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Horowitz and Intellectual Terrorism at UCLA

Last Wednesday, evening the Freedom Center’s David Horowitz gave a much anticipated and ferociously opposed presentation before a crowd of more than 300 people at Moore Hall at the University of California at Los Angeles. The event was hosted by the Bruin Republicans, self-described as “the only officially right-of-center organization on the UCLA campus” – which is a good, albeit disheartening, indicator of the very issue Horowitz has been addressing on hundreds of campuses across this country, and which was the evening’s topic: the fact that our institutions of supposedly higher learning are utterly dominated by intolerant progressive academics who are ill-serving and mentally straight-jacketing their students.

Horowitz’s speech was as blunt as the title of his presentation – “Intellectual Terrorism: The Left’s War on Free Speech.” Pacing back and forth at the front of the hall, he was revved up right out of the gate and became even more impassioned as he went on. He began the wide-ranging, forty-minute speech with a condemnation of academics who indoctrinate rather than teach (“The students who suffer most are those of you who are on the left, because your assumptions are never challenged.”) Among other topics, he went on to decry campus anti-Semitism and to identify Islam as the greatest oppressor of women and gays in the world today. He delivered a myth-busting history of “Palestine” and a concise explanation of his opposition to slavery reparations a hundred years after the fact. And he attacked the Muslim Student Association, ubiquitous on major college campuses, as a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood, a supporter of the terrorist organization Hamas and the sponsor of Israel Apartheid weeks across the country.

He was flanked throughout the speech by very visible security – a tragic necessity for Horowitz, who is a lightning rod for some of the most bilious hatred that has ever been directed at a conservative public figure. He regularly receives threats prior to speaking engagements and has in fact been physically attacked. This is the inevitable result of his having once been a radical leftist himself, for the Left is only marginally more forgiving of its apostates than fundamentalist Muslims are of theirs.

But considering that Horowitz is frequently the target of organized disruption on the part of certain antagonistic student groups, this UCLA crowd was notably and unexpectedly quiet and respectful. There were literally no interruptions, heckling or outbursts, apart from frequent applause from a largely supportive crowd (and one other I’ll describe in a moment). Horowitz seemed so disarmed by this that he commented on it and commended the crowd for it more than once, eventually confessing that his many previous difficult campus experiences may have inclined him to a bit of paranoia.

However, the audience’s civility belied the atmosphere of intimidation under which the event was organized in the first place. In addition to the usual concerns which prompted the hiring of private security, there was more subtle coercion at work. The Bruin Republicans were the only student group that dared host Horowitz; no Jewish group at UCLA would sponsor him or participate in erecting the Freedom Center’s “Palestinian Wall of Lies,” designed to counteract campus campaigns against Israel’s so-called “apartheid state;” indeed, one of those Jewish groups told a Bruin Republican organizer that she would be ostracized by the Jewish community on campus if she participated in arranging Horowitz’s presentation – a threat that was probably unfounded and that she ignored, to her credit.

Evidently, however, the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine – both singled out by Horowitz as groups conducting a hate campaign against Jews on college campuses – decided to sit the speech out. The only questions about Islam after the speech were raised by a couple of members of conservative organizations who asked Horowitz to comment on the threat of Sharia and the existence of moderate Muslims. Regarding the former, he pointed out that people are so focused on violent terrorism that they fail to recognize the more subtle threat on the cultural front. As to moderate Muslims, he noted that there are good and bad people in all religions; there were probably many Germans who did not support Nazism either, he said, but their existence didn’t make a damn bit of difference in terms of halting the Final Solution.

The only apparent organized opposition to Horowitz’s appearance came from theAfrikan Student Union, which serves the needs “of the Afrikan student body and the Afrikan community within the context of the Struggle for Afrikan liberation.” The ASU passed out flyers outside the hall questioning Horowitz’s upbeat assertions about the prosperity of American blacks. The ASU members apparently weren’t mollified when he noted in the speech that his commitment to the civil rights movement began in 1948 – probably before the parents of the students present were even born.

During the Q&A period, one black student (who was grasping one of the flyers but didn’t identify herself as belonging to the Afrikan Student Union) confronted Horowitz about racial inequality in America. He pointed out that although there’s never been a Jewish president, there is currently a black one – clear evidence of how far blacks in this country have come – and he encouraged them to celebrate that progress. This positive perspective prompted exaggerated eye-rolls from more than one of the black students waiting in line to speak.

