Does anyone know if they threatened the organizers first, that they would not speak if Ackman and Weiss were there too? And the organizers didn’t disinvite Ackman and Weiss, so they decided not to take part?
In BC, we have a very progressive theatre festival called the PuSh Festival, which was supposed to run a show called The Runner, which portrays an Orthodox Jew helping a Palestinian (ie Israel positive). At the same time, the festival was to show an interactive installation about life in a Palestinian refugee community. The Palestinian artist threatened the festival to withdraw his piece if they showed The Runner, as he did not want his art shown with a pro-Israel piece. The PuSh Festival backed down and pulled The Runner because of the Palestinian artist’s threat. Ostensibly because the Palestinian piece portrayed the “lived experience” of the artist, whereas the Israeli show was written by a non-Israeli, Catholic playwright. In art, (you know, these space where you use your imagination), “lived experience” trumps all. Or perhaps it’s actually perceived victim narrative trumping perceived oppressor narrative. At any rate, it is an insult to the festival’s audience and to artistic freedom and integrity. If anyone doubts the power of victimhood, this shameful story should disabuse them of their doubts.
Husain doesn't seem terribly intelligent, frequently using many of the annoying phrases one uses to reaffirm what is spewing (perhaps because they are not sure they are right) like:
'You know?'
'Right?'
'So it's a thing, right?'
'Fucking (everything)...'
But unfortunately, it looks like he was just smart enough to eek his way into NYU as an 'adjunct professor' -- of 'art and activism' yet. Was this a meet-and-greet or something because, even taken out of context, this doesn't seem art-related at all?
The progressive left wants to eliminate the political competition that they face from the conservative right and they are willing to suspend democracy to do so.
Progressive left activists have been successful in infiltrating North America’s educational, judicial and governmental institutions where they have been able to both advance their agendas and suppress those with which they disagree.
They have advanced their ambitions remarkably everywhere except in the institution that can give them ultimate power - politics.
The political institutions in Washington are larded with progressive Democrats but they, like their Republican counterparts, have lost the support of many Americans because they have not delivered on promises to improve their lives.
This complacency resulted in Donald Trump’s first presidential victory and is likely to propel him to a second term.
The liberal left progressives in the Biden administration have pursued agenda priorities that have once again neglected the priorities of Middle America.
Once again, after experiencing yet another ineffective government they were told would be better than that led by Trump, people once again feel let down, manipulated, ignored and insecure.
The progressive left knows that their day will be done in the event of another Trump victory and will resist that outcome by any means they can muster.
The question is whether such means will be tolerated by the conservative right or will they lead to civil chaos.
Us old folks already know the BS from Professor of Comparative Literature (that is in the King's English) Edward Said, proclaimed "Palestinian" who was born and raised in Egypt. As was Yasser Arafat, a member of the infamous, Hitler-aligned al-Housaini clan. Arafat changed his name after the KGB recruited him from obscurity as a student in Paris, 1967.
I subscribe (and LOVE) The Free Press because it is an island of truth and objectivity in an ocean of misinformation and ideology-fueled media. So it is through this lens that I continue to evaluate both its content as well as that from other sources.
After I read the opening paragraph of this post, I immediately went to Google and typed in the following search "is it true that Hamas beheaded babies in Gaza?". I then spent 2 hours reading article after article on this topic. I encourage others with a like-minded curiosity to do the same. I was particularly mindful of the sources, so as to avoid content from publications that I suspect have an ideology bias.
After two hours of research, I concluded that the allegation of "beheaded babies" is most definitely not a fact that can be demonstrably proven. In fact, the preponderance of evidence suggests that it either did not happen, or that there was some mutilation due to grenades or other weapons, and not deliberate decapitations. Not only did many news organizations report this, but the Israeli government itself issued a statement on October 12 that said they could not confirm that babies were in fact beheaded.
Some of the articles I read suggested that "what difference does it make?" Innocent babies were killed. The elderly and infirm were indiscriminately butchered. So does it really matter if there were deliberate beheadings? Well, yes it does. If it didn't matter, the author of this blog would not have used it in her headline. Joe Biden would not have repeated it, against the advice of his team, to build support for Israel. There is no doubt that the atrocities committed by Hamas can only be labeled as monstrous and inhumane. But there are levels and degrees of depravity, and everyone knows this.
