Back in February of 2003, Edward Said came to Los Angeles from the Columbia Madrassa and addressed an audience at UCLA in a speech hailed by the usual California Islamic pro-terror lobbyists. After the speech, a leftist rabbi from the Hillel at UCLA addressed Arab students at UCLA and suggested to them that they pursue peace by recognizing Israel's right to exist. Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller claimed that Said's figures in his speech were wrong and then told Arab students they must recognize the state of Israel and Jewish people before he could talk to them. Enter Yael Korin, a UCLA researcher and co-founder of Women in Black - Los Angeles. Korin attacked the left-leaning rabbi for not being sufficiently anti-Israel. She retorted that the Palestinians have already recognized the state of Israel. "It's the Israelis and Jewish people who haven't recognized the Palestinian people yet." Eavesdroppers no doubt responded with a collective "Huh?" Korin then told her friends in the Islamofascist web magazine "Muslim WakeUp!" that Seidler-Feller admonished her in Hebrew, stating she should be ashamed of herself and asking which Palestinians have recognized Jews and the state of Israel. She was unable to answer him. Who exactly is this Yael Korin? Korin may be the most visible of the ex-Israeli far-leftists comprising a small Bash-Israel Lobby in the Los Angeles area, ex-Israelis working for the destruction of Israel. There has arisen a bizarre Diaspora of fanatically anti-Israel ex-Israelis, spread about the globe, and including such people as Avi Shlaim in Britain, Gabriel Piterberg also at UCLA, Zalman Amit in Canada, Yigal Arens, a Los Angeles extremist and son of Israel's one-time Defense Minister, Gilad Atzmon, an ex-Israeli anti-Semite in Britain who has justified burning down synagogues. These people seek to see their native homeland destroyed and replaced by a "secular" state with an Arab majority (one hitch: the only visible Arab majority wants an Islamic state "from the Jordan to the sea"). Yael Korin is a co-founder of the Los Angeles branch of "Women in Black", an anti-Jewish and pro-terror propaganda organization. LA.s Women in Black routinely co-sponsor events with such outfits as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslim Public Affairs Committee, and "If Americans Knew". It also promotes the beatification of Rachel Corrie, who martyred herself by stepping in front of a bulldozer to protect Palestinian terrorists. The Women in Black groups are among the initiators of efforts to "divest" from and boycott Israel. Korin herself sums up the LA-Women in Black position in these words: "Most of us do not believe that keeping (alive) a Jewish state is in agreement with this position, and that the Jewish state is an outcome of the Zionist project. So our events reflect these ideas as well." Korin is a pathologist at the medical school of UCLA, which is all more than a bit ironic because she evidently seeks to perform an autopsy on the corpse of Israel. She sees Arab terrorism as "nonviolent resistance to the violence of occupation," and has participated in panels devoted to that theme. Always the same: Jews are violent, Palestinians are victims. She is one of the people who can be counted on to endorse the Palestinian "right of return," that is the right of anyone of five million Arabs pretending to be Palestinian refugees to immigrate to Israel and overwhelm its Jewish population demographically. You know - the same "right of refugees to return" to countries they left that has never been applied to any other group of refugees, like the twelve million Germans expelled from present day Poland after the Second World War. She is a groupie of and collaborator with British "journalist" and pro-terrorism film maker John Pilger. She attends all the Bash-Israel events religiously, often dressed as an Arab. She has been labeled "Ms. PLO" Korin by some web sites. She wants the American public to pressure the American government to stop military aid to Israel because of "the flagrant injustice of Israel's disproportionate use of massive military might-including high velocity bullets, helicopter gun ships and anti-tank missiles-against a Palestinian civilian population armed mostly with stones." She also says, "We refute the view that the Palestinian Authority is responsible for initiating the current conflict." The PLO is just a group of Quakers engaged in quilting. At an MLK Day protest against Israel, Sistuh Korin declared: "This week, Israeli soldiers continue to kill adults and children in Nablus and deny Palestinian residents food and medical care. This week, Israeli bulldozers continue to destroy homes, fields and olive groves to build the apartheid wall that is stealing lands and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians." That same week, in fact, Palestinian terrorists murdered Israeli Jews.