One girl, her voice quivering with emotion, challenged him to explain why she should embrace America, when there are so many impoverished black communities. Horowitz replied that 49% of blacks in this country are middle class, that many others are wealthy, and that every single inner-city school disaster across the country from Harlem to Watts can be attributed to school boards and school districts that are 100% controlled by Democrats, who use the schools as a jobs program for adults and a cash cow (through the unions) for the Democratic Party and thus have a vested interested in keeping blacks under their collective thumb. If you’re voting Democrat, Horowitz said, “you need to re-examine your commitments because you’re voting for your oppressor.”

Horowitz explained briefly about his supportive association with the Black Panthers in the 1970s: “That was before I understood that the Panthers were a criminal gang of thugs” under a veneer of progressive ideology. This elicited a loud groan of disapproval toward the back of the hall from a couple of male students, who seemed to be unaware of – or perhaps dismissive of – the Panthers’ lengthy rap sheet of violent crimes. Their murder of Horowitz’s friend Betty Van Patter was the beginning of his about-face.

The final questioner mentioned that conservative new media pioneer Andrew Breitbart, in his book Righteous Indignation, cited the political demonization of black conservative Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas as the inciting incident in his switch from Left to Right; the student asked if there were a similar watershed moment that inspired Horowitz’s own political conversion. Having read his intellectual autobiography Radical Son, I knew that there was such a moment. I knew what was coming, and knew it would get a reaction.

After the speech, the Afrikan Student Union members conferred intently outside the hall, apparently strategizing a response to Horowitz, who had closed the talk by offering his e-mail address to anyone interested in further discussion. For many, if not all of the left-leaning students who attended the event, it was possibly the first time they had been challenged by a conservative viewpoint on campus.

New York Times ads: David Horowitz in 2011, Campaign to End All Aid to Israel in 1988

David Horowitz, founder of the controversial David Horowitz Freedom Center, purchased ad space in the May 3, 2011 edition of the New York Times to publish an inflammatory “public service” announcement labeling Palestinians as racist, genocidal liars. His argument is based on the premise that Palestine, both as a country and as a name, never existed; that the land’s inhabitants prior to the establishment of a Jewish state were inevitably Turkish; that there has yet to be an “occupation”; and that the suffering of Arabs, who he alleges to be murderous liars, is therefore justified.

Needless to say, David Horowitz chooses to ignore reality and is blinded by his own prejudiced and fundamentally flawed ideology that Palestinians are beneath him. The problem is not just that the New York Times allowed something as vulgar as this to stain its papers but that Horowitz and his Freedom Center lack the dignity necessary to keep them from publishing and disseminating the kind of hatred and bigotry that continues to instigate world conflict on a regular basis.

For those who feel compelled to deconstruct Horowitz’s argument and prove every aspect of it wrong, be assured that he can do that on his own by simply visiting the United Nations’ webpage (or even the website belonging to Israel’sMinistry of Foreign Affairs) and reading the executive summary of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 which explicitly demands the withdrawal of Israeli troops from lands occupied after the Six Day War in 1967. He can also look into the British Mandate of Palestine to learn more about Palestine’s rich cultural and political history prior to the creation of Israel. On the issue of justifying the suffering of Arabs for over sixty years, Horowitz’s irrational and vile approach merits no response.

One might also feel compelled to question the ethics of the New York Times for printing an advertisement rife with hatred and factual inconsistencies. Freedom of speech is a value upheld very stringently in the United States – not by the government, per se, but by the people and its institutions. But this does not justify the publication of Horowitz’s article. Substitute the term “Arabs” for “Blacks” and one might take it as the Klu Klux Klan’s newest manifesto. The only difference is that the New York Times would not dare feature white supremacy in any of its pages.

Then the following questions must be asked: Why feature Israeli supremacy? Why inferiorize an entire race of people? Why play into the free speech tactic by rejecting every other American value?

But the New York Times isn’t all that backwards. On March 13, 1988, the paper published one of the first and consequently most underrated public critiques of the state of Israel in an advertisement paid for in full by the Campaign to End All Aid to Israel. The full page announcement calls on readers to “oppose Israel’s onslaught” by ceasing all monetary and military aid to Israel. The advertisement is also one of the first to explicitly recognize Israel as an apartheid state “built on expulsion, dispossession, and subjugation”.

Unlike Horowitz’s piece, this particular advertisement is both factually sound and internationally supported. Over one hundred intellectuals, professionals, and activists from cities all around the world signed on to this historic announcement. The growing boycott and divestment movement of Israeli companies, artists, and academics is oftentimes credited to the Palestinian civil society’s call for a worldwide boycott of Israel, but this advertisement, which preceded the civil society’s appeal, is evidence that the campaign to cease the economic growth of an apartheid state began much earlier on the American front.

