As night follows day


By Jenni Frazer
February 8, 2010
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How long did it take before Cambridge's Jewish students found out the hard way about throwing the baby out with the bathwater? A whole weekend.
Last week, you may recall, Cambridge's Israel Society withdrew its invitation to Israeli historian Benny Morris, who was due to speak on Thursday night, on the grounds that it did not want "to give racism a platform." Professor Morris had been described by complainants from the university's Islamic and Pakistani societies as "an Islamophobic hate speaker."
Extraordinarily enough Azzam Tamimi, long associated with Hamas and a proponent of suicide bombing, is going to speak tonight to Cambridge Islamic Society. An understandably upset group of Jewish students who complained about Tamimi were blithely told, "Yes, we know he's offensive, but we welcome you to attend and challenge".
And you all thought Cambridge was the place the clever kids went to. Dear, dear.

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moshetzarfati2

8 February, 2010 - 14:56

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Nah, the clever kids go to Oxford, as any fule no.

Yvetta

8 February, 2010 - 21:52

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The students were well and truly duped by the ruthless. Let's hope that they come down from their Ivory Tower and never again shame themselves by behaving like "Trembling Israelites".

Jonathan Hoffman

9 February, 2010 - 15:00

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The ZF shows the way. We faced down attempts to get David Bellamy to pull out of today's 'Green Israel' event; faced down the haters' attempts to get Israel Science Day cancelled last year; and when the Bloomsbury Theatre cancelled the Yom Haatzmaut event last year, we rearranged elsewhere - with the IDF entertainment troupe - and ensured that we were compensated by the Bloomsbury who were in breach of contract.

No Jewish or Israel organisation should be intimidated by the haters. All of their arguments can be countered. It is up to us to have the knowledge and courage to do so.

Cambridge Israel Society last week was an object lesson in how not to do it.

Jonathan Hoffman

9 February, 2010 - 15:01

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It would never happen at Oxford.

moshetzarfati2

9 February, 2010 - 15:03

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You must resign from the ZF for disparaging fellow Zionists. And I haven't heard you or the ZF complain about this atrocious antisemitism.

Yvetta

9 February, 2010 - 15:07

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Hear, hear, Jonathan! Fight on!

Avraham Reiss

10 February, 2010 - 19:24

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zafarti, do you really live in Aberdeen? Ha, ha, ha!

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