Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

Newsday ^ | 9/25/03 | The Associated Press

[Alter Kaker]

NEW YORK -- Edward W. Said, a Columbia University professor, literary critic and leading spokesman in the United States for the Palestinian cause, has died, his editor at Knopf publishers said Thursday. He was 67.

Said died at a New York hospital, said editor Shelly Wanger. He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Knopf is the same outfit fronting X42 for his "memoirs." Is Knopf the Regnery of the far left?

[freedomson]

Did he explode himself??

Or did he just tell his people's children that suicide/homicide is the only option?

[dinasour]

Can't say I cared much for his positions, but RIP Professor Said.

[Nonstatist]

Good riddance.

[Chi-townChief]

Any mention of if Mr. Said went directly to hell? (Do not pass Go - do not collect ...)

[Pharmboy]

Now that he's gone I'm sure there are many at Columbia who will step up to replace terrorism's Man on Campus.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

He has nothing more to say.

[m1-lightning]

That's one less class of students to be brainwashed.

[RoughDobermann]

I wonder what Professor Said said before he became dead...

[wideawake]

He was really a very reprehensible person.

He incited anti-Semitic violence, he worked hard all his life to degrade and politicize American academia, he caused a lot of pain and damage in his career.

I'm sorry to say it, but we really are much better off without him.

[Alter Kaker]

Is pronounced Sa-Eed. But no matter. Is ironic that "academic" works most known for late professor, post-collonial study of "Orientalism," are completely omitted from obituary. It is perhaps wrong to speak ill of dead, but this man was bad (but very influential) scholar in addition to supporter of bad politics.

[Soliton]

Perhaps Mr. Arafat should apply for the position.

[RoughDobermann]

Is pronounced Sa-Eed

Yes, I know. Just feeling a little goofy this morning.

[aculeus]

I hate to burden this site with even more bad news but ...

FRIENDS OF the fabled writer Gore Vidal are sympathizing. His companion of more than 50 years, the charming Howard Austin, died in Los Angeles Monday night. Gore says there will be no ceremony until someday when he and Howard are both laid to rest in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery near the monument to Henry Adams.

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm

[AmishDude]

Gore says there will be no ceremony until someday when he and Howard are both laid to rest in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery near the monument to Henry Adams.

I can't figure out whether this is ghoulish (keep him on ice boys) or egotistical (he's nothing without me). Let's just chalk it up to the process of a diseased mind.

[DoughtyOne]

Like my grandmother used to tell me...

Much left unsaid!

[freedomcrusader]

Wasn't Said the guy suing Daniel Pipes for slander?

[Right Wing Professor]

Speak only good of the dead - but I'll make an exception for Edward Said. The world is a better place today.

[general_re]

Said and Austin? Much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth...somewhere...I guess....

[m1-lightning]

Perhaps Mr. Arafat should apply for the position.

Is that what they said about Said or is that what Said said?

I don't think even Arafat could brainwash students like some these professors here have been able to do. My brother-in-law was a Pro-Israel conservative Republican before going to UofI and then only three weeks into it he had a pro-Palestinian opinion that that Israelis were the oppressors. He refused to listen to anyone else's opinions about it except for his instuctor's.

[TopQuark]

He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s.

I am sure the Israelis have injected him with that... stuff. And now Mossad simply killed him in the hospital. Belgian courts will shortly charge Sharon for personally murdering Said.

[Semper Paratus]

Is this the same guy who wrote a best seller about growing up in Jerusalem that was all a lie?

[Right Wing Professor]

Gore says there will be no ceremony until someday when he and Howard are both laid to rest in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery near the monument to Henry Adams.

The Romans would have brought them together in death, but in a rather different way.

[kattracks]

Speak only good of the dead...

It's good he's dead. Does that work?

[Beck_isright]

So?

[ml/nj]

Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

Why should I pretend to mourn? The man was niether a "Palestinian" nor a "scholar". He was born in Cairo and grew up there; and then he invented a whole new persona for himself. Was Goebbels a "scholar" too?

ML/NJ

[thoughtomator]

Another one escapes war crimes trials. Darn.

[Right Wing Professor]

It's good he's dead. Does that work?

Works for me. :-)

[CasearianDaoist]

"The West! What a fragile Reed!" read out churlish turban-head.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The man was evil. I wish he had had a change of heart before he died.

[texasbluebell]

A photo dennisw has posted before.

Edward Said throwing rocks at the IDF.

[CasearianDaoist]

out = our. should read:

"The West! What a fragile Reed!" read our churlish turban-head

[aculeus]

Speak only good of the dead...

It's good he's dead. Does that work?

Quote of the Month!

[Wonder Warthog]

"Perhaps Mr. Arafat should apply for the position."

The university one, or next in line at the undertakers???

[texasbluebell]

Just found this, thought it was interesting, it was with the photo of him throwing the rocks:

link

"People who live in glass houses...

"Well-known Palestinian American academic, Edward Said, has embroiled himself in further controversy regarding his conduct. Late last year, a storm brewed up over the revelations produced by Justus Reid Weiner that Said had systematically mis-represented himself for several decades as a Palestinian refugee forcibly evicted by Israel, when in fact he spent an affluent childhood in Cairo.

"Said has described Weiner’s findings as a tissue of lies, yet implicitly conceded their accuracy in the corrected version that now appears in his own memoir, Out of Place."

[Imal]

Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

'Nuf Said.

[dighton]

Let's dry our tears, and celebrate life with lobster heads.

He would have wanted it that way . . . . or somethin'.

[habs4ever]

I'm sure its sackcloth time over at The Nation.Bring your black shroud and do drop a note to Sue Sarandon if you get the chance ;-)

[IowaHawk]

Diagnosis: bile overdose.

[habs4ever]

Oh, Charlie Rose will be in tears tonight ;-)

[Recourse]

I can't believe the article repeated the lie that Said was born in Jerusalem. It has been conclusively proven that Said was born to an upper-middle class family in Cairo, then under nominal British control. His story, as we learned, was completely false. Said attended a posh private school in Cairo. And in July 2000, Said was photographed throwing rocks over the Lebanese border into Israel, attempting to hit Israelis on the other side. The Columbia Daily Spectator, his own university’s student paper, commented that his “hypocritical violent action” was “alien to this or any other institution of higher learning.”

[the_greatest_country_ever]

No more rocks to be thrown,
Nor lies to be said,
Whether Sa-eeed or Said,
We're all much better off that he's DEAD!

[Alouette]

B'ibud resho'im rena!

[wideawake]

Is this the same guy who wrote a best seller about growing up in Jerusalem that was all a lie?

It's the same guy, except that his book was only a best-seller on campus, thankfully.

[PianoMan]

A prominent abetter of terrorism and anti-Western hate. Good riddance.

[pierrem15]

Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

Said was born in Egypt, I believe. Even in death, he continues to lie.

[OldFriend]

Truly a New Year's blessing.