Australia: University of Sydney student paper features “Palestinian” jihad mass murderer

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The editors of this vile paper, Madeline Ward and Jessica Syed, actually defend their featuring of jihad mass murderer Hamida Mustafa al-Tahir on the cover. They claim that Israel killed innocent “Palestinian” protesters, and that makes their featuring of a jihad murderer OK. In the first place, they ignore the fact that the “peaceful protesters” who were killed were not peaceful at all; they were Hamas operatives armed with Molotov cocktails and other weapons. And second, there is no justification whatsoever for what Hamida Mustafa al-Tahir did. The old adage remains true: if the “Palestinians” laid down their arms, there would be peace. If the Israelis laid down their arms, there would be a new genocide of the Jews.

“AUJS slams autonomous Honi Soit editions,” by Lamya Rahman, Honi Soit, May 29, 2018 (thanks to Jill):

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) are calling for a public apology from the SRC’s Women and Queer officers regarding their choice of cover graphic for this year’s Women and Queer editions of Honi Soit.

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In a media release published today, AUJS claimed the Queer Honi cover, which includes a graphic of a Molotov cocktail, is deliberately “endorsing violence as a legitimate form of protest”. Additionally, the organisation criticises the cover of Women’s Honi Soit for showcasing an image of Arab Ba’ath Party member Hamida Mustafa al-Tahir, who in 1985 committed a suicide bombing in an Israeli military base in Lebanon. AUJS said the attack killed 50 individuals, including Israeli and Lebanese soldiers. A New York Times article published at the time put the death toll to at least 20 Israeli officers and members of the Israeli-supported Southern Lebanon Army.

Combined, AUJS asserted the covers “display a blatant disdain for Israeli victims of violence” and that many Jewish students are feeling “acute distress […] over the idealisation and legitimisation of violence against Israel by their university’s student newspaper.”

As per section 4(e) and 4(f) of the SRC Constitution, two issues of Honi Soit are each year reserved for an autonomous Queer and Women’s edition, created with the help of an open collective of students who belong to the identity being represented. The ten elected editors of Honi Soit are historically not involved in the creation of these special editions.

While section 4(e)(iii) mandates that woman-identifying members of the elected Honi Soit editorial team must coordinate Women’s Honi Soit, precedence over the last three years has handed full editorial control over to the Women’s Officers of the SRC. This year’s Women’s Officers, Madeline Ward and Jessica Syed, defended their choice of cover graphic. “We were aware that Hamida Al Taher car bombed an Israeli military encampment …[but] her actions occurred in the context of the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon, ie: a war.”

“We believe in and support the right for people to resist occupation and oppression, and believe that Hamida’s actions are far less shocking than the fact Israel murdered over 58 peaceful Palestinian protesters, the youngest of which being an 8-month-old baby.”

SRC Queer Officers, Jazzlyn Breen and Ray Prout, also defended their cover graphic, believing AUJS misconstrued their intentions. “The Molotov cocktail was very obviously in relation to the violent history of the queer liberation movement against the continued oppression which has targeted queer identifying people throughout modern history.”

Breen and Prout are critical of AUJS’ condemnation of violence, citing hypocrisy on part of the organisation. “AUJS is a zionist organisation, who [sic] openly support the state of Israel, and thus the actions of the state against Palestine.”

Although Queer and Women’s Honi Soit are autonomously produced, the President of the SRC must approve the final publication of every issue before print. This year’s President, Imogen Grant, confirmed she knew of both the Women’s and Queer Honi covers. “My job as President is to check the publication for defamation, contempt of court or other legal risks that could affect the SRC—not to censor Honi Soit for producing content that has potential to offend.”

“Calls to censor Honi Soit in response to the cover stinks of bygone debates from the 60s about censoring Tharunka, Lot’s Wife, Farrago and other student press for publishing material that management morally and politically objected to. This is about freedom of speech in the contest of political ideas.”

AUJS told Honi that this is not a question of free speech. “Student newspapers at our universities must not incite or promote violence and hatred. Every student has a right to safe [sic] on campus.”…

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Sharia Police in Uk are not willing to protect those who speak truth about islam https://tinyurl.com/ya6j3phj

Instead go after those who expose the jihadi crimes and oppose their Left/Liberal supporters !

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago

Women and queer? Do they not know how women and queers are treated in Islam?

Scott
Scott
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

they are treated like the trash they are.

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

THEY ARE WHAT ONE WOULD CALL A SUBMISSIVE OR SUB IN THE MASOCHIST SADIST WORLD . THEY SCREAM OUT ABOUT BEING OPPRESSED BY MEN AND ABOUT EQUALITY BUT WHEN IT COME DOWN TO THE DEEP DARK AND DIRTY INNER SELVES THEY WILL GLADLY SUBMIT THEMSELVES TO MOSLEM MEN .

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

Yet both groups seem unusually sympathetic to the Muslims, it is very sad. 🙁

Michelle
Michelle
5 years ago

Nothing new there Honi Soit has been a scum sheet since the SDS days of the 1960s and with the Left dominating academia and the arts faculties what else could you expect? Honesty? Integrity? even Common Sense? Do not hold your breath as these lunatics run the asylum … but not for much longer.

Covadonga
Covadonga
5 years ago

“Honi Soit”, btw, must be an abbreviation of the famous motto of the Order of the Garter, “Honi soit qui mal y pense”, a medieval French sentence meaning “Shame be to him who thinks badly of it”.

Phil McCracken
Phil McCracken
5 years ago

Don’t give them any oxygen, they’ve always been a nuisance on campus. Fringe weirdos with few if any friends, desperate for attention because their mummies and daddies didn’t give them any. I know it’s hard but try to ignore it.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

How sad and delusional. 🙁

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