But unfortunately, little is known about this ad or the Campaign’s work in the 1980s. Prior to the publication of this article, the advertisement’s text could not be found anywhere on the internet. The process of discovering it involved hours of research and rummaging through microfilm in the basement of the University of Chicago’s world-class Regenstein Library. The Campaign to End All Aid to Israel now exists through other organizations at a scale much larger than anticipated. Nevertheless, while Horowitz’s bigoted advertisement attracts attention, it is only right to reveal the earlier, non-debatable, and groundbreaking announcement published by the New York Times two decades ago.

Sami Kishawi

Click here for a PDF version of the New York Times’ 1988 advertisement for the campaign to end all aid to Israel (full text below)

Click here for a PDF version of David Horowitz’s advertisement published in the New York Times on May 3, 2011 (full text below) [found by Shirien D.]

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Full text of the New York Times’ 1988 advertisement for the campaign to end all aid to Israel

THE TIME HAS COME
END ALL AID TO APARTHEID ISRAEL!

We cannot stand silently by as we watch young men and old, women and children murdered daily in cold blood – shot at point blank range, savagely beaten unto death with heavy staves, their heads, hands and limbs smashed.

We cannot permit a ruthless state to poison people with toxic gas and bury young men alive.

We shall never accept an entire people denied the elementary democratic and human rights we insist upon for ourselves. Were we subjected to a brutal occupation, daily humiliations, military rule, mass imprisonment and institutionalized torture, we too would rise up in revolt.

The rebellion of the Palestinian people has been a long time coming. Twenty years of occupation are but one dimension of their tragedy. They were driven from their original homes, villages and land by sustained massacre, condemned to miserable camps, subjected in a far-flung Diaspora to renewed slaughter, saturation bombing and unending persecution.

The tyranny suffered in the West Bank and Gaza is but the little continuation of how all of Palestine was colonized. Between the time of the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the formation of Israel, Zionist militia seized 75% of the land and drove out 800,000 Palestinians through a series of massacres.

When the state of Israel was declared, there were 475 Palestinian cities, towns and villages. Of these, 385 were razed to the ground – disappearing from the map. The 90 remaining were denuded of land, confiscated without compensation.

Today, the Jewish National Fund administers 93% of the land of Israel. To live on land, lease it, sharecrop or work on it, one must establish four generations of maternal Jewish descent.

If, in any country, people had to prove they did not have generations of maternal Jewish descent in order to enjoy elementary rights, no one would mistake the quintessentially racist character of such a state.

Israel is an apartheid state, founded on pillage and predicated on exclusivity. Rights flow from ethnic and religious identity.

How is this to end?

There are over five million settlers of European origin in South Africa. The Afrikaaner population and those of British descent have lived in South Africa for many generations. Yet, very few people, let alone those purporting to be advocates of self-determination for Blacks in South Africa, propose two states – a European white state with guaranteed security abuting a demilitarized, subordinate African state.

A dependent Bantustan alongside an apartheid state is a mockery of self-determination – whether in South Africa, colonial Rhodesia and Algeria – or apartheid Israel.

In Israel, no less than in South Africa, minimum justice requires dismantling the apartheid state and replacing it with a  democratic secular Palestine, where Jews and Arabs, Christians and Moslems, live together with equal rights and opportunities.

Apartheid Israel cannot exist without the U.S. treasury. Since 1948, $92 billion of U.S. tax money — $6 billion in 1987 alone – have financed Israel, a state built on expulsion, dispossession and subjugation. The American people have no interest in subsidizing the world’s fourth largest military power or the torment of the Palestinian people. End all aid now!

The response to four decades of outrageous tyranny exist – in the stone throwing children of Jabaliya, the Beach Camp, Balata and Dheisheh. It is echoed in those Israeli Jews who resist the oppression of others.

Theirs is the struggle, slingshots in hand, of David against Goliath.

Theirs is the passion for a life without oppression.

Theirs is the vision of a country short of racist dominion.

Palestinians and Jews, free at last from discrimination and injustice, will forge lasting peace only in a democratic and secular society where elementary rights are accorded to all.

Extend your hand to the heroic people of Palestine.

Support the campaign to end all aid to apartheid Israel.

Join the worldwide call for a democratic and secular Palestine.

Join our efforts — oppose Israel’s onslaught

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Full text of David Horowitz’s advertisement published in the New York Times on May 3, 2011

The Palestinians’ Case Against Israel is Based on a Genocidal Lie

The Palestinian Authority on the West Bank and the Hamas Government of Gaza both claim that Israel is “Occupied Palestine.”

This is a lie.

