Comments on: Martin Kramer, Advocate of Genocide, Infanticide, or Just Plain Anti-Muslim Racism?

By: Idee genocide antipalestinesi e silenzio dei media

Idee genocide antipalestinesi e silenzio dei media — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:31:02 +0000

[...] intellettuali condannano l’esecranda posizione di Kramer, come M.J. Rosenberg e Richard Silverstein che l’hanno definito rispettivamente “genocida” e “razzista anti-musulmano”, o [...]

By: Arab News Blog » Prolonged conflict and pro-natalism

Arab News Blog » Prolonged conflict and pro-natalism — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:23:57 +0000

[...] has been considerable discussion (e.g. from Abunimah, Cole, Silverstein) as to whether what Kramer said constituted genocidal incitement, support for the racist [...]

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:57 +0000

ALSO SEE: Gaza: Treading on Shards, By Sara Roy, The Nation, 02/17/10
(EXCERPTS)…According to Amnesty International, 90-95 percent of the water supplied by Gaza’s aquifer is “unfit for drinking.” The majority of Gaza’s groundwater supplies are contaminated with nitrates well above the acceptable WHO standard–in some areas six times that standard–or too salinated to use. Gaza no longer has any source of regular clean water. According to one donor account, “Nowhere else in the world has such a large number of people been exposed to such high levels of nitrates for such a long period of time….
…It is possible that high nitrate levels have contributed to some shocking changes in the infant mortality rate (IMR) among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. IMR, widely used as an indicator of population health, has stalled among Palestinians since the 1990s and now shows signs of increasing. This is because the leading causes of infant mortality have changed from infectious and diarrheal diseases to prematurity, low birth weight and congenital malformations. These trends are alarming (and rare in the region), because infant mortality rates have been declining in almost all developing countries, including Iraq…
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/roy

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:42:37 +0000

FROM M.J. ROSENBERG’S ‘MEDIA MATTERS’ BLOG OF 02/24/10:
(EXCERPT)….[Prof. Martin] Kramer elaborates in a subsequent piece. In response to the argument that the international community does not provide Palestinians with “pro-natal subsidies,” Kramer explodes: “This is a lie. UNWRA (the United Nations agency that provides support for Palestinian refugees) assures that every child with ‘refugee’ status will be fed and schooled regardless of their parents’ own resources….”
So the “pro-natal subsidies” to which he refers are food! That explains why he points to the success of Israel’s current sanctions…
SOURCE - http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/201002240006

By: mary

mary — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:03:05 +0000

It makes you wonder just how far to go in the free speech thing, when bigotry becomes acceptable in the highest academic circles. Controversy is one thing, hate is another.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:05:44 +0000

Don’t forget that Harvard also employs the evil Ruth Wisse, of ‘Palestinians are people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery’ infamy.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:11:07 +0000

He’s a senior fellow at one of Harvard’s security related think tanks.

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:39:35 +0000

There is the academic freedom argument–it’s supposed to protect speech, even monstrous, despicable speech, which this most certainly is.

But I’m not clear on what Kramer’s actual connection is to Harvard.