We did an intensive web search and we could not find a single instance of Korin speaking out against the mass murder of Jews by Palestinian terrorists nor in favor of the right of Jews to defend their lives against Islamofascist terror and genocide. Korin denounced Israel for assassinating Hamas-leader Sheikh Yassin, responsible for more than three hundred murders of Jewish civilians, many children. She considers the very existence of her native country to be a catastrophe (Naqba), one clearly in need of being erased. She has been active in fomenting and organizing mutiny and insurrection among leftists serving in the Israeli army. She denounces Israel as an "apartheid" country, whereas in reality it is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid country, and she urges that Israel be boycotted. She insists that "Zionism is the REAL Enemy of the Jews." She has also been active in the pro-Saddam demonstrations organized by ANSWER, and is beloved by some communist party rags. Korin is a radical feminist, except when it comes to pro-Israel feminists. She has been one of the shrillest people denouncing pro-Israel feminist Phyllis Chesler and recently demanded that leftist media outfits, like Pacifica Radio and Feminist Magazine prevent Chesler from expressing her views. Among Chesler's grievous sins that upset Korin is the fact that Chesler publishes articles in Frontpage Magazine, and so clearly does not deserve freedom of speech. The Los Angeles Jewish Journal cites Korin as saying, ". "We know that the occupation is the source of violence." Living on occupied Mexican and Indian land in California, Korin insists the Jews had no right to migrate to Israel because there were "indigenous people" already there: "Indigenous" Arabs, most of whom themselves migrated to the same region after 1880 when the Jews started bringing capital into "Palestine". In reality, the war of aggression by the Arab states against Israel in 1967 and the continuing anti-Jewish violence by the Arabs, encouraged by Korin, are the source of the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza and not the other way around.

 The Jihadnik Prof of UC-Santa Barbara


 Lisa Hajjar has made an entire academic career out of bashing the United States and Israel for their supposed use of torture against Arabs. She spouts off these baseless accusations from her academic home at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she teaches in its Law and Society program.   In fact she has no credentials at all in law. (She also teaches Middle East Studies. at UCSB, with even fewer qualifications in that field.) Instead she holds a PhD in sociology from American University. The one in Washington, not Cairo. Hajjar is among the shrillest voices in the United States trying to chant the accusations over American .abuses of the human rights. of the al-Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.  She served on the pretentious world tribunal, the one that found Saddam's Iraq innocent and the US guilty of war crimes and human rights abuses. Among the .tribunal's. objective findings were that the occupation of Palestine, Afghanistan and all other colonized areas is illegal and should be brought to an end immediately. Lisa Hajjar has written: There is no reason to doubt that torture has been systemic and pervasive, or that authorization can be traced up the chain of command, or that this has seriously damaged not only the immediate victims but also our national institutions and America's image abroad.  Yet top officials in the Bush Administration are still doing what torturing regimes do: denying the facts and blaming "rogue" officers. Despite the abundant evidence of torture, Congress refuses to challenge these denial tactics in any meaningful way, for example by refusing to confirm for high office those responsible. What we desperately need is public acknowledgment that torture is always and everywhere a crime, and an official policy that reflects this conviction. Hajjar has tried to define herself academically as a scholar having some expertise on the use of torture.  She defines her aim as the debunking the false .popular belief that Western history constitutes a progressive move from more to less torture.. The fact that she publishes her .findings. on web sites of the communist party raises questions about her credibility and objectivity. Hajjar gets her kicks out of issuing .warnings. about human rights abuses. She has spent her energies bemoaning the .torture. of the Iraqi Ba' athists being held in the Abu Ghraib prison.

Lisa Hajjar is apparently the daughter of a Finnish mother and a father of Syrian descent.  She teaches in the Law and Society Program. at the University of California at Santa Barbara, but she is in fact nothing more than a
third-rate leftist sociologist.  She has no training in law or legal studies, is not qualified as a Middle East scholar or researcher, and his extraordinarily few bona fide publications even in sociology. None of this prevented UCSB from granting her tenure as well as its .Pious Award. for her research. She was among the UCSB faculty members opposing the war against Iraq and defending Saddam as part of Not in Our Name. Among the scholarly articles. Hajjar lists on her vita are many propaganda screeds that she published, including those in the anti-Israel pro-terror Middle East Report, for In these Times, on the MERIP organization's web page, in the .Amnesty International. magazine, and a partisan defense of Palestinian mass murderer Marwan Barghouti.[1] On her vita, besides the partisan propaganda we could find at most six articles she has published in refereed journals, hardly enough to get a faculty member tenure in any serious academic department.

