Editor's Note: I changed the P&D format so that I mainly only publish full articles, and so, I've pretty much stopped linking articles. But some articles are so profound, I just have to add them to P&D, and this piece fits that bill to a T, and I recommend reading her entire response. Ya just gotta love her.
Author Dina Rubina
Russian Israeli author Dina Rubina was scheduled for an event to discuss her books at Pushkin House in London in collaboration with the University of London.
Before she was “allowed” to speak, however, event moderator Nataliya
Rulyova demanded she clarify “her position on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict,” saying other invited participants needed to “understand your
position on this issue before responding.”
Here is the note Rubina received from Rulyova:
Hello, Dina!
The Pushkin House announced our upcoming conference on social
media and immediately received critical messages regarding your position
on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They wanted to understand your
position on this issue before responding. Could you formulate your
position and send it to me as soon as possible?
— Natasha
Here is Dina’s blistering response to the ridiculous request.
Dear Natalia!
You’ve written beautifully about my novels, and I’m so sorry for the
time you’ve wasted, because apparently we have to cancel our meeting.
The universities of Warsaw and Torun have just canceled lectures by
the wonderful Russian-speaking Israeli writer Yakov Shechter on the life
of Galicia’s Jews in the 17th and 19th centuries “to avoid making the
situation worse.” I suspected that this would affect me too, since
academia is now the main breeding ground for the most disgusting and
virulent anti-Semitism, disguised as so-called “criticism of Israel.” I
was expecting something like this, and I even decided to write you an
email about it… but I put it aside. It’s time for me to publish it........
This is what I want to say to all those who expect from me a quick
and obsequious report on my position regarding my beloved country, which
currently lives (and always has) surrounded by ferocious enemies who
seek to destroy it . My country which is waging a just war today against
a rabid, ruthless, deceptive and cunning enemy. The last time I
apologized was in elementary school, in the principal’s office, I was 9
years old. Since then, I have been doing what I think is right,
listening only to my conscience and expressing exclusively my
understanding of the world order and human laws of justice.
Natalia, thank you for your efforts, and I personally ask you to send my answer to all those who are wondering...............For hours, thousands of happy, blood-drunk beasts raped women,
children and men, shooting their victims in the crotch and heads,
cutting off the women’s breasts and playing football with them, cutting
off the babies from the wombs of pregnant women and immediately
decapitating them, tying up and burning the small children.
There were
so many charred bodies that, for many weeks, forensic pathologists could
not cope with the enormous workload of identifying individuals.......Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I
sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the
brainless “intellectuals” who are interested in my position to go f..... themselves.
Thankfully, Christians are standing side-by-side with Jews, so it's not like Germany in the 1930s. But the fact that academia is overrun with antisemites should be of great concern to all freedom loving Americans.
Thankfully, Christians are standing side-by-side with Jews, so it's not like Germany in the 1930s. But the fact that academia is overrun with antisemites should be of great concern to all freedom loving Americans.
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