York University Event Promotes The End of Israel
When I first saw this press release below from B’nai Brith in Canada, “‘York University conference questioning Israel’s right to exist an exercise in anti-Zionist propaganda,'” I was sure they were exaggerating.
Well I checked out the speakers list and the website and it clearly is one of the most absurd conferences on the subject possible. Check out the website and see for yourself. This line on the website is telling: The conference seeks to systematically measure the two state model against the promise of alternatives; very specifically the potential in the model of a single bi-national state.
Bi-national, my friends is a sanitized way of saying – no more Israel. As even Uri Averny wrote (a far-left wing Israeli writer and activist):
A bi-national state means the abandonment of this aim, and, in practice, the dismantling of Israel itself. The Jews would return to the traumatic experience of a people without a state throughout the world, with all that that implies. And not as a result of a crushing military defeat, but as a free choice. Not ve
ry likely
So what does York hope to achieve? To further and further isolate Israel as a pariah and illegitimate state. No Bi-National state exists in the world that has succeeded.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
‘York University conference questioning Israel’s right to exist an exercise
in anti-Zionist propaganda,’ says B’nai Brith CanadaTORONTO, May 22, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada has characterized as a “blatant
exercise in anti-Zionist propaganda” the upcoming June conference at York
University titled, Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths
to Peace. The Jewish human rights organization also expressed particular
concern over a recent statement by York University President Mamdouh Shoukri
who insisted that the conference will continue to form part of the
University’s publicly advertised 50th anniversary celebrations. Read more