Sharansky: Campus a battlefield
"We donât want no brains âround here, Zionist pawn!"
âThe real battlefield is
[on] campus,â Sharansky
told Israel Radio on Friday.
Both Palestinians and Jews were
protesting Sharanskyâs
speech at Rutgers University on
âHuman rights, justice
and democracy â a Jewish
approach,â one leg of a
United States speaking tour.
The Palestinians were calling Israel a
âracist state,â said Sharansky, and
some of the Jews were members of the radical
ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta sect, who said
that âJews must leave Israel.â
Well well⊠Arafatâs fifth column.
The man who threw the pie was Abe Greenhouse, a
member of the central New Jersey branch of Jews
Against the Occupation, according to a posting
on the Indymedia New Jersey Web site. The
posting called Sharansky a
âZionaziâ member of âwar
criminal Ariel Sharonâs
government,â and his former post as
housing and construction minister was described
as being âmore accurately, Minister of
Illegal Settlements and Demolition.â
Then his lips fell off.
According to the Web site, Greenhouse was
arrested and charged with disorderly conduct,
and was briefly held by police and then
released.
Sharansky said that actions such as the
pie-throwing served to energize the audience.
In a previous incident at Boston University,
where a pro-Palestinian group told the police
they had placed a bomb in the hall where the
lecture was scheduled to take place, the
university moved the lecture to another, larger
hall â and the size of the audience
increased from 200 to 600.
HeeheeheeâŠ
âThey wanted to cancel [my speech] in
several places, but I adamantly refused,â
he said.
Sharansky also said his âenemiesâ
are particularly irritated by his lecture
topic, human rights. âWe must be proud of
Israel,â he said.
Posted by: Katz 2003-09-19 |