Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices
Israel has conscription/compulsory military-service. There are exceptions for certain super-religious cases, etc., but pretty much if they were born and raised in Israel (i.e. an “Israeli National”), you can say they were probably required to be “IDF soldiers” without really having a choice in the matter. but “Palestinian-American medical student objected to working alongside Israeli-national. The university suspended her” doesn’t induce as much rage. In the end, she’s discriminating against a protected class: national-origin.
Four years into her studies, 7 October happened. After watching Israel’s deadly retaliation on Gaza in horror from afar, in January 2024, Mohammad sent an email to the entire medical school with the subject: “Palestinian blood stains your hands, Emory University and School of Medicine.” She railed against her fellow students and the school’s faculty for being “silent about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians”.
10/7 being an attempted ethnic cleansing of her side against Jews.
When Mohammad went into the Democracy Now! interview in April, she was already upset about what she saw as an immoral double standard. Months earlier, an Emory medical school professor, Abeer N AbouYabis, had been fired after posting on Facebook in support of Palestinians after the events of 7 October. Her post included the phrase: “They got walls, we got gliders / Glory to all resistance fighters,” a reference to the way members of Hamas glided over walls in Gaza to enter Israel and stage their attack. According to a report on AbouYabis’s firing by Emory’s committee for open expression, her post was seen as “glorifying” the group.
At the same time, Mohammad told her Democracy Now! interviewer: “One of the professors of medicine we have at Emory recently went to serve as a volunteer medic” in the IDF. That professor, she continued, “participated in aiding and abetting a genocide, in aiding and abetting the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza and the murder of over 400 healthcare workers, and is now back at Emory so-called ‘teaching’ medical students and residents how to take care of patients”.
She’s an unhinged hate-filled Jew-hater. I’m glad she was suspended.
The penalty for refusing the serve in the IDF is around 1-2 months of prison time. For the people who refuse to engage in ethnic cleansing, doing 30-60 days of prison time instead is far far more ethical
Lol, okay. Whatever you say. 10/7 happened and Israel had a right to defend itself. Netanyahu has DEFINITELY gone way too far at this point, but that’s another discussion. The response to Arabs trying (once again) to ethnically cleanse Jews, whereby Gaza wasn’t completely wiped off the map (which would have been VERY EASY), is proof that this wasn’t an “ethnic cleansing”. At least, it wasn’t at the beginning. It sure does seem to be turning into one though, thanks largely to folks like you who enabled the rise of Trump by witholding your votes over “Genocide Joe”. LOL
Whatever, I don’t even care. The leopards have many faces to eat, and such little time.
Jesus, what a way to justify generations of Settler Colonialism, Apartheid, and Ethnic Cleansing. Well at least you think genocide is “too far,” I’d fucking hope so.
Israel was founded on ethnic cleansing and has never stopped being an Apartheid. Zionism has always been a fascist ideology. Zionism is not Judaism. The leaders of other Arab or Muslim nations do not represent Palestine or Palestinians. There is no point to conflate either of those other than to justify Israel’s Settler Colonialism. Land grabbing is antithetical to peace. Peace requires the end of the Apartheid. Unless the violence of supremacy and Settler-Colonialism ends, anti-colonialist violence is inevitable as people fight by any means possible for their survival, humanity, and human rights.
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Zionism’s aims in Palestine, its deeply-held conviction
that the Land of Israel belonged exclusively to the Jewish people as a whole, and the idea of Palestine’s “civilizational barrenness" or “emptiness” against the background of European imperialist ideologies all converged in the logical conclusion that the native population should make way for thenewcomers.
The idea that the Palestinian Arabs must find a place for themselves elsewhere was articulated early on. Indeed, the founder of the movement, Theodor Herzl, provided an early reference to transfer even before he formally outlined his theory of Zionist rebirth in his Judenstat.
An 1895 entry in his diary provides in embryonic form many of the elements that were to be demonstrated repeatedly in the Zionist quest for solutions to the “Arab problem ”-the idea of dealing with state governments over the heads of the indigenous population, Jewish acquisition of property that would be inalienable, “Hebrew Land" and “Hebrew Labor,” and the removal of the native population.
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades.
Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
The settlements have created hundreds of isolated bantustans within the West Bank, preventing any two-state solution that may have been possible before the Israeli occupation in 1967
The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other. By its actions, if not always in its rhetoric, Israel has opted for land-grabbing and as we speak Israel is expanding settlements. So, Israel has been systematically destroying the basis for a viable Palestinian state and this is the declared objective of the Likud and Netanyahu who used to pretend to accept a two-state solution. In the lead up to the last election, he said there will be no Palestinian state on his watch. The expansion of settlements and the wall mean that there cannot be a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. The most that the Palestinians can hope for is Bantustans, a series of enclaves surrounded by Israeli settlements and Israeli military bases.
Jews are from there. LONG history before the Arabs came in. Jews were persecuted in their own land and largely expelled. Then when they were persecuted elsewhere, en masse, Arabs got mad about all the Jews being their neighbors. Kinda like white Americans getting upset about Mexican folks (many with indigenous roots) being their neighbors…and started getting violent.
Shit was a mess since then. But on 10/7 Israel wasn’t attacking Gaza…it was unprovoked, brutal, and fueled by genocidal intent. THAT started this shit.
Sources by multiple Israeli historians isn’t “gish gallop,” which you’d understand if you actually read the sources
I already added a quick summary of the myths you repeat, which are Israeli propaganda to justify ethnic cleansing, genocide, apartheid, and Colonialism.
Read the full context if you don’t believe me. If you’re so confident it shouldn’t be hard for you to go through the books and try to prove yourself wrong
The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities - Simha Flapan
So your argument is that Israeli nationals should be absolved from any war crimes and/or genocide they participate in because they were just following orders?