Israel does not occupy “Palestine.” When Israel was created in 1948, there was no Palestine to occupy. There has never been a political entity, state or country called Palestine in the Middle East.

The derivation of the name “Palestine” is Roman not Arabic. It was a name affixed to the Jewish homeland as an insult and punishment when Rome conquered Jerusalem and dispersed most of the Jews who lived there to the four corners of the globe.

The land on which Israel now stands was part of the Turkish empire and had been for four hundred years. The Turks are not Arabs and there was never a province, nor an entity in the Turkish empire called “Palestine”.

In fact virtually no Arabs called themselves “Palestinians” until 1964, the year the “Palestine Liberation Organization” was created. The goal of the PLO, as expressed in its charter, was not to liberate Palestinian Arabs from foreign rule but to destroy the Jewish state.

In 1949 Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt annexed Gaza.

But the annexation of the so-called Palestinian homeland by these two powers called forth no protests from the Arab world. In 1964, Jordan rules the West Bank and Egypt ruled Gaza, but the PLO did not call for the liberation of the West Bank or Gaza. It only called for the destruction of the “Zionist entity.”

It is true that the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza are suffering. But they are suffering because of sixty years of Arab aggression; sixty years of Arabs rejecting peace, and sixty years of Arab wars to destroy the Jewish state. They are suffering because whenever the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza were given the opportunity to hold free elections, they elected corrupt and terrorist regimes to rule over them.

Throughout human history, people have suffered deprivation and oppression. But never in history has a people waged a calculated war on women and children, and honored the murderers as heroes and martyrs, as the Palestinians now do.

The lie that Israel “occupied” Palestine is genocidal in nature. The slogan that flows from it – “Palestine Must Be Free From the River to the Sea” – is a demand that the Jewish state and its citizens must disappear.

There is one reason and one reason alone that there is no peace between the Arabs and Israel, and that is because since 1948, the Arab aggressors have refused to live side by side with a non-Muslim, non-Arab, Jewish state.

Published as a public service by the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Confronting the Anti-Israel Jihad on Campus

I hope we’re in for a civil, intellectual evening tonight. But since this is a university — and I have a lot of experience with universities – my expectations aren’t high.

You can’t get a good education if they’re only telling you half the story.  Everybody understands this.  You watch a court TV show and if there’s only a prosecutor commenting on the case, and no defense attorney, you know you’re not getting the whole story. That is true with all controversies in human affairs, and all the really important questions are controversial. So I have to begin by telling you, that if you’re in a liberal arts program at this university, you’re not getting a good education.  The conservative students I talked to earlier today can only identify three or four conservatives out of hundreds of faculty members in the liberal arts division, all of whom are in the closet.

In the nation outside the university, the division between self-identified conservatives and so-called liberals (I don’t like to call people who are fundamentally intolerant “liberal”) is fairly even, give or take the seasonal swings of independents in the middle. But university faculties are practically conservative-free.  How does that happen?  Well, it happens as a result of the largest, longest and most successful blacklist in the history of this country.

I attended Columbia University as a Marxist during the McCarthy era. McCarthy never had the ability to persecute Marxists inside the university that faculty Marxists are able to exercise against conservative students today. That is because, with rare exceptions, the senator was never able to penetrate the university community, which was hostile to him and his agendas.

Closely related to what should be the academic principle of presenting two sides to controversial issues is the general, society-wide principle of free speech. One of the problems facing us as a nation is that people take far too for granted the privileges and rights that they have as Americans.  There’s no more important American right than the right of free speech. Every single right you enjoy is dependent on this right. If you don’t have the ability to express your dissent, if you can be effectively silenced, driven from the public square, then you can’t defend any of your other rights.  The inevitable result is a one-party system and a one-orthodoxy society.

Free speech today is under systematic, nation-wide attack on our college campuses. It is under attack by the political Left — by people who call themselves progressives and are always screaming that it is they who are the victims of McCarthyites and witch-hunters. In fact, it is they who are the McCarthyites and witch-hunters, seeking to demonize their opponents and drive them from the discussion.

Tonight’s event is occurring under a cloud of intimidation, and determined efforts to prevent it from taking place.  A speech by one individual speaking to 300 people in a single room on a campus with a population of 45,000 is apparently too much for the progressive witch-hunters who have sought to shut us down. The Muslim Students Association, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace have joined in a campaign to vilify and demonize me and claim that I am unfit to speak on their campus. It is not just me that is their target, because I come, and I go. It is the students who have sponsored me. The opponents of what you are about to hear tonight tried to prevent anyone from inviting me in the first place and then to tried to prevent the College Republicans, who did invite me, from holding the event this evening, and also from putting up the “Palestinian Wall of Lies” I created to refute the genocidal propaganda displayed on this campus during “Palestine Awareness Week.”

