PJM Exclusive: Georgetown U. Received $325,000 Funneled Through Terror Front Group
Georgetown University has some explaining to do based on documents obtained exclusively by PJM from a confidential law enforcement source. The documents reveal a scheme to pass $325,000 through the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been identified by the FBI as a front for the Hamas terrorist organization. The money was paid to Georgetown by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to promote its “Islamophobia” agenda, which includes its stated international objective of criminalizing any criticism of Islam.
Even more troubling: evidence that Georgetown is not the only American university to cooperate with CAIR and the OIC in their joint plan to subvert the First Amendment right to free speech.
The plot was apparently initiated in 2006 by discussions between the OIC, CAIR, and Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU). An email dated November 20, 2006, sent from OIC permanent observer to the UN Abdul Wahab to Nihad Awad and Hadia Mubarak — a CAIR board member and Georgetown CMCU “senior researcher” — urged them to expedite arrangements. The email also promised that funds would be transferred to Georgetown as soon as the OIC received a letter from John Esposito, director of Georgetown’s CMCU.
Abdul Wahab’s email was followed up with a January 11, 2007, joint letter from CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad and John Esposito, which is referenced in a January 15, 2007, letter of reply from OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (the letter is misdated as 2006). The letter offered $325,000 in cash from the OIC to finance an “Islamophobia” symposium to be convened at Georgetown University.
The OIC is the second largest intergovernmental body in the world behind the United Nations. It comprises every Islamic country in the world at the head of state level. OIC Secretary General Ihsanoglu said last year that the OIC functions as the Islamic global caliphate and embodies the “Islamic solidarity” of the ummah. Included as an agenda item in the OIC’s 10 year plan — stated in English on their own website — is to push for the international criminalization of Islamophobia (1.VII), in defiance of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights protections of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Georgetown’s CMCU was endowed in December 2005 by a $20 million grant from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, one of the richest men in the world, who also gave another $20 million for a similar center at Harvard. Back in February 2008, I wrote about the extremist Wahhabi agenda that the center actively promotes. Congressman Frank Wolf has also written to Georgetown President John DeGioia expressing concerns about the potential Saudi influence of U.S. government foreign service personnel trained at the university. Wolf also queried whether the CMCU had ever written anything critical of the Saudis’ abysmal record on human rights, religious freedom, freedom of expression, women’s rights, minority rights, protection of foreign workers, due process, and the rule of law. Needless to say, they haven’t.
John Esposito, the CMCU’s director, described Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian at an August 2007 CAIR fundraiser in Dallas as “a good friend of mine,” even hiring Al-Arian’s son Abdullah as a researcher for the center. Esposito’s protégé, Hadia Mubarak, who now operates as a researcher at the Gallup Poll’s Muslim World project, is a virulent bigot who has gone so far as accusing other Muslims as having “a deep hatred of Islam” for daring to criticize American Islamic organizations and institutions that are Saudi-financed and promote their extremist Wahhabi agenda — such as the Georgetown CMCU.
During the period when this scheme came together, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case — the largest terrorism financing trial in American history. Not coincidentally, Esposito served as a defense witness in that trial. His testimony was apparently unpersuasive, as the defendants were convicted on all 108 charges and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. During that trial, FBI Special Agent Lara Burns testified that CAIR was a front for the terrorist group Hamas. Admittedly mirroring the agenda of the OIC, and presumably its aim to criminalize the defamation of Islam, CAIR has established an observatory for “Islamophobia.” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad spoke last year at an OIC conference on Islamophobia held in Brazil. Nihad Awad was personally named an unindicted co-conspirator, along with his organization, in the Holy Land Foundation trial and is identified in federal wiretaps of a top-level Hamas meeting held in Philadelphia in 1993.
This symbiotic relationship between the OIC, Georgetown, and CAIR is expressed in their unity to promote the OIC’s “Islamophobia” agenda. But the attempts to pull off the Georgetown conference to that end experienced some setbacks, according to additional documents obtained from our law enforcement source.