Hajjar is author of a recently-published pseudo-scholarly book, Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza, a broadside assault against Israel's military courts, which often try Palestinian terrorists.  Israeli civilian courts do not have jurisdiction in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the simple reason that these areas are not formally annexed to Israel, although Palestinian terrorists convicted in military courts may appeal to Israel's Supreme Court.  The book is less an analysis of the military courts than it is a partisan denunciation of Israel's presence in the occupied territories. and an open endorsement of the rights of Palestinians to resist it, Hajjar's Newspeak term for mass murdering Jews.  (Israelis arresting murdering terrorists would not qualify as .resistance by Jews. in the Hajjar book, of course.) True, Israel itself has debated the circumstances under which .moderate physical pressure. could be applied to captured terrorists to force them to reveal information.  But Israel is in a state of war and a fight for its very life against Arab fascism.  Indeed years ago even this .moderate pressure. was prohibited by the Israeli court system.   The main prisoner abuse of jailed Palestinians in Israel these days seems to be that some of their VCR's are really difficult to pre-program. In fact, while prohibited in Israel, it is not clear at all why terrorists should NOT be tortured,[2] this on purely ethical grounds.  Be that as it may, while conceding that a history of Israeli interrogation of Palestinians has never been written, and the conditions do not exist for such an undertaking. Hajjar is willing to take the word of the Bash-Israel lobby that Israel routinely uses torture against Palestinian prisoners. Among the primary sources cited by Hajjar to prove that Israel uses torture are screeds in Tikkun Magazine, the Palestine Research Center. in Beirut, the late neonazi anti-Semite Israel Shahak, and other far-leftist propagandists.  Hajjar's book. has been lavishly praised by pro-terror Islamic fundamentalist web sites, and one of her screeds has been cited and praised by a neonazi web site. Before coming to Santa Barbara, Hajjar taught military law at Swarthmore. There she engaged in partisan one-sided indoctrination in her classroom, as is revealed by the syllabi of her courses there. Her required reading list was a who's who of far leftists, communists, and haters of American and Israel. Among her proclamations at Swarthmore, was: .While the United States voices outrage about Saddam Hussein, it goes on tolerating human rights violations and other misdeeds by regional allies. Her research. at Swarthmore consisted of little more than serving as a cheerleader for politicized cause lawyers.

Hajjar has served as editorial assistant and writer at MERIP, a fanatically anti-Israel pro-terror think tank. in Washington DC.  She also is a member of the board of editors (alongside such scholars as Columbia University's Joseph Massad) of the pseudo-academic Journal of Palestine Studies, a partisan propaganda journal that features such .scholars. as the PLO chief.  The Middle East Quarterly describes the Journal of Palestine Studies as a PLO propaganda organ disguised as an academic journal; for example, it routinely refers to the creation of Israel as an-Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic). Orbis, Fall 1988, p. 637, describes the Institute of Palestine Studies, publisher of the Journal of Palestine Studies, as "an arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization." Stanford's Joel Beinin publishes his anti-Israel propaganda pieces there, as do the usual Israeli far-Left anti-Semites favoring the destruction of their own country.  The .journal. makes little attempt to hide its political agenda. Hajjar does not hide her support for Palestinian violence.  She writes: Because Palestinians are stateless and dispersed, their struggle for national rights has taken .unconventional. forms, including guerilla warfare.  The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which emerged in the 1960s to lead this struggle, has been castigated by Israel, and to a lesser extent the US, as nothing but a terrorist organization.  This typifies the use of the terrorist label to non-states in their struggles against states.. Since most Palestinians have identified politically with the PLO, it was easy for the Israeli state to relate the repression of Palestinians to the imperatives of Jewish/Israeli national security. Generally speaking, everything connected to Palestinian nationalist activities and especially to the PLO was considered a security threat which (sic) could justify limitations and restrictions of rights.