One of the threats against me was serious enough that the campus police notified my security. I don’t go to a university campus anymore without a bodyguard because I have been physically attacked on several occasions on university campuses. Moreover, there is such hatred directed at me, usually accompanied by made up quotes designed to portray me as a “racist” and “Islamophobe” that I have to take seriously the possibility that some deranged individual or group might want to act on that hatred and cause me bodily harm.

And this is true for many a conservative speaker. On the other hand, it is not true for any leftists. Leftists do not feel the need to bring bodyguards to campus, and university administrators do not feel the need to provide the kind of security you can see here tonight. So you can judge for yourself who is threatening whom, and to whom the label “fascist” might be appropriately applied.

This past weekend, students on the UCLA campus were addressed by a speaker I happen to have known when I was still a leftist — a Jew who not long ago traveled to Lebanon to meet with Hassan Nasrallah, the terrorist head of Hizbollah. Nasrallah has led tens of thousands in chants of “Death to America! Death to Israel!” and has said that he hopes that all of us Jews will gather in Israel so he won’t have to hunt us down globally. The UCLA speaker had traveled to Lebanon to kiss the ring of this fanatical Jew-hater, and had just written an article saying that Barack Obama is a murderer, that Obama murdered Osama bin Laden, and that if anybody should be assassinated, it should be George Bush because he’s a much greater monster than Osama bin Laden. Of course, the Jew I’m referring to is Noam Chomsky, who lost his mind 30 or 40 years ago, a mishap that hasn’t prevented him from becoming a progressive icon and the most widely cited intellect in the academic community today.

Nobody attacked the Chomsky event. There was no attempt by the campus Right to intimidate the left-wing groups who invited and supported a terrorist-worshipping, self-declared enemy of America and vitriolic attacker of the Jews. In fact, his talk was promoted in the campus paper, the Daily Bruin, as mine was not, and he was celebrated as an academic “star” by the same paper afterwards. The point is that Chomsky was allowed to come to campus undisturbed and to say whatever was on his degenerated mind. And that is a proper attitude on a university campus, which should be an arena for the exchange of ideas. By contrast, there was such hateful name-calling in my case, and intimidation of students who might dare to invite me, that only one campus group was willing to do so. More than one group was supportive of my publicly expressed views, but only one had the courage to actually invite me, and in doing so, to put themselves in the line of fire. That group is the Bruin Republicans, and I thank them for their fortitude.

I also attempted to express my views by asking students to put up the “Palestinian Wall of Lies” so that others could be apprised of the facts and understand the genocidal intentions of the Palestinians and their supporters. The very plan to put up the wall was also the focus of threats and attacks.

All of this could have been avoided if I had been invited to speak by a faculty member or department. I’ve given 400 speeches on university campuses, yet I’ve been invited only three times by members of university faculties. Three out of 400.  I assure you this experience is not exceptional or unique among conservative speakers. The Left should be ashamed of itself for working so assiduously to deny their students the opportunity to hear the other side of these important debates. But we should not forget that leftists are totalitarians, and therefore we should not be surprised by these behaviors.

I understand why the Left seeks to suppress and silence its opponents. It does so out of fear that it is unable to answer the arguments that conservatives bring to the table. The Left does not want to be in a room with anyone who is ready to point out that these self-proclaimed champions of women and gays and minorities are acting in solidarity with Islamic Nazis who oppress women and are determined to cleanse the world of gays and Jews.

This explains why I am hated by the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice for Palestine, and their progressive allies like Jewish Voice for Peace. I am hated because I have exposed them as agents of the Muslim Brotherhood, supporters of Hamas, and willing accomplices to the genocidal agendas of the Palestinian cause. The Muslim Brotherhood spawned al-Qaeda, created Hamas, and supported Hitler in the ’30s and ’40s. Its founder, Hassan al-Banna, said in 1948 that if the Jews create a state, Muslims would push the Jews into the sea. Its spiritual leader today, Yusef Qaradawi, says that Muslims will finish the job Hitler started – in so many words:

Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them─even though they exaggerated this issue─he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers.

This pledge of Nazi faith was made on al-Jazeera TV for an audience of millions of Qaradawi-adoring Muslims.

