Vassar ‘Jewish Studies’ gives hate a forum

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Eight academic departments recently invited Jasbir Puar to Vassar College to talk about “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters.”

The Rutgers University associate professor of women’s and gender studies, whose incendiary, unbalanced hate speech masquerades as scholarship, has been busy presenting a version of this lecture at venues ranging from Poughkeepsie to Santa Barbara. Disguised behind a plethora of pseudo-intellectual jargon, she presents bigotry all too reminiscent of 1930s Europe to demonize Jews. 

Let me give you a taste of her slanderous distortions and demonizing lies about Israel.

With no documentation or specific evidence, Puar asserted that Israel’s ultimate goals are ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, stealing of Palestinian land, and entrenchment and expansion of suffocating Israeli power. Israel’s “settler occupation” (her term), which she calls the “second Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic), is all about using “asphyxiating” biopolitical control over body and environment to suppress the Palestinian people. To this end, she claims Israel uses scientifically executed “maiming” and “stunting.”  

“Maiming” means shooting to intentionally cripple, shattering knees and hitting vital organs to minimize death statistics and ensure that Palestinian workers can be profitable without threatening the occupier.

“Stunting” is used to permanently debilitate and disable the Palestinians. This is achieved through population poisoning with uranium, lead and phosphorus, as well as “calorie starvation” in children. Through Israel’s actions, Puar claimed, it is creating physical, psychological, and cognitive injuries by controlling infrastructure, water, electricity, and land, restricting mobility and limiting telecommunications. Her personal observation is that 95 percent of Palestinians are permanently disabled.

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