Those unconventional. Palestinian forms of protest happen to include blowing up buses full of school children and pregnant mothers. Hajjar is a radical feminist, but one with little real interest in the position of women in the Arab world and with no concern at all over Israeli women being murdered by her beloved Palestinian terrorists. She has mentioned that in Morocco things are less equitable than at Vassar. She seems to believe that the main cause for Arab feminists should be destroying Israel.  She is highly praised by Neve Gordon, a fanatic anti-Israel lecturer in political science at Ben Gurion University in Israel, someone who was arrested for serving as a human shield. for Palestinian murderers, and someone who wrote a sycophantic piece about Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein, comparing Finkelstein ethically to the Prophets in the Bible.  Gordon and Hajjar like to cite one another as authoritative sources for the claim that Israel uses torture against Arab prisoners.  This is a bit like Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky citing one another's works to prove how that America is more oppressive than Nazi Germany. At least five of Hajjar.s articles are featured on a PLO web site. Together with Steve Niva, a pro-terrorism far-leftist faculty member at Evergreen State College in Washington State (from which Rachel Corrie was dispatched to go commit suicide on behalf of Palestinian terrorism in Gaza) and a Counterpunch columnist, she is a sycophantic groupie of Edward Said and described his book as a seminal event, causing lasting reverberations throughout the academy. "[3] Hajjar also writes for The Nation, where she openly endorses nutty conspiracy theories. She writes inter alia: While neoconservatism may help explain much about American military and foreign policy after 9/11, it doesn't account for the legal reasoning that set the conditions for the torture scandal.  For that, we need to look to the Federalist Society, an organization established by right-wing lawyers in the early 1980s to redress liberal bias. in American law schools and the legal profession.  The thinking and influence of Federalist Society types who dominate legal positions (and judicial appointments) in the Bush Administration are laid bare in the torture memos, which document the triumph of international law-averse officials in the Justice Department, the Pentagon and the White House over dissenting voices in the State Department and sectors of the professional military.

She has tried to build much of her academic credentials upon her research concerning the uses of torture.  She insists torture is used widely by both the US and Israel and her evidence for this is that some Arabs claim this is so, as do some far-left propagandists such as Kenneth Roth from .Human Rights Watch. In fact, HRW has been exposed by NGO-Monitor as constituting little more than an anti-Israel smear lobby and is hardly a credible source.  Other sources for her claims concerning torture include the extremist anti-Israel leftist organization in Israel, Betselem, which denies that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism at all - other than by surrendering to terrorist demands, and which has been repeatedly caught lying. She teaches her views to hapless UCSB freshmen in a formal course about .torture. Hajjar regularly attacks Alan Dershowitz savagely for daring to suggest that under certain circumstances torturing terrorists might be justified. She compares American and Israeli officials to the nazis tried in Nuremberg. Lisa Hajjar may be at her most dishonest when she is co-authoring political propaganda together with Stanford University professor of history Joel Beinin. In Alyssa A. Lappen.s words, Beinin .denounces American imperialism on Al-Jazeera Television. A former Zionist, he refers to jihadist suicide bombers as martyrs. He praised Mideast scholars for ignoring the issue of terrorism, and he regularly repeats the most twisted and paranoid claims of Islamist regimes as though they were historical fact. Beinin used to be the ayatollah of the notoriously-biased Middle East Studies Association, an anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda outfit disguised as an academic professional association.  (Hajjar has chaired sessions at MESA events.)   Beinin religiously churns out propaganda, with Hajjar is his regular sidekick. Indeed, Beinin proudly lists these propaganda screeds on his personal web page. Beinin and Hajjar were among the professors signing a statement before the Allied invasion of Iraq, warning that Israel was planning to conduct genocidal atrocities against Arabs the moment the US troops landed in Mesopotamia.  Well, Saddam was long ago toppled, with not even a smidgen of an atrocity was performed by Israel, while not even a whisper of an apology has come from either Beinin or Hajjar.  Orwellistically, the two continue to collaborate in conferences devoted to New History, which is to say pseudo-history. Hajjar is a co-author and collaborator with Beinin in a number of projects, including "Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer." It is widely reprinted, including on anti-Israel pro-terror web sites such as. From Occupied Palestine,. and also on those that are fronts for the PLO.
The Primer. is a rather typical example of getting just about everything possible wrong.  It begins with the proclamation that religion plays no role in the Arab war against Israel and that it is all a "struggle over land". Now
one of the few things unchallengeable about the Middle East conflict is that it has virtually nothing to do with land. Arab countries already control 6,145,389  square miles of land.   That is almost twice the land area of the United States, which is 3,537,438 square miles, and about the same as the land area of Russia.  Israel, even when including all of the "occupied territories" retained from 1967, controls less than 10,000 square miles.  The West Bank and the Gaza Strip comprise about 2300 square miles (a bit less when deducting Jerusalem and its suburbs from the account), which is about half the size of the Everglades.  Beinin and Hajjar want us to believe that with 6,145,389 square miles, the Arabs want war and genocide, but with 6,145,389 plus 2300 more, then they will want peace.  If Israel only trades land for peace with the land-deprived Arabs, and never mind that its abandonment of the West Bank would leave an Israel ten miles wide and waiting for the Arab armies to annihilate, then all will be well.