A letter dated July 19, 2007, from OIC official Sukru Tujan to Nihad Awad and then-CAIR chairman Parvez Ahmed directed them to transfer $62,100 to Georgetown for costs associated with a scheduled September 20, 2007, workshop and speech at the university by OIC Secretary General Ihsanoglu (his speech can be found on Georgetown’s website). The letter also asked for the prompt return of the remainder of the $325,000 to the OIC, as the conference could not be organized in 2007. The letter notes this arrangement had previously been discussed, probably at the meeting between Awad and Ihsanoglu in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at OIC headquarters two weeks before where they discussed joint OIC-CAIR projects.
But CAIR chairman Ahmed replied with a letter to Ihsangolu dated July 27, 2007, complaining that returning the remainder of the $325,000 to the OIC would hinder their efforts to organize a joint symposium at a later date. He also noted that they already incurred $19,700 in expenses for the event. A faxed reply from Ihsangolu dated July 20, 2007, cited auditing requirements for the return of the money and concerns that another partner may need to be found, possibly due to CAIR’s legal and media troubles at the time.
Notwithstanding that dispute and the delay in organizing the proposed “Islamophobia” symposium, the three organizations continue to jointly push their shared agenda. Both John Esposito and CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab were scheduled to speak at an OIC conference held at the American Islamic College in Chicago last September.
And other American universities have lined up to promote the OIC “Islamophobia” agenda, most recently the University of California, Berkeley, which hosted the “Islamophobia Production and Redefining the Global ‘Security’ Agenda for the 21st Century” just this past April. That UC Berkeley conference was co-sponsored by the OIC’s Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IESCO) and CAIR, and featured IESCO representative Papa Toumane Ndiaey and CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad as speakers.
The documents we are presenting here for the first time put the lie to CAIR’s repeated claims that they have never received foreign funding, and their denials that they promote the extremist agenda of hostile foreign nations. This, however, is hardly breaking news.
That some of America’s top universities are actively colluding with the Islamic foreign governments — most of whom have refused to sign the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights — is troubling enough. But signing onto and openly promoting the OIC’s stated agenda of criminalizing “Islamophobia” puts them in direct opposition to the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections, and raises serious questions about their eligibility for public funding.
This is clearly an issue for Congress to investigate immediately.





“This is clearly an issue for Congress to investigate immediately.”
You must be joking!
This will NEVER happen.
Not under Obama.
The USA (Government, Education, Law Enforcement and the military) has been in the Saudi’s pocket for a while now.
you are so right…..unfortunately.
not so sure this will be swept under the carpet… look at what Issa and Grassley are doing exposing and investigating the BATF’s Project Gunwalker….. against ALL efforts of FBI, HS, DoJ, and the White House to ocntinue. There are some top level goons in those alphabet soup organisations that are squirming, ducking, and looking for an escape route. What it will take is for ONE senator or congressman to get a whiff of this stench and get on it, like a bloodhound on a line….. if anyone out there can think of one of their own elected representatives that has shown some spine for this sort of project, forward this article to them and ask them to look into it. No chance any of my three will.. fact is, they’d likely FAVOUR such nefarious projects as this article reveals.
But there is something that WE can do. Vote with our pocketbooks and with our feet!
1) If you have money to donate and are an alumnus, don’t send your money to a college or university that accepts money from Islamic sources or that serves as an indoctrination center for the leftist/jihadist axis.
2) If you are thinking of going to school, or sending your offspring to school, wait awhile for college tuitions to come down. And they will! Due to economic forces, a major housecleaning is in the offing, whether anyone likes it or not. (See: College tuition: The next speculative bubble to burst)
3) Exert pressure on your State or local government to prohibit any State- or city-run colleges or universities from accepting funding from Islamic sources.
SRSLY?
Obama can’t prevent congress from investigating anything, however I’d like to see in the constitution where the federal government has the authority, much less the responsibility for investigating a private university sources of funding, and the conditions for that funding.
What Georgetown is doing–if this report is true–is utterly despicable but is entirely within their first amendment rights.
Now, if you want to argue that they receive federal money, and that congress should pass a law to do SOMETHING to prevent this, then you’re reacting emotionally and not thinking it through.
Freedom of speech, of the press, and of association does not mean JUST for the stuff we like, or stuff from our fellow countrymen. A terrorist nut job has the same right to speak his mind, and to pay others to propagate that speech as you or I do.