During “Palestine Awareness Week” on this campus, Hamas supporters erected an “Israel Apartheid Wall” covered in lethal lies about the Jewish homeland beginning with the very claim that it is an apartheid state. Israel is in fact the only country that is not an apartheid state. Most of the Arab countries of the Middle East exclude Palestinians, which is why the Palestinian refugee camps are still filled 63 years after the 1948 war. There were 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab states as a result of that war, but they have all been re-settled in Israel. The head of the Palestine Authority has said no Jews will be allowed to live in the Palestinian West Bank. But there are more than a million Muslim Arabs who are citizens of Israel with more rights than the Arabs of any Arab state. Israel is the only place in the Middle East where an Arab who is gay can live without fear, and the only place where he can march in a Gay Pride parade. There are 57 Muslim countries but not one in which gays can hold gay pride parade. Calling Israel an apartheid state when the reality is as starkly opposite as this can have only one purpose: to inflame the ignorant and the fanatic and incite them to destroy the Jewish State.

The UCLA students who supported these lies during Palestine Awareness Week and who have opposed tonight’s event — the Muslim Students Association, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace – are accessories to the genocide of the Jews that Hamas and Hizbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood are openly planning. Why is there no outrage from UCLA faculty and administrators? Why aren’t there adult voices on this campus saying these are lies and this is just wrong? That it violates every precept of diversity and tolerance and respect for the other professed by this academic community?

Muslims are protected on this campus; blacks are protected on this campus; Hispanics are protected on this campus; but not Jews.  When they go to classes, Jewish students have an Apartheid Wall thrust in their faces accusing other Jews of stealing a whole country and being racists and oppressing an entire people.  Confronting Jewish students on the UCLA “apartheid wall” erected by Students for Justice in Palestine is a worshipful image of Sheik Yassin, leader of Hamas and a Nazi terrorist personally responsible for the murder of more than 350 innocent Jews — solely because they were Jews. They were not soldiers; they were not policemen; they were Jews.

I want to read some of the statements recently made by Hamas leaders, now part of a unity coalition representing all Palestinians. If, during the question period, there is anybody from Jewish Voice for Peace who wants to explain these quotes and how, as Jews, they could embrace a movement that lives by them, be my guest.

The head of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, recently said, “There is no place for you Jews among us and you have no future among the nations of the world.  You are headed to annihilation.” The speaker of the Hamas-controlled Gaza parliament said this: “Be certain that America is on its way to disappear.  Make us victorious over the infidel people.  Allah take hold of the Jews and their allies, Allah take hold of the Americans and their allies, Allah count them and kill them to the last one and don’t leave even one.”  That’s everybody in this room, in case you didn’t get his point.

Keep in mind that Hitler hid the Final Solution from the Germans because he thought they were too civilized to accept it. Ahmadinejad shouts it from the rooftops. Where is the Palestinian leader who has condemned it? Where is the Palestinian leader who recognizes the right of the Jewish State to exist? Where is the Palestinian who stands up for Jewish rights and Jewish survival the way hundreds of thousands if not millions of Jews in Israel the United States and Europe stand up for Palestinians?

Hamas is the sworn enemy of all Americans, and the sworn enemy of all Jews. Yet there are Americans and Jews on this campus who support Hamas. How would you describe the statements I have just quoted which promise the extermination of Americans and Jews? These are the statements of Nazis. Enshrined in the Hamas charter is the vow to obliterate Israel and exterminate its Jews. Yet this is the party supported by the Muslim Students Association, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace on this campus, and by the progressive Left generally.

It is because I am determined to confront these Jewish and Muslim and leftist UCLA students with the evil they have embraced that I am hated and feared by them – that they distort what I have said in the past, and slander me to prevent others from hearing the truth. The Muslim Students Association has described me as saying that all Muslims are Nazis. This is a lie. I have said that Hamas Muslims and Hizbollah Muslims and PLO Muslims are Nazis – and I stand by that. When I made these same charges at Brooklyn College earlier this spring, using the identical quotes, the first words in response to my speech from the members of the “Palestinian Club” who came to protest were: “you want to lynch all Muslims.” Note that these Palestinians did not identify as Palestinians but as Muslims. That is the reality of the conflict in Middle East: it is not about establishing a Palestinian state; it is about purging the Muslim ummah of the Jews. And it is perfectly Orwellian. The agents of a genocidal movement to exterminate the Jews claim the mantle of victims, and slander the victims and their defenders as persecutors: Islamophobe! Racist!

This is the charge being made against me now at UC Santa Barbara where I am scheduled to speak in two weeks. Horowitz says all Muslims are Nazis. He is a threat to Muslim students on this campus. He should not be allowed to speak. I had spoken at UC Santa Barbara last year, so they knew what to expect. Thirty members of the Muslim Students Association were in the audience when I spoke. Throughout my speech, I asked them if they would condemn Hamas as a genocidal terrorist organization. Not one of them — including their president, to whom I put the question directly — would.

