Oh, BOO HOO! Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, an outspoken Jew-hater, who was, until this month, Opinions Editor at Rutgers University’s student newspaper, ‘The Daily Targum,’ claims she was targeted by Jewish groups on campus because “I wear a bag on my head and was the only Arab Muslim in a leadership position at the newspaper.”
NJ.com Amani alleges editors repeatedly bowed to pressure from pro-Israel groups on campus, causing dissent within the newsroom, according to an essay published on the Huffington Post.
“I wear a scarf on my head. I believe it was in part because of these things and the polarized political environment at Rutgers that I was placed under a microscope as soon as I took up my position as opinions editor. There allegedly is evidence to support the claim,” Al-Khatahtbeh writes. She alleges she nearly lost her job as opinions editor after campus Jewish leaders complained about how a letter from a Hillel member was edited before it was published in the newspaper.
Later in the year, Israeli-Palestinian tensions rose on campus after Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine passed out controversial mock eviction notices in campus dorms to raise awareness of Palestinian home demolitions. Al-Khatahtbeh said the Daily Targum’s board of trustees, which includes the mother of a campus rabbi, told her what to publish in the newspaper’s opinions section.
“They wanted me to publish a pro-Israel letter at the time of their choosing to benefit from increased readership — an advantage that no other on- or off-campus organization receives. I was threatened with termination if I did not oblige the overbearing influence they were exerting over my editorial decisions,” Al-Khatahtbeh wrote.
“In response, almost our entire editorial staff co-signed a letter denouncing this lack of journalistic integrity in our newspaper and planned to have it published in my section, only to be censored by the Board of Trustees, who said that they didn’t want us to ‘air our dirty laundry,’ ” she wrote.
Al-Khatahtbeh said she backed out of a plan to go public with the internal dispute last year because she “was scared.” Instead, she wrote a farewell column about the problems, which the Daily Targum refused to run this month. Alexandra Meier, the Daily Targum’s new acting editor-in-chief, declined to comment on Al-Khatahtbeh’s allegations because they took place before she took office. She referred questions to an interview former Targum managing editor Skylar Frederick gave to College Media Matters, a news site.
In the interview, Frederick, whose term at the paper recently ended, denied most of the charges in Al-Khatahtbeh’s column. She said the Daily Targum’s board of trustees, made up of alumni and others, stepped in at the newspaper staff’s request during controversies involving Hillel and the Israel-Palestine debate on campus.
Frederick also said the Targum refused to run Al-Khatahtbeh’s column about the controversy because it bashed the student paper. “It clearly states in our policies you can’t defame the Targum in any way or embarrass the Targum on social media, in the paper or anything. And that’s exactly what she was doing,” Frederick said.
She says she was “threatened with termination”…well someone was doing their job!
I just want to ask you lot. It seems you have a strong hatred for Muslims, meaning you hate them, because all you do is rant off and swear a lot about how you hate the ‘muzzies’ and that you want to deport them. Not all Muslims believe in the same thing, don’t forget this people your being narrow minded, ignorant and very rude. Btw i don’t like religion, i believe its the main source of evil and suffering.
So says the leftist, living in the future Islamic Republic of Britain.
The Joooooos attacked her! She’d make an excellent wife for John de Nugent.
Bonni: If I click on my email link, I get:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/02/20/rutgers-university-arab-muslim-editor-of-student-newspaper-accuses-the-paper-of-pro-israel-bias/
“Well this is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?
It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help.”
But I can get to your page from http://allfiredupmedia.com, via their link:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/02/20/rutgers-university-arab-muslim-editor-of-student-newspaper-accuses-the-paper-of-pro-israel-bias/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rutgers-university-arab-muslim-editor-of-student-newspaper-accuses-the-paper-of-pro-israel-bias – See more at: http://allfiredupmedia.com/2014/02/rutgers-university-arab-muslim-editor-of-student-newspaper-accuses-the-paper-of-pro-israel-bias/#sthash.OnR0lSFT.dpuf
There have been other articles listed as “Page not found’ but I didn’t try to get to them indirectly. Your ISP or my email?