The British Left Rallies to Support the Goals of the London Bombers

Back in February of 2003, Edward Said came to Los Angeles from the Columbia Madrassa and addressed an audience at UCLA in a speech hailed by the usual California Islamic pro-terror lobbyists. After the speech, a leftist rabbi from the Hillel at UCLA addressed Arab students at UCLA and suggested to them that they pursue peace by recognizing Israel's right to exist. Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller claimed that Said's figures in his speech were wrong and then told Arab students they must recognize the state of Israel and Jewish people before he could talk to them. Enter Yael Korin, a UCLA researcher and co-founder of Women in Black - Los Angeles. Korin attacked the left-leaning rabbi for not being sufficiently anti-Israel. She retorted that the Palestinians have already recognized the state of Israel. "It's the Israelis and Jewish people who haven't recognized the Palestinian people yet." Eavesdroppers no doubt responded with a collective "Huh?" Korin then told her friends in the Islamofascist web magazine "Muslim WakeUp!" that Seidler-Feller admonished her in Hebrew, stating she should be ashamed of herself and asking which Palestinians have recognized Jews and the state of Israel. She was unable to answer him. Who exactly is this Yael Korin? Korin may be the most visible of the ex-Israeli far-leftists comprising a small Bash-Israel Lobby in the Los Angeles area, ex-Israelis working for the destruction of Israel. There has arisen a bizarre Diaspora of fanatically anti-Israel ex-Israelis, spread about the globe, and including such people as Avi Shlaim in Britain, Gabriel Piterberg also at UCLA, Zalman Amit in Canada, Yigal Arens, a Los Angeles extremist and son of Israel's one-time Defense Minister, Gilad Atzmon, an ex-Israeli anti-Semite in Britain who has justified burning down synagogues. These people seek to see their native homeland destroyed and replaced by a "secular" state with an Arab majority (one hitch: the only visible Arab majority wants an Islamic state "from the Jordan to the sea"). Yael Korin is a co-founder of the Los Angeles branch of "Women in Black", an anti-Jewish and pro-terror propaganda organization. LA.s Women in Black routinely co-sponsor events with such outfits as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslim Public Affairs Committee, and "If Americans Knew". It also promotes the beatification of Rachel Corrie, who martyred herself by stepping in front of a bulldozer to protect Palestinian terrorists. The Women in Black groups are among the initiators of efforts to "divest" from and boycott Israel. Korin herself sums up the LA-Women in Black position in these words: "Most of us do not believe that keeping (alive) a Jewish state is in agreement with this position, and that the Jewish state is an outcome of the Zionist project. So our events reflect these ideas as well." Korin is a pathologist at the medical school of UCLA, which is all more than a bit ironic because she evidently seeks to perform an autopsy on the corpse of Israel. She sees Arab terrorism as "nonviolent resistance to the violence of occupation," and has participated in panels devoted to that theme. Always the same: Jews are violent, Palestinians are victims. She is one of the people who can be counted on to endorse the Palestinian "right of return," that is the right of anyone of five million Arabs pretending to be Palestinian refugees to immigrate to Israel and overwhelm its Jewish population demographically. You know - the same "right of refugees to return" to countries they left that has never been applied to any other group of refugees, like the twelve million Germans expelled from present day Poland after the Second World War. She is a groupie of and collaborator with British "journalist" and pro-terrorism film maker John Pilger. She attends all the Bash-Israel events religiously, often dressed as an Arab. She has been labeled "Ms. PLO" Korin by some web sites. She wants the American public to pressure the American government to stop military aid to Israel because of "the flagrant injustice of Israel's disproportionate use of massive military might-including high velocity bullets, helicopter gun ships and anti-tank missiles-against a Palestinian civilian population armed mostly with stones." She also says, "We refute the view that the Palestinian Authority is responsible for initiating the current conflict." The PLO is just a group of Quakers engaged in quilting. At an MLK Day protest against Israel, Sistuh Korin declared: "This week, Israeli soldiers continue to kill adults and children in Nablus and deny Palestinian residents food and medical care. This week, Israeli bulldozers continue to destroy homes, fields and olive groves to build the apartheid wall that is stealing lands and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians." That same week, in fact, Palestinian terrorists murdered Israeli Jews.

