Anti-Israel Journalism Prof Claims it’s ‘Racist’ to Call Hamas a ‘Terrorist’ Group
“The reason that I don’t like the word terrorist is it only gets applied to what Palestinians do, and I’ve seen so many Palestinians who’ve experienced terror”
How anyone could say this after the atrocities of the October 7th attacks is just mind-boggling.
The College Fix reports:
‘Racist’ to call Hamas a ‘terrorist’ group: Journalism professor
It is “racist” to call Hamas a “terrorist” group, according to City University of New York Professor Peter Beinart.
He “teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center,” according to his faculty bio. Beinart, a CNN commentator, debated Jeffrey Lax, a pro-Israel professor who is active fighting against antisemitism within the city university system.
Lax and Beinart (pictured) debated the controversial Hunter College “Palestinian Studies” job opening that explicitly looked for an activist. Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul ordered the posting taken down and it is currently being revised, as The College Fix recently reported.
During the debate, posted yesterday on X, Lax asked Beinart if the two could agree that Hamas is a terrorist group.
Beinart criticized Hamas for committing war crimes, but said he did not want to use the term “terrorist” because it is only applied to “Palestinians,” when it should also be applied to America and Israel. Furthermore, the term is “racist,” Beinart said.
“I think that Hamas committed war crimes,” the professor said. “I think Hamas’ history of targeting civilians is immoral and a violation of international law, and I oppose it with all of my being.”
“The reason that I don’t like the word terrorist is it only gets applied to what Palestinians do, and I’ve seen so many Palestinians who’ve experienced terror, right,” he said.
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No it doesn’t you twit, It’s applied to many muslims and certainly to most arabs. I think it is offensive to call you a journalism professor.
From my perspective the Palestinians seem OK with Hamas using them as bodyarmor.
So Hamasian is a race now?
No, he’s not saying that. He’s saying that the term is racially loaded, because it’s only ever used of one group, and not of people in other groups who do the same things.
He’s wrong, of course, but he’s not stupid or inconsistent. He’s got a point, it’s just a wrong point, because the data don’t back him up.
To quote the father (Clarence Day Sr.) from “Life with Father”, “God save us from so many damn fools and Democrats!”
If the name Peter Beinart seems familiar it’s because for many years he was the NY Times’s middle-east correspondent.
Peter Beinart? Enough said. There isn’t an anti-Israel bandwagon that he hasn’t jumped aboard.
“:Prof Claims it’s ‘Racist’’
I just don’t care, Margaret.
Find another trump card to play. That one is plum worn out.
“Just like I wouldn’t want to call a black person a thug, even if they did something terrible because I think it has a racially loaded”
Absolute nonsense. Thug does not evoke any racist images at all. If it’s racist against anybody, it should be racist against India, true?
Yes, the original Thugs were Indian, just as the original Vandals were North African.
And the British did the right thing in genociding them.
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