HF, that seems to happen to other people too, once in a while. I have no idea why and when I try to click on the link in the email they send me, it always works. The easiest thing is to just go to the top of the main page and scroll down.
mudslims like her are attracted to wealth and beauty – and then destroy it.
If it was the other way round she wouldn’t show any of us any mercy.
I thought amani was airing off her hamas knickers but they are too small for her.
I can smell a lawsuit brewing. CAIR is getting ready to roll out charges of discrimination, islamophobia, racism and whatever else they will come up with, requesting millions in damages.
I can CLEARLY see that wanton sluts face – cut off her nose at once, {tongue too while you’re at it}. Does that place have elevators?
Dangerous things elevators.
Amen LK! ….And don’t let the door hit your worthless lying arse on the way out!…Sooo, don’t pause long enough to lift it, your arse that is, on your exit from the Daily Targum…or any CIVILIZED region where headbags are NOT halal (acceptable)!
Anti-American, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Jew-hater:
Americans LOVE America and LOVE Israel! As this upsets you; solve your Quran-inspired HATE and go back to your hell hole country! Non-Muslims are sick of Muslim constant whining, legal jihad and dirty, demonic hate!
No one trusts a Hamas terrorist supporter! Why is a Fifth Column allowed in America endangering Americans?
the fact that she is staunchly pro Hamas shows that what she is alleges is only her pro victimization of herself.. Every Muslim always portrays themselves as victims… No matter what the situation may be… She makes accusations that because she wears a nahjib that people vilify her.. .. Her loyalty to a terrorists organization that has repeatedly called for the complete eradication of Israel , shows that she will stop at nothing in order to promote her agenda of victimization of Muslims… For which is a fallacy on her part… As for the reason Arabs left their homes in now Israel back in 1948 was that the Arab nations told them to leave so that they could obliterate all Jews and push them into the sea… Yet in all Arab nations they stole everything from the Jews living in their countries and literally threw them out … without nothing … So for her to say with out written prove or recording of what she was supposedly told to say in her column is a ploy of sympathy for her taqiyya…..
When muslims don’t get their way it’s discrimination. When they get their way it’s allah’s will.
I wonder if dhimmi Jews and all the other progressive liberals will ever wake the hell up and SEE islam for what it is… evil.
Please BITCH get a job at a steel mill with a lot of moving parts. FUCMO
jesus mary and joseph why are these women so ugly???
You wear a scarf on your head because you are a dumb ass. And talking about that ass, don’t let the door hit it as you leave. Peace to all non-muslims who agree.
She looks like a turtle hiding in its shell! Good job for Rutgers to get rid of someone like this rather than fold to her demands, it’s likely that she will sue claiming “racism” or “Islamophobia” or some sort of nonsense.
SOOOO,,,,what’s the low life liberal,,kiss any one’s @$$,,chicken~SH!T,,coward’s afraid of now ?? YOU DAMN coward’s too scared to stand on your feet,,,,OOOOOOH I forgot your all liberal,,and will DIE on your KNEES as slaves..stand up,,be proud for once in your life..KICK the KOTEX HEADS out,,and grow some BALLS..
sooooooooooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeee t.
Please! Go bury yourself, Amani.
What a whiner.
Of course no one could ever accuse her of being biased toward those 7th century, inbred throwbacks who had those sand piles forever and produced only piles of Camel droppings, could they ? At least she is on the right track, being a Opinion Page Editor, for a job in the Newspaper industry. There, should it survive long enough, she can find employment with hundreds of kindred souls.
Goods luck to you, ragheaded chubby girl. May you find your nervana writing the same drivel as all those super successful enterprises.
Why the hell do they come here? I know their job is to overrun us and annoy the living daylights out of us, but, it seems to me, they are here due to our kindness and generosity and they are extremely annoying and rude guests. Fish and houseguests smell after three days and I am finding the odor absolutely overpowering.
Good riddance. Don’t get your hefty bag stuck in the escalator on the way out.