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July 09, 2006
Hold Her Responsible? But...She Identifies With Palestinians
Some of you may have already heard about Deb Frisch by now, the nutty leftist psycho-logist who was an adjunct professor at University of Arizona, who got so enraged by a discussion on Jeff Goldstein's Protein Wisdom that she began speaking of his two year old son in sexually explicit and threatening language. Later, in her own defense, she claimed she felt sexually intimidated by what previous bloggers had said about her. As though that justified her response. Whatever.
But now it turns out, she left out the real source of her problem, the one that would naturally make us all - and all the world - sympathize with her no matter what she did, how badly she acted.
She feels like a Palestinian. That's right.
I was denied tenure by the University of Oregon, in part because some outside reviewers called my critique of their research “confused” and “unsophisticated.” It’s partly due to frustration and irritation at how they dismiss and/or distort the views of other critics, especially Lola. And it’s partly due to anti-Zionist feelings I’ve had since September 11. This combination of personal, professional and political reasons makes me nastier than necessary.In real life, Deborah is a Jew. But obviously one that has been brainwashed by the Edward Said school of alternate history and one sided scholarship.After 911, I got into the idea that my current status in academia (migrant professor) is analogous to being a Palestinian in Israel. The only difference is, I used to be a Jew (tenure-track professor). But somehow, in my mind, I’ve started to identify with Palestinians and Iraqis and this increases my desire to throw metaphorical rocks....
With a screwed up internalization process like that, I don't think it takes a psychologist to understand why an articulate Jewish conservative like Jeff Goldstein would become such a source of primal rage for her.
In the biggest irony of all, Deb, apparently used to run a Decision, Risk, and Management Program at the NSF.
But did they know she was a closet Palestinian?
Hat Tip on the Palestinian quote: Justin at Classical Values.
Alcibiades | 07/09/06 at 08:47 AM | Categories: - Wackademia
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Feels like a Palestinian.
Walks like an Egyptian.
Acts like a . . . (fill in the blank).
Van | July 9, 2006 10:09 AM
I’ve started to identify with Palestinians and Iraqis and this increases my desire to throw metaphorical rocks....
What, at another's two year old kid?
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| July 9, 2006 02:01 PM
Deborah Frisch seems to be digging an ever deeper hole for herself.
Bruce Wilson | July 9, 2006 02:28 PM
We haven't excommunicated anybody since Spinoza. I say its time to start.
Robert Schwartz | July 9, 2006 06:39 PM
Clearly this woman has a serious personality disorder to behave as she does, well beyond that of the "more righteous than thou, Jew" that used to be expressed through how observant one was or wasn't. But I also see in Frisch's various claims just how dead on a number of feminist panelists (Phyllis Chesler among them) on frontpagemag.com a few years ago were when they attributed a mentality like Frisch's to a desire to validate their own sense of victimhood by "identifying" with the pre-eminent victims of the day -- Palestinians and Muslims.
Lynne | July 10, 2006 09:47 AM
Wasn't there an attempt in the 1990s to excommunicate Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz? He had to apologize and there was a grand scandal in Jerusalem.
And I like Spinoza. I don't think we should make him keep company with the Frisch!
Alcibiades | July 11, 2006 01:20 PM