The president said, “That’s too complicated a question for a yes/no answer.” So I said, “Let me put it to you this way: I am a Jew. The head of Hizbollah has said he hopes that we Jews will all gather in Israel so that he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. For it or against it?” He would not answer. Last May, I spoke at UC San Diego and was confronted by a young woman who was a member of the Muslim Students Association. You can see our exchange on YouTube. She answered the question more honestly than the Santa Barbara MSA president. She said “For it.”

If the Nazi statements by Palestinian leaders that I quoted are not what they actually said, my critics would have a legitimate argument. Unfortunately for all the progressives in this room, these are not my versions of what they said. This is what they said, and what they believe and what they are fighting for.

I recently placed an ad in The New York Times whose headline said: “The Palestinian Case Against Israel Is a Genocidal Lie.” The Times published it. But when I submitted the same ad to the UCLA Daily Bruin, whose editor is an Arab, they refuse to print it. Earlier, the Bruin had printed an ad, which made the same claim. My suspicion is that the editor was besieged by the campus supporters of Nazis in the Middle East and the pressure was so great that he rejected the statement that had been printed in the Times. What the Daily Bruin did not want members of the UCLA community to see a second time is the refutation of the claim that Israel occupies Palestine or that the Palestinians have any right to Israel’s land. These are genocidal lies.

Israel was not created on any land that belonged to Arabs, let alone “Palestinians.” Israel was created on land that belonged to the Turks for 400 years before the birth of the Jewish State. Four hundred years is longer than America has been in existence. The Arab claim has less justification than the claim of the Iroquois to New York. If one is going to roll back the map 400 years, why not 1,000 or 2,000? The land that is Israel today was owned by the Turks and the Turks are not Arabs, and certainly not Palestinians.

How many people under the age of 25 in this room know this fact, that Israel was created on land belonging to the Turks? I see by your hands that there are about ten. Out of more than several hundred. Some education you’re all getting at this university.  For those of you new to this history, the Turks could not prevent this transfer from taking place because they had chosen the wrong side in World War I and were defeated. One of the rules of war is that when you lose, the victors get to redraw the map. This also applies to aggressors in war. The Arabs of Jordan and of all the Arab states bordering Israel launched, not one, but three wars of aggression against the Jewish State. By all the laws of international warfare, the Jews had every right to expel all the Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza. But in fact they didn’t.

After World War II, the entire region of East Prussia – the industrial heartland of Germany – was taken from Germany and given to Poland. That was because they had invaded Poland three times in a century. Twelve million Germans were removed from Prussia and from the homes and lands which they had occupied for nearly a thousand years. That was their punishment for being aggressors, like the Arabs.

There were other nations created out of the ruins of the Turkish empire — Arab nations: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. Jordan is 70 percent made up of the same ethnic people who live on the West Bank and in Gaza — in other words, Palestinian Arabs. But they are ruled by a Hashemite minority. Where are the calls for the liberation of the Palestinians of Jordan? There are none. Nobody calling for the liberation of Palestine is interested in the self-determination of Palestine. Their first priority is getting rid of the Jews. “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.” The Jordan River is the eastern boundary of Israel, the Mediterranean Sea is the boundary to the West. In other words, Palestinian freedom is synonymous with Israel’s destruction. Who can fail to understand this?

Even the word “Palestine” is not Arabic. It is Latin. The Romans gave the region around the Jordan the name “Palestine” as a humiliation for the Jews whom they had just conquered nearly 2,000 years ago. The name referred to the Philistines, who were the Jews’ enemies but were not Arabs.  There were no Arabs in the area until 500 years later. Throughout the subsequent two thousand years, there has never been a political entity or state or country called “Palestine.” The idea of such a country was invented in 1964, fifteen years after Israel’s birth.

In 1948 when Israel was created, there was no Arab people self-identified as “Palestinians.” The Palestinian national identity was invented in 1964 with the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 1949, after the Arab war against Israel, Jordan annexed the West Bank and the so-called Palestinian homeland disappeared from the map. The same thing happened to Gaza, which was annexed by Egypt. But if you read the PLO’s founding charter you will not see a single reference to the fact that Jordan had swallowed the West Bank and Egypt the Gaza Strip. The PLO charter is all about getting rid of the “Zionists,” i.e. the Jews. The only reason the West Bank is not still part of Jordan and Gaza part of Egypt is because the 1967 Arab war of aggression against Israel was defeated and Israel generously — and foolishly as subsequent events have shown — did not annex these areas and expel the Jew-hating aggressors, but maintained them as “territories” awaiting a peace treaty that would never come.

