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flyupsidedown · Forum General Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 1938

Silencing dissent in America
Jerusalem Post | Oct 30, 2009
By Caroline Glick

Former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold should probably buy himself a flak jacket. Gold is scheduled to debate Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University next Thursday and the anti-Israel forces are organizing quite a reception for him.

Goldstone, who chaired the UN Human Rights Council's commission charged with accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, has become a darling of the anti-Israel Left in the weeks since his report accusing Israel of committing both war crimes and crimes against humanity was published last month. And anti-Israeli leftists don't like the idea of someone challenging his libelous attacks against Israel in a public debate at a university.

In an e-mail to a campus list-serve, Brandeis student and anti-Israel activist Jonathan Sussman called on his fellow anti-Zionists to disrupt the event that will pit the "neutral" Goldstone against Gold with his "wildly pro-Zionist message." Sussman invited his list-serve members to join him at a meeting to "discuss a possible response."

As the young community organizer sees it, "Possibilities include inviting Palestinian speakers to come participate, seeding the audience with people who can disrupt the Zionist narrative, protest and direct action." He closed his missive with a plaintive call to arms: "F**k the occupation."

Apparently the aspiring political organizer never considered another possibility: listening to what Gold has to say.

It seems rather unfair to pick on a small fry like Sussman. A brief Web search indicates that Gold's would-be silencer divides his time fairly equally between publishing rambling, Communist verses to paramours and calling for the overthrow of the US government.

The problem is that Sussman's planned "direct action" against Gold is not an isolated incident. On college campuses throughout the US, Israelis and supporters of Israel are regularly denied the right to speak by leftist activists claiming to act on behalf of Israel's "victims," or in the cause of "peace." In the name of the Palestinians or peace these radicals seek to coerce their fellow students into following their lead by demonizing and brutally silencing all voices of dissent . . .

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Such are the tactics of liberals. The further 'left' you go the greater the action to deny your right to debate and contradict their dogma and interpretation of events. The left always screams fascist!, racist!, war criminal! as if by their very proclamation it makes it true. In fact they are the ones who use fascist techniques, which are socialist by the way, to deny the rights of others to protest peacefully. They on the other hand feel the need to violently resist and disrupt any opposition to their philosophy. If there is any real danger to America the beautiful it is first from within. Such are the forces Obama has unleased, encouraged and given license to. He has consistently followed a pattern of empowering socialists and at the same time tried to demonize and suppress debate and discourse. Such is the Pandora's box he alone has opened. Unfortunately it calls up a resistance of equal or greater force. This tends to rend a nation, hopefully temporarily, when he had the opportunity to move us forward in a bipartisan way. His socialist underpinnings and beholding's to those of the radical left just wouldn't allow for it. So sorry for the nation. So sorry for him.

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