It is our jobs to ignore or counter his arguments, or to shout him down–not to use the power or threat of government to shut him up.
SRSLY right backatcha! Any university can accept money from any legal source they want, but no university has a right to our tax dollars.
If they want to be financed by America’s and the western world’s enemies, they should go right ahead and do that little thing. Without my money.
William O. B’Livion::
Very funny.
The First Amendment does not cover aiding and abetting the enemy, perhaps you might read that short document again or revise your thinking that like you no one else has.
That is all as lame as just answering ‘it’s only some money.’
It would seem that this country is filling up with ‘citizens of the world’ that all have diplomatic immunity.
Perhaps they just need a taste of Shariah Law.
I suggest some Western Justice that’s no too cosmic or tied to enterprise journalism. Top down.
The active collaboration of academia in this despicable undermining of our country is no particular surprise. It is no coincidense that universities are increasingly becoming less tolerant of true diversity of thought when it comes to certain issues and the glorifying of Islam and the demonization of Israel is a familiar theme. Meanwhile the US government actively supports the Saudi’s and their duplicitious behavior–denying their people human rights, making women miserable in general and not allowing any sign, symbol or christians within their own country while at the same time advocating for a greater Islamization of the USA, building mosques and otherwise undermining our values at every turn. The idea that american universities have sold their souls to these scum bags is no great surprise.
Sure they have some “splaining” to do but what about the hundreds of others universities with their hands out looking for their own share of this blood money? Who are they and where are they so the can be exposed too!
There are still voices of reason in academia … some … a few, anyhow,
even in Middle East studies.
Have a look at ASMEAS (http://www.asmeascholars.org/).
It’s where all the cool kids hang out. There are some good videos
under ‘Conferences’ — B. Lewis, Bolton, Ajami, etc.
Join ‘em. You don’t have to be a prof.
Just wait til our Turkish allies get here, secular professors fleeing their newly Islamized Turkey.
Together we’ll wage a Kemalist campaign for the restoration of sanity, and integrity.
Importing muslims is like importing a plague. It’s not rocket science – end all immigration.
These people will agitate, connive and they will never shut up about their own cultural self absorption. I don’t want them here and they have no business here. Let them fix their own miserable countries if they want a fight. But they don’t want a fight and have no idea how to make systems like those they ironically hate.
Like all bigoted minorities, they fantasize about living in communities without their betters but with all the laws and tech those betters make.
The truth is, like in England, they want to come into countries that have gone through decades and even hundreds of years of making those places a nice place to live and then want instant equality and rights, though they never helped and don’t know how to. All they know how to do is play a system they can’t make. They are parasites.
England’s reward? East Asian prostitution rings and crime and no-go zones and first cousin marriages straining the health system. Minorities are all in favor of indigenous people as long as they’re not Englishman.
You forgot to include “the introduction of Sharia law”.
They never let us forget it; when it comes to the religion that minds its own business the least and flaps its gums the most, I’m voting for Islam.
There apparently is no Arabic word for “shut up.”
I wonder how many Englishman in the 60-70 year old range just want to break down and cry at what immigration has done to that country.
America will be the next train wreck because there is not even a hint on the far horizon of anyone within the U.S. calling for an end to immigration. Tipping points have already been reached in some few locales.
Britain has been sucked so dry they couldn’t even duplicate protecting the Falkland Islands today as they did 30 years ago and I think it’s only a matter of time before Argentina seizes them again. They still feel as strong as ever about it even though it’s almost 300 miles out to sea and they have only the slimmest thread of history there.
Just a minor point to correct. East Asia is China, Japan, Taiwan, the Koreas, typically. You mean Middle Eastern and Central Asian, don’t you?
Isn’t Georgetown a Catholic University? If so, why is it promoting Islam? It seems to be promoting political Islam if it is accepting money from Hamas front CAIR.
Bob, the Catholic Church is just as afflicted with a far left wing as the so called main stream Protestant denominations. It has nothing to do with being “Catholic” and everything to do with Marxism and the unholy alliance between the far left and radical Islam. Then add Saudi money, lots of it, into the mix and we have what we have.
