Will the University of Denver take note of Nader Hashemi’s paranoid antisemitism? Of course not. To do so would be “Islamophobic,” and besides, his anti-Israel paranoia dovetails nicely with fashionable Leftist hatred of Israel. It isn’t as if he enunciated something seriously, such as exploring the motivating ideology behind jihad violence. That would have gotten him pitched out of the university in a hot minute. But this? No problem.
“Mossad ‘likely’ behind Salman Rushdie stabbing, claims Denver professor,” Jerusalem Post, August 23, 2022:
The stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie last week may have been orchestrated by the Mossad, suggested Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver, in a Saturday interview with Negar Mortazavi, host of the Iran Podcast….
“So one possible explanation,” he said, “could be that after the assassination of Iran’s top general in January 2020, Qassem Soleimani, Iran was looking to retaliate. And the Department of Justice, a few days before the attack on Salman Rushdie, announced that the Iranian [Islamic] Revolutionary Guard Corps were seeking to assassinate Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. So this could be one possible explanation. They couldn’t go after Pompeo and Bolton, in other words, the IRGC couldn’t go after those high-value targets so they chose a soft target such as Salman Rushdie. Perhaps, possibly, we don’t know.”…
“The other possibility, which I actually think is much more likely, is that this young kid Hadi Matar was in communication with someone online who claimed to be an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member or supporter and lured him into attacking Salman Rushdie and that so-called person online claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran could’ve been a Mossad operative.”…
Hashemi went on to suggest that Israel’s motive for carrying out a false flag operation would be to galvanize opposition to the ongoing efforts of world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement….
