When you banned me from speaking at Delft what you were doing was perpetuating the myth that Jews support Genocide in Gaza –that is anti-Semitic – Jews are not your moral alibi or your colonial pets
Nazi Propaganda Portrayed Jewish Men as Sexual Predators – Zionist Students Have been Allowed to do the same at Delft – on the grounds of ‘freedom of speech’ unlike anti-Zionism
When the authorities at Delft University banned me from speaking on 28 October, I wrote an Open Letter to its Rector, Professor Timothy van der Hagen. Because the silent Rector, like the silent intellectual, has chosen not to say anything, I thought I would help him with a second letter.
Meanwhile students at Delft have produced this wonderful Instagram Video highlighting sections of my speech.
The Curt Memo Banning My Meeting
As people will know from my previous blog I defied the ban and spoke on campus anyway to an audience of 100. Given that they literally had a few hours notice, the attendance was remarkable. Delft authorities did not seem inclined to disgrace themselves any further, having behaved as if they were a police-state university, and left us alone. I can only assume that they realised that banning free speech is the hallmark of a university under fascism.
When the Zionist Student Association showed a film Screams of Silence which falsely alleged that the Palestinian resistance on October 7 had indulged in a mass orgy of rape, despite the lack of any evidence, Delft authorities defended its showing on the grounds of ‘freedom of expression’.
However the right of Palestinian students to invite a Jewish anti-Zionist did not come under freedom of expression. The reason given was that
The views of the invited speaker goes against the values that TU Delft stands for: an open and inclusive community where everyone feels safe.
It’s strange how some views are deemed a threat to people’s ‘safety’ whereas others come under the rubric of ‘freedom of speech’ I am sure Professor van der Hagen will be more than able to demonstrate his talent for verbal gymnastics when explaining the differential treatment of Zionists and anti-Zionists.
Israel is destroying every hospital in Northern Gaza and Starving the Population Just Like the Nazis did in the Ghettos of Poland
Perhaps the real reason for my ban was Delft not wanting their ties with the Israeli universities and the military-industrial complex that is engaged in genocide to be questioned or held up to scrutiny.
Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda against Jews is similar to that of Zionist students exercising ‘free speech’ at Delft
One can only conclude from this that the safety of Palestinian and Muslim students is of no concern to this racist university. Allegations of rape have been the standard weapon of white and anti-Jewish racists historically – it was the justification for lynching and murder and the demonization of Jewish men in Nazi Germany.
To Professor Van der Hagen racist incitement, because that is what the film is really about, is covered by free speech but allowing a Jewish opponent of Zionism threatens peoples’ safety. The hypocrisy of this genocide complicit university is there for all to see.
Even the Nazis left the Jewish Hospital in Berlin alone and it survived until Berlin was liberated in May 1945 – not so in Gaza where Israel is destroying the health sector
The justification of a Zionist student Bensignor for showing the film was that “when women say that they’re raped, I believe them.” So does he believe the hundreds of Palestinian women raped by the Israeli military? Or the victims of mass torture? Or is it only some victims that he believes?
But it wasn’t women who made the accusations of rape. It was Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli propaganda, for the sole reason of justifying genocide in Gaza. Any ‘witnesses’ subsequently corralled can be treated with a pinch of salt. There are no victims and there is no forensic evidence. The New York Times article on which this film is based Screams Without Words has been widely discredited. The main victim’s family, Gail Abdush denied she had been raped.
I have therefore penned a second letter to Rector Magnificus as he likes to be called. Let us see whether or not he will behave like his 1940 pro-Nazi counterpart and keep his silence.
Tony Greenstein
