There was a vocal - some call it violent - protest at last night's lecture by Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian born American human rights activist. She is a co-founder of the group "Arabs for Israel." Ms. Darwish was speaking at UNM on "Why the Arab Spring is Failing and how Israel is Involved".
Video clip from KOB-TV shows some audience members interrupting the speaker by shouting her down, followed by a crowd scene involving other audience members with gray hair. The ABQ Journal has nothing on its web site about this incident.
Following clip is from KOB-TV web site:
A YouTube video (which has since been taken down) was posted by the someone calling themselves (Un)Occupy Albuquerque, with the text: A group of people, who were acting in solidarity with the Palestinian people...
I think we already know the rest of the lines to that song & dance... |