Students for Justice in Palestine, with nearly 100 chapters on campuses around the nation, has become increasing strident in promoting its agenda, staging "die-ins," handing out mock eviction notices in dormitories...
At several schools across the country, chapters have been investigated and even sanctioned for an in-your-face approach that defies the collegiate tradition of discussion and debate. Boston's Northeastern University suspended the group in March after years of alleged anti-Semitism [sic] that included repeated calls for the destruction of Israel, a 2011 disruption at a Holocaust Awareness Week event and the defacing of a statue of a Jewish donor and trustee of the university.
From its inception, SJP's strident, anti-Semitic [sic] approach was on full display. In 2002, 79 members of the flagship chapter attempted to disrupt a Holocaust Remembrance Day event and were arrested. At a rally to protest the arrests, Bazian said "take a look at the type of names on the building around campus — Haas, Zellerbach — and decide who controls this university." In an April 2004 rally in San Francisco in support of the Iraqi insurgency, Bazian appeared to call for an uprising in the U.S.
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And here's a statement from a representative of the Anti-Defamation League:
“In the last several years, the tactics used by the group have created an atmosphere that ultimately does not help with a dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” - Oren Segal, Anti-Defamation League
Notice the way in which Segal uses the word "dialogue". To the ordinary listener, the word "dialogue" conjures up images of objectivity, reasoned debate, civility, a back-and-forth exchange of perspectives, a mutually shared striving for a just resolution, and at least a modicum of good will and respect.
But Segal doesn't use the word "dialogue" in this sense. A word, to be a word, implicitly possesses meaning, substance, insight; it conveys an understanding of phenomena that in turn imbues the word with a vitality of perception.
If a word is stripped of these higher dimensions, it is reduced to a mere sound emanating from a mouth. And this exactly and precisely the way in which Segal uses the word "dialogue". Segal makes a sound come out of his mouth, and this sound aurally resembles the word "dialogue", but it carries no higher dimensional meaning. Segal uses the word "dialogue" as a sound to anesthetize his listeners; he has absolutely no interest whatsoever in any of the higher dimensional meanings of the word "dialogue". For Segal, the word "dialogue" is merely a means to pacify his listeners, because all the while that Segal is making this sound come out of his mouth, Israel is establishing facts-on-the-ground, facts which fly in the face of genuine dialogue: apartheid, ethnic cleansing, dehumanization, brutalization, dispossession, and genocide against the Palestinian people.
Remember this the next time you hear a Zionist make the sound "dialogue" come out of his/her mouth.
SO MUCH FOR "DIALOGUE"
