{"id":32323,"date":"2016-02-26T06:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T10:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32323"},"modified":"2016-02-26T06:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T10:25:46","slug":"oberlin-professor-claims-israel-was-behind-911-isis-charlie-hebdo-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32323","title":{"rendered":"Oberlin Professor Claims Israel Was Behind 9\/11, ISIS, Charlie Hebdo Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/i> David Gerstman
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A professor at Oberlin College, one of the most prestigious institutes of higher education\u00a0in the country, has\u00a0written and shared a\u00a0series of Facebook posts claiming that Jews\u00a0or Israelis\u00a0control much of the world and are responsible for the 9\/11\u00a0andCharlie Hebdo<\/em> attacks and the rise of ISIS.<\/p>\n

Joy Karega<\/a>, an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Composition, shared<\/a>\u00a0a graphic shortly after the Charlie Hebdo<\/em> shooting last year of\u00a0an ISIS terrorist pulling off a mask resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The terrorist has a tattoo with a Star of David and the acronym \u201cJSIL\u201d \u2013 presumably a Jewish version of ISIL\/ISIS.\u00a0The picture includes graphic text implying that the murder of cartoonists was a \u201cfalse flag\u201d conspiracy designed to stop French support for Palestinians. In the accompanying status, Karega wrote, \u201cThis ain\u2019t even hard. They unleashed Mossad on France and it\u2019s clear why.\u201d\u00a0The Mossad is Israel\u2019s national\u00a0intelligence agency.<\/p>\n

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She wrote<\/a>\u00a0the same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the massive free-speech rally in Paris\u00a0\u201cuninvited and of course he went even when he was asked by Pres. Hollande (France) not to come. Netanyahu wanted to bend Hollande and French governmental officials over one more time in public just in case the message wasn\u2019t received via Massod [sic] and the \u2018attacks\u2019 they orchestrated in Paris.\u201d She\u00a0neglected to mention that Netanayhu was in Paris to honor<\/a>\u00a0four Jews who were killed in a terror attack in a kosher supermarket that\u00a0same week.\u00a0Karega also\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in November\u00a0that ISIS was not really Islamic, but rather \u201ca CIA and Mossad operation, and there\u2019s too much information out here for the general public not to know this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karega, who received a PhD from the University of Louisville in 2014, publicized claims<\/a>last year that \u201cIsraeli and Zionist Jews\u201d were\u00a0behind the\u00a0attacks on the World Trade Center. She shared a\u00a0blog post<\/a> that embedded a speech by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader\u00a0who has frequently been accused of anti-Semitism. At about 1:04 in the video<\/a>, Farrakhan offers his theory of the attackers and their motivations:<\/p>\n

