Editor,
New levels of abomination were reached on Sunday during Ali Abunimah’s speech.
Those who relied on the promotions to the event and attended it anticipated to hear about Abunimah’s utopian vision of one state to two peoples living side-by-side harmoniously, a modern version of “the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.”
However, Abunimah disappointed them.
From beginning to end, Abunimah “educated” the audience quoting radical Israeli journalists and alleged studies, while insolently rewriting the historical record.
His recitation of either selective or false information was only aimed at proving the “alive and kicking” apartheid regime in Israel. Nevertheless, some listeners had their mouths watered hearing the unofficial Hamas spokesman in a pleasant British accent laying out his ideology.
In a strikingly identical fashion to the Hamas manifesto, Abunimah attacked the Palestinian Authority leadership for its peace negotiations with Israel and its flaccidity. He sees Hamas suicide bombers mainly as a tactical error, and his key for the final solution is the immigration of more than 5 million Arabs to Israeli territories — an aim to turn the Jewish people into a shrunken minority.
Those naïve people who hoped for a pragmatic and optimistic discussion got nothing but two hours of aggressive incitement and sheer hatred.
The sadder thing is that in a time when teaching assistant positions are eliminated and budget cuts harm faculty and students, UNM departments of American Studies and Peace Studies are spending money on hate speeches disguised as human rights talks in order to promote one professor or another’s agenda. Worse, it’s on a person who reads the newspaper to the audience.
Lastly, those American Jews who either sponsored or supported this poisonous person, let them be sure that their ancestors are turning in their graves, watching them serve those who wish to destroy the Zionist enterprise and the Jewish people.
Yuval Carmi
UNM student
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