Daniel Pipes is a U.S. neo-conservative, right-wing Zionist columnist and director of the Middle East Forum, also thought to be a neo-McCarthyist. Many professors have requested to be listed on Campus Watch in solidarity with their “monitored” colleagues. In 2004 he was temporarily appointed by President Bush to the board of the U.S. Institute for Peace, but his 2005 re-nomination was opposed by three Democratic senators, several Muslim and Arab groups, and many U.S. intellectuals. Pipes has taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
In his own words:
“[T]o those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel.”
On the U.S.: “What we need to do is inspire fear, not affection.”
“The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the U.S.”
“What war had achieved for Israel, diplomacy has undone.”
“The Palestinians need to be defeated even more than Israel needs to defeat them.”
“All Muslims, unfortunately, are suspect.”
The Israeli people appear to be rejecting Pipes’s hardline approach to ending the conflict. A 2003 poll by Tel Aviv University found that 65 per cent of Israelis support the ‘road map’ solution. Pipes has suggested that Israelis will need to be “encouraged” to be “tough.”
Mr. Pipes will be speaking at U of T on March 29 at 7pm, Brennan Hall, St. Michael’s College.
- SARAH BARMAK AND DENNIS CHOQUETTE (Sources: hnn.us, sourcewatch.org, and motherjones.com)
