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Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births
The Electronic Intifada
24 Febbraio 2010
Un docente di Harvard, che per caso si chiama Martin Kramer, lancia un appello all’Occidente: bisogna limitare la natalità dei palestinesi, ridurre tutti quei “giovani superflui”. Pensate se fosse avvenuto il contrario, se un docente palestinese avesse incitato a ridurre le nascite degli ebrei in Palestina... Già il Reich parlava di “bocche inutili”. (ndr)
A fellow at Harvard
University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin
Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births
of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international
legal definition of a call for genocide.
Kramer, who is also a fellow at the influential Washington Institute
for Near East Policy (WINEP), made the call early this month in a
speech at Israel's Herzliya conference, a video of which is posted on
his blog ("Superfluous young men," 7 February 2010).
In the speech Kramer rejected common views that Islamist
"radicalization" is caused by US policies such as support for Israel,
or propping up despotic dictatorships, and stated that it was inherent
in the demography of Muslim societies such as Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan
and the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Too many children, he argued,
leads to too many "superfluous young men" who then become violent
radicals.
Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian children born in the
Gaza Strip should be deliberately curbed, and alleged that this would
"happen faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies to
Palestinians with refugee status."
Due to the Israeli blockade, the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza
are now dependent on UN food aid. Neither the UN, nor any other
agencies, provide Palestinians with specifically "pro-natal subsidies."
Kramer appeared to be equating any humanitarian assistance at all with
inducement for Palestinians to reproduce.
He added, "Israel's present sanctions on Gaza have a political aim --
undermine the Hamas regime -- but if they also break Gaza's runaway
population growth, and there is some evidence that they have, that
might begin to crack the culture of martyrdom which demands a constant
supply of superfluous young men." This, he claimed, would be treating
the issue of Islamic radicalization "at its root."
The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
created in the wake of the Nazi holocaust, defines genocide to include
measures "intended to prevent births within" a specific "national,
ethnic, racial or religious group."
The Weatherhead Center at Harvard describes itself as "the largest
international research center within Harvard University's Faculty of
Arts and Sciences." In addition to his positions at Harvard and WINEP,
Kramer is "president-designate" of Shalem College in Jerusalem, a
far-right Zionist institution that aspires to be the "College of the
Jewish People."
Pro-Israel speakers from the United States often participate in the the
Herzliya conference, an influential annual gathering of Israel's
political and military establishment. This year's conference was also
addressed by The New York Times
columnist Thomas Friedman and, in a first for a Palestinian official,
by Salam Fayyad, appointed prime minister of the Ramallah-based
Palestinian Authority.
Kramer's call to prevent Palestinian births reflects a long-standing
Israeli and Zionist concern about a so-called "demographic threat" to
Israel, as Palestinians are on the verge of outnumbering Israeli Jews
within Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories combined.
Such extreme racist views have been aired at the Herzliya conference in
the past. In 2003, for example, Dr. Yitzhak Ravid, an Israeli
government armaments expert, called on Israel to "implement a stringent
policy of family planning in relation to its Muslim population," a
reference to the 1.5 million Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Source > The Electronic Intifada | feb 22
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