We did an intensive web search and we could not find a single instance of Korin speaking out against the mass murder of Jews by Palestinian terrorists nor in favor of the right of Jews to defend their lives against Islamofascist terror and genocide. Korin denounced Israel for assassinating Hamas-leader Sheikh Yassin, responsible for more than three hundred murders of Jewish civilians, many children. She considers the very existence of her native country to be a catastrophe (Naqba), one clearly in need of being erased. She has been active in fomenting and organizing mutiny and insurrection among leftists serving in the Israeli army. She denounces Israel as an "apartheid" country, whereas in reality it is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid country, and she urges that Israel be boycotted. She insists that "Zionism is the REAL Enemy of the Jews." She has also been active in the pro-Saddam demonstrations organized by ANSWER, and is beloved by some communist party rags. Korin is a radical feminist, except when it comes to pro-Israel feminists. She has been one of the shrillest people denouncing pro-Israel feminist Phyllis Chesler and recently demanded that leftist media outfits, like Pacifica Radio and Feminist Magazine prevent Chesler from expressing her views. Among Chesler's grievous sins that upset Korin is the fact that Chesler publishes articles in Frontpage Magazine, and so clearly does not deserve freedom of speech. The Los Angeles Jewish Journal cites Korin as saying, ". "We know that the occupation is the source of violence." Living on occupied Mexican and Indian land in California, Korin insists the Jews had no right to migrate to Israel because there were "indigenous people" already there: "Indigenous" Arabs, most of whom themselves migrated to the same region after 1880 when the Jews started bringing capital into "Palestine". In reality, the war of aggression by the Arab states against Israel in 1967 and the continuing anti-Jewish violence by the Arabs, encouraged by Korin, are the source of the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza and not the other way around.

 The Jihadnik Prof of UC-Santa Barbara


 Lisa Hajjar has made an entire academic career out of bashing the United States and Israel for their supposed use of torture against Arabs. She spouts off these baseless accusations from her academic home at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she teaches in its Law and Society program.   In fact she has no credentials at all in law. (She also teaches Middle East Studies. at UCSB, with even fewer qualifications in that field.) Instead she holds a PhD in sociology from American University. The one in Washington, not Cairo. Hajjar is among the shrillest voices in the United States trying to chant the accusations over American .abuses of the human rights. of the al-Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.  She served on the pretentious world tribunal, the one that found Saddam's Iraq innocent and the US guilty of war crimes and human rights abuses. Among the .tribunal's. objective findings were that the occupation of Palestine, Afghanistan and all other colonized areas is illegal and should be brought to an end immediately. Lisa Hajjar has written: There is no reason to doubt that torture has been systemic and pervasive, or that authorization can be traced up the chain of command, or that this has seriously damaged not only the immediate victims but also our national institutions and America's image abroad.  Yet top officials in the Bush Administration are still doing what torturing regimes do: denying the facts and blaming "rogue" officers. Despite the abundant evidence of torture, Congress refuses to challenge these denial tactics in any meaningful way, for example by refusing to confirm for high office those responsible. What we desperately need is public acknowledgment that torture is always and everywhere a crime, and an official policy that reflects this conviction. Hajjar has tried to define herself academically as a scholar having some expertise on the use of torture.  She defines her aim as the debunking the false .popular belief that Western history constitutes a progressive move from more to less torture.. The fact that she publishes her .findings. on web sites of the communist party raises questions about her credibility and objectivity. Hajjar gets her kicks out of issuing .warnings. about human rights abuses. She has spent her energies bemoaning the .torture. of the Iraqi Ba' athists being held in the Abu Ghraib prison.

Lisa Hajjar is apparently the daughter of a Finnish mother and a father of Syrian descent.  She teaches in the Law and Society Program. at the University of California at Santa Barbara, but she is in fact nothing more than a
third-rate leftist sociologist.  She has no training in law or legal studies, is not qualified as a Middle East scholar or researcher, and his extraordinarily few bona fide publications even in sociology. None of this prevented UCSB from granting her tenure as well as its .Pious Award. for her research. She was among the UCSB faculty members opposing the war against Iraq and defending Saddam as part of Not in Our Name. Among the scholarly articles. Hajjar lists on her vita are many propaganda screeds that she published, including those in the anti-Israel pro-terror Middle East Report, for In these Times, on the MERIP organization's web page, in the .Amnesty International. magazine, and a partisan defense of Palestinian mass murderer Marwan Barghouti.[1] On her vita, besides the partisan propaganda we could find at most six articles she has published in refereed journals, hardly enough to get a faculty member tenure in any serious academic department.