I am disappointed in the editorial oversight of The Free Press. If a complete amateur like me can uncover such a clear finding with an obvious and simplistic internet search, where is the editorial oversight that I have come to rely on and trust? I fear that what is happening is exactly why I have largely fled main stream media -- an ideological premise has taken over here. I must now be more cautious in reading and digesting content that I heretofore implicitly trusted to be editorially curated in a brutally objective way. Sigh....
I am surprised but agree with your search results. Google leans left and sometimes slants its results. Next time, use www.dogpile.com (conglomerate of bing, yahoo, and google, maybe more). Try www.brave.com .
Amin Husain is as trustworthy as Joe Scarborough who claims Trump will kill American Generals if re-elected. Scarborough has Trump derangement. Husain is a Muslim.
One of the most blatant statements of the the lack of individual agency in the Black Community is contained in Ms. Reingold's article. The Black progressives quoted assumed that government funds are their personal resources that they are entitled to by the color of their skin. The Black progressives quoted, live in complete denial of any responsibility for the "crisis in the black community." Not only is this a good definition of why so many social programs are referred to as "entitlements" It is also a statement that Black entitlements are racist and immigrants are not entitled to them.
Regarding Israel and Gaza, everybody is wrong. Everybody has been wrong for a long time. Everybody is screaming that they are more victimized than the other party, much like two children crying, “he hit me first.” All accomplishing nothing but escalation of the enmity.
In his autobiography, Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, stated that in 1968 he strongly recommended that the refugee camps in Gaza be eliminated completely. He proposed a specific plan that would resettle all Gazan refugees in the established towns of Gaza and the rest of Israel, aided by resources for housing and agricultural—all demonstrating the “goodwill and humane values” of Israel. He was shouted down, and Gaza was isolated as a kind of concentration camp, ironically. Inexorably, the hatred grew like a cancer that burst its capsule on October 7, 2023. The attacks were patently wrong, but we cannot dismiss the contribution to those attacks by decades of Palestinians being mistreated.
Everybody is wrong.
Minister Sharon once said that from a lifetime of experience he had learned that the long conflict between Jews and Palestinians was not about religion or culture or territorial boundaries. It was about two groups who could no longer talk with each other because they were in too much pain from their generational wounds and were no longer capable of loving each other. THIS is the real cause of all conflicts, whether in Israel or on campuses or anywhere else. While we are solving the important short-term problems of hostages, refugees, and military intervention, we must finally pay attention to the real underlying problem here: People do not know HOW to love each other, and until we as parents learn to love our children, and teach them how to love, the conflicts will continue—as we have all amply proven throughout history. But where to find this unconditional love? Go to RealLove.com and RealLoveParents.com, free websites dedicated to teaching us how to find and share love, even more specifically intended to teach parents how to unconditionally love and teach their children.
James's piece on our biased school libraries and Olivia's on black Chicagoans feelings of betrayal by the Democratic Party over immigration are two of the best pieces that The FP has produced. Thank you for the updates!
As usual, the reporting conflates concern for the 10x dead and equally innocent Palestinians, with antisemitism. Equating objection to the Israel state with antisemitism, is the key tool of the Israeli lobby in USA.
"'We know it’s not true,' he says of evidence that women were raped and babies were beheaded on October 7." -- This is a true statement. Not a single piece of so-called "evidence" has thus far stood up to scrutiny. Everything has been either hearsay, doctored images or dubious videos that only INFER the "crimes" being claimed. Israel's propaganda hasbara program is well-known. And this spate of claims has the "dead Kuwaiti incubator babies" hoax written all over it. Fool me once, shame on me...
How would Husain explain all those ancient Hebrew artifacts unearthed over the years if indeed the Jews are colonizers in the land of Israel? He's lucky. He has built a career on addressing college students so badly educated that they will swallow anything.
Does anyone know if they threatened the organizers first, that they would not speak if Ackman and Weiss were there too? And the organizers didn’t disinvite Ackman and Weiss, so they decided not to take part?