After the Vatican’s representative in Lebanon, Hilarion Capucci was caught running arms to the West Bank for the PLO, in his official car, while Arafat and his gang were slaughtering Christians in Lebanon (Damour 1976 for example) nothing surprises me anymore.
It’s a safe bet that the curtain, or shield, of being “Ecumenical” will be dropped or proffered, as this adaptive Islamic fluidity ebbs and flows, to all discussions of including Islam and Sharia among American institutions. “Inclusive” is another keyword….masking that nuanced subversion and metasticizing of advancing Islam in the United States as we see now well established in England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is apparently sympathetic to Islamic principles. That’s certainly adroitly elastic.
If we hear these two buzz-words being wafted and sprinkled around by smug academe, we should ask, “Why include the openly declared hostility of Islam?”
Money obviously is ecumenical….and, sickenly PC, to boot.
This is so NOT newsworthy! It is just another example of some outsider trying to influence our country to drop our Constitutional protections for our citizens so they don’t have to address them. Imagine for a moment that all aid, visas, grants etc were dependent on the society embracing the First Amendment. Would their people cry out for more freedom or more islamic brotherhood? Do we care if they choose the later? With the Iranian bomb on the way I can see checks totaling hundreds of millions of dollars going to support North Korea, Iran, Egypt, and other failed tyrannies. Ooops…I was trying to predict the future but just read the old news!
This is the “no-longer Catholic” joint that shamefully covered Christ so as not to offend the marxist black liberation theology president. Then again, liberation theology was a construct of the Jesuits, who ended up in Nicaragua booing JPII for not allowing communism into the Church.(Many might argue that it’s here anyway – how else did ACORN recieve millions meant for the poor, from the USCCB to help elect nice pro-baby killers like Obama.)
I suspect after the investigation, some Roman-collared leftist will apologize , saying -I have no idea how this happened -it worked for the USCCB
Muslims have recently suffered a horrendous genocide at the hands of the Bush regime in Iraq. They are in the same position as the Jews right after the liberation of Auschwitz. Can you blame Muslims for wanting to combat the scourge of Islamophobia that was the inspriation for the history’s bloodiest atrocity since the Holocaust? Can you deny the role of Islamophobia in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. This looks to me like an oppressed, victimized group trying to define itself on its own terms. What Georgetown is doing is no different from a German university giving account of the emotions that enabled the Holocaust.
Muslims have recently suffered a horrendous genocide at the hands of the Bush regime in Iraq.
Most of the victims of Muslim carnage throughout the world have been Muslims themselves, including Iraq where your pal al Zarqawi made it a personal mission to slaughter as many Shi’ites as he could.
Throbbin you need a head check.
That’s why his yobbin is throbbin!
How can there be a genocide of Palestinians when their numbers have been increasing geometrically?
From, according to UNWRA, some 800,000 Arabs who fled what is Israel to what is the West Bank and Gaza there are now according to the same crowd some 4 million.
Okay … pretty damned amusing, TY, but a tiny shade unconvincing: too broad by half and way too heavy on the faux-stupid. Read LovelyEarth below to see how QUALITY parody is done.
Throbbin, yer noggin is throbbin cause it needs a clobbrin…. put down your scratchy old goosequill and pick up a few books… study the HISTORY of HOW the West Bank happened… yes, go back to the beginning, about four thousand years ago. Pay special attention to what happened in the late 1940′s in that region, then again in 1967. Holocaust? in West Bank?Yer dreamin….. wake up. As to moslems dying in Iraq, yes, many did… but HOW did Iraq get formed as a nation, and WHAT are the insurmountable flaws deliberately woven into the very composition of that “nation”? And what is at the root of the slaughter today, not only there, but nearly everywhere else in that entire region? Read about the assasination of Mohammed, and what took place amongst his top leaders/relatives in the aftermath of that. In THAT scenario we have the roots of today’s scrapping between islamic sects, the power plays we see today… yet their underlying “mission in life” is unchanged since Medina. Nor have their MO changed one whit.. falsehood, subterfuge, playing “the infidels” for fools, telling them whatever they want to hear whilst working your plan under the table… and when the trapdoor is sprung it is far too late for the infidels to awaken and resist….. think I’m crazy> Have a GOOD HARD LOOK at Merrie Olde England… they’re only about ten, maybe fifteen years further on than are we… UNLESS we wake up. YOU, sir/madam, have swallowed the Turkish Delight of the mainstream press and our ruling elites within our own government. Might I srtongly recommend an immediate change in diet?
