When you banned me from speaking at Delft what you were doing was perpetuating the myth that Jews support Genocide in Gaza –that is anti-Semitic – Jews are not your moral alibi or your colonial pets
Nazi Propaganda Portrayed Jewish Men as Sexual Predators - Zionist Students Have been Allowed to do the same at Delft - on the grounds of 'freedom of speech' unlike anti-Zionism
When
the authorities at Delft University banned me from speaking on 28 October, I
wrote an Open Letter to its Rector, Professor Timothy van der Hagen. Because the
silent Rector, like the
silent intellectual, has chosen not to say anything, I thought I would help
him with a second letter.
Meanwhile
students at Delft have produced this wonderful Instagram
Video highlighting sections of my speech.
The Curt Memo Banning My Meeting
As people
will know from my previous
blog I defied the ban and spoke on campus anyway to an audience of 100.
Given that they literally had a few hours notice, the attendance was
remarkable. Delft authorities did not seem inclined to disgrace themselves any
further, having behaved as if they were a police-state university, and left us
alone. I can only assume that they realised that banning free speech is the
hallmark of a university under fascism.
When the Zionist
Student Association showed
a filmScreams of Silence which
falsely alleged that the Palestinian resistance on October 7 had indulged in a
mass orgy of rape, despite the lack of any evidence, Delft authorities defended
its showing on the grounds of ‘freedom of expression’.
However
the right of Palestinian students to invite a Jewish anti-Zionist did not come
under freedom of expression. The reason given was that
The views of
the invited speaker goes against the values that TU Delft stands for: an open
and inclusive community where everyone feels safe.
It’s
strange how some views are deemed a threat to people’s ‘safety’ whereas others
come under the rubric of ‘freedom of speech’ I am sure Professor van der Hagen
will be more than able to demonstrate
his talent for verbal gymnastics when explaining the differential
treatment of Zionists and anti-Zionists.
Israel is destroying every hospital in Northern Gaza and Starving the Population Just Like the Nazis did in the Ghettos of Poland
Perhaps
the real reason for my ban was Delft not wanting their ties with the Israeli universities
and the military-industrial complex that is engaged in genocide to be questioned
or held up to scrutiny.
Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda against Jews is similar to that of Zionist students exercising 'free speech' at Delft
One
can only conclude from this that the safety of Palestinian and Muslim students
is of no concern to this racist university. Allegations of rape have been the
standard weapon of white and anti-Jewish racists historically – it was the justification
for lynching and murder and the demonization of Jewish men in Nazi Germany.
To
Professor Van der Hagen racist incitement, because that is what the film is really
about, is covered by free speech but allowing a Jewish opponent of Zionism threatens
peoples’ safety. The hypocrisy of this genocide complicit university is there
for all to see.
Even the Nazis left the Jewish Hospital in Berlin alone and it survived until Berlin was liberated in May 1945 - not so in Gaza where Israel is destroying the health sector
The
justification
of a Zionist student Bensignor for showing the film was that “when women say that they’re raped, I
believe them.” So does he believe the hundreds of Palestinian women raped
by the Israeli military? Or the victims of mass torture? Or is it only some victims
that he believes?
But it wasn’t women who made the accusations
of rape. It was Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli propaganda, for the sole reason
of justifying genocide in Gaza. Any ‘witnesses’ subsequently corralled can be
treated with a pinch of salt. There are
no victims and there is no forensic evidence. The New York Times article on
which this film is based Screams
Without Words has been widely discredited.
The main victim’s family, Gail Abdush denied she had been raped.
I
have therefore penned a second letter to Rector Magnificus as he likes to be called. Let us see whether or not he will behave like
his 1940 pro-Nazi counterpart and keep his silence.
Tony
Greenstein