In BC, we have a very progressive theatre festival called the PuSh Festival, which was supposed to run a show called The Runner, which portrays an Orthodox Jew helping a Palestinian (ie Israel positive). At the same time, the festival was to show an interactive installation about life in a Palestinian refugee community. The Palestinian artist threatened the festival to withdraw his piece if they showed The Runner, as he did not want his art shown with a pro-Israel piece. The PuSh Festival backed down and pulled The Runner because of the Palestinian artist’s threat. Ostensibly because the Palestinian piece portrayed the “lived experience” of the artist, whereas the Israeli show was written by a non-Israeli, Catholic playwright. In art, (you know, these space where you use your imagination), “lived experience” trumps all. Or perhaps it’s actually perceived victim narrative trumping perceived oppressor narrative. At any rate, it is an insult to the festival’s audience and to artistic freedom and integrity. If anyone doubts the power of victimhood, this shameful story should disabuse them of their doubts.
Husain doesn't seem terribly intelligent, frequently using many of the annoying phrases one uses to reaffirm what is spewing (perhaps because they are not sure they are right) like:
'You know?'
'Right?'
'So it's a thing, right?'
'Fucking (everything)...'
But unfortunately, it looks like he was just smart enough to eek his way into NYU as an 'adjunct professor' -- of 'art and activism' yet. Was this a meet-and-greet or something because, even taken out of context, this doesn't seem art-related at all?
Imagine being required to sit and listen to that?
This publication is going down hill.
digging deeper IS terrible reporting as obama IS a centrist and not a Progressive!
The progressive left wants to eliminate the political competition that they face from the conservative right and they are willing to suspend democracy to do so.
Progressive left activists have been successful in infiltrating North America’s educational, judicial and governmental institutions where they have been able to both advance their agendas and suppress those with which they disagree.
They have advanced their ambitions remarkably everywhere except in the institution that can give them ultimate power - politics.
The political institutions in Washington are larded with progressive Democrats but they, like their Republican counterparts, have lost the support of many Americans because they have not delivered on promises to improve their lives.
This complacency resulted in Donald Trump’s first presidential victory and is likely to propel him to a second term.
The liberal left progressives in the Biden administration have pursued agenda priorities that have once again neglected the priorities of Middle America.
Once again, after experiencing yet another ineffective government they were told would be better than that led by Trump, people once again feel let down, manipulated, ignored and insecure.
The progressive left knows that their day will be done in the event of another Trump victory and will resist that outcome by any means they can muster.
The question is whether such means will be tolerated by the conservative right or will they lead to civil chaos.
This sounds like the flat earth society, but a much more lethal version....
Us old folks already know the BS from Professor of Comparative Literature (that is in the King's English) Edward Said, proclaimed "Palestinian" who was born and raised in Egypt. As was Yasser Arafat, a member of the infamous, Hitler-aligned al-Housaini clan. Arafat changed his name after the KGB recruited him from obscurity as a student in Paris, 1967.
I subscribe (and LOVE) The Free Press because it is an island of truth and objectivity in an ocean of misinformation and ideology-fueled media. So it is through this lens that I continue to evaluate both its content as well as that from other sources.
After I read the opening paragraph of this post, I immediately went to Google and typed in the following search "is it true that Hamas beheaded babies in Gaza?". I then spent 2 hours reading article after article on this topic. I encourage others with a like-minded curiosity to do the same. I was particularly mindful of the sources, so as to avoid content from publications that I suspect have an ideology bias.
After two hours of research, I concluded that the allegation of "beheaded babies" is most definitely not a fact that can be demonstrably proven. In fact, the preponderance of evidence suggests that it either did not happen, or that there was some mutilation due to grenades or other weapons, and not deliberate decapitations. Not only did many news organizations report this, but the Israeli government itself issued a statement on October 12 that said they could not confirm that babies were in fact beheaded.
Some of the articles I read suggested that "what difference does it make?" Innocent babies were killed. The elderly and infirm were indiscriminately butchered. So does it really matter if there were deliberate beheadings? Well, yes it does. If it didn't matter, the author of this blog would not have used it in her headline. Joe Biden would not have repeated it, against the advice of his team, to build support for Israel. There is no doubt that the atrocities committed by Hamas can only be labeled as monstrous and inhumane. But there are levels and degrees of depravity, and everyone knows this.