The famous “Palestine Mandate” refers to a geographical region, not an ethnicity, not a people. It is a term like “New England” – not a country or a people, just a region. The Palestine Mandate was a portion of the Turkish Empire promised to the Jews. They got a tiny sliver of the Mandate, less than ten percent and more than half of which was an arid desert. But that was too much for the xenophobic Jew-hating Arabs and Muslims of the region who could not tolerate a Jewish state in their midst.

The Palestinian cause is not about Palestinians. If it was, there would be a liberation movement in Jordan and protests against the bans on Palestinian immigration to other Arab states. It is about pushing the Jews into the sea. That is why there has been no peace in the Middle East, why the Arabs rejected the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza in 1948, and the offer of 98% of what they claimed to be asking for from Clinton and Barak in 2000. The terms were intolerable to them in both cases because they included a Jewish state, however tiny – in fact less than 0.02% of the entire land mass of the Arab Middle East. The Arab Middle East must be Judenrein. That is the true agenda of the Arabs and their supporters on the Left.

I’m very confident, by the way, that even though this event is being videotaped, absolutely nothing that I say will be reported accurately on this campus, or on progressive sites on the Internet. My remarks will be twisted to portray me as a racist and Islamophobe in order to bury the truth about the Islamic war to exterminate the Jews of the Middle East.

I am confident of this because a speech I gave earlier this year at Brooklyn College was filmed by the Palestinian Club, who then doctored it and posted it on YouTube with the endearing title: “Horowitz Spreading Hate at Brooklyn College.” You can see the full, undoctored film of my speech here.

The doctored film was shown by a member of the Muslim Students Association to the Legislative Council at UC Santa Barbara to persuade them not to allocate funds to the College Republicans who had invited me to speak. Another member of the Muslim Students Association accused me of saying that “all Muslims are Nazis.” At Brooklyn College, I had read the same Hamas quotes as I read here – but they were not included in the Palestinian Club’s film. Only my statement that “they” were Nazis – “they” being the Hamas leaders who made them, a fact also removed from the film.

I was then quoted in the Palestinian Club’s film as saying that the Palestinians were “sick,” as I regarded them as sick merely because they were Palestinians. What I said was that people who claim to be progressive justify the Palestinians’ support for organizations with Nazi agendas by claiming that they’re “oppressed.” But even if they were oppressed, that is no excuse for embracing Nazism. People have been oppressed for thousands of years yet there has never before been a people that has strapped bombs onto its own children, told them to blow themselves up along with other children who were Jews, and if they did so, they would go to heaven. Moreover, if they were lucky enough to be male, they would be rewarded with 72 virgins. That is sick.  Suicide bombing in the Palestinian territories is a national, government sanctioned and encouraged and honored cult. There is no excuse for the Palestinians, and there are no visible exemptions.

That is the message that they don’t want to hear, the reality they don’t want to face. It interferes with the fiction they want to impose on others – that Israel is a racist state and should be destroyed. Part of the problem, certainly on this campus, is that Jews are not standing up for themselves the way they need to. It is disgraceful that the Jewish community at UCLA, and people who regard themselves as enlightened and progressive and liberal have not said that the Israel Apartheid Wall is a violation of the very spirit of diversity and tolerance that the University of California claims to represent.  What kind of respect is it to call a people, and a nation, which is one of the most tolerant societies on the face of the earth, an apartheid state? That is the defamation of a people, pure and simple, a prelude – given the realities of the Middle East – to genocide.

If I may digress in closing, the threat I mentioned at the outset of this talk, reported by the campus police, was from the Afrikan American Students Union. Why did they threaten me? They explain their animus in the leaflet they’ve distributed here tonight, which focuses on something I said ten years ago during my campaign against slave reparations which were being demanded 137 years after the fact: “As a result of America’s efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth, including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.”

This is a fact, even if the Afrikan American Students Union is desperate to deny it. It is a fact in the same way as that Israel was not created on Palestinian land is a fact. I forgive students for making these kinds of errors. I don’t forgive their professors.  Professors who do not provide students with contending opinions on controversial issues and don’t provide them with materials that will allow them to think for themselves are derelict in their duty as teaching professionals.  Contrary to the propaganda of the Left, I have never called for the firing of a single leftist professor.  I am a defender of the academic freedom of students who have a right not to be subjected to political speeches in the classroom or to attempts to tell them what to think. That is the problem at this university and others on the matter of the Middle East but also on all matters that affect our social and political futures generally. Students are being told what to think by leftists who have effectively excluded conservatives from their academic faculties, and converted their classrooms into political soapboxes. And that has got to stop.

Thank you. You’ve been a very civil audience.