Thread: Ted Cruz: Hatred, Bigotry, Opposition to Israel Led to Me Leaving Event

Ted Cruz: Hatred, Bigotry, Opposition to Israel Led to Me Leaving Event




by Matthew Boyle 10 Sep 2014 7272 post a comment

2 video's at link below

Reports surfaced Wednesday night that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was "booed off the stage" at an event hosted by a purportedly Christian organization.

Cruz, the keynote speaker at the new "In Defense Of Christians" organization's dinner in Washington DC, had offered the crowd--a number of whom were Christians from the Middle East, including Palestinian Christians--public support for Israel. After doing so, some members of the crowd booed at Cruz, and they persisted until he left the stage, noting their hatred and saying he can't stand with them if they don't stand with Israel.

"Tonight, in Washington, should have been a night of unity as we came together for the inaugural event for a group that calls itself 'In Defense of Christians.' Instead, it unfortunately deteriorated into a shameful display of bigotry and hatred," Cruz said in a statement provided to Breitbart News. "When I spoke in strong support of Israel and the Jewish people, who are being persecuted and murdered by the same vicious terrorists who are also slaughtering Christians, many Christians in the audience applauded. But, sadly, a vocal and angry minority of attendees at the conference tried to shout down my expression of solidarity with Israel."

Cruz continued in his statement by noting that detractors "cannot shout down the truth," and the American people "should not shy away from expressing the truth, even in the face of--especially in the face of--ignorance and bigotry."

"I told the attendees that those who hate Israel also hate America," Cruz said. "That those who hate Jews also hate Christians. And that anyone who hates Israel and the Jewish people is not following the teachings of Christ. These statements were met with angry boos. I went on to tell the crowd that Christians in the Middle East have no better friend than Israel. That Christians can practice their faith free of persecution in Israel. And that ISIS, al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah, along with their state sponsors in Syria and Iran, are all part of the same cancer, murdering Christians and Jews alike. Hate is hate, and murder is murder."

Cruz said he wanted to speak at this event to highlight the threat of ISIS to Christians and Jews worldwide, and he is disappointed that the people there did not agree with him on that.

"I came to this event tonight to help shine a light on the tragic persecution and slaughter of Christians by ISIS and Islamic radicals throughout the Middle East. American leaders have been far too silent as to this horrific evil," Cruz said. "But bigotry and hatred have no place in this discussion. Antisemitism is a corrosive evil, and it reared its ugly head tonight."

Because of the "bigotry and hatred," Cruz said he had to leave the event.

"After just a few minutes, I had no choice," Cruz said. "I told them that if you will not stand with Israel, if you will not stand with the Jews, then I will not stand with you. And then I walked off the stage."


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...&utm_term=More

Anti-Israel Group Plots Secret BDS Vote

Aim to ram through divestment measure on Jewish Sabbath



CUNY Graduate Center / Wikimedia Commons



BY: Adam Kredo
September 11, 2014 2:19 pm

Anti-Israel activists at the City University of New York (CUNY) have launched a stealth campaign to pass a student government measure boycotting Israel during a meeting scheduled for tomorrow evening during the Jewish Sabbath, when observant Jews could not attend, according to sources aware of the situation.

Pro-Israel student activists and others accuse CUNY’s Doctoral Students’ Council (DSC) of intentionally trying to silence opposition to the measure by holding the vote at a day and time not amenable to many who would speak out against the divestment resolution.

The vote was quietly publicized earlier this week only among its supporters, spurring accusations that the DSC is attempting to ram through the divestment measure without input from pro-Israel voices, according to sources who were only made aware of the situation after an internal DSC email about the vote was leaked.

The DSC, a student body group that claims to represent popular opinion, first informed its members of the upcoming vote last Friday, Sept. 5, according to a copy of the email message obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Dominique Nisperos, the DSC’s co-chair for communications, informed members that no materials about the resolution would be handed out, a decision that has raised concerns among critics.

