Re: Attack on Jews at Georgetown University

If you will recall the incident at Georgetown University about this time last year... The rights of Jews to speak freely on the Georgetown University campus were literally (and physically) attacked to allow PLO terrorist lies to be promulgated at that institution. The letter published below is in response to an article that appeared in "The Hoya", the Georgetown University student newspaper. You be the Judge... Kudos to the author of this letter, renown Journalist Lee Kaplan.

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Subject:	RE Moises Mendoza article
Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:51:18 +0000
From:	leekaplan@att.net
To:	editor@thehoya.com

Please pass to your opinion editor.

Editor:

The prospect of Moises Mendoza being a future foreign diplomat scares me almost as much as the fact he was a past editor at the Hoya. His article attacking Bill Maniaci, who currently has an $8 million dollar lawsuit against Georgetown reflects a poor sense of accuracy in what he writes and reports.

I was present when Maniaci was beaten by Georgetown security guards, who threw the ex-police officer through a closed wooden door using his head as a battering ram. For

Mendoza to call the resultant lawsuit “frivolous, disgusting and dangerous,” and “an attempt to frighten universities into trampling upon speech” reflects a bias compounded by Mendoza’s ignorance: He was not there and I was.

I would submit it is more “disgusting and dangerous” to host an event by a Palestine Solidarity Movement that included a recruiting session for volunteers to serve as human shields for the likes of Hamas, PFLP and Islamic Jihad, groups that PSM leader Huwaida Arraf openly admitted in a letter to the Washington Post her group openly works with.

In addition, the presence of a Fatah security services officer named Ali Omar at the event also should raise eyebrows. Fatah murdered some teenagers in Israel at a hitchhiking post

the same week Georgetown held its conference.

Lets be frank. Georgetown was not standing up for free speech. It was bending over for the $20 million donation it got from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the main financier of Hamas.

I faced Daniel Porterfield on the O’Reilly Show where he lied and claimed the PSM had no links to terrorist groups. Recently published photos of ISM volunteers recruited for the West Bank waving AK-47s with an Al Aksa Terrorist (like Mr. Omar, no doubt) reveal why the event should never have been allowed.

And just who is Abu Rish to say Mr. Maniaci’s physical disabilities were not taken advantage of? Medical doctors at Walter Reed hospital found severe injuries including a concussion and numerous bruises. Terrorists frequently use the appellation "Abu" as a nom de guerre; so the name does suggest someone more likely to want to endorse the Jew-hating and terrorist supporting conference that it was.

Frankly, it is not racist to mention that Muslim mobs are rioting in Europe when they are. Mendoza likes to use the red herring of "racism" to label anyone who doesn't’t agree with his political stance. It's ironic Mendoza also champions free speech for terrorism enablers but praises the Hoya’s censorship in not allowing Maniaci’s ad to run. I watched Maniaci being beaten and there is no excuse for Gerogetown's behavior.

Maniaci walks with a cane, is 67 year-old and no spring rooster. He was savagely beaten by GU guards, for asking a simple question to which he never got an answer, only a whipping: Do you support terrorism? It’s understandable he didn't’ want to talk with Mendoza who passes judgment on events and people he knows nothing about from first hand experience, ignorantly supporting enablers of terrorism along the way.

Lee Kaplan

Front Page Magazine