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The Radicalizing of Eric Ciaramella
2019-11-10
[Spectator] While the lawyers representing Eric Ciaramella, the alleged "whistleblower" in the Trump impeachment fiasco, describe him as having spent his entire career in "apolitical civil servant positions," the truth is that Eric Ciaramella has been involved in radical political behavior throughout his life - including his years at Yale.
WTF has Obama wrought in America ?

In fact, long before he was digging up dirt with the DNC's Alexandra Chalupa about President Trump's mythical collusion with Russia, Ciaramella was involved in leading a protest over what he believed was the poor treatment of Bassam Frangieh, a radical professor of Arabic Studies at Yale. On April 15, 2005, then first-year Yale student Ciaramella dressed in all white to lead a contingent of ten similarly dressed first-year Yale Arabic students to the offices of the Provost and the President of the university to demand that the university provide an incentive to encourage Frangieh to stay at Yale. The students were unhappy because Frangieh had decided earlier in the school year to accept a tenure-track position at the University of Delaware.

Ciaramella helped to organize a campus-wide letter-writing campaign on behalf of Frangieh which "identified flaws in the administration's policies regarding language instructors at Yale." According to the Yale Daily News, Bassam Frangieh was looking for an opportunity to teach more of the classes that he would like to teach, according to one of the protesters: "His specialty is Arabic language and literature, and he wanted to teach some classes on style and poetry." A week after the protest, Yale’s administration announced that they had "upped the ante with an offer competitive enough to keep one of its star language instructors from leaving Yale.

It is likely that Bassam Frangieh wanted to use literature to be able to shape Yale's undergraduates' views on what he called the "heroic Arabic poet-martyrs" battling against the unjust occupation in Palestine. In 2000, Frangieh published a chapter romanticizing terrorism in a book entitled Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature. Ciaramella's favorite Yale Arabic professor praised the heroism of Abd al Rahim Mahmud, the "first Arab poet-martyr."
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Mahmud, who is often used to inspire terrorism and suicide bombings among Arab youth, was described by Frangieh as "carrying his soul in the palm of his hand," as he "threw himself into the cavern of death." Romanticizing his terrorism, Frangieh recalls Mahmud's "premature death at age 35, fighting a battle in an attempt to keep Palestine free from foreign occupation, [which]brought dignity to the hearts of his people. Through his death he eliminated the gap between words and action... he shall remain a symbol of heroism and pride for his people."
Do read the entire thing by Anne Hendershott at the Spectator. I tell you, my mind was blown.
Related:
Eric Ciaramella: 2019-11-09 Alexander Vindman's Testimony Appears To Confirm He Illegally Leaked To The Whistle-Blower
Eric Ciaramella: 2019-11-09 Obama White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella
Eric Ciaramella: 2019-11-09 Another censored article: Facebook Removes Any News Reporting On – or Even Mention of – Who the Whistleblower Is Alleged to Be
Related:
Alexandra Chalupa: 2019-11-09 Obama White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella
Alexandra Chalupa: 2019-11-03 Alexandra Chalupa: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Alexandra Chalupa: 2019-10-31 'Whistleblower' May Be Outed: Ties to Biden, Ukraine, Brennan, Schiff's Staff, Etc
Related:
Yale: 2019-11-03 Just as we suspected
Yale: 2019-10-31 'Whistleblower' May Be Outed: Ties to Biden, Ukraine, Brennan, Schiff's Staff, Etc
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