Using national origin as an excuse for participating in genocide is peak genocide denial.
In the end, she’s discriminating against a protected class: national-origin.
This is the same as equating protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as xenophobia against Russians.
I highly recommend reassessing your world view. Your arguments are a one to one match with fascists arguments.
Uh, no. No it’s not. If someone refused to work with anyone who was Russian, or who took on a non-combatant role when conscripted in the current war (such as a Medic), then it would be comparable.
This professor of medicine chose to volunteer. Anyone actively contributing to genocide is at fault regardless of their role. Patching someone up so they can butcher more civilians is deplorable. The most heinous Nazis ordered mass killings from behind desks.
I’m glad she was suspended. Bye bye!
What an awful opinion. Why would you support silencing people who speak out against genocide? Do you support Israel’s genocide?
Israel has conscription/compulsory military-service. There are exceptions for certain super-religious cases, etc., but pretty much if they were born and raised in Israel (i.e. an “Israeli National”), you can say they were probably required to be “IDF soldiers” without really having a choice in the matter. but “Palestinian-American medical student objected to working alongside Israeli-national. The university suspended her” doesn’t induce as much rage. In the end, she’s discriminating against a protected class: national-origin.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me.
10/7 being an attempted ethnic cleansing of her side against Jews.
She’s an unhinged hate-filled Jew-hater. I’m glad she was suspended.
The only one unhinged is that professor. He directly committed to a genocide. He should be in prison.
The penalty for refusing the serve in the IDF is around 1-2 months of prison time. For the people who refuse to engage in ethnic cleansing, doing 30-60 days of prison time instead is far far more ethical
Lol, okay. Whatever you say. 10/7 happened and Israel had a right to defend itself. Netanyahu has DEFINITELY gone way too far at this point, but that’s another discussion. The response to Arabs trying (once again) to ethnically cleanse Jews, whereby Gaza wasn’t completely wiped off the map (which would have been VERY EASY), is proof that this wasn’t an “ethnic cleansing”. At least, it wasn’t at the beginning. It sure does seem to be turning into one though, thanks largely to folks like you who enabled the rise of Trump by witholding your votes over “Genocide Joe”. LOL
Whatever, I don’t even care. The leopards have many faces to eat, and such little time.
Jesus, what a way to justify generations of Settler Colonialism, Apartheid, and Ethnic Cleansing. Well at least you think genocide is “too far,” I’d fucking hope so.
Israel was founded on ethnic cleansing and has never stopped being an Apartheid. Zionism has always been a fascist ideology. Zionism is not Judaism. The leaders of other Arab or Muslim nations do not represent Palestine or Palestinians. There is no point to conflate either of those other than to justify Israel’s Settler Colonialism. Land grabbing is antithetical to peace. Peace requires the end of the Apartheid. Unless the violence of supremacy and Settler-Colonialism ends, anti-colonialist violence is inevitable as people fight by any means possible for their survival, humanity, and human rights.
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The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities - Simha Flapan
10 myths of Israel by Ilan Pappe, summerized and full book
Ethnic Cleansing prior to 1948:
Planned occupation and the beginnings of systemic apartheid:
1967 war: Haaretz, Forward
Israel Martial Law and Defence (Emergency) Regulations practiced in the occupied territories after 1967
Peace Process and Solution
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades.
Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
(Oslo Accord Sources: MEE, NYT, Haaretz, AJ).
The settlements have created hundreds of isolated bantustans within the West Bank, preventing any two-state solution that may have been possible before the Israeli occupation in 1967
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Historian Works on the History
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History - Nur Masalha
The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948 - Nur Masalha
A History of Modern Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences - Avi Shlaim
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories - Ilan Pappe
The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development - Sara Roy
10 Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe (summery)
Oh…no. I’m not doing this Gish Gallup bullshit.
Jews are from there. LONG history before the Arabs came in. Jews were persecuted in their own land and largely expelled. Then when they were persecuted elsewhere, en masse, Arabs got mad about all the Jews being their neighbors. Kinda like white Americans getting upset about Mexican folks (many with indigenous roots) being their neighbors…and started getting violent.
Shit was a mess since then. But on 10/7 Israel wasn’t attacking Gaza…it was unprovoked, brutal, and fueled by genocidal intent. THAT started this shit.
Sources by multiple Israeli historians isn’t “gish gallop,” which you’d understand if you actually read the sources
I already added a quick summary of the myths you repeat, which are Israeli propaganda to justify ethnic cleansing, genocide, apartheid, and Colonialism.
Read the full context if you don’t believe me. If you’re so confident it shouldn’t be hard for you to go through the books and try to prove yourself wrong
The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities - Simha Flapan
10 myths of Israel by Ilan Pappe, summerized and full book
So your argument is that Israeli nationals should be absolved from any war crimes and/or genocide they participate in because they were just following orders?
Using national origin as an excuse for participating in genocide is peak genocide denial.
This is the same as equating protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as xenophobia against Russians.
I highly recommend reassessing your world view. Your arguments are a one to one match with fascists arguments.
Uh, no. No it’s not. If someone refused to work with anyone who was Russian, or who took on a non-combatant role when conscripted in the current war (such as a Medic), then it would be comparable.
I’m glad she was suspended. Bye bye!
This professor of medicine chose to volunteer. Anyone actively contributing to genocide is at fault regardless of their role. Patching someone up so they can butcher more civilians is deplorable. The most heinous Nazis ordered mass killings from behind desks.
What an awful opinion. Why would you support silencing people who speak out against genocide? Do you support Israel’s genocide?