Outing Zs in Massachusetts
2010
Summer: Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi, outspoken critic of
Israel, is subjected to a false arrest by the Cambridge Police Department.
See The High Price of Defending Palestinianand Iranian Rights in America.
See also Mike Wallace Defends Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi
(re bizarre shenanigans at Harvard in 1996)
2009
April: Clark University cancels a scheduled talk
by Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein (The Holocaust
Industry). Finkelstein was invited by students to talk
about the Gaza massacre. The ACLU in a complaint to Clark,
wrote "administrators referred to Finkelstein as as
'extremist' who was 'beyond controversial', thus warranting cancellation of his speaking
engagement." See more correspondence here at NormanFinkelstein.com.
Also see this coverage by the pro-Israeli Boston
Globe.
Culprit: Hillel, Jewish
group ubiquitous on college campuses throughout the US
Craven collaborator: John Bassett,
president of Clark Univ, Worcester
2008
September: Anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory
’82, a leading scholar on the African diaspora who is
known for his strong criticisms of Israel and his opposition
to former University President Lawrence H. Summers, leaves
Harvard to chair Duke’s African and African-American
studies department. Matory said that
Harvard did not respond to Duke’s offer with a comparable
position or salary. [See how we couch reality with such
innocuous, pleasant-sounding language.] See the full report
in the Harvard
crimson.
March: JLC pressures landlord to retract a
commitment to NECDP to hold a conference on zionism on its
premises. Encuentro
folds - see popup details.
Known culprits:
Jewish Labor Committee and UNITE-HERE
Craven collaborators:
Encuentro, MassGlobal Action
March: The Union of Progressive Zionists brings
its Breaking the Silence tour to Harvard. The ZOA
(Zionist Organization of America) and Harvard Students for Israel group
try to prevent the exhibit being shown on campus. The Hillel steering committee
decides to control controversy by bringing the exhibit inside
Hillel, complete with lengthy statements critical of the exhibit by other IDF veterans.
See the story here at Muzzle
Watch
Known culprits:
Zionist Organization of America
Craven collaborators:
Expected: Hillel
February: The New Rep in Watertown is pressured to
cancel its production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie. The
theatre director made the compromise to show another play,
during the same season, with a pro-Israeli point of view.
[link w/details to be provided]
Known culprits:
Zionist lobby
Craven collaborators:
2007
October: Zionists pressure the Old South Church,
Boston, to include pro-Israeli speakers at a Sabeel conference on 'The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine
-Israel.' See this public
statement from Old South Church.
Known culprits: Zionists
groups, most likely including the David Project
Craven collaborators:
October: Krista Johnson, a long-term volunteer for Sabeel
(Voice of Palestinian Christians) in Jerusalem, is denied re-entry into Israel.
She is deported from Ben Gurion Airport as she attempted to return to Jerusalem after attending the Sabeel Conference in Boston.
Zionists in Boston pressured Christ Church the previous year
to oust Sabeel after successfully having another church in
Cambridge oust the Center for Palestinian Human Rights (CPHR)
(see 2006, October entry below). See karmalised.
August: ADL fires its MA director for supporting
the recognition of the Armenian genocide. See Boston
Globe article re the stir this issue caused in Watertown
and the greater boston area.
May: Zionists pressure Harvard University to
cancel a talk by Robert Trivers due to his characterization
of Alan Dershowitz.
Known culprits: Dershowitz
denies culpability
Craven collaborators:
Harvard University
April: Palestinian refugee childrens' art is
stolen from Boston public library. Organizers suspect
political motives (no kidding). "Library staff from the Honan-Allston branch said that this is the first time a theft of this kind has happened there, although they often display art exhibits."
See ISM
story (ISM no less! Zionist infiltrated)
2006
October: Zionists pressure the principal of Andover
High School to renege on plans for the Wheels of
Justice to make a stop at the school. Only under threat from
the ACLU does the principal re-issue an invite to Wheels of
Justice, for January 2007. The zionists insisted that Mazin give his talk in
the evening so that parents could hear what WOJ told the
students. [The Zs also demanded their own forum for a
pro-Israeli talk, to be held at a later date.] Zionists
get their way, but make a complete spectacle of themselves.
Known culprits: ADL,
Rabbi Robert Goldstein of Temple Emanuel, and others
Craven collaborator:
Principal Peter Anderson
October: Zionists pressure the First Church
Congregational in Harvard Sq to break its lease with the
Center for Palestinian Human Rights. See Confronting
zionists and their appeasers and Cambridge
church yields to pressure, evicts Palestine group (now
gone; was at BridgeNews)
Unknown culprits: "Individuals
and organizations with whom we have important
relationships" ~Mary Luti
Craven collaborators:
First Church Congregational UCC, Cambridge and senior pastor
Mary Luti
May: Zionists pressure Brandeis to withdraw a
photo exhibit of artwork by children in refugee camps in
Palestine. See zionist Boston
Globe writeup. Hear
a audio report (link now gone). See photos
of protest at rule19, with links to more
reportage.
Known culprits:
Zionists groups and alumni
Craven collaborators:
Brandeis
2005
December: Zionists go on a full frontal attack
against the building of Boston's new Mosque and Cultural Center.
See Damning Evidence Against The David Project
and Praised as beacon, mosque project stalls amid rancor
Known culprits:
The David Project
Craven collaborators:
September: First Alan Dershowitz tries to stop publication of Norman Finkelstein's book
Beyond Chutzpah with threats of a libel suit, then
he successfully pressures the Harvard Bookstore to rescind
an invitation to an event for the book, stating that it
feared "economic retaliation". This raises the
very interesting question of just exactly who is threatening
"economic retaliation?" Obviously it can't be
Dershowitz acting alone: an individual professor just
doesn't buy that many books. See Too Hot for Harvard
Known culprits: Alan
Dershowitz and ??
Craven collaborators:
Harvard Bookstore
2003
After several years of harassment, Palestinian activist
Amer Jubran is forced to accept a voluntary deportment to
Jordan. Amer was first arrested in Brookline, MA on false
charges by a zionist agent provocateur.
Known culprits:
Craven collaborators:
2002
November: Zionists
pressured Harvard to cancel an event with poet Tom Paulin,
of Belfast Ireland, who was due to give the prestigious
Morris Gray poetry reading; the event was cancelled due to
Paulin's anti-Israeli views. See
Poet Paulin 'banned from
Harvard.' The English Department reinvited him a week
later.
Known culprits: Alan
Dershowitz
Craven collaborators:
Harvard University
1992
Dr Kaveh Afrasiabi, political science faculty member at Boston University, lost
his job as a direct result of his decision to speak at a campus rally that protested the university’s honorary
law degree to Israel’s former Prime Minister, Izhak
Shamir. See The High Price of Defending Palestinianand Iranian Rights in America
Craven collaborators:
Boston University
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