A few hours ago, the following obnoxious comment was left on the blog, in response to my recent BDS Fail post:
“Aussie Dave” and his other juvenile friends don’t speak for all Jews, a thing he and his buddies undoubtedly don’t think about when calling their “fellow” Jews “Jew-haters.”
Apparently the Israeli handlers who taught you how to attack those who criticize Israel forgot to mention that some people actually know history.
“Aussie” Dave, who apparently comes from another country founded by convicted felons, should read the history of Israel. He would find that a great many people disagreed with the kinds of mentors he so admires.
But then, that would just be the cherry on top of the dessert. Aussie Dave is a serious scholar, don’t you know.
Being that I don’t take too kindly to being personally attacked – nor to having my country of origin attacked – I decided to find out who this “Barry Fruchter” was. And given he left his name and IP address, it wasn’t too difficult.
As it turns out, my frenemy Google reveals there is a Barry Fruchter who works as an English and Jewish Studies assistant professor at Nassau Community College.
And he’s not surprisingly a BDS-hole.
“I loved the speakers,” Barry Fruchter, an English and Jewish Studies assistant professor at New York’s Nassau Community College, said. “It’s important to move off the issue from being anti-anything to supporting the main goal of [Palestinian] academic freedom,” he said.
He clearly puts his English academic background to “good” use:
This reading by Barry Fruchter will include poems from an upcoming book entitled, “Dark Fields of Palestine.” One of the poems concerns Rachel Corrie, the young American protestor who was killed March 16, 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer.
As mentioned, he’s also the Jewish Studies project coordinator. Here’s more on that:
The Jewish Studies Project (JWS) provides students with an introduction to the world of Judaism beyond the limited images presented by mainstream media. JWS 101 presents the fascinating multicultural, multiracial diversity of the world Jewish experience through readings, discussions, field trips, films, and guest speakers from various academic and artistic disciplines. JWS 101 transfers to four-year colleges; students from all backgrounds and fields are welcome to enroll. Related courses are Literature of the Holocaust, Department of English, and Hebrew, Department of Foreign Languages. The Jewish Studies Project also sponsors events and presentations open to the campus and outside communities. For further information, contact the Jewish Studies Project Coordinator, Professor Barry Fruchter
So he deals with the Holocaust. In case you are wondering how he deals with that sensitive topic, wonder no more.
13 ) Barry Fruchter / USA07/05/2010 18:06This is yet another brutal manoeuvre by the Zionist authorities. In their arrogance and blindness they assume the rest of the world, including the world’s Jews, will stand idly by and permit them to continue without protest. This is not true. What Auschwitz failed to do to the Jewish people is being done by the israeli military. We are all Jews! we are all Palestinians! We are all Gypsies! We are all Poles, Russians, Iraqis, Afghanis, Iranians! NO MORE GENOCIDE!
Clearly, this is someone in a position to poison young student minds. Fortunately, many of his students don’t think of him too highly. Here are some comments on Fruchter taken from Rate My Professors:
The man has seperated himself from society. He has fallen off the train tracks and entered a dark world known only by him. This is w/o question the worst professor not only to exist at NCC, but quite possibly throughout the Continental United States.
worst professor ever. Boring lectures. easy papers though. Try not to take this class. He is extremely boring
most boring class i have ever been in..goes off topic and talks about whatever he wants for the hour, its hard to stay awake..but the only grades are papers u write at home and hand in, so its an easy A if u wanna put yourself through his awful teaching
wow this guy is SO BORING! yeah any1 in the world can pass his class but he just talks & talks & talks i took eng 101&102 just so i could take this class n its NOT what i expected gives papers never tests & they r just random ideas he comes up w/ i hated going it was such a waste of time, i’d fall asleep or play w/ my phone if u can avoid him do so
Very boring but as long as you pretend to listen, e gives you a good grade.
Try to find a seat near the door and take a chance to get out of class after he takes attandance. Otherwise u r gonna have to listen to his painfully boring and unnecessary stories for the entire hour
When I had Professor Fruchter he did more ranting than teaching. His class was not challenging, it was an easy class. Although he has some good lectures but every now and then he starts lecturing about things unrelated to ENG 101! (like the evils of Israel? – Aussie Dave) He asked us to buy a 2nd book for his class that he used twice. He doesn’t know how to open emails and needs to retire.
Yes he is very boring but who cares. If you fail his class then you should drop out of school. Easyyyyyyyy
ridiculous and waste of class time. This class is extremely easy but u dont learn anything. u have like 4 papers and no tests. i used the textbook once. he talks alot of noncense in class that u dont need to know…ever.
He is to say at the least a very weird man.He is very boring and goes off on tangents all the time.He also has very unreadable handwriting,which sucks when your trying to read his critique.
He’s not that great of a prof and he’s extremely boring
This guy is sooo damn boring i rather watch paint dry on the wall. But not only is he boring, his such a cornball. His papers are so easy though and his leant. If you really wanna be lazy and just write easy papers and catch up with your sleep, take this class.
But it gets better. You will recall the obnoxious comment came from Barry Fruchter/Dov Rose. Who is Dov Rose? I’m not sure, but the combination of names led me to this:
And this:
Barry Fruchter is a writer and faculty member in the English Department at Nassau Community College. He is former editor of Xanadu literary magazine and has been published in Lampeter Muse, Borderlands, The BookMark, Nassau Review, Socialist Review and Redwood Coast Review. Amber Rose is a healer, an acupuncturist, social worker/psychotherapist, interfaith minister, teacher and author. She is devoted to changing the world one person at a time. As a singer/songwriter, she has composed and performed hundreds of songs dealing with social and political change as well as with human relationships. Her poems of The Five Elements were composed for a series of lectures and workshops. Barry and Amber, great-grandchildren of Jozef and Leah Fiszon of Zyrardow, Poland, were married in Woodstock, NY on October 13, 2005. They live in Woodstock.
Gives new meaning to the term “kissing cousins.”
So thanks Barry Fruchter/Dov Rose. Your obnoxious and insulting comment led to me being entertained.
Update: It just occurred to me to recheck