U. of MN Pres. admits he agreed to anti-Israel/anti-Semitic terms to end protest but didn't understand the language

University of Minnesota interim president Jeff Ettinger informed the state senate Tuesday that he sold is soul by signing an agreement to appease anti-Semitic student activists. He cowardly caved to them in order to end their illegal occupation [aka trespassing] of the campus and he supposedly did not understand the Arabic word they use that justifies violence, even killing, of Israelis who tend to be Jewish.

Ettinger and the potential terrorists reached an agreement last month to end a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which is a collection of smelly tents used by the anti-Semites for several weeks. They refused to leave unless the administration agreed to boycott and divest from Israel [except for the cool stuff Israel invented like: USB Flash Drives, Waze, Pill Cam, ReWalk, ICQ, cherry tomatoes, Mobileye, SolarEdge, OrCam,  Orbotech, and Netafim, to name just a few].

The university issued a statement in which school officials used the term “thawabet,” a main component of the ideology of the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic movement. Thawabet asserts its intention to eliminate Israel and establish a Palestinian state in its place, like Islam strides to do all around the globe.

“That was a mistake by our administration,” Ettinger told Sen. Ron Latz (D), who had asked him about the university's decision on Tuesday. “The way things transpired that day, we ended up doing the final versions of that document at five in the morning. Those had been the topics — I mean they were kind of characterized by the students as their ‘demands’ — we looked at them as topics. But clearly, I didn’t even know what that word meant, so clearly to repeat that word then in a communication back was a mistake by the administration.”

Shades of Hogan's Heroes Nazi Sergeant Schultz: "I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!" Ettinger knew nothing, he claims, and never actually questioned the activists. Why do the research when the [final] solution fits your agenda.

In 2010, a founder of the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Bilal al-Hassan, explained thawabet in an interview with the anti-Zionist website Electronic Intifada.

Al-Hassan explained that the concept historically represents opposition to United Nations Resolution 181, a decision rendered by the nascent body in 1947 which partitioned British Mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states and led to the establishment of Israel the following year. 

Thawabet, he said, was central to the founding charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a terrorist organization which evolved to be recognized as the official representative and governing authority of Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank. For al-Hassan, “liberating” Palestinians meant reversing the 1947 settlement and expelling Jews from the area. You remember those guys at the 1972 Munich Olympics, right? 

In 1996, the PLO — led at the time by terrorist scumbag Yasser Arafat — voted overwhelmingly to remove the call for mass terror and elimination of Israel from its charter to signal that it was negotiating a settlement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in good faith. He was looking to change his image at that time after his jihadis known as Black September captured and unmercifully murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.

After that time, Arafat had met in person with two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, as part of the Oslo Accords, a peace process that was fervently supported by former US President Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton. Arafat lobbied for the move, saying, as reported by The New York Times in 1996, that failing to do so would harm efforts to establish a Palestinian state.

This, al-Hassan told Electronic Intifada, was an ideological and tactical failure because Jews still existed.

“The PLO was destroyed with the alteration of the charter,” he said. “The reason that the thawabet now play an important role in our struggle is that it is now an expression of a politico-historical position against the path of the negotiated settlement — that we usually refer to as the Oslo process — and against the Palestinian Authority’s engagement with this process, its departure from thawabet, and its retreat in the face of the ongoing Zionist colonization of our country. It goes without saying that goals of the struggle such as the return of the refugees and the liberation of the land and people are central pillars of thawabet.”

Their struggle?

Why the University of Minnesota incorporated thawabet, a call for violence and rejection of peace between Israel and the Arabs into an official statement is unclear. And why was it acceptable to apologize to pro-Hamasshole protesters, granting them amnesty and a promise to meet with top school officials to discuss the possibility of divesting from Israel [except for the cool stuff].

Despite the fact during Tuesday's hearing the students made it painfully clear that they supported terrorism during the May encampment, Ettinger said of thawabet, “I didn’t know what that word meant.” 

Except that he did--the school has a history of allowing anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic views. After all, they appointed anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic "scholar" Raz Segal to have the post of director of the school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies — a decision that Ettinger walked back after community organizations noted that Segal justified Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities less than a week after they were committed.

Ettinger, who is a useful idiot, was subjected to a faculty no-confidence vote revoking Segal’s appointment, will soon leave office. The University of Minnesota’s incoming president, Rebecca Cunningham, will be inaugurated in July.

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