I am disappointed in the editorial oversight of The Free Press. If a complete amateur like me can uncover such a clear finding with an obvious and simplistic internet search, where is the editorial oversight that I have come to rely on and trust? I fear that what is happening is exactly why I have largely fled main stream media -- an ideological premise has taken over here. I must now be more cautious in reading and digesting content that I heretofore implicitly trusted to be editorially curated in a brutally objective way. Sigh....
I am surprised but agree with your search results. Google leans left and sometimes slants its results. Next time, use www.dogpile.com (conglomerate of bing, yahoo, and google, maybe more). Try www.brave.com .
On denying Hamas atrocities ... it would be nice if someone asked him “ok, but if they did happen, that would be bad, right?”
Amin Husain is as trustworthy as Joe Scarborough who claims Trump will kill American Generals if re-elected. Scarborough has Trump derangement. Husain is a Muslim.
One of the most blatant statements of the the lack of individual agency in the Black Community is contained in Ms. Reingold's article. The Black progressives quoted assumed that government funds are their personal resources that they are entitled to by the color of their skin. The Black progressives quoted, live in complete denial of any responsibility for the "crisis in the black community." Not only is this a good definition of why so many social programs are referred to as "entitlements" It is also a statement that Black entitlements are racist and immigrants are not entitled to them.
Regarding Israel and Gaza, everybody is wrong. Everybody has been wrong for a long time. Everybody is screaming that they are more victimized than the other party, much like two children crying, “he hit me first.” All accomplishing nothing but escalation of the enmity.
In his autobiography, Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, stated that in 1968 he strongly recommended that the refugee camps in Gaza be eliminated completely. He proposed a specific plan that would resettle all Gazan refugees in the established towns of Gaza and the rest of Israel, aided by resources for housing and agricultural—all demonstrating the “goodwill and humane values” of Israel. He was shouted down, and Gaza was isolated as a kind of concentration camp, ironically. Inexorably, the hatred grew like a cancer that burst its capsule on October 7, 2023. The attacks were patently wrong, but we cannot dismiss the contribution to those attacks by decades of Palestinians being mistreated.
Everybody is wrong.
Minister Sharon once said that from a lifetime of experience he had learned that the long conflict between Jews and Palestinians was not about religion or culture or territorial boundaries. It was about two groups who could no longer talk with each other because they were in too much pain from their generational wounds and were no longer capable of loving each other. THIS is the real cause of all conflicts, whether in Israel or on campuses or anywhere else. While we are solving the important short-term problems of hostages, refugees, and military intervention, we must finally pay attention to the real underlying problem here: People do not know HOW to love each other, and until we as parents learn to love our children, and teach them how to love, the conflicts will continue—as we have all amply proven throughout history. But where to find this unconditional love? Go to RealLove.com and RealLoveParents.com, free websites dedicated to teaching us how to find and share love, even more specifically intended to teach parents how to unconditionally love and teach their children.
Greg Baer
You are naive. Read the Koran.
James's piece on our biased school libraries and Olivia's on black Chicagoans feelings of betrayal by the Democratic Party over immigration are two of the best pieces that The FP has produced. Thank you for the updates!
As usual, the reporting conflates concern for the 10x dead and equally innocent Palestinians, with antisemitism. Equating objection to the Israel state with antisemitism, is the key tool of the Israeli lobby in USA.
"'We know it’s not true,' he says of evidence that women were raped and babies were beheaded on October 7." -- This is a true statement. Not a single piece of so-called "evidence" has thus far stood up to scrutiny. Everything has been either hearsay, doctored images or dubious videos that only INFER the "crimes" being claimed. Israel's propaganda hasbara program is well-known. And this spate of claims has the "dead Kuwaiti incubator babies" hoax written all over it. Fool me once, shame on me...
How would Husain explain all those ancient Hebrew artifacts unearthed over the years if indeed the Jews are colonizers in the land of Israel? He's lucky. He has built a career on addressing college students so badly educated that they will swallow anything.