Not The Onion: Yeshiva University to Honor Jimmy Carter

Anti-Israel Jews are trying to ban me from speaking at a local synagogue next weekend, leftwing JINOs (Jews in names only), but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Now uber-left Jews (cultural Jews, not spiritual Jews) at Yeshiva University are stooping so low as to honor a man who has written a whole book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid) validating the Islamic supremacist blood libel against Israel — that it is an apartheid state. For those who may think that Carter is a defender of the Jews because of the Camp David Accords should consider how much Israel was made to give up in those agreements, in exchange for promises that have been broken again and again — notably, that Egypt would not allow antisemitic rhetoric to flourish in that country, that Sinai would not become a base for jihad attacks against Israel or for aid to the "Palestinian" jihadists, etc.

And now the Camp David Accords are on their last legs because of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt, and Carter is a full-bore spokesman for the jihad. And they're honoring him now?

Yeshiva University is supposed to set the standard. The shuld be the architects of Jewish pride. You want to honor someone at Yeshiva University, how about a real Zionist like John Bolton or Jose Aznar? Or even Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld.

Who's up for this award next year? Khaled Meshaal? Such asshattery is without peer.

Outrage as Yeshiva University's Law School Honors Jimmy Carter Breibart,

by
Joel B. Pollak

8 Apr 2013, 4:23 AM PDT

On Wednesday, the Journal of Conflict Resolution at Yeshiva
University's Cardozo School of Law will bestow an award on former
president Jimmy Carter. The award, chosen by the students who run the
journal, has stirred intense controversy at the historically Jewish
institution, given Carter's embrace of the anti-Israel movement in
recent years and his eager association with openly antisemitic leaders
in the Arab and Muslim world.

A group of Cardozo alumni, calling itself the Coalition of Concerned Cardozo Alumni, has established a website, shameoncardozo.com,
that summarizes the case against Carter, including an image of him
interacting warmly with Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza
and Palestinian Authority prime minister who is responsible for ongoing
terror attacks targeting Israeli civilians. Carter's error-filled 2006
book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid blamed Israel for the flagging peace process and placed him on the margins of debate on the issue.

Yeshiva University and Cardozo administrators deny any association
with the decision to grant Carter an award. Lori Lowenthal Marcus of The
Jewish Press reports
that despite reassurances by Dean Matthew Diller that he would not be
at the ceremony, "a letter obtained by The Jewish Press that was sent by
Dean Diller to certain 'high roller' alumni inviting them to the event
made clear…Diller plans to be front and center at the event."

The school's Journal of Conflict Resolution has stirred controversy
in the past. Broadcaster and Cardozo alumnus Yishai Fleisher recalls
that ten years ago, the journal chose to honor Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
who had taken a vitriolic, and in some respects antisemitic, stance
against Israel. Fleisher encouraged opponents of the Carter award to
mount a vigorous protest against the ceremony rather than shut down the
event itself.

 

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