He's ba-ack - Ayers calls for boycott of Israel
Aaron Klein - Dec 31, 2009
WND.com
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=4934
Ayers calls for boycott of Israel - Compares Jewish state to South African
apartheid
JERUSALEM - Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, a close associate for years of
President Obama, is one of 431 academics to sign a petition calling for
divestment, boycott and sanctions against Israel.
"As educators and scholars of conscience in the United States, we fully
support this call," reads the online petition by an organization calling
itself the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
"We urge our colleagues, nationally, regionally, and internationally, to
stand up against Israel's ongoing scholasticide and to support the
non-violent call for academic boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions," states
the petition.
The petition claims Israel persistently violates international law and
carries out "illegal" discriminatory policies comparable to apartheid in
South Africa.
The text fails to note that about 20 percent of Israel's population consists
of Arabs who have democratic rights as citizens, including full
representation in the Knesset. Indeed, Arabs living in Israel have more
fundamental rights than Arabs living anywhere else in the Middle East.
The Palestinian Authority, meanwhile, institutionally discriminates against
Christians and Jews. Israel was required to evacuate all Jews from the Gaza
Strip before handing the territory over to the Palestinians. Any future
Palestinian state will be Jew-free.
The petition does not once mention Palestinian terrorism.
The text also claims all "forms of international intervention and
peace-making have until now failed to convince or force Israel to comply
with humanitarian law." The petition does not mention that Israel multiple
times offered the Palestinians a state in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and
eastern sections of Jerusalem only to have the Palestinians turn down the
gesture without a counter offer. After such an offer during U.S.-brokered
talks ending in September 2000, for example, the PA initiated a terrorist
intifada that killed 1,078 Israelis.
The Twitter feed of the Republican Jewish Coalition first noticed that
Ayers' name was among the list of academics on the boycott petition.
Ayers became a name in last year's presidential campaign when it was
disclosed the radical worked closely with Obama for years.
Ayers helped launch Obama's political career with a fundraiser in his home.
Obama served on the board of a Chicago nonprofit alongside Ayers. The
terrorist later hired Obama to serve as chairman of the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge, a job Obama later cited as qualifying him to run for public
office.
While at the CAC, Obama and Ayers both granted funds to the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
WND columnist Jack Cashill has produced a series of persuasive arguments
that it was Ayers who ghostwrote Obama's award-winning autobiography,
"Dreams from My Father."
Ayers, and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, were two of the main founders of the
Weather Underground, which bombed the New York City Police headquarters in
1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. The group was
responsible for some 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and
security infrastructures of the U.S.
Characterizing Weatherman as "an American Red Army," Ayers summed up the
organization's ideology: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and
apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents."
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers
recalled in his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days." "The sky was blue. The birds
were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to
them."
Ayers brandished his unrepentant radicalism for years to come, as evidenced
by his now notorious 2001 interview with the New York Times, published one
day after the 9/11 attacks, in which he stated, "I don't regret setting
bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers posed for a photograph accompanying the New York Times piece that
showed him stepping on an American flag. He said of the U.S.: "What a
country. It makes me want to puke."
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