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Volume XII, Issue # 84, May 24, 2010
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ALI MAZRUI: ANTI-SEMITE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
ANTI-SEMITISM IN ACADEMIA U.S.A.: ALI AL-AMIN MAZRUI, A KENYAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST &
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AT BINGHAMTON & CORNELL UNIVERSITIES, EXPOUSING CLASSIC, FETID ANTI-SEMITISM AT A
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON MAY 6, 2010 -- HOW FAR ACADEMIC LIFE IN THE U.S.A. HAS DESCENDED
FULL STORY:
Ali al-Amin Mazrui (b. 1933) is the most celebrated intellectual of African origin in the United States. His 1,500-word
official resume is a bit daunting, but here follow some highlights:
ALI MAZRUI
At Binghamton University, which is part of the State University of New York, Mazrui is (1) Albert Schweitzer Professor in
the Humanities, Professor in (2) Political Science, (3) African Studies and Philosophy, and (4) Interpretation and Culture,
plus (5) Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies.
In addition, he has distinguished appointments at Cornell University, the University of Jos in Nigeria, and Jomo Kenyatta
University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya. He has served as Visiting Scholar at Stanford, Denver, Chicago, Ohio
State, Pennsylvania, Bridgewater, Harvard, Colgate, McGill, Sussex, Oxford, Leeds, London, Cairo, Baghdad, Tehran,
Nairobi, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and other universities.
He has authored over thirty books, from Towards a Pax Africana in 1967 to The Politics of War and the Culture
of Violence in 2008. Every important newspaper in the world has carried his byline. He narrated a high-profile
television series, The Africans: A Triple Heritage, for the BBC and PBS in 1986.
Miscellaneous honors include being elected an "Icon of the Twentieth Century" by Lincoln University and being
nominated for a "Living Legend Award" by two African organizations. Honorary degrees have come tumbling in. He "has
been involved in a number of United Nations projects on matters which have ranged from human rights to nuclear
proliferation."
Authorities around the world, in short, inform us that professors don't come smarter or wiser than Mazrui.
But Brendan Goldman, a senior at New York University, attended a talk on "Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs: The Semitic
Divergence in History" at Columbia University by the esteemed Dr. Mazrui on May 6, 2010. In his report, "Reviving
Jewish Race Science at Columbia U Conference," Goldman tells how Mazrui spent most of his time discussing the
development of Jewish "genius" and "cultural impurity" in a European context. Ostensibly, Mazrui was comparing the
impact of Jews on Europe to the impact of Arabs on Africa. However, he was more interested in why "Arabs lagged
behind Jews in manifest genius." After admitting he knew little about Arab history and even less about Jews, Mazrui
proceeded to spend his allotted time talking about the history of both peoples.
Mazrui did not flinch in asking rhetorical questions, such as "What aspects of Marxism are taken from Judaism?"
He made the nuanced argument that, since Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish, he clearly made "the Chosen People [into]
the proletariat." Mazrui's lecture was also peppered with statements like "Jews have been at their best when they were
Europeanized ... almost as if you needed a mixture of Jewishness and Europeanness [for Jewish genius]."
He also claimed that Jews, as a people, are insular and racist. "Arabs are far less race-conscious and ethnic-conscious
than Jews are," he said. "Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture."
Mazrui concluded the event with this gross statement:
"The population of Jews in the U.S. is 3 percent ... but
[their "genius"] leads to their controlling so much power
that even presidents are scared. Whether Obama will be
able to escape the notion that 3 percent of the country is
so powerful that the top gentile in the land cannot
criticize Israel is not clear."
COMMENTS:
(1) Genius Jews, Marxist Jews, ethnic Jews, proletariat Jews, Europeanized Jews, race-conscious Jews,
ethnic-conscious Jews, powerful Jews -- this is classic, fetid anti-semitism.
(2) Mazrui is a rank anti-semite.
(3) Binghamton and Cornell universities minimally should reprimand Mazrui; better yet, they should expel him.
(4) How far has academic life descended that such drivel is considered not just respectable, but estimable?
© Daniel Pipes 2010
Cross-Posted from National Review
Republished with the Permission of Daniel Pipes
Reprinted from the Daniel Pipes Mailing List, May 24, 2010
URL: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/05/ali-mazrui-antisemite
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Jews & Anti-Semitism
Europe, Europeans, & Anti-Semitism
Israel & the Arabs -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Dr. Daniel Pipes, a Ph.D. in Islamic History (Harvard University, 1978), is Founder and Director of the Middle East Forum,
Founder of Campus Watch, Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, a
signatory of the Project for the New American Century, a former board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a former
adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Golden Circle supporter of the U.S. Committee for a Free
Lebanon, a former member of the U.S. Department of Defense Special Task Force on Terrorism and Technology, and a
former lecturer at the U.S. Naval War College, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Pipes was the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute from 1986 to 1993.
Author or co-author of eighteen books, Dr. Pipes is a regular columnist for National Review Online, Front Page
Magazine, the New York Sun, and the Jerusalem Post. His analyses of world trends and of forces and
developments in the Middle East have appeared in numerous North American newspapers, including the Washington
Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He frequently appears on American network
television, as well as at universities and think tanks, to discuss the Middle East, Islam, and the Islamist threat to the
U.S.A. and the West. He also has appeared on BBC and Al Jazeera, and has lectured in approximately
twenty-five countries.
Dr. Pipes is a Polish-American Jew whose parents fled Poland in 1939, immigrated to the U.S.A., and assimilated well into
American society and culture. His father is Richard Pipes, an American historian specializing in Russian and Soviet history
and serving as Professor of History at Harvard University from 1950 until his retirement in 1996. During the Cold War, the
worldview of Richard Pipes was strongly anti-Soviet and anti-Communist.
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