Banning Desmond Tutu

[grassfed]

Put off by his words on Israel, the University of St. Thomas snubs a Nobel Laureate
http://articles.citypages.com/2007-10-03/news/banning-desmond-tutu/

The “anti-Semitic” views Tutu had expressed were in his April 2002 speech “Occupation is Oppression” in which he likened the occupation regime in the West Bank, based on his personal experience of it, to what he had experienced as a black person in South Africa. He recalled the role of Jews in South Africa in the struggle to end apartheid, and expressed his solidarity with us through our centuries of suffering. But then turning to the suffering inflicted on the Palestinians, he issued an important challenge, one that might just as well have been uttered by a Jewish biblical prophet:

“My heart aches. I say, why are our memories so short? Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?

“Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won’t let ambulances reach the injured.

“The military action of recent days, I predict with certainty, will not provide the security and peace Israelis want; it will only intensify the hatred.

“Israel has three options: revert to the previous stalemated situation; exterminate all Palestinians; or – and I hope this will be the road taken – to strive for peace based on justice, based on withdrawal from all the occupied territories, and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state on those territories side by side with Israel, both with secure borders.

“We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. South Africa is a beacon of hope for the rest of the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.”

http://tonykaron.com/2007/10/03/my-favorite-anti-semite/

[Tyler Durden]

1. Careful!

Say bad things about certain "occupying Regimes" and you are liable to be labeled and Anti-Semite. Like Me.

Shalom.

[KaptBunnyPants]

2. Wow, how does one label a kind soul like Tutu an Anti-semite?

Do they have no sense of shame?

[ThomCat]

3. The rabid "Israel can do no wrong" crowd have no shame.

They'll smear anyone who dares to object to anything Israel does.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Scapegoating at its best.

I am so not surprised!