{"id":1854423,"date":"2023-02-21T05:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T10:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1854423"},"modified":"2023-02-21T05:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T10:08:18","slug":"princeton-fetes-an-anti-semite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/princeton-fetes-an-anti-semite\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Fetes an Anti-Semite"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprinceton-fetes-an-anti-semite%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1854423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>The university was all in on antiracism. Sorry, Jews.    Princeton University \/ Getty Images    <\/p>\n<p>Princeton University has revealed the secrets to turning campus paragons and censors around with a dust-up &#8220;antiracism&#8221; to champions of freedom speech<\/p>\n<p>The controversy stems from the decision of the English department to host the anti-Semite for its Edward Said Memorial Lecture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohammedelkurd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammed El-Kurd<\/a>. There is no reason to know him. As &#8220;Palestine correspondent&#8221; For <em>The Nation<\/em>His slanders against the Jewish people and the Jewish government, including his claim that Israelis were a terrorist group, have earned him a lot of attention. &#8220;harvest organs&#8221; List of martyred Palestinians &#8220;feed their warriors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On stage at Princeton\u2014after university professor Zahid Chaudhary heralded him as a &#8220;truth teller,&#8221; according to audio of the remarks reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon\u2014El-Kurd told the crowd that Palestinians have no choice but to resort to violence against Israelis. &#8220;What else would you do if there is an occupying power in your backyard beating the shit out of your family? Of course you&#8217;re gonna throw stones,&#8221; He said it to loud applause. &#8220;I can just see that as a headline: &#8216;Of course you&#8217;re gonna throw stones.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Princeton is permitted to honor and celebrate El-Kurd&#8217;s work, but he can also be considered a bigot or a moron.<\/p>\n<p>His presence on campus and his reception from some of the school\u2019s professors, administrators is difficult to reconcile to their devotion. &#8220;antiracism.&#8221; In a <a href=\"https:\/\/english.princeton.edu\/statement-on-anti-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a> Jeff Dolven has signed an act as acting department chairman. The English department has also pledged &#8220;to investigate racist beliefs and practices with rigor and compassion.&#8221; Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton president, struck a similar note. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/01\/statement-president-eisgruber-killing-george-floyd-and-importance-confronting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princetonians<\/a>In the wake of George Floyd\u2019s assassination in 2020, &#8220;We all have a responsibility to stand up against racism, wherever and whenever we encounter it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dolven is now more catholic after being pressured by El-Kurd to accept him. &#8220;always granted great autonomy to faculty in making invitations,&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/theprincetontory.com\/the-tory-obtained-a-copy-of-the-acting-chair-of-the-department-of-englishs-response-to-a-letter-signed-by-over-40-students-and-sent-to-the-department-of-english-on-february-6-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>, adding, &#8220;This openness also means that the department as a whole does not issue statements. It is an important principle for us that neither I nor anyone else among us attempts to speak for a diverse collective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good question.<\/p>\n<p>Dolven, a Princeton senior Adam Hoffman, stated that he would not condone violence against Israelis in an email exchange. He declined to share his views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dust-up at Princeton University is revealing precisely what it takes to turn campus censors and paragons of &#8220;antiracism&#8221; into champions of free speech.<br \/>\nThe post Princeton Fetes an Anti-Semite appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1854426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[16842,19195,15794],"class_list":["post-1854423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-anti-semite","tag-fetes","tag-princeton"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}