Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready There is something nauseating, indeed obscene, about watching Arab dignitaries such as Hassen Chalhoumi, the state sponsored Imam in France and others in tailored thobes and expensive drapes extend obsequious courtesies to the very figurehead of a regime that has unleashed genocidal fury on Gaza. To witness the Israeli President, whose government has presided over the calculated immolation of a civilian population, being serenaded by platitudes about “shared humanity” by men who claim to speak for the Arab and Muslim world, is to see political servility masquerading as diplomacy. This is not mere cowardice. It is something far worse. It is the performance of colonized minds and hand-picked scholars, men who, … Continue reading Courtiers in kufiyas: The grotesque spectacle of Arab “scholars” subjugation before Israeli power