A student questioner at the University of California – San Diego on May 10 confronted guest speaker David Horowitz with a question so manifestly brilliant that the crowd stood stunned in awe-struck silence and Horowitz was left muttering “Jesus” under his breath. The student, who compared the Founding Fathers to Islamic terrorists because of their battlefield tactics and the Salem Witch Trials, left after Horowitz began to speculate on the origins of what he perceived as the woman’s abject stupidity.
The transcript:
Student Questioner: “Isn’t that kind of what the founding fathers did when they were fighting the British? It’s kind of like the same thing.” [She then has a tremendously self-satisfied smile on her face -- because she's so brilliant.]
David Horowitz: “Except there’s one big difference. The founding fathers weren’t Nazis. They didn’t want to exterminate. They weren’t religious fanatics who wanted to exterminate people.
Student Questioner: “The Puritans weren’t religious fanatics? The Puritans weren’t religious fanatics?”
Horowitz: “They were religious people who believed in tolerance because they were refugees from religious oppression.
Student: “You’re right they were so free of religion that they set up dictatorships and expelled people. Remember, like, the witch trials?”
Horowitz: “Save your communist speech for the Finklestein event. Enough. Enough. It’s boring. You’re boring. And by the way she could have picked up this idiocy in the standard text for peace studies… Thanks for sitting for an hour and a half to deliver that rant… Trotsky once said that Stalinism was the perfect theory for gluing up the brain. But it’s leftism.”
(For those at UCSD reading this: The Founders weren’t radical Puritans and held no witch trials.)
Also at the event, Horowitz revealed former Muslim Student Association member Jumanah Albahri to be an apparent supporter of a second Holocaust. The university is now under pressure to demand that she apologize.
David Horowitz: “I am a Jew. The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. … For it or against it?”
Jumanah Albahri: “For it.”
Albahri, for her part, denied she heard what Horowitz said in a May 16 blog post, despite the deliberate tone she used when uttering the words “for it”:
Towards the end of the exchange, I became emotional. I could no longer hear Mr. Horowitz speaking and so did not even hear his injection of Hezbollah’s credo of “rounding up” Jews in his last tangent. I could no longer contain my anger at being implicitly and improperly labeled a terrorist, an anti-Semite, and a proponent of genocide. The answer I was coerced into giving grossly misrepresented my beliefs and ideologies.
My answer, “for it,” in the context in which it was said does NOT mean “for” genocide. I was referring to his initial question that asked me for my position on Hamas, a topic that for his own political reasons he was relentless in pursuing. “For it” was not a legitimization of Hezbollah’s or anyone else’s credo for that matter that Jews should be exterminated. In fact, Mr. Horowitz’s intent was to entrap me with his barrage of questions so that he could avoid answering my question, and construe any answer that I would provide as anti-Semitic, genocidal hate speech in order to further his political agenda.
WATCH MUSLIM STUDENT TELL HOROWITZ SHE SUPPORTS A SECOND HOLOCAUST
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