Racist Horowitz tries to defend racist stance at SDSU

[Joanie Baloney]

A tumultuous few weeks at San Diego State University continued Thursday with a visit by conservative activist David Horowitz, who had sparked tension on the campus with posters that singled out seven students for allegedly supporting terrorism and hatred of Jews.

There was high security at the event venue, but no demonstrators showed up.

At the invitation of a Republican student group, Horowitz came to the school to make a presentation on Israel a day after some students and two national civil-rights groups called on SDSU President Elliot Hirshman to resign over what they described as his failure to condemn the posters.

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Citing lack of space in the 70-seat room where Horowitz gave his talk, the host group — San Diego State College Republicans — denied access to several journalists including a reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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Yeah...I wasn't being racist. But, if I was, they were racist first. And worse! Neener neener!



-JB


http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/may/05/horowitz-sdsu-campus-talk/

[Silver_Witch]

1. San Diego is full of Republican

We have tried everything to make them go away. I think they are attracted y the beautiful weather!

[Joanie Baloney]

2. He is not a local

Imported racism. Not needed here, thank you!

-JB

[Press Virginia]

3. What is racist about posters saying BDS Activists have aligned themselves

with people who seek the destruction of Israel?

Yes, the posters named specific activists from SJP and BDS but so what.

[Joanie Baloney]

4. How about if it isn't true?

Nothing like posting people's names saying they are aligned with Hamas to stir things up, eh??

[Press Virginia]

5. BDS is aligned with Hamas

They share fundraisers, Their founder has stated he is working for the elimination of Israel. Hamas has embraced and applauds the effort.

SJP/BDS groups have targeted jews on various campuses across the country.

How were the posters racist?

[Joanie Baloney]

6. If you want to be a supporter of Horowitz

Please, proceed.

-JB


(fixed spelling)

[Press Virginia]

7. I don't know who the man is. You made the accusation that his actions were racist

but you've yet to say why.

[Joanie Baloney]

8. I will let the Southern Poverty Law Center detail it for you

A short clip:

For David Horowitz, the godfather of the modern anti-Muslim movement, the culture war that began when he was young never ended. Only the target has changed.

As one of the founding Marxist intellectuals of the New Left in the 1960s, Horowitz was a self-professed political radical — a pugnacious advocate of civil rights and equality. Now, a half-century later, he has undergone an about-face and set his sights on Muslims.

For Horowitz, Muslim Student Associations “are arms of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the fountainhead of the terrorist jihad against the West.” Hillary Clinton adviser and Muslim Huma Abedin is a “Muslim Brotherhood operative” who is “worse than Alger Hiss.” And the Palestinians, all of them, are even worse.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/godfather

-JB

[Press Virginia]

9. The MB started the MSA. So Yes, the MSA is an arm of the MB

But you've yet to say why his actions at SDSU were racist.


SPLC lists Silver Bullet Gun oil as a racist/hate group

[Joanie Baloney]

10. Okay

This sums it up for me:

These posters are the latest in a string of virulently anti-Muslim and anti-Arab posters plastered across college campuses in recent years by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, whose founder, David Horowitz, has been called “the godfather of the anti-Muslim movement” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Since 2007, Horowitz’ center has organized Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week programming at hundreds of campuses. He has also spoken virulently against civil rights, LGBT equality, feminism, and much more. At UCLA, his targets have expanded from simply attacking students to also attacking two black faculty members who are vocal supporters of Palestinian rights.

Placing these posters on the SDSU and UCLA campuses is a McCarthyite tactic, clearly intended to threaten the academic and professional prospects and careers of campus pro-Palestine activists, to intimidate and silence. It is a fear-mongering tactic that places those named in danger of harassment and physical harm, both on and off campus.

In addition to an attack on activism in support of Palestinian rights, these posters are blatantly Islamophobic. They single out by name and demonize students and faculty for being members of a religious organization, the Muslim Students Association, which provides resources, programming, and community support for Muslim students on campuses across the country. This intimidation adds to a rising tide of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism on college campuses and throughout the United States.

-JB

[Press Virginia]

11. You've obviously not seen the posters.

The people he named are leaders of the SJP/BDS movements on the various college campuses. Some of them are neither Arab nor Muslim.

It is not islamaphobia when you call out members of groups who align themselves with Hamas

SDSU has been listed as the #6 college in the 10 Colleges with the worst Anti-Semetic Activity. UCLA is #9. Much of the anti-semetism stems from the targeting of jewish students by SJP and BDS members.