Op-Ed: Freedom of Speech for Anti-Semites Only
Hasan Piker has made vicious demonizing statements about Jews and Israel on various platforms: https://www.ajc.org/news/hasan-piker-twitch-streamer-who-spreads-antisemitism-to-millions and https://www.adl.org/resources/article/hasan-piker-what-you-need-know
“When Hasan Piker walked into Cornell University’s historic Sage Chapel on Thursday evening, he did not enter as an obscure academic presenting a controversial thesis for scholarly examination. He entered to applause. Even more disturbing was his warning about what could eventually happen to American Jews. “If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,” Piker said. For Jewish students already confronting demands that they explain their relationship with Zionism, Israel or the Gaza war, that argument can carry an ominous implication: distance yourself sufficiently from Israel, or accept that hostility directed against Jews may follow.” https://thejewishvoice.com/news/politics/from-america-deserved-9-11-to-sage-chapel-cornell-gives-hasan-piker-a-prestigious-stage-amid-antisemitism-controversy/
Columbia University past President Lee C. Bollinger invited Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to speak at Columbia, https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-columbia-malaysian-leader-says-holocaust-victim-numbers-debatable/
Mahathir Mohamad, is a “self-described proud anti-Semite.” Mohamad is known for his public denial that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, describes Jews as being “hooked nosed”, and claimed that “Muslims were not responsible for 9/11 terror attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but rather that the U.S. staged the events.” Bollinger defended the invite as “freedom of speech.” No. Freedom of speech means this Jew hater has the right to speak, but freedom of speech also means you do not have the right to be invited to speak.
Anti-Zionists hijack and hide behind ‘Freedom of Speech’ to spread their real anti-Jew agenda which is slowly eroding the infrastructure of our democracy. Our “freedoms” come with responsibility. Inviting bigots to speak lends credibility to their hate speech, gives it a platform and corrupts basic moral civility. Given their morally bankrupt use of freedom of speech, I suspect Columbia, Cornell and other present day universities would also have invited Hitler to speak. Why are they not inviting present day Neo Nazi’s or White Supremacists? Freedom of speech has been hijacked to mean you can now invite only one kind of bigot to speak on your campus- rabid, vicious, anti-semites.
Why are we not suing Columbia or Cornell for discrimination? For not inviting the KKK to speak? If they invited Mohamad who said “Jews have hooked noses”, and Piker who justifies threats and places harm and blame on Jews themselves who support Israel, why isn’t Columbia or Cornell inviting the KKK who says Blacks are inferior? Who say homosexuality and transgender are degenerate. These bigots’ speech mimics the made “justifiable” Jew hate of the Nazis prior to rounding us up, the blaming on Jews themselves for being attacked and murdered–-‘it’s their own fault” said Hitler and says Piker and Mohamad.
This has nothing to do with Israel or its policies. This has everything to do with the lack of moral leadership of our University and grade school leaders, Unions and Presidents, the growing Jew hate embraced by the left, the far right and Islamists. The increasing masses of ignorant, ill-informed students and global mobs, cheered on by fake victim “Palestinian Arabs” none of whom could name even one of the many fair peace offers, rejected because, as their leader of decades Abbas states, “we will never accept the evil Zionist (Jew) entity in our midst with any borders.” When they realized they could not win a war against Israel, they began their Big Lie campaign of words, smears, positioning themselves as victims, vs. the oppressors they truly are, repeated until the average would-be ignorant of facts, fake humanitarian now believes them.
It’s peace and love time for everyone but Zionists and Jews. Let’s see how Columbia or Cornell will respond when asked to invite the KKK under their own defense of “freedom of speech”? And if not, sue them to force the issue and stop them from inviting Jew haters.
By Ginette Weiner, A Zionist Jew