They say that the World Trade Center building were brought down by carefully placed explosives, not by planes. They say that all three buildings had to have\u00a0been wired with explosive charges long before September the 11th and this is something that took tremendous sophistication to do, and that sophistication was not\u00a0with Osama bin Laden or his followers. Listen. But if it was not Muslims then who? Thanks to the exemplary work of scholars like Victor Thorn and Christopher Bollyn it is now becoming apparent that there were many Israeli and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9\/11 attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although Karega claimed to disagree with Farrakhan in many respects, she endorsed\u00a0the link, writing \u201cFarrakhan is truth-telling in this video.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karega\u2019s Facebook history also shows a preoccupation with the Rothschild family, a\u00a0banking dynasty of Jewish heritage that has been the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories for hundreds of years.\u00a0She posted<\/a> an unflattering photograph of banker Jacob Rothschild in December 2014, with the text accompanying the photograph saying, \u201cWe own nearly every central bank in the world. We financed both sides of every war since Napoleon. We own your news, the media, your oil and your government.\u201d The Rothschilds made a reappearance<\/a>\u00a0a few weeks later when Karega\u00a0accused\u00a0\u201cthe same people behind the massacre in Gaza\u201d\u00a0of shooting down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine.\u00a0\u201cWith this false flag,\u201d Karega surmised, \u201cthe Rothschild-led banksters, exposed and hated and out of economic options to stave off the coming global deflationary depression, are implementing the World War III option.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Karega returned to the theme of Jewish control of the government when she shared<\/a>\u00a0a news report about\u00a0a $12 million grant that the Obama administration had given\u00a0to Holocaust survivors. Karega seemed to take issue with the\u00a0decision\u00a0to give financial\u00a0support to victims of genocide, writing,\u00a0\u201cOne of these days some of My Peoples gonna learn who ALL American presidents work for and why they are chosen and placed in office.\u201d She continued on this vein in the comments:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cLater I\u2019m gonna try to look at some of these Federations that handle the money and resources. We can probably look deep and try to trace it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The revelations about Prof. Karega\u2019s Facebook posts\u00a0come amid\u00a0growing concern that Jewish students at Oberlin are facing a rising wave of\u00a0anti-Semitism. This January, the frequency of anti-Semitic events on campus spurred 225 alumni and students to\u00a0form Oberlin Alumni and Students Against Anti-Semitism. In an open letter<\/a>, the group\u00a0charged that several student organizations \u201chave assumed the role as the mouthpiece of the BDS movement,\u201d which delegitimizes Israel and has frequently been criticized for giving cover to anti-Semitism. The message that these groups promulgated is \u201cEither forfeit your allegiance to Israel and join us, or we will brand you as an enemy of justice and complicit in the oppression of the Palestinian people.\u201d\u00a0The group condemned the tactics employed by pro-BDS student groups, whose tactics \u201cintimidate, threaten, and coerce Jewish students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melissa Landa, an organizer of the group fighting anti-Semitism at Oberlin, wrote in an\u00a0e-mail <\/a>last month\u00a0to Prof. William Jacobson of the Legal Insurrection blog, one of the leading\u00a0activists fighting anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in academia, that the group has \u201cbegun to document all incidents of anti Semitism at Oberlin by collecting testimonials from alumni and current students. As of today, that list is 5-pages in length and includes physical intimidation, verbal harassment, and vandalism.\u201d (Full disclosure: I am a\u00a0Legal Insurrection contributor).<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s open letter<\/a> to the school administration documented numerous incidents:<\/p>\n

According to The Jewish Exponent<\/a>, an award-winning newspaper that serves the Jewish community of Philadelphia, one Oberlin student reported, \u201cMy fellow Obies and I were expected by our peers to join them in denouncing a plethora of social evils including\u2026Israel.\u201d That same student described an incident on campus when, \u201cOne speaker drew laughs when she said that Zionists should be burned at the stake.\u201d In addition, the AMCHA campus monitor<\/a>, which is published by a non profit organization that addresses anti-Semitism on college campuses, has documented numerous messages posted on line by the student group, Students for a Free Palestine, including, \u201cOhio is infested with Zionism,\u201d and describing Israel as a \u201cwhite supremacist,\u201d \u201cviolent apartheid state.\u201d As reported to The Oberlin Review, other incidents include the expulsion<\/a> of the Kosher Halal co-op from the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association (OSCA) and an exhibition ofblack flags<\/a> symbolizing the Palestinians killed in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge displayed on Rosh Hashanah, one of Judaism\u2019s holiest days.<\/p>\n

Jewish students have articulated the impact of these incidents on their lives. The Oberlin Review<\/a> quoted one student who said, \u201cI quickly learned that at Oberlin, love for my own nation (Israel) was not something I could freely express.\u201d The student who was quoted in The Jewish Exponent, also explained that she transferred out of Oberlin due to its \u201ctoxic climate\u2026around Israel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Neither Karega nor\u00a0two Oberlin spokespeople responded to multiple requests\u00a0for comment.<\/p>\n

Update, 4:30 PM<\/strong>: Karega appears to have deleted her Facebook posts, but more\u00a0screenshots can be seen below.<\/p>\n

January 13, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

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March 7, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

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