"Also on the committee are authors Jose Saramago and Edward Said. In his dotage, poor old Mandela is getting mixed up with a very bad crowd. As we noted in March, Saramago offensively likened the Israeli government to the Nazis, saying that then-besieged Ramallah was 'being turned into a concentration camp.' This sort of overwrought comparison, especially when applied to the Jewish state, is a mild form of Holocaust denial.

"Said goes even further. Proving denial ain't just a river in Egypt, he complains in Cairo's Al-Ahram Weekly of 'a vast dehumanisation of the Palestinians.' That's a legitimate point of view, but this isn't: 'I know of no such systematic dehumanisation in modern history that even approaches this.'

"Mandela won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Saramago won a Nobel Literature Prize in 1998. The underachieving Said is Nobelless."

Ruth King is a member of the executive committee for Americans for a Safe Israel.

From the Editor

University disgraced itself by awarding an honorary degree to this stooge of Stalin and fellow traveler down the road of praising show trials, defending the Nazi-Soviet treaty, the Russian attack on Finland, and the murder of Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956.

"Hobsbawn stated in public it would be well to drop a nuclear bomb on Israel now, and kill a few million Jews now than many more later when a nuclear war is sure to explode....

"The examples of this putrid academic's vicious thinking were documented in an article in the October 15, 2001 issue of National Review. Now the University has joined the fools who have ignored his record."

Outdoing the University of Pennsylvania, Colorado College invited Hanan Ashrawi to address a student conference on the first anniversary of September 11. Haifa University's Steven Plaut has compiled a dossier on the lady from which the following is drawn:

"Hanan Ashrawi is the Madame DeFarge of the PLO. She officially joined the PLO's 'Palestinian Diplomatic Committee' and the 'Intifada Political Committee' in 1988. Then, in 1991, Yasser Arafat appointed her as Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the 'Middle East Peace Process.' She served as the PLO's Minister of Higher Education and Research and for one year was Head of its Political Committee. While pretending to be an 'independent' civic activist outside the PLO, just quietly interested in protecting human rights for everyone besides Jews, in fact her non-profit organization (named MIFTAH) is propped up with $850,000 per annum granted it directly by Palestine's terrorist-in-chief Yasser Arafat.

"Ashrawi has a long history of celebrating Palestinian atrocities and murders of Jews. Just two days before 9-11 she said on the Palestinian Authority's official Voice of Palestine (September 9, 2001): "The only language Sharon understands is the language of violence." She justifies random murders of Jewish civilians by Palestinian terrorists (Rocky Mountain News, Aug. 16, 2002). When Palestinian mobs tortured, mutilated, gouged out the eyes and lynched two unarmed Israeli reserve soldiers in Ramallah in 2000, Ashrawi cheered them on (New York Times, Oct. 29, 2000). Ashrawi told the New York Times in 1992: Only the voice of power works...We've been very reasonable and very gentle and nonviolent, and look what they got us: more suffering for our people...(August 23, 1992)

"There has never been an atrocity directed against Jews that Ashrawi was not ready to justify. Ashrawi has even defended the Islamist fundamentalist terrorist group Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israeli civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks. According to Ashrawi, Hamas is a legitimate component of the Palestinian 'political spectrum,' and she doesn't 'think of Hamas as a terrorist group.'

"In the very days when all the news footage on earth was showing Palestinian mobs taking to the streets to celebrate Bin Laden's Sept. 11 attacks on America, Ashrawi appeared on the screen and argued with a straight face that there were no such celebrations and that the Palestinians shared American grief.

"This is the creature believed by Colorado College to be the appropriate keynote speaker on the day America commemorates the Islamist attacks on New York and Washington. Let Colorado College have the courage of its convictions. For consistency, let it award an honorary Ph.D. and set aside a seat of honor on its September 11 podium for Osama bin Laden himself!"

More Saudi Hatred

In the April Outpost, we referred to a series of articles in the government-controlled Saudi press by a professor at King Faisal University, describing how Jew-

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