I can’t believe you missed mentioning the international Zionist conspiracy to eliminate tin foil hats from the Sunni areas of Iraq.
Well aren’t you funny?
U.S. fails at genocide just like everything else they undertake.To see genocidal pro’s just take a peek at the histories of: 80m killed in India,Armenian genocide,Jewish genocides and the endless supply of dead body photo ops in Africa.Islam knows how to kill better than anyone else.Palestine? hahaha.Zip your pants please,your anti-semitism is showing, again.
Great job PJ!
Talk about treason.Is there any doubt these Universities allow teachings bordering on terrorism to our barely literate youth?
All gov education grants need to be stopped to college students until religion is removed from the learning centers.It violates church-state.
Private and religious education needs to be monitored and no public funding.
All alumni needs to be notified of the terrorist supporters.
OH PLEASE! What a witch hunt! My sister went to Georgetown (she is now a high ranking DC administration adjunct supporter), and she told me first hand that there is no “terror” money – whatever that means – going to Georgetown. Georgetown’s financial supporters are everyday people. I know one donor who heads up an arts foundation here in NYC. Very nice man. His partner is very nice also. This article only serves to further reveal the McCartyite witch-hunt attitudes that republicans have toward anything that smells of enlightenment. I can see it now, some hick from Alabama is reading this article while clinging to his shotgun and bible, convinced that we have to shut down Georgetown to protect America from terroists and progressives. Please….what a bunch of maroons you all are!
10/10!
What if witches are real?
Might they then not merit hunting?
Insofar as your sister’s like so important,
can you ask her who really killed Kennedy?
Dear Ali: I will not attack you with invective. I know that you, Ali, being of Arab decent have likely suffered some horrible wrong at the hands of American/Israeli/Blackwater aggression. I know, having studied a bit of psychology at Columbia, that the targets of violence often associate with their oppressors. I believe it’s called “Stockholm Syndrome” or “Woody Allen Fan Base Syndrome”, or something of that nature. I understand why you, Ali, associate, even in a disconnected way, with the oppressors of your people.
(Putting down my shotgun so I can type….and it is a beer in the other hand, not a bible)
What is a Maroon?
Yes, well, I would not expect you, “suthenboy”, to know what a “maroon” is (although I suspect that you may fit the definition). But before I get to the definition of “maroon”, I must point out that you have mis-spelled “southern”. Also, as it is your moniker, correct grammar requires that you begin your name with a capitalized letter. Your correct moniker should be: “Southernboy”. Now to the definition of “maroon”. It means an idiot, as used by that loveable, yet someone racist, cartoon character Bugs Bunny. It was his way of pronouncing the word “moron”. Oh, wait, I now get the whole “suthenboy” bit. It make sense. And by the way, we have something in common: I too enjoy a nice draught of ale, preferably a fancy micro brew, like “Stone Charles Classic New England Dark Porter Draft”. I hope you’re not drinking Budweiser Light…..
Are you criticizing suthenboy’s Southern accent? (Incidentally, I spell it southrern.)
Accentist!
Well aren’t you a lovely racist ball of hate? And so intelligent you can diagnose mental illness from taking a class.Heck your sister attended a school and now knows absolutely every single thing about that school,down to each contributor.
You should move to the middle east and save the victims,diagnose all illnesses and become dictator.
But first take your meds.
Well, LovelyEarth, if your sister says there is no terrorist money, then of course noone should look at the carefully documented sources mentioned in this article. After all, your sister should know.
Of course a more fatal refutation of this article is the fact that you know some nice donors. I’m sure they have pearly-white teeth and send Mother’s Day cards every year.
Islamist money infiltrating American universities, funding “chairs” of Islamic studies (how boring) goes hand in hand with Soros money infiltrating American newsrooms.
A few years ago, a course came up at Berkeley on Palestine and the course description said anyone “pro Israel” shouldn’t sign up. That was even over the top for Berzerkley, but, recently I read of a similar course being offered at another major American university.
