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The Israeli Consul General comes to SJSU
Hank Drew and Justin Perry
Issue date: 2/5/09 Section: Multimedia
The Spartan Daily's live coverage of a visit to SJSU by Akiva Tor, the consul general of Israel for the Pacific Northwest. Things became quite heated at times, with accusations of misleading statements coming from the audience.
Recorded Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.
Check back on Monday for our in-depth coverage of the event.
Recorded Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.
Check back on Monday for our in-depth coverage of the event.
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audience member form the event
posted 2/06/09 @ 10:41 AM PST
I was at the event last night and the anti-Israel group that came was just terrible. First, they were not from SJSU. They came with the sole purpose of stopping the speaker and be obnoxiously rude, disruptive, and hijack the event. (Continued…)
Shock and Horror
posted 2/06/09 @ 12:17 PM PST
As a member of the faculty of this university, I was shocked and horrified by the disgusting behavior of the anti-Israel members of the audience. The speaker is a diplomatic representative of a sovereign democratic nation and was verbally abused and humiliated by people of the lowest character. (Continued…)
Lemuel Olsen
posted 2/06/09 @ 1:08 PM PST
It is amazing that this type of rather fascistic behavior is not only tolerated on campus but encouraged by supposed "progressives." What makes hate, igorance, prejudice and bigotry "progressive values"?
Student at SJSU
posted 2/06/09 @ 1:11 PM PST
Being a student at SJSU and attending this event last night disapointed me. I thought that Mr. Tor held himself very well considering the opposition he was up against. (Continued…)
Disappointed audience member
posted 2/06/09 @ 4:09 PM PST
Members of last night's pro-Palestinian audience clearly came with the agenda of disrupting the program. What a waste of an opportunity to learn about each other's narrative. (Continued…)
student who attended the event
posted 2/07/09 @ 3:09 PM PST
This event turned out to be an embaressment for the pro-Palestinian supporters. Instead of showing their concern for humanitarian and peace efforts they showed their interest in creating further conflict. (Continued…)
Marc
posted 2/08/09 @ 6:21 PM PST
This was an embarassing display. The pro-hamas group at the event was led by a rather offensive white lady who led a large group of palestinians. She rallied them to interrupt the diplomat from Israel from speaking. (Continued…)
Dissapointed
posted 2/08/09 @ 6:32 PM PST
I had respect for Palestinian people and their plight before this event. I thought they were just people that cared about their children and wanted the best for themselves. (Continued…)
Tedriii
Ted Rudow III,MA
posted 2/09/09 @ 8:27 AM PST
The inhuman Gaza War was a reflection of Barak's own inhuman character. He waged the war as a part of his election campaign. When the anti-war demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv and shouted: "Don't buy votes / with the blood of babies" they were not so far off the mark. (Continued…)
Spell Check
posted 2/09/09 @ 11:00 AM PST
Letter to Roba:
Dude, there is a spell check option in the Post Your Comment box. All you have to do is use it and you won't come off as such an uneducated hate monger with a ten foot jihad pole you know where!
This is a collection of your quotes. (Continued…)
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