Will the rest of the HP editors now denounce Gene because of his outrageous support for those who overthrew democracy in the 2002 Venezuela?

Nope. Thought not.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Never heard such self-justifying, victim-card playing, special pleading, mendacious nonsense in my life.
Well, OK, I have, and usually from the same source and his ilk.

Don’t be silly. There are plenty of anti-Zionists on the staff of American universities, it’s not at all a controversial viewpoint — quite the opposite, in fact.

Finkelstein was denied tenure for being a poor scholar, weirdly behaved on campus and rubbish at the administrative part of an academic’s job, something someone on tenure track usually pays great attention to.

DePaul gave a number of contradictory reasons for the denial. At one point, Charles Suchar, the dean of DePaul’s College of Arts and Sciences, even stated that:

“My own estimation of the tone and substance of his scholarship is that a considerable amount of it is inconsistent with DePaul’s Vincentian values, most particularly our institutional commitment to respect the dignity of the individual and to respect the rights of others to hold and express different intellectual positions—what I take to be one significant meaning of what we term Vincentian “personalism” as well as our commitment to diversity.”

In other words, the reason he gave for the denial is that Finkelstein was not nice to Dershowitz! When, in fact, thousands of scholars in the social sciences –and even in the hard sciences– have been nasty toward their colleagues.

Finkelstein’s crime was being an anti-Zionist, and that’s the reason he was not granted tenure.

Vincentian values! My foot.

Iranian raid on Ebadi condemned
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7806195.stm

It is so typical of the BBC to whitewash the Islamic Republic. Here for instance is a typical BBC piece from less than a year ago by BBCs waste of space correspondant Pam O’Toole on Ebadi & Ahmadinejad. [Although in O'Tooles defence she isnt any worse than Jim Muir & Frances Harrison].

Iran orders laureate’s protection
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7349619.stm

Those uninitiated with the byzantine nature of Middle East politics are missing the bigger picture.

What we are seeing are the first steps of a new dynamic in the MidEast. As the US withdraws from Iraq the two parties are jockeying to fill in the vaccum. On the one side we have the Islamists and on the other the a secular front. This has thrown up strange alliances with Israel/Fatah/Egypt/Jordan/Saudi/Turkey vs Iran/Syria their proxies Hamas/Hezbollah.

As Bush & Olmert are both leaving office this window is bein g used to neutralise in part Hamas. In the long run i’ll doubt its effectiveness – Islamism has to be confronted head on by muslims acting in their own self interest.

In Iran the crackdown has been more intense than reported in the Western media. Closing down of papers with the slightest dissident views isnt the only step the clerical facists have taken. Largely unreported but far more significant has been the raiding of the offices of activists like Shirin Ebadi and the personal attacks on her.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iVp6OcsznLJpeFv8SenE_EhxIpmgD95D8T9O2

Earlier this month the Iranian authorities closed the Tehran office of the Human Rights Defenders Centre headed by Ms Ebadi, saying it had operated for eight years without permission. Ms Ebadi, a 61-year-old lawyer and human rights activist, became Iran’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2003.

Today her home was attacked by the same government hired mobs that have intimidated students and attcked various European legations.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/01/iran.ebadi.nobel.office/

I see that the usual suspects – HPhypocrite and the rest of the “Anti-Zionist” (anti-semetic) front as usual do not give a fig about the supression of free thought and speech in Iran by the facist Islamic clerics.

The reactionary Left remain true to their thuggish racist roots.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/judt-n01.shtml

You and HB are such mega-losers. You don’t know what ‘paper’ and ‘media outlet’ mean, do you? No wonder you frequent such pathetic ’socialist’ websites.

Ruining perfectly good hummus with this cheese-style-foodstuff monstrosity??? Mega-yuck.

Only white-flour pitta deserves to be dipped in hummus. With olives and hamutzim on the side, of course.

You fucking barbarian.

Cheese Straws, for fuck’s sake….