Hajjar is author of a recently-published pseudo-scholarly book, Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza, a broadside assault against Israel's military courts, which often try Palestinian terrorists.  Israeli civilian courts do not have jurisdiction in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the simple reason that these areas are not formally annexed to Israel, although Palestinian terrorists convicted in military courts may appeal to Israel's Supreme Court.  The book is less an analysis of the military courts than it is a partisan denunciation of Israel's presence in the occupied territories. and an open endorsement of the rights of Palestinians to resist it, Hajjar's Newspeak term for mass murdering Jews.  (Israelis arresting murdering terrorists would not qualify as .resistance by Jews. in the Hajjar book, of course.) True, Israel itself has debated the circumstances under which .moderate physical pressure. could be applied to captured terrorists to force them to reveal information.  But Israel is in a state of war and a fight for its very life against Arab fascism.  Indeed years ago even this .moderate pressure. was prohibited by the Israeli court system.   The main prisoner abuse of jailed Palestinians in Israel these days seems to be that some of their VCR's are really difficult to pre-program. In fact, while prohibited in Israel, it is not clear at all why terrorists should NOT be tortured,[2] this on purely ethical grounds.  Be that as it may, while conceding that a history of Israeli interrogation of Palestinians has never been written, and the conditions do not exist for such an undertaking. Hajjar is willing to take the word of the Bash-Israel lobby that Israel routinely uses torture against Palestinian prisoners. Among the primary sources cited by Hajjar to prove that Israel uses torture are screeds in Tikkun Magazine, the Palestine Research Center. in Beirut, the late neonazi anti-Semite Israel Shahak, and other far-leftist propagandists.  Hajjar's book. has been lavishly praised by pro-terror Islamic fundamentalist web sites, and one of her screeds has been cited and praised by a neonazi web site. Before coming to Santa Barbara, Hajjar taught military law at Swarthmore. There she engaged in partisan one-sided indoctrination in her classroom, as is revealed by the syllabi of her courses there. Her required reading list was a who's who of far leftists, communists, and haters of American and Israel. Among her proclamations at Swarthmore, was: .While the United States voices outrage about Saddam Hussein, it goes on tolerating human rights violations and other misdeeds by regional allies. Her research. at Swarthmore consisted of little more than serving as a cheerleader for politicized cause lawyers.

Hajjar has served as editorial assistant and writer at MERIP, a fanatically anti-Israel pro-terror think tank. in Washington DC.  She also is a member of the board of editors (alongside such scholars as Columbia University's Joseph Massad) of the pseudo-academic Journal of Palestine Studies, a partisan propaganda journal that features such .scholars. as the PLO chief.  The Middle East Quarterly describes the Journal of Palestine Studies as a PLO propaganda organ disguised as an academic journal; for example, it routinely refers to the creation of Israel as an-Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic). Orbis, Fall 1988, p. 637, describes the Institute of Palestine Studies, publisher of the Journal of Palestine Studies, as "an arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization." Stanford's Joel Beinin publishes his anti-Israel propaganda pieces there, as do the usual Israeli far-Left anti-Semites favoring the destruction of their own country.  The .journal. makes little attempt to hide its political agenda. Hajjar does not hide her support for Palestinian violence.  She writes: Because Palestinians are stateless and dispersed, their struggle for national rights has taken .unconventional. forms, including guerilla warfare.  The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which emerged in the 1960s to lead this struggle, has been castigated by Israel, and to a lesser extent the US, as nothing but a terrorist organization.  This typifies the use of the terrorist label to non-states in their struggles against states.. Since most Palestinians have identified politically with the PLO, it was easy for the Israeli state to relate the repression of Palestinians to the imperatives of Jewish/Israeli national security. Generally speaking, everything connected to Palestinian nationalist activities and especially to the PLO was considered a security threat which (sic) could justify limitations and restrictions of rights.

