21 thoughts on “The Persecution and Assassination of Omar Barghouti by the Inmates of the Asylum of Israel Under the Direction of the Marquis de Millikovsky – Tikun Olam תיקון עולם إصلاح العالم
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  1. “Since the BDS leader wants to boycott us, let’s get him where it hurts ”

    Your usual bull#$%^.

    Tax evasion in Israel, among cash businesses, is rampant, and Israel’s tax collectors are particularly odious.
    There was a story in Israel not so long ago about a street vendor who’s pita sales were targeted by tax collectors.

    Poor Omar. Waaahhh! Waaahhh!

  2. If it’s $100000, it tax evasion.
    If it’s $100000000, it’s tax avoidance.

    On the other hand – I have no idea why Israel had any reason to allow this Qatari/Egyptian fraudster residency and academic studies in Israel in the first place

    1. Because his wife is a Palestinian citizen of Israel ! This was of course before the fascist State prevented Palestinian citizens from bringing their spouses. And Barghouti is a Palestinian, being born elsewhere does not make him less Palestinian, and as such he has much more right to live on this land than the average American or French olim !

      1. He studied in Tel Aviv university as an Israeli, let’s not forget that.
        Does that make him even more of a hypocrite? Maybe

        1. @ Jim: thanks for the tired anti BDS hasbara meme. Neve Gordon teaches at Ben Gurion University. Does it make him a hypocrite for supporting BDS? No. It makes him a principled academic standing up for moral/ political values. Same for Barghouti.

        2. “He studies at Tel Aviv University as an Israeli”
          As an Israeli, what are you talking about ? He’s a resident, contrary to Jews who settle down in the State of Israel who gets the Israeli citizenship immediately, Barghouthi isn’t an Israeli.
          And if you google, you’ll see that Omar Barghouthi enrolled at TAU many years ago, long before the BDS movement started, and apparently he didn’t even start his studies.
          (And as someone has already tried to use his daughter, the singer and flute-player Nay Barghouthi, to promote Israel: she studied at Edward Said Conservatory in Bir Zeit, and not in Israel …

      2. Let’s see – his family emigrated from their ancestral village when under Jordanian rule, they weren’t expelled and weren’t refugees.

        He married in the US, and moved to Israel where he proceeded to go to university and actively work to destroy the nation state of the Jewish people, whom he doesn’t recognize to be a “people” at all.

        So, a fraud, a liar, a hypocrite, a Judenhasser and a tax evader all rolled into one – exactly the kind of person that should be given special approval to “reunite” with his wife’s family? Not.

        1. @ Stan:

          he proceeded to go to university and actively work to destroy the nation state of the Jewish people

          Horseshit. He doesn’t want to destroy your state. He wants to turn it into a fully democratic state with equal rights for all citizens regardless of religion. That threatens you as it should if you’re a Jewish supremacist.

          As for those words “fraud,” “liar” & “hater” they describe you to a T.

          You’ve been automatically accorded moderation status due to your outburst of hate.

    2. @ Stan: Liar liar pants on fire. He’s Palestinian. Only hasbaroids & Israeli media or ignorant foreign media would omit that.

      That would be a little like saying I’m not Jewish because I live outside Israel.

      1. Just because he says he’s Palestinian doesn’t make him one.

        Just as you living outside of Israel and having never been naturalized makes you not Israeli.

        Is “Palestinian” now a religion or “race” that one can wear just by saying so? Is one a “Palestinian” forever because one’s parents once lived here (at least according to UNWRA’s ridiculous definition, yes).

        His parents lived here – they left.

        He never came here before 1993 – after having lived in Qatar, Egypt and the US.

        “Jews are not a people” – Omar Barghouti

        “right to self-determination only applies to colonized people” – Omar Barghouti

        “against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land” – Omar Barghouti

        Your head is full of said equine excrement.

        1. @ Stan:

          Just because he says he’s Palestinian doesn’t make him one.

          Umm, yes it does. He’s the one who determines his ethnicity & nationality. Not a hasbarist like yourself.

          Just as you living outside of Israel and having never been naturalized makes you not Israeli.

          Unfortunately, for you there are a few problems with this analogy. “Israeli” is a recognized nation with passports and citizenship. Thanks to Israeli rejectionism there is no formal Palestinian nation. If there was Barghouti would have a Palestinian passport since his parents were Palestinian.

          Is one a “Palestinian” forever because one’s parents once lived here

          Umm, yes in fact that’s how citizenship works. If you’re born in a country you are a citizen of it. And your children can become citizens too (in most countries) by virtue of your own citizenship.

          “Jews are not a people” – Omar Barghouti

          Since you’ve offered no source for these quotes (something I demand per the comment rules) I can’t credit any of this as accurate. Find the source for the quotation & offer it here. Personally, I would disagree. Jews are a people. But they are not a nation, which is what Barghouti should’ve said.

          “right to self-determination only applies to colonized people”

          Israel was a colony until 1948, so under his defintion Israel and its inhabitants have a right to self-determination. But Jews abroad do not have the same right unless they make aliyah which, in my opinion should face restrictions as I’ve noted here in the past.

          “against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land” –

          I don’t trust truncated quotations. Don’t offer them. BUt if your quotation is accurate (& I have no reason to believe it is), he misconstrues bi-nationalism. Binationalism construes 2 nations living in the same country. The system of governance within that single country is not fully defined. If Barghouti assumes the two nations would govern themselves independently within the country then I can understand his point. But that’s not necessarily how it’s construed. There can be autonomy offered to the two nations on a local basis, while they govern themselves nationally within a single system.

          Your head is full of said equine excrement.

          Major comment rule violation. You are now banned.

  3. It’s easy to theorise about this case form our own personal bias but this really is a case of “plausible deniability” — much like when something happens to a famous person, where a plethora of conspiracy theories arise (usually not paying any attention to the Occam Razor simplest part of the equation).

    Omar indeed may have been “stitched up” or he also may have done what he is accused of, I’d say the truth lies someone in-between.

  4. One mistake in the article. The Gandhi Peace Award presentation to Omar Barghouti and Ralph Nader (jointly) is to take place in a Yale building on April 23, but the university itself is not involved in the award. The award is given by Promoting Enduring Peace, a 65 year old peace and environmental organization. I work for the group as Administrator. Our group site as you link above is http://www.pepeace.org

  5. “Can you imagine an association of French or German studies professors whose work would be criminalized in the countries they studied, so they could never visit the places on which their entire professional lives are based?”

    Well, the Jewish studies folks are not fearing trouble from Israel because their WORK HAS BEEN CRIMINALIZED but because of their POLITICS.

    But all power to them!

  6. RE: “For those of you old enough to remember, my post title is inspired by Peter Brook’s famous 1960s play: Marat/Sade.” ~ R.S.

    MY COMMENT: And quite a play it was. Nicely turned into a film* in 1967 with Patrick Magee as the Marquis de Sade and Ian Richardson as an inmate playing Marat.The nefarious deed (i.e., stabbing Marat while he was soaking in a medicinal bath for treatment of severe skin problems) is accomplished by Glenda Jackson playing an inmate assigned the part of Charlotte Corday [who, I suspect, may have had a bit of a Joan of Arc Complex].

    * The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
    ■ Marat/Sade (1967) [VIDEO, 1:58:07] – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJc4I6pivqg

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