Sometimes Arab money buys up full page ads in American newspapers.
This is the drip drip drip approach to destroying the American landscape, the major tenet of soft jihad.
The love of money really is the root of evil.
“high ranking DC administration adjunct supporter”
I went to Georgetown and (1) I can’t for the life of me figure out what your sister’s position is, (2) Georgetown accepted a donation from CAIR – it’s a matter of record. The only debate is whether CAIR supports terrorism – and there is evidence it does.
Asked to be taken off its mailing list years ago.
“high ranking DC administration adjunct supporter”
She’s a failed college grad, who waits tables in DC.
But she’s looking for a man she can support.
We are supposed to believe that your judgement about “nice men” is a sound objective judgment and then we see you call fokks who think other than you a”bunch of maroons.”
Who didn’t think Richard Speck or Bundy weren’t nice men, or those Church -going mafia dons? I loved those old family type films with Hitler and Eva Bruan and friends complete with their loving tail-wagging German shepherd – all laughing and playing, nice, very nice.
Yes, those old films of Hitler and Eva do allow one to see another side of the whole sordid affair. For the record: Nazis were and are somewhat terrible people. Although, we all have to admit that the Zionist entity has really milked that whole Holocaust thing to the hilt! Some of my Jewish friends here in NYC feel the same way.
LovelyEarth — are you a troll? Your voice is completely ungenuine. I don’t believe you are who you say. Your stories sound like inventions.
She probably is a troll, but she strikes me as someone young (possibly quite young) and pampered and completely enamored of her own brilliant mind. Possibly she’s regarded in her circle as something of an intellectual (which would tell you a good deal about her circle). In any event, she’s a source of comic relief and a great improvement over some of the old trolls who had become predictable and boring.
I would have bet that your Jewish friends would feel that way.
Nazi’s are “somewhat” terrible people? Do enlighten us about the upside of Nazism. What kinds of things were they about when they weren’t being somewhat terrible?
The Nazi regime set out to eliminate the Jewish population from the face of the earth and might well have succeeded. When it comes to something like that, no milking is required. When the Jews say “never again,” they mean “never again.”
>>”Although, we all have to admit that the Zionist entity
>> has really milked that whole Holocaust thing to the hilt!”
Just like the “Palestinean entity” has milked the whole “Israeli Genocide” thing to the hilt. The is, however, one difference. The holocaust actually happened.
>>”Some of my Jewish friends here in NYC feel the same way.”
Gosh, some of my best friends are Jewish!
What does your sister think?
This would mean including Muslims in with the other silly victim groups protected by ‘hate crime’ laws. Not likely to happen. I do believe I have the right of freedom of expression and association and will continue to speak freely in association with other ‘Islamophobics’. So come and arrest me for ‘Islamophobia’.
This corruption and sheer rot spreads much farther than Georgetown University; for example, I ‘d love to see Yale University’s e-mails in this regard.
As you are obviously aware Yale University just closed the doors on its program aimed at the study of anti-semitism. Perhaps that was a requirement for stinking their snouts deeper into the islamic trough. Thought you might be interested in the following….
June 12, 2011
President Richard C. Levin
President’s Office
Yale University
PO BOX 208229
New Haven, CT 06520-8229
Professor Peter Salovey
Provost’s Office
Yale University
Warner House, Room 107
1 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Dear President Levin, Dear Provost Salovey:
As scholars who recently participated in a major conference on antisemitism at Indiana University, we were astonished to learn of Yale’s decision to eliminate the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA). Among North American universities, YIISA has been a pioneer in advancing research on contemporary manifestations of antisemitism. It has done much good work. The list of speakers it has hosted is diverse and includes many of the leading scholars in the field. Its publication program, while still young, already boasts several notable titles. The potential for YIISA to build on these attainments and achieve still more in the future is undeniable. What, then, explains Yale’s decision to suddenly terminate an institute with such a record?
While we are unfamiliar with the grounds for your decision, the immediate closure of YIISA strikes us as peremptory and unwise. Surely a way can be found to help YIISA continue its impressive record of accomplishments and, at the same time, help it remedy whatever problems your review may have identified.