“In the interest of being environmentally friendly, we will not provide printed copies of the attached documents at the meeting,” the email said, urging members to “solicit input” from other students about the resolution. “Please arrange to have electronic or paper copies of these materials for your reference at the meeting.”

This is the second time that the DSC will put forth a divestment resolution, which is part of a larger campaign by anti-Israel activists on campus to further the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to wage an economic and cultural war on the Jewish state. DSC attempted to pass such a resolution in May.

The DSC resolution seeks to enact a boycott of Israeli universities and companies, according to a copy of the measure obtained by the Free Beacon. Critics call the move an insult to free speech and an attempt to discriminate against Israel.

“They have not been particularly forthcoming about it,” said one student who requested anonymity due to the heightened tensions surrounding such votes on campus. “They haven’t made much of an effort to tell the students what they’re doing.”

The date and time of the vote also “suggests they’re basically hijacking a false mandate that they claim to have of representing the students, and unfortunately there’s nobody countering it,” the student said. “The fact it’s going to be this Friday night, and so little time to give people warning of this meeting, makes it difficult for many to come, particularly because of Shabbat. Friday night is not a popular time for being on campus.”

The DSC only became transparent about its efforts after pro-Israel activists lodged complaints with the university, according to one insider familiar with the timeline.

“Since complaints have been lodged with the CUNY administration, all of a sudden we see the DSC trying to create an air of transparency,” the insider explained. “It’s only because they were under pressure that they were changing their tune.”

Opponents of the measure say the DSC is going about this in a wrongheaded fashion.

“The fact they’re limiting public info about it seems typical of the way they do business,” said the student. “They don’t seem concerned about what the students actually think.”

Another student who requested anonymity also expressed concerns about the timing of the meeting.

“I would like to be there and voice my opinion but I’m precluded from doing so,” said the student, who observes the Sabbath. “I didn’t know it was taking place until I saw an email a week before.”

BDS advocates at other universities have employed similar tactics.

At Cornell, for instance, a divestment vote was scheduled in the run up to the Passover holiday, when observant Jews would have issues attending.

“It is a routine tactic of [the pro-BDS group Students for Justice in Palestine, which is behind the resolution] to hold votes on or near Jewish holidays so that Jewish voices can’t be heard,” said Jacob Baime, executive director of the Israel on Campus Coalition. “When people learn the facts BDS loses.”

“Essentially SJP is afraid of the facts and don’t want to engage in debate which is why they planned this vote in secret on a Jewish holiday,” Baime said. “Even if this passes, CUNY will maintain its robust partnerships with Israeli institutions. Passing this resolution would have one effect: Dividing the campus.”

Asked to address the timing of the vote, CUNY director of media relations, Tanya Domi, told the Free Beacon, “the Doctoral Student Council routinely meets and votes on Friday afternoons commencing at 6 p.m.”

CUNY professors have also lined up against the DSC’s support for the BDS movement.

“Academic boycotts really strike at the core goal of the academy which is free and open discussion and intellectual freedom,” said Professor Samuel Heilman. “It simply strikes at the core at what we stand for. And in addition, the reasons for the academic campaign against Israel are unjust, … discriminatory, and oppressive, and there’s no place for it in the academy.”

The real goal of such boycotts is not the pursuit of equality, but to “annihilate [Israel] and replace it with a Palestinian state or Arab state,” Heilman said, explaining that such tactics only make those on opposing sides of the issue more extreme. “The real goal of the BDS movement is the dismantling of Israel.”

The professor also took issue with the secretive tactics employed by BDS backers.

“It’s in the nature of these kinds of movements that the people who are behind it tend to sort of stand in the shadows and be pushed by people even behind them, while those who oppose it are forced to put their names out there on the line,” said Heilman, who has signed onto public letters opposing the divestment measure.

“Certainly, symbolically, it says something that they’ve chosen to do” this on a Friday evening, he added.

