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Thanksgiving is over, soon be Xmas, and yet.............

Nov 28, 2003 4:29PM PST

deep in the heart of America, hatred pie is still the main course....

Jihad at Ohio State
While American soldiers fight and die in Afghanistan and Iraq, students on the home front praise their murderers. During the Third Annual National Student Conference On Palestine Solidarity, held from November 7 to 9 at Ohio State University, "Islamist radicals gathered in America?s heartland to openly call for the destruction of Israel, the overthrow of the U.S. government and to take the side of the murderers in the War on Terrorism." The report is from FrontPage, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11010 with thanks to Ruth S. King. The whole piece is illuminating.

"Fatima Ayoub, a female graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, spoke glowingly of 'freedom fighters' in 'Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and Chechnya.' These are all locations where al-Qaeda has been active, two of them areas where Americans are being killed. Most people would question if the Taliban and al-Qaeda are freedom fighters and ask about the 3,000 murdered on 9/11, but this crowd did not give it a thought. Trying desperately to maintain the multicultural flavor of the day, Ayoub pledged to fight for the 'freedom of the Palestinian people and social justice with the Iraqis, Native and Black Americans.'" . . .

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Republican Darrel Issa and Terrorist Groups...
Nov 28, 2003 5:55PM PST
Thanksgiving is over, soon be Xmas, and yet deep in the heart of America, hatred pie is still the main course.... - jonah jones

Interesting! Lee Kaplan, the guy who wrote this piece: Campus Rally for Terror is also the guy who wrote this piece: DARREL ISSA AND THE CALIFORNIA RECALL among many others. In this piece, Lee Kaplan claims that Republican finacier of the California recall, Darrel Issa, endorsed the terrorist group Hizbollah who murdered our US marines in Beirut.

"But there is another underlying reason that the mainstream press has chosen to ignore in its reporting the recall; that reason is that Darrel Issa, the Republican congressman from Southern California who is financing and leading this recall campaign as the replacement candidate for Davis, has at least endorsed the terrorist group Hizbollah who murdered our US marines in Beirut as a legitimate liberation movement.

Most Californians don't know this about Issa.

A former multi-millionaire with a felony arrest record for auto theft in his background, Issa has embraced Arab causes and supports Arab goals to dismantle Israel; he has personally met with Bashir Assad of Syria and Syria is Hizbollah's benefeactor in Lebanon as well.

Issa's support of anti-Israel actions by dicatators and terrorists in the Middle East at one time made him a target of Irv Rubin, the head of the Jewish Defense League, who was most likely murdered in prison after being incarcerated for plotting to bomb's Issa's office.
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i'm curious
Nov 28, 2003 7:28PM PST
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Re:Thanksgiving is over, soon be Xmas, and yet.............
Nov 28, 2003 11:23PM PST

Israeli and Palestinian Activists Clash on OSU Campus
by Patrick McDonald
12/01/2003 OSU Sentinel

The Third Annual Conference of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement recently concluded its three-day conference on the OSU campus this past Sunday. The conference, supported and put forth in conjunction with the OSU chapter of the Committee for Justice in Palestine, met for the duration of the weekend from November 7th- November 9th in the Ohio Union. The event commenced on Friday evening with a memorial service for the late Edward W. Said and concluded on Sunday Evening with a ?silent? march to the corner of 15th and High Street where conference attendees were joined by a myriad of anti-war protesters, Palestinian activists and various leftist groups.

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Re:Thanksgiving is over, soon be Xmas, and yet.............cont.
Nov 28, 2003 11:27PM PST

This year marked the group?s third annual national meeting since their first meeting at the UC-Berkeley campus in 2001. The conference was held in 2002 at the University of Michigan and was originally scheduled to take place this year in New Jersey at Rutgers University but the group was forced to relocate amid technicalities with the university staff and state lawmakers who opposed the group?s meeting on university grounds.

Conference attendees and activist who converge on campus were met with considerable resistance from the local Jewish community, Israeli activists and an increasingly renowned conservative grassroots organization known as ProtestWarrior.com. Based out of Austin, Texas, several of the organization?s student activists let there voices be heard as they displayed signs calling for an end to Arab aggression in the area, an official condemnation of terrorism on the part of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and a resilient message calling for the University to invest instead of Divest from support of Israel. The group first gained national attention after it successfully infiltrated and ?crashed? a large anti-war protest in San Francisco last spring during the prelude to the War in Iraq. Since then, the group has organized various counter protests in cities throughout the nation in an attempt to counter the liberal left by organizing conservatives in a grassroots manner.

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Re:Thanksgiving is over, soon be Xmas, and yet.............cont.
Nov 28, 2003 11:29PM PST

Students for Academic Freedom, a chapter of David Horowitz?s Center for the Study of Popular Culture that has advocated intellectual diversity and perspective on campuses ran an advertisement in The Lantern entitled, ?A Pro-Terrorist Rally at OSU?? The article cited several incidents involving Solidarity members both current and former. One such incident involved former Solidarity member Sami Al-Arian, a former Florida professor and keynote speaker at last year?s conference who was not able to attend this year?s conference as he is being held on charges of terrorism. Students For Academic Freedom has recently started a chapter at OSU and will begin recruiting early winter quarter.

The better part of the three-day long conference centered around Solidarity?s divestment campaign for Ohio State as well as various other universities around the country. The various panel discussions also focused on the movements other long-term goals, which include linking the Solidarity and environmental movements, joining with local churches and unions in their divestment campaign and expansion of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement by ?linking with Black, Indigenous and Labor Struggles.? The remainder of the conference focused on the further deconstruction of ?Zionism? on college campuses.

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Re:Thanksgiving is over, soon be Xmas, and yet.............
Nov 29, 2003 12:40AM PST
"Ayoub pledged to fight for the 'freedom of the Palestinian people and social justice with the Iraqis, Native and Black Americans.'" . . ."

Sheesh, she forgot, Gays, Lesbians, Transgendered and People with disabilities as well as people to whom English is neither a native language or even spoken properly!!!