Op-Ed: Honor Dishonored: Brandeis and Ayaan Hirsi Ali April 11, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1278/op-ed-honor-dishonored-brandeis-and-ayaan-hirsi Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Long ago, in Jerusalem, in Ecclesiastes, King Solomon, King David's son, famously wrote: "There is nothing new under the sun." How right he was. Brandeis's decision to disinvite Ayaan Hirsi Ali is "nothing new" under the liberal Waltham sun. In 2003, Brandeis partnered with Al-Quds University—and did so, year after year, until 2013, when violent demonstrations broke out on the Al-Quds campus, replete with traditional Nazi salutes. In 2006, the Brandeis community of students and professors did not protest the Distinguished Professorship Brandeis awarded to the "inflammatory" anti-Zionist playwright Tony Kushner. » CONTINUE READING Phyllis Chesler: The Shame of Brandeis University  April 10, 2014 By now, we all know that Brandeis University was about to bestow an honor on the elegant and distinguished author and activist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, best known for her critique of Islam, her decision to leave Islam, and her championship of Muslim women's rights. One might understand why an apostate intellectual might be in danger in Somalia, the country of her birth, or in Saudi Arabia, where she once lived. However, she has just been dishonored by Brandeis University, which withdrew its offer of a Distinguished Professorship because the Muslim Brotherhood in America, known to us as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its national student group, the Muslim Students Association, which is also allied with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) mounted a successful campaign against the award. Both CAIR and ISNA are unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing case. CAIR provided the Muslim Student Association (MSU) at Brandeis with outdated, out-of-context, and highly inflammatory quotes from Hirsi Ali. They did not provide her thought-provoking, stirring, moving passages of which there are many. Brandeis simply caved to the lynch mob.    » CONTINUE READING

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