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3 Responses to “Ian Buruma Mischaracterizes Tariq Ramadan’s Views on Israel”

1. Mike says:

   February 24, 2007 at 5:02 PM

   if you define Zionism as meaning that the Jewish people have a right to their own state in their own land like any other self-defined people with a common history and culture, then indeed Ramadan is anti-Zionist. Maybe not in the Hamas “kill all the Jews everywhere and every inch of Palestine is ours” way, but he clearly opposes the right of the Jewish people to sovereignty in their land. At least he gives equal lip service to the idea that 23 Arab states shouldn’t give particular rights and priveleges to Moslems, which they all do. But given that there’s 23 Arab states and a host of non-Arab Islamic states, and one and only one Jewish state, wouldn’t it be oh-so-convenient for Ramadan and those who agree with him to eliminate that one Jewish state first? Sure, it might take a few thousand years to get around to the Islamic states, given that they have this pesky problem of insisting at the point of the gun or the fuse of the bomb that Sharia law must hold sway in every land in which they live….

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2. Richard Silverstein says:

   February 24, 2007 at 5:18 PM

   indeed Ramadan is anti-Zionist

   Don’t just say it. Prove it. If you can’t prove it then don’t say it.

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3. MuzzleWatch » What a shocker! Brandeis welcomes Daniel Pipes, but Norman Finkelstein still left wondering says:

   February 26, 2007 at 2:59 AM

   [...] Richard Silverstein at Tikun Olam does a terrific job of diving deeply into the debate at Brandeis. He gives details about two Brandeis academics who have been specifically attacked by Daniel Pipes –Natana DeLong-Bas and Khalil Shikaki–and mentions Pipes’ pivotal role in the the case most recently covered in the New York Times Magazine about Tariq Ramadan. These stories will be covered with greater depth in Muzzlewatch in the coming months. And over at Semitism.net, Stephanie Schamess digs into the archives to answer the question WWBD-What Would Judge Brandeis Do? My guess is that Justice Brandeis would not be pleased with what is happening at Brandeis University right now. And those donors who in the past have given to the school because it bears his name, dishonor him now by witholding funds only because the university has chosen to allow the exercise of free speech he so eloquently defended in the quotes above. Furthermore, the donors seem to have forgotten that they are giving to an educational institution, not to an organization that exists for the purpose of promulgating a particular ideological position. [...]

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