An email sent to a DSC representative was not returned by press time.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/anti-israel-group-plots-secret-bds-vote/

Pro-Assad Cleric Demanded Removal of Cruz After Pro-Israel Comments. Cruz to Muslim Cleric Kiss My Ass [Watch]

Posted on Sunday, September 14th, 2014 at 2:55 pm.by: Conservative Infidel


Washington Beacon A prominent Syrian cleric threatened to walk out of a conference for Middle Eastern Christians after Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) defended Israel in a speech before demanding that the Texas Republican leave the event on Wednesday night.
While organizers for the In Defense of Christians summit said that only “a few politically motivated opportunists” disrupted Cruz’s remarks, and that they were “made no longer welcome,” the videotaped tirade indicates that top attendees protested Cruz’s speech.
Patriarch Gregory III Laham of the Antioch Church was one of the six Middle Eastern patriarchs who attended the conference, and part of a small delegation that met with President Barack Obama. No surprise that Obama would meet with terrorist supporters on Sept. 11th.

Wnd Cruz booed offstage following calls for Christian, Jewish unity in face of oppression. When Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to Christian audiences about Israel, he’s accustomed to receiving enthusiastic applause whenever he declares his support for the Jewish state.
So, many Americans wonder why he was booed off the stage when he stated in his keynote address to the In Defense of Christians inaugural summit in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night that “Christians have no greater ally than Israel.”
Isn’t the conference of Middle East Christian leaders, about responding to the threat the Islamic jihadist group ISIS poses to the very existence of Christians in the region? And isn’t Israel on the front lines of the war against Islamic supremacism?
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking at the In Defense of Christians summit in Washington.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking at the In Defense of Christians summit in Washington.
Some analysts of Islam and its clash with the West believe the response of the Middle Eastern Christian leaders to Cruz is rooted in a grand bargain their tiny minority has struck with the Arab nationalist and Muslim majority, which has enabled them to survive.
“It is shameful that these Middle Eastern Christians heckled Cruz for standing with Israel,” Robert Spencer writes at his Jihad Watch site. “This is the result of their long historical identification with Muslims as fellow Arabs.”
Spencer says the “Arab nationalist imperative was largely an attempt by Christian Arabs to ease the pain of dhimmitude by creating a secular framework upon which Christians could enjoy equal, or almost equal, status with Muslims.”
Dhimmitude, a term coined by Bat Ye’or, the Egyptian-born British writer and political commentator, is the subjugated status of non-Muslims, particularly Jews and Christians, under Islamic rule, which is ordained by the Quran and subsequent Islamic texts.
Under Syria’s Bashar al-Assad or formerly under Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, for example, Christians have had a relative degree of freedom in comparison to the immediate existential threat from ISIS, which has taken over portions of Syria and Iraq.
Cruz told the gathered crowd at the Omni Shoreham, which included leaders of six historic Christian churches in the Middle East: “Tonight, we are all united in defense of Christians. Tonight, we are all united in defense of Jews. Tonight, we are all united in defense of people of good faith, who are standing together against those who would persecute and murder those who dare disagree with their religious teachings.”
He spoke against a “genocidal campaign” being carried out by Islamic groups such as ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas.
But when he declared, “Christians have no greater ally than Israel,” crowd members began to boo, and some shouted, “Stop it!”
Later, in a statement, he expressed disappointment that anti-Semitism had “reared its ugly head” at the conference and explained he had no choice but to leave the stage.
“I told them that if you will not stand with Israel, if you will not stand with the Jews, then I will not stand with you. And then I walked off the stage.” Senator Cruz stood his ground for America’s long time ally Israel. Senator Cruz in a a very polite manner told them to F -off and kiss my ass… This is what we need to see more politicians like Senator Ted Cruz not afraid to stand up for what’s right,.
“If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you,” Cruz said. “Good night, and God bless.. (Really means Kiss My Ass, F off you Muslims sympathizers)
Watch the video below. Go figure the orginal video was pulled from youtube. The social media giant didn’t want you to see how animals behave..

http://www.conservativeinfidel.com/u...iss-ass-watch/