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| Sharansky: Campus a battlefield |
| 2003-09-19 |
| "We donât want no brains âround here, Zionist pawn!" âThe real battlefield is [on] campus,â Sharansky told Israel Radio on Friday. Both Palestinians and Jews were protesting Sharanskyâs speech at Rutgers University on âHuman rights, justice and democracy â a Jewish approach,â one leg of a United States speaking tour. The Palestinians were calling Israel a âracist state,â said Sharansky, and some of the Jews were members of the radical ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta sect, who said that âJews must leave Israel.â Well well⊠Arafatâs fifth column. The man who threw the pie was Abe Greenhouse, a member of the central New Jersey branch of Jews Against the Occupation, according to a posting on the Indymedia New Jersey Web site. The posting called Sharansky a âZionaziâ member of âwar criminal Ariel Sharonâs government,â and his former post as housing and construction minister was described as being âmore accurately, Minister of Illegal Settlements and Demolition.â Then his lips fell off. According to the Web site, Greenhouse was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, and was briefly held by police and then released. Sharansky said that actions such as the pie-throwing served to energize the audience. In a previous incident at Boston University, where a pro-Palestinian group told the police they had placed a bomb in the hall where the lecture was scheduled to take place, the university moved the lecture to another, larger hall â and the size of the audience increased from 200 to 600. Heeheehee⊠âThey wanted to cancel [my speech] in several places, but I adamantly refused,â he said. Sharansky also said his âenemiesâ are particularly irritated by his lecture topic, human rights. âWe must be proud of Israel,â he said. |
| Posted by:Katz |
| #3 Where did the pie-in-the-face and naked protest ideas come from anyway? They are hardly like to convince anyone of the rightiousness of your cause. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-9-19 5:03:49 PM |
| #2 Here's the first paragraph⦠"The real Israeli-Palestinian battlefield is on university campuses, Minister without Portfolio Natan Sharansky said Friday, the day after a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist threw a cream pie in the ministerâs face as he was about to begin a lecture at a New Jersey university." |
| Posted by: Katz 2003-9-19 3:43:28 PM |
| #1 Oops⦠I accidentally snipped the first paragraph. |
| Posted by: Katz 2003-9-19 3:39:11 PM |