At a time when antisemitism is once again a social reality of increasing concern, universities would do well to encourage the scholarly work of institutes like YIISA rather than shut them down. We urge you to reconsider your decision and thereby enable Yale University to remain a leader in studying one of the critical problems of contemporary culture. To do otherwise will deprive the scholarly community of an intellectual resource of high energy and proven effectiveness. Especially at this time of resurgent antisemitism, Yale’s surprising move to close YIISA sends precisely the wrong message.
Respectfully,
Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Professor of English and Jewish Studies
Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies
Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
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Universität Bayreuth
Germany
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Anna Sommer Schneider
Research Assistant
Institute for the Study of Modern Israel
Emory University, Atlanta
Eirik Eiglad
Ph.D. candidate and author
History and Philosophy
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Matthias Lehmann
Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Paul Berman
Independent scholar
New York City
Author of Flight of the Intellectuals and other books
Gunther Jikeli
International Institute Education and Research on Antisemitism,
London, UK
Dr. Szilvia Peremiczky
Director, Hungarian Jewish Museum, Budapest
Senior Lecturer, National Rabbinical Seminary and Jewish Studies University, Budapest
Senior Lecturer, Eötvös Lóránd University of Arts and Sciences, Budapest
The internationalist subversives (who control our media and our so-called “universities”) are not new to this kind of pacts with the devil.
Do you remember the Molotov-Ribbentrop (spelling not corrected) pact ?
Now they think they can use islam for the demise of America’s might and Freedom.
Everybody will pay for this folly, including the internationalist subversives, that will be used by islam and then thrown away, exactly as it happened when hitler thought he had secured the Western front and turned against the USSR.
But this time the process is going to be much much longer…
CAIR = Muslim KKK
Thank you Mr. Poole. It is articles like yours that put PJM on my must read list. MBY
I’m shocked and appalled! We’re these not the same people or ilk who, when attending the George Towns of the 60s and the 70s in their youth, protested their institutions collaboration with the CIA and the establishment? Were they not chanting “Off the Pig?” “Burn, baby, burn?”
ISLAMOPHOBIA is GROSSLy exaggerated by traitorous Muslims and liberals who enable and exploit their grievances- however Judeophobia is not made up or exaggerated- so of course, liberals close all discussion of jewhate, and of course pander to the lying crybabies.
statistics from 2009 FBI
Of the 1,575 victims of an anti-religious hate crime:
■71.9 percent were victims because of an offender’s anti-Jewish bias.
■8.4 percent were victims because of an anti-Islamic bias.
■3.7 percent were victims because of an anti-Catholic bias.
■2.7 percent were victims because of an anti-Protestant bias.
■0.7 percent were victims because of an anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.
■8.3 percent were victims because of a bias against other religions (anti-other religion).
■4.3 percent were victims because of a bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group). (Based on Table 1.)
thena gain facts and tuth never get in the way of liberal or Islamic fantasies
CAIR, Ahmed Rehab: The Bamboozling of the Infidels and the Silly Goose. Count Number One: The First United Methodist Church, Oak Park, IL, Host of ‘Nakba’ and Contributor to anti-Israel Palestinian Propaganda. The 5th Annual ‘Nakba’ Walk and Banquet: Speaker, Ali Abunimah ElectronicIntifada. Sponsor, CAIR.
Islamophobia = People who are opposed to the imposition of unjust Islamic sharia law and believe in the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The universities are despicable in seeking to destroy our human rights and freedom. The public need to be made aware of these vile freedom destroyers. We must hold street protests with signs and speakers!
Excellent definition of Islamophobia!
Georgetown is another former Catholic University which is now totally controlled by the American democrat party. Its fine graduates include Bill Clinton and half of the democrat party. One time the Jesuits were defenders of the Catholic faith; today they are propogators of homosexual marriage; islamic anti semitism; abortion on demand and the destruction of the traditional Roman Catholic church. Americans who send their children to these democrat Americanized universities in order to receive a background in their relgion are fools. Georgetown belongs to the core of the evil American empire which now seeks to destroy traditonal Western culture and replace with a repulsive hybrid of Islamic brutality and American democrat thuggery. Ecrazez l’infame.
