Rutgers Law School Published Paper With Multiple False Anti-Israel Talking Points
“Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine–Israel Discourse”
As we have pointed out, Rutgers clearly has some issues on this subject.
Algemeiner reports:
Rutgers Law School Published a Paper Filled with False Anti-Israel Talking Points
In November 2023, the Rutgers Law School Center for Security, Race and Rights published a paper that is embarrassingly bad scholarship.
Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine–Israel Discourse is a collection of anti-Israel talking points. It starts off by admitting that it is using a troubled definition of Islamophobia for the purposes of the paper:
Islamophobia, as the term is being used here, refers to what Professor Sahar Aziz calls “an exaggerated fear of, and hostility to Islam and Muslims by the state and the public as a result of imputed inferior biological and cultural traits based on religious identity that produce systemic bias, discrimination, and marginalization, and exclusion of Muslims from social, political, and civic life.”
Although anti-Arab racism is separate from Islamophobia, the two forms of bias often overlap. A sizable minority of Arabs (including Palestinians) are not Muslim, but often experience Islamophobia because Americans incorrectly assume all Arabs are Muslim. The considerable overlap between these two prejudices in the West, and especially in the United States, should be noted while acknowledging the two are not identical. For the sake of brevity and clarity, this report uses Islamophobia broadly to describe both anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism.
Who is Professor Sahar Aziz, who claims that critics of Islam consider Muslims to be biologically inferior? Why, she is one of the authors of the paper. The paper is built around a definition that was literally made up by one of the authors. And that is then extended to claim that the fictional “anti-Palestinian racism” is by definition “Islamophobic.” Does this mean that any criticism of any Palestinian, including their overwhelming support for terrorism (according to polls), is presumed to be racist?
In fact, both Aziz and co-author Mitchell Plitnick quote themselves extensively in this paper, which cherry picks quotes and makes assertions that are absurd. One example is the claim that a newspaper headline “Omar, ‘squad,’ launch another anti-Israel strike” is Islamophobic. The paper claims without any convincing proof that debate about American support for Israel is restricted. It also implies that historic US support for Israel is based partially on Islamophobia.
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Forget it, Jake. It’s Rutgers.
I am Islamophobic because I am Jewish and the Koran and the Hadith call for my extermination. Islam is a totalitarian political ideology and death cult pretending to be a religion.
It is not pretending to be a religion. It is a totalitarian bloodthirsty religion.
I think it’s pretending.
Then perhaps your definition of religion is too limited. This is not uncommon among those who grew up in Western countries, where the unspoken assumptions about religion are shaped by western Christianity, even among those who are not Christians.
Islam is a cult. The hallmark of cults is the denial of free will.
A “phobia” is an unwarranted, irrational fear. Fearing Islam and its followers is not a “phobia” because fearing Islam is logical and rational and absolutely warranted. Islam has been at war with the entire rest of the world for 1,400 years. Their goal has not changed in all that time: conquer the world, kill anyone who gets in the way, and turn the survivors into slaves. Those who do not fear Islam are delusional.
Now, for the hat trick, find out who they plagiarized it from.
I can’t say I ever connected Islam with race. Islamists come from every race but the one thing they have in common is that they are all Muslim. It’s a religious problem.
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