Tufts University Professor Gives Bizarre Speech

Gary Fouse
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http://garyfouse.blogspot.com

Hat tip Frontpage Magazine and Campus Watch

Bizarre. That’s the only word I can attach to this presentation given March 17 in Washington DC by Tufts University professor Thomas Abowd on the issue of Israel and Jerusalem. Andrew Harrod wrote the below article for Frontpage Magazine.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/andrew-harrod/tufts-prof-thomas-abowd-jews-colonial-usurpers-in-jerusalem/

There’s not a lot one can add to Harrod’s piece, which leaves one with the impression that Abowd must have been smoking his socks prior to taking the microphone. I would like to add a couple of points though.

First of all, how many times is there word “Jerusalem” found in the Old and New Testaments? Hundreds, I would guess. How about the Koran?

Zero.

That is because, Dear Reader, Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish land of Israel three thousand years ago long before Islam was born.The Islamic claim to Jerusalem as their third holiest city is based on the belief that the prophet Mohammad flew there on a winged horse one night from where he ascended into the heavens to meet with prior prophets. Even then, it was referred to as “the farthest mosque”-even though there was no mosque there at the time. That’s rock solid.

And when did the Arabs in the region begin referring to themselves as “Palestinians”? That would be in the 1960s.

Before closing, let me retract the above crack about Abowd smoking his socks. I just realized that March 17 was St Patrick’s Day. That explains the boffo statements. In the future I would hope Abowd will celebrate St Paddies Day after he gives a speech.