlemen one from Moratania whose name I did not catch

Charles Jacobs with the contingency from "other Middle East"

Listening to their histories was harrowing. Simon Dang, enslaved by Arabs in the Sudan is a persecutated Christian. Slavery is commonplace among non-muslims. The Arab government
"declared JIHAD on Infidels. In my country BEING BLACK IS BEING A SLAVE. Sudan is an arab country, member of the Arab league. where hundreds of thousands of people are enslaved today. We are part of the Middle East even if geographicvally we are in Africa. Bin Laden established his terrorist network in the Sudan." Is it any surprise?
The man from Darfur was just as bare and stark. "In Darfur, 900,000 people have been slaughtered by genocide (since the onslaught in 1994)". The only people to come to our aid is the "jewish people. They have been the only ones, and they do all they can".

It was, for me, the moment - the moment will replay in my head again and again. I cannot forget those men, their stories, their faces. When I ran to grab a salad in a small commisary (inbetween speakers), Simon Dang came in. He had this incredible (giant) scar running across his forehead and I grabbed his hand and we both thanked each other(having never met) and we started to hug and I couldn't help but kiss his face again and again

I am gong to bed, well after 1 am NY time, we'll finish tomorrow with Dershowitz, Rachel Fish , Brigitte Gabriel et al.
Goodnight