Great comment and completely true. When I went to GU in the early 80′s (SFS 85), the profs were fairly balanced. Even “History of the Modern Middle East” was taught by an American woman who presented everything evenly. There was no $20 million gift from an Arab prince. Today, Georgetown, at what, 50 grand a year, with a 76% rejection rate is ridiculous. I loved the place, got a great education, and of course Patrick Ewing led us for an incredible 4 years of hoops, including that classic game in New Orleans in 1982 against UNC and Michael Jordan and a national championship in 1984. As an alum, I do not donate to GU because of the filthy money they get from rabid anti-Semites and misogynists. It really breaks my heart, especially when you read the history of GU. Patrick Healy (of which the main GU building gets its name) was the first American of African ancestry to 1) earn a PhD, 2) become a Jesuit priest, and 3) become a president of a major American university (Georgetown). Healy is the guy who turned GU into a top American university at the turn of the 20th century. On top of this, GU’s colors, blue and gray, were selected after the Civil War as a way to heal the country since students from both the Union and the Confederacy attended the school and died in the conflict.
Now, GU is Radical Islam U. Sickening.
Let’s see:
American universities are in the corrupt thrall of hate-filled, anti-American organizations. Yup. Since at least the 1950s.
The UN human rights declarations have all the force, suasion, and authority of similar declarations in the Soviet constitutions. Yup. Since its founding.
Islam is an anti-democratic, anti-Semitic “religion.” Yup. Since its founding.
I’m pleased PJMS is doing its own reporting, but really, *YAWN*.
At least we know where Obama got his 57 states from…
Aw, c’mon people! Eric Holder’s DOJ.will be all over this after lunch & a beer summit or 2.
“The plot was apparently initiated in 2006 by discussions between the OIC, CAIR, and Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU).”
Apparently Muslim understanding is that Christians should keep their mouths shut about their religion. Exactly how do you express your own religious views when you cannot criticize your competitors? Especially when those completing religions were founded by mass murdering rapist warlords?
It shows how far gone higher ed is when they consider CAIR a clean organization to launder their money.
Georgetown and Notre Dame seem to be in a race to see which prestigious, formerly Catholic university can turn itself into a whited sepulcher the fastest. Who are these people, and what can they possibly be thinking?! I guess the saprophytic worm of pederasty that found such a welcoming home within the Church’s folds so many years ago was accompanied by a slew of equally insidious, equally lethal infectious organisms that were able to burrow in and reproduce with equal success, leaving their by now unrecognizable host in the final stages of dissolution and decay. The supreme irony of an institution that was actually named for the Mother of Christ, who, so they used to teach us, stood on a hill and helplessly watched her flayed and mutilated Son bleed out for three hours in what for Western civilization remains the ultimate demonstration of unconditional, universal love, allowing itself to be so intimidated, or worse, besotted, by a benighted admirer of a murderous cult masquerading as a religion whose stated aim is the destruction of Christianity, that they obliterated the symbol of that sacrifice with a drape, lest it give “offense,” simply beggars description. Or perhaps, “Before the cock crows, thou shalt deny Me three times” covers it? As for the collaborators at Georgetown, one can only feel contempt, and wonder what makes them think their thirty pieces of silver will keep them safe when the country whose security they are betraying is one day in thrall to the barbaric philosophy behind the masks of their silver-tongued seducers. There simply are no words to express the sadness and horror that comes from watching these once revered, iconic American Catholic institutions rotting from within. “If gold rusts, what will iron do?”
Please make that “…sadness and horror that *come*….” Ye gods, I seem to be deteriorating almost as fast as the folks who taught me! : o )
Call CAIR exactly what they are, a muslim terrorist organization and a front of the muslim brotherhood, traitors all and nothing a rope and a pigs foot shoved in their mouths to solve the problem.
No wonder Georgetown covered up the cross when Obama came to speak.
This should be required reading by all Americans, especially those gay liberals who support the anti Zionists Gaza boat morons and other liberals who think they’re morally superior and are anti Semitic chic. Sharia is coming to a neighborhood close to you. This is not conspiracy theory–this is fact. If you don’t see it as fact, then you’re a fool. If you don’t see it as a personal threat, you’re dead.
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