Those unconventional. Palestinian forms of protest happen to include blowing up buses full of school children and pregnant mothers. Hajjar is a radical feminist, but one with little real interest in the position of women in the Arab world and with no concern at all over Israeli women being murdered by her beloved Palestinian terrorists. She has mentioned that in Morocco things are less equitable than at Vassar. She seems to believe that the main cause for Arab feminists should be destroying Israel.  She is highly praised by Neve Gordon, a fanatic anti-Israel lecturer in political science at Ben Gurion University in Israel, someone who was arrested for serving as a human shield. for Palestinian murderers, and someone who wrote a sycophantic piece about Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein, comparing Finkelstein ethically to the Prophets in the Bible.  Gordon and Hajjar like to cite one another as authoritative sources for the claim that Israel uses torture against Arab prisoners.  This is a bit like Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky citing one another's works to prove how that America is more oppressive than Nazi Germany. At least five of Hajjar.s articles are featured on a PLO web site. Together with Steve Niva, a pro-terrorism far-leftist faculty member at Evergreen State College in Washington State (from which Rachel Corrie was dispatched to go commit suicide on behalf of Palestinian terrorism in Gaza) and a Counterpunch columnist, she is a sycophantic groupie of Edward Said and described his book as a seminal event, causing lasting reverberations throughout the academy. "[3] Hajjar also writes for The Nation, where she openly endorses nutty conspiracy theories. She writes inter alia: While neoconservatism may help explain much about American military and foreign policy after 9/11, it doesn't account for the legal reasoning that set the conditions for the torture scandal.  For that, we need to look to the Federalist Society, an organization established by right-wing lawyers in the early 1980s to redress liberal bias. in American law schools and the legal profession.  The thinking and influence of Federalist Society types who dominate legal positions (and judicial appointments) in the Bush Administration are laid bare in the torture memos, which document the triumph of international law-averse officials in the Justice Department, the Pentagon and the White House over dissenting voices in the State Department and sectors of the professional military.

She has tried to build much of her academic credentials upon her research concerning the uses of torture.  She insists torture is used widely by both the US and Israel and her evidence for this is that some Arabs claim this is so, as do some far-left propagandists such as Kenneth Roth from .Human Rights Watch. In fact, HRW has been exposed by NGO-Monitor as constituting little more than an anti-Israel smear lobby and is hardly a credible source.  Other sources for her claims concerning torture include the extremist anti-Israel leftist organization in Israel, Betselem, which denies that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism at all - other than by surrendering to terrorist demands, and which has been repeatedly caught lying. She teaches her views to hapless UCSB freshmen in a formal course about .torture. Hajjar regularly attacks Alan Dershowitz savagely for daring to suggest that under certain circumstances torturing terrorists might be justified. She compares American and Israeli officials to the nazis tried in Nuremberg. Lisa Hajjar may be at her most dishonest when she is co-authoring political propaganda together with Stanford University professor of history Joel Beinin. In Alyssa A. Lappen.s words, Beinin .denounces American imperialism on Al-Jazeera Television. A former Zionist, he refers to jihadist suicide bombers as martyrs. He praised Mideast scholars for ignoring the issue of terrorism, and he regularly repeats the most twisted and paranoid claims of Islamist regimes as though they were historical fact. Beinin used to be the ayatollah of the notoriously-biased Middle East Studies Association, an anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda outfit disguised as an academic professional association.  (Hajjar has chaired sessions at MESA events.)   Beinin religiously churns out propaganda, with Hajjar is his regular sidekick. Indeed, Beinin proudly lists these propaganda screeds on his personal web page. Beinin and Hajjar were among the professors signing a statement before the Allied invasion of Iraq, warning that Israel was planning to conduct genocidal atrocities against Arabs the moment the US troops landed in Mesopotamia.  Well, Saddam was long ago toppled, with not even a smidgen of an atrocity was performed by Israel, while not even a whisper of an apology has come from either Beinin or Hajjar.  Orwellistically, the two continue to collaborate in conferences devoted to New History, which is to say pseudo-history. Hajjar is a co-author and collaborator with Beinin in a number of projects, including "Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer." It is widely reprinted, including on anti-Israel pro-terror web sites such as. From Occupied Palestine,. and also on those that are fronts for the PLO.
The Primer. is a rather typical example of getting just about everything possible wrong.  It begins with the proclamation that religion plays no role in the Arab war against Israel and that it is all a "struggle over land". Now
one of the few things unchallengeable about the Middle East conflict is that it has virtually nothing to do with land. Arab countries already control 6,145,389  square miles of land.   That is almost twice the land area of the United States, which is 3,537,438 square miles, and about the same as the land area of Russia.  Israel, even when including all of the "occupied territories" retained from 1967, controls less than 10,000 square miles.  The West Bank and the Gaza Strip comprise about 2300 square miles (a bit less when deducting Jerusalem and its suburbs from the account), which is about half the size of the Everglades.  Beinin and Hajjar want us to believe that with 6,145,389 square miles, the Arabs want war and genocide, but with 6,145,389 plus 2300 more, then they will want peace.  If Israel only trades land for peace with the land-deprived Arabs, and never mind that its abandonment of the West Bank would leave an Israel ten miles wide and waiting for the Arab armies to annihilate, then all will be well.

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