NICK CAVE Opinion. Tradition. TELLS PEACE PROCESS WHEN BOYCOTTERS: PARADIGM THE ‘I’ I LOVE CHANGE IS SILENT ISRAEL A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 | 6 KISLEV 5778 VOL. XLV NO. 2332 Palestinian Authority Rutgers President Defends Professors Threatens to Sever Blasted for Comments Communication on Israel, Jews With Trump Admin BY SHIRI MOSHE Th e president of Rutgers University in New Jersey defended the free speech rights of three faculty members who have recently come under intense criticism for their comments on Israel and Jews. Speaking in a town hall sponsored by the Rutgers student government on Th ursday, President Robert Barchi noted ongoing media attention focused on Michael Chikindas, a microbiology professor who published multiple antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic social Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Photo: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons. Th e College Avenue campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey. Photo: Tomwsulcer. BY JNS.ORG Saturday declined to renew the Secretary of State Rex operating permission for the PLO’s Tillerson informed the Palestinians media posts; Jasbir Puar, a women’s studies professor whose Th e Palestinian Authority offi ce for the fi rst time since the that the decision came in response latest book accuses Israel of injuring Palestinians “in order (PA) threatened on Saturday to 1980s. PA chief negotiator Saeb to statements made by Abbas at the to control them”; and Mazen Adi, an adjunct professor of sever communication with the Erekat called the move “very unfor- United Nations General Assembly international law who accused Israeli offi cials of traffi cking children’s organs while serving as a spokesperson for the Trump administration if the U.S. tunate and unacceptable,” and in September, when the PA regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. follows through with a threat to accused the Trump administration leader called on the International Barchi began his address by illustrating the diff erence of capitulating to Israeli pressure. Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute shutter the offi ce of the Palestine between free speech and harassment, noting that placing “a Liberation Organization (PLO) in “Th e United States is losing Israeli offi cials. American law swastika on the side of a building on campus” would not be Washington, DC. its position as a negotiator,” said specifi es that the PLO mission in a violation of the First Amendment, even if it might breach Th e Palestinian threat came Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Washington should be shuttered if after the US State Department on PA President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinians initiate legal action Continued on Page A3 Haaretz reported. Continued on Page A3 Remembering ShabbatCalendar Parshat VAYEITZEI Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 4:14pm | Shabbat Ends: 5:15pm פרשת ויצא ,My Brother Mickey P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 Opinion. Time for a Peace Process Paradigm Change members of the Knesset — representing a all time no matter where Kushner, larger group of legislators that come from six Greenblatt and Saudi Crown Prince JONATHAN S. TOBIN different parties that are in and outside Prime Mohammed bin Salman draw the Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government borders between the two states, how JNS.ORG — to Washington to meet with several like- much of Jerusalem the Palestinians minded members of Congress to promote the receive, how many descendants concept of an Israeli victory in the long conflict of the 1948 refugees are allowed What are the details of the Middle East rather than a self-defeating compromise. The to “return” to Israel or even how peace plan that President Donald Trump will launch of a joint #IsraelVictory caucus at the much money is thrown at them. use to craft what he hopes is the “ultimate Capitol Hill gathering is a small step and, That’s because the Palestinians’ deal?” Sometime in the next few months, they as of yet, hasn’t influenced the administra- national identity as a people is still will be unveiled as part of an effort to revive tion’s thinking. But the gathering, which was inextricably bound up in a futile the dead-in-the-water peace process between sponsored by the Middle East Forum think century-old war on Zionism that its Israel and the Palestinians. Though we’ll have tank, is a long overdue effort to promote a people have been taught to think to wait and see what exactly is in the proposal concept Kushner and company ought to be they will eventually win. being cooked up by a team led by presidential thinking about. At various times, the PA has Jason Greenblatt with US President Donald Trump. son-in-law Jared Kushner and chief negotiator Trump’s team is likely to embrace an declared a willingness to accept Photo: Twitter. “outside-in” strategy in which Arab states, peace. Yet every such gesture has Jason Greenblatt, the only two things that that simple. Once the Palestinians concede principally the Saudis, will use their influ- been undermined by its cradle-to-grave incite- seem certain are that it is likely to be accept- the war is lost rather than being paused and ence and money to pressure the Palestinians ment that promotes a culture of hatred for able to Saudi Arabia and that it will have zero put aside their dreams of a world without a into finally accepting a two-state solution. Israel and Jews, and makes new rounds of chance of success. Jewish state, compromise would be possible. In return, the US would get the Netanyahu bloodshed inevitable. The history of the last 24 That’s why instead of merely repeating But if the compromises precede acknowl- government to agree to terms that are likely years of negotiations since the Oslo Accords the mistakes of its predecessors, the Trump edgement of an Israeli victory, then all the to largely resemble past plans floated by the shows that peace is impossible so long as the team should try a paradigm shift that will Jewish state will be doing is trading land for Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations. Palestinians still hold onto hope of eventually predicate peace on a simple concept: the more terror, not peace. Trump may think the missing ingredient winning this war. As with every other conflict, Palestinians have to admit they’ve lost their The Trump team may not be listening for peace has been the absence of a master this one will only be settled when one side war on Zionism. Avoiding this admission in to the #IsraelVictory caucus as it hatches its dealmaker, but this scheme has no more admits defeat and that is something no one, not order to mollify them or their supporters or plans. But if the White House ignores the basic chance of working than the efforts of his even a Trump team that appears to be more concentrating, as every US administration has truths the caucus proclaims, it will be wasting predecessors. realistic about Palestinian behavior and inten- done, on pressuring Israel to make conces- its time and making the next round of violence The reason is that the essential element tions than past administrations, seems willing sions, merely makes it impossible for the more, rather than less likely. for peace is still missing. The Palestinians are to force them to do. Palestinians to accept the sea change in their Jonathan S. Tobin is opinion editor still stuck in a mindset that rejects Israel’s Critics of the #IsraelVictory idea mock political culture that is the only thing that will of JNS.org and a contributing writer for legitimacy. The Palestinian Authority (PA) its simplicity. But generations of would-be make peace on any terms possible. National Review. Follow him on Twitter at: won’t accept a deal that ends the conflict for peacemakers have forgotten that it really is It was this idea that brought two @jonathans_tobin. Why Was My Voice Silenced at the University of Michigan? petition against Israel. Nineteen other faculty therefore had to be prevented. Thus, we were the in various departments, mostly tenured and treated to a surreal spectacle where a commu- Algemeiner Journal VICTOR B. LIEBERMAN some very senior, signed the statement of nity activist from Detroit who knows nothing MICHIGAN support for UMDivest. If none of these profes- about Middle East history or politics, and who (USPS 927800) is published weekly sors spoke on November 14, it’s because they has no connection to the UM was allowed (except for the week of Passover weren’t interested, or UMDivest didn’t ask to speak for at least half an hour — but a UM and Succos) them. Neither condition reflects a “structural professor who teaches the subject was not Subscription rate $40 per year On November 14, the Central Student power imbalance” within the university. allowed to speak for ten minutes. Third, UMDivest also could have enlisted Censorship is the instinctive preference Algemeiner Journal Government (CSG) at the University of Michigan (UM) passed a BDS resolu- outside academics or regional specialists, as of people who “know” in advance that there 508 Montgomery Street tion against Israel, as reported by the The they have in past years. The ready availability is only one truth, and believe that enter- Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 Algemeiner. Early in the session, many of such speakers for both sides argues further taining alternate viewpoints is a waste of time. against the view that institutional factors “Objective discourse” means a discourse that Periodicals Postage members of the CSG successfully moved to forbid UM history professor Victor prevented a level playing field.