What Happened When Oxford Anti-Semites Were Exposed to Facts

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-12 13:28:48 | Updated at 2024-12-23 03:16:13 1 week ago

What Happened When Oxford Anti-Semites Were Exposed to Facts
Commentary ^ | 11 Dec 2024 | Seth Mandel

Posted on 12/12/2024 5:20:07 AM PST by Rummyfan

The British journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti has done the public a tremendous favor by releasing the video of his remarks at the recent Oxford Union debate on Israel and genocide. Oxford also released the video, but there’s a minor difference: In the Oxford version, available on their official YouTube page, the sound is cut at key moments.

Therein lies a tale perhaps as illuminating as the debate itself.

The esteemed Oxford Union held one of its famous debates on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Arguing against the proposition were Sacerdoti, Israeli-Arab commentator Yoseph Haddad, the attorney Natasha Hausdorff, and the ex-Hamas figure Mosab Hassan Yousef. I’ll get to the opposing team in a moment.

By now, news reports have made clear that the debate descended into madness as Sacerdoti’s team couldn’t even get through their statements without obscene screeching from the audience, and at one point Haddad—the target of constant abuse throughout the event—was asked to leave the hall for defending the honor of the hostages held by Hamas.

The whole thing was so embarrassing for Oxford and the Jew-baiters in the crowd that Oxford simply cut the audio out of parts of the debate it posted online. So Sacerdoti posted the uncensored video.

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About eight minutes in, Sacerdoti notes, in objection to the idea that Israel is purposely starving Gazans: “Israel has provided 700,000 tons of food to Gaza during this war. That is a daily average of 3,200 calories per person.”

To which a woman in the audience yelled: “You sick motherf***er!”

1 posted on 12/12/2024 5:20:07 AM PST by Rummyfan

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