The Lies of Shabbos Kestenbaum
Shabbos Kestenbaum, the former Harvard Divinity School student suing Harvard for antisemitism, has recently changed his script—he has gone from falsely claiming (on Fox and in Congress) I threatened him with a machete to saying I “taunted” him with one. Good advice from his lawyer, the alcoholic pervert Marc Kassowitz.
See, he could reasonably make the argument that I was taunting him by waving a plastic toy machete while talking about my campaign to get Harvard to admit Derek Bok lied when he officially exonerated Alan Dershowitz from plagiarism charges (contrasting that with the performative outrage over Claudine Gay’s citation errors.)
Though the subject of the video was the controversy that involved Elena Kagan, Derek Bok, Alan Dershowitz, and Norman Finkelstein, I used as a background a screenshot of my reply to Kestenbaum to his post on Twitter dishonestly decrying the comments I wrote on illegally glued atrocity propaganda posters as antisemitic instead of antizionist. So was I taunting him? Sure—I was implicitly mocking his ridiculous claims by pointing out the evidence of Harvard’s hypocrisy with regard to the lynching of Harvard’s first black president.
Where Kestenbaum has lied ???? is every time he suggests I threatened him in any way. I did indeed challenge him to debate me, explaining that I spent every lunch hour in literally the most trafficked place on campus and he should come debate me about Israeli involvement in 9/11.
As Mr. Kestenbaum has declared before congress and in the right wing media, and I presume to my former employer, this amounted to me inviting him to debate him “in a secluded underpass as to whether Jews did 9/11.” And proceeding to post a video threatening him with a machete. A machete, again, made of plastic and that is a known symbol of Puerto Rican independence.
While, again, what actually happened is that a guy with an anti-Palestinian and anti DEI agenda had spent months shitting on my alma mater, up to and including colluding, in effect if not intent, with billionaire alumni and Congress to roll back 300 years of progress in Harvard’s atonement for past sins against africans and native americans in the process of defending Zionism from criticism.
Responding to this onslaught with a reply to a tweet that the guy posts on Twitter where he lists Media Personality as his business, and sending him a strident but toothless email (accidentally not switching the sender in my email app from my work to personal address) reiterating my challenge to debate, resulted in my termination from a position I held for a quarter century, one in which I was an award-winning and respected professional with a spotless record.
As someone who graduated from Harvard College despite the difficulties coping with the University’s indifference to class—when you were expected to learn your place based on what you or your parents could afford, I could not, cannot, and will never keep from speaking out against the decades long conspiracy by Zionists and White Supremacists to stop Harvard’s progress from elite club to global resource.
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