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Malia Bouattia has in her short few years as a "student"
- Prevented the NUS passing a motion that condemned Islamic State (She did later support a watered down version)
- Described Birmingham University as "something of a Zionist outpost"
- Campaigned as part of the "Why Is My Curriculum White?" movement.
And now, she has been elected as president of the National Union of Students (NUS)I hope the current protests at Oxford and Cambridge Universities to walk away from the NUS will happen and will also take other universities away from the NUS.
Worse still, CAGE congratulated her election in a tweet.
Malia Bouattia has in her short few years as a "student"
- Prevented the NUS passing a motion that condemned Islamic State (She did later support a watered down version)
- Described Birmingham University as "something of a Zionist outpost"
- Campaigned as part of the "Why Is My Curriculum White?" movement.
And now, she has been elected as president of the National Union of Students (NUS)I hope the current protests at Oxford and Cambridge Universities to walk away from the NUS will happen and will also take other universities away from the NUS.
Worse still, CAGE congratulated her election in a tweet.
She one of those kids from African or Middle Eastern countries who win a scholarship and that's why their there?
"I saw a country ripped apart by terror and was forced into exile," she explained, adding: “I know too well the damage done by racism and persecution."
She explained how her university lecturer father was almost killed by a bomb and her school had been attacked by gun-wielding militia, causing her family to flee. Link.
Her family escaped persecution in Algeria.
Seems her response to this past in Algeria is to support all the anti-Israel motions in the student body that she could. Then there is the infamous block on a resolution against ISIS in 2014... :doh
Her family escaped persecution in Algeria.
Seems her response to this past in Algeria is to support all the anti-Israel motions in the student body that she could. Then there is the infamous block on a resolution against ISIS in 2014... :doh
Malia Bouattia has in her short few years as a "student"
- Prevented the NUS passing a motion that condemned Islamic State (She did later support a watered down version)
- Described Birmingham University as "something of a Zionist outpost"
- Campaigned as part of the "Why Is My Curriculum White?" movement.
And now, she has been elected as president of the National Union of Students (NUS)I hope the current protests at Oxford and Cambridge Universities to walk away from the NUS will happen and will also take other universities away from the NUS.
Worse still, CAGE congratulated her election in a tweet.
Some sense at last:University students threaten to split from NUS - University students threaten to split from NUS - BBC News
Malia Bouattia has in her short few years as a "student"
- Prevented the NUS passing a motion that condemned Islamic State (She did later support a watered down version)
- Described Birmingham University as "something of a Zionist outpost"
- Campaigned as part of the "Why Is My Curriculum White?" movement.
And now, she has been elected as president of the National Union of Students (NUS)I hope the current protests at Oxford and Cambridge Universities to walk away from the NUS will happen and will also take other universities away from the NUS.
Specifically, on the claims that I refused to condemn Isis: two years ago I delayed a National Executive Council motion condemning Isis – but that was because of its wording, not because of its intent. Its language appeared to condemn all Muslims, not just the terror group. Once it was worded correctly I proposed and wholly supported the motion.
There is no place for antisemitism in the student movement, or in society. If any of my previous discourse has been interpreted otherwise, such as comments I once made about Zionism within the media, I will revise it to ensure there is no room for confusion. I was being critical of media outlets that unquestioningly support Israel’s actions and maltreatment of Palestinians, I was not talking about the media as a whole, or repeating despicable antisemitic prejudice.
Do we judge Cameron by the fact that Putin sent him a message of congratulations on his general election victory?Worse still, CAGE congratulated her election in a tweet.
Where are you getting your info from IC? She specifically and enthusiastically promoted a condemnation of ISIS. In her own words:
Context of the zionist comments, again
Is the Guardian website so difficult to locate?It's actually incredibly hard to find the IS condemnation on the NUS website Andy, I checked before posting the OP.
It's also easier to find her condemnation of Birmingham as a zionist outpost than to find her condemnation of antisemitism - and I'm not even talking about using "right wing media outlets."
Honestly IC, don't bother on my account. Of the things you've quoted I can't see anything wrong with pointing out that you can condemn the ideology of Zionism without being antisemitic, just as you can condemn Islamism without being Islamophobic.I guess you'll ask me to post them and I will - as soon as I have free time to do it.
Question is, I do that and then what?
Is the Guardian website so difficult to locate?
Honestly IC, don't bother on my account. Of the things you've quoted I can't see anything wrong with pointing out that you can condemn the ideology of Zionism without being antisemitic, just as you can condemn Islamism without being Islamophobic.
I posted her very public and unequivocal condemnation of ISIS.
I don't know anything about the Why Is My Curriculum White? movement, although I'd agree with the premise, as in my experience the education I received was embarrassingly white.
Is the Guardian website so difficult to locate?
Honestly IC, don't bother on my account. Of the things you've quoted I can't see anything wrong with pointing out that you can condemn the ideology of Zionism without being antisemitic, just as you can condemn Islamism without being Islamophobic.
I posted her very public and unequivocal condemnation of ISIS.
I don't know anything about the Why Is My Curriculum White? movement, although I'd agree with the premise, as in my experience the education I received was embarrassingly white.
~ who are you to say I can't criticize Israel? :lol:
What is so silly with people pursuing that take is the general incomprehension of the terms Zionism and Zionist.It's been known for a while that if you want to be antisemitic while not sounding (to yourself perhaps) like an antisemite all you have to do is swap the word "Jews" with "Zionists".
The "Zionists" are controlling our media. The "Zionists" are controlling our banks. But hey, who are you to say I can't criticize Israel? :lol:
What is so silly with people pursuing that take is the general incomprehension of the terms Zionism and Zionist.
Zionism is and was the undertaking of not only forming a Jewish homeland (in Israel or British Palestine or whatever one wanted to call it) but also to maintain it, once established. So being anti-Zionist of necessity involves the eradication of said homeland.
And there the circle closes in that being of course anti-semitism.
"Embarrassingly white" ? How cringe worthy to say such a thing.
Oh indeed, I've come across them and with me being in Israel at that. I mean at the time. Not an intense encounter, I'll admit, since it was infrequent and even then brief.The problem with that position is the existence of a strong, if minoritarian, Jewish anti-Zionist movement in Israel and beyond.
If you're going to throw around insults, you might learn to spell them correctly.
What is cringeworthy is, as was the case throughout my education, teaching about the 'discovery' of the Americas while ignoring the indigenous cultures that pre-dated Columbus; or learning about great figures such as Florence Nightingale whilst ignoring Mary Seacole; or learning about the wealth and influence of the East India Company whilst ignoring its repression of the indigenous Indians; or learning about the abolition of slavery concentrating on the likes of Wilberforce whilst leaving Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass out of the narrative.
If you're not embarrassed by such ideological and ethnocentric omissions then you have something faulty in your conscience.
~ If you're not embarrassed by such ideological and ethnocentric omissions then you have something faulty in your conscience.
I didn't have school lessons which focused only on the european perspective and this was the 1970's in Cardiff and then Suffolk very early 80's. I think the problem is taking one or two examples (either mine or yours) and then extending that to the wider curriculum. In cardiff we had trips to Liverpool's museum of slavery and similar which added to what we were exploring about UK history.
The problem is when a culture's history is seen as from one perspective or another rather than from a unified perspective. The phrase "too white" does make me cringe though. In the context of degree study as this is where the original point comes from - inquiring minds usually are free to follow and explore different perspectives on a subject so considering a curriculum is too white says more about the students Ms Bouattia is rousing than the tutors who lecture on the subjects or curricula discussed.
You may be correct about modern curricula, I wouldn't know, I haven't had any first-hand experience of UK education for some considerable time. My experience is drawn from the Seventies. You may have had a very different, more cosmopolitan education than I did in rural North Yorkshire. Slavery certainly barely made it into our syllabus. Imperialism, not at all.
Malia Bouattia has in her short few years as a "student"
- Prevented the NUS passing a motion that condemned Islamic State (She did later support a watered down version)
- Described Birmingham University as "something of a Zionist outpost"
- Campaigned as part of the "Why Is My Curriculum White?" movement.
And now, she has been elected as president of the National Union of Students (NUS)I hope the current protests at Oxford and Cambridge Universities to walk away from the NUS will happen and will also take other universities away from the NUS.
Worse still, CAGE congratulated her election in a tweet.
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