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--- Begin Message --- Title: "Poet Laureate" Implies Israelis Knew of 9/11 in Advance -Caveat Lector-THE HOFFMAN WIRE Dedicated to Freedom of the Press, Investigative Reporting and Revisionist History Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor http://www.hoffman-info.com/news.htmlSeptember 30, 2002
Editor's Note: Black writer Amiri Baraka recited a bit of doggerel (I'm sorry, but it can't be called a poem without insulting the world of letters) at a New Jersey poetry festival on Sept. 19. His lines generated the predictable howls of outrage from the hounds of censorship. The verse, while sophomoric, speaks a courageous truth and reads in part:
"Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?"
While the actual figure is in dispute, a good deal of evidence (dismissed by the Establishment with the signature sneer "it came from the Internet"), points to Zionists missing work at the Twin Towers complex on Sept. 11, having obtained advance knowledge of the attack through an "instant messaging service" based in the Israeli state, as reported last year by the Hebrew-language newspaper Ha'aretz.
Your editor met with Baraka at Cornell University in 1985, and conveyed to him a large dossier of revisionist literature. Let's hope he stands his ground and helps ignite an independent investigation of the suppressed fact that Israeli intelligence agents, disguised as "art students," were shepherding the 9/11 hijackers in Hollywood, Florida weeks before Sept. 11, 2001.
Gestures of defiance from dignitaries and community-figures like Baraka constitute cracks in the monolith that is media militarism, giving heart to The Resistance. Recent remarks by the German Chancellor as well as Al Gore (who is towing the more cunning Israeli Labour Party line against the oafish, ham-fisted Likud), have slowed the momentum of the Iraq war fever and given the peace faction something to seize upon, both in the US and overseas. Amiri Baraka is an important figure in the black community. The inquisition against him is certain to stir resentment in the wake of the removal of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) from Congress, due to machinations by the Israeli lobby.
Baraka Spurns Call to Resign, Plans to Defend his Poetry
September 30, 2002
North Jersey News
http://www.bergen.com/page.php?level_3_id=7&page=5149037
The embattled state poet laureate, Amiri Baraka, vowed Sunday not to curb the kind of controversial public statements that have prompted Governor McGreevey to call for his resignation. In fact, Baraka said, instead of shrinking from the limelight, he will hold a news conference Wednesday at the Newark Public Library to defend his right to criticize the United States and Israel.
"I will clarify my position that I can criticize United States imperialism and Israeli imperialism, and I can take a position of support of the Palestinians' right to self-determination without being slandered as an anti-Semite," Baraka said.
Barely a month after he was announced as New Jersey's poet laureate, Baraka set off a firestorm of criticism with a poem he read Sept. 19 at the 2002 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival at Waterloo Village in Stanhope. The poem, titled "Somebody Blew Up America," implies that Israel knew in advance about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It repeats discredited rumors circulating in Arab countries that thousands of Israeli workers at the Twin Towers did not show up for work that day, and that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon canceled a trip to the United States that week.
Leading Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey, have assailed the poem as offensive to Israelis, Jews, survivors of the attack, and relatives of those who died. They say Baraka is unfit to continue in his role as poet laureate, a distinction that carries a term of two years and a $10,000 stipend. In a statement Friday calling for Baraka's resignation, McGreevey said he condemned any remarks that could be construed as racist or anti-Semitic, and called on the poet to "apologize for any misinterpretation of that language and resign."
On Sunday, Baraka reiterated his refusal to resign, and demanded an apology from those who have called him an anti-Semite. He said his critics ought to "do more checking on what I said rather than calling me anti-Semitic." He said he did not imply that Israel or the United States were responsible for the attacks. "The only people we know were linked to that [the attacks] were the Saudis," he said.
McGreevey spokesman Kevin Davitt said the governor does not have the power to remove Baraka, who was appointed in the summer by a five-member committee made up of four prominent poets and the previous poet laureate. The committee, however, cannot remove a poet laureate, Davitt said. "That is why he [Baraka] has to do the right thing" and resign, said Davitt, reiterating the governor's position. Officials of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, which appointed the committee that selected Baraka, have condemned his remarks.
But at least one member of the committee that selected Baraka says he should not resign.Charles Johnson, a poet who works as night editor of the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick, said: "I do not believe a poet should resign for a poem he's written. You don't as a committee select a poet laureate because you agree with him. You look at his body of work, and in Baraka's case you look at how dedicated he has been to poetry, even before the 1960s. That's a heck of a commitment." Johnson said he had not read the poem - which Baraka wrote shortly after the attacks, and which was bitterly criticized in a column in the Daily Princetonian on Nov. 15 - before selecting him. But he said that the tone of the poem should not have shocked those familiar with Baraka's work. "The poem is consistent with the poetry he's written all his life. It's not a new attitude. His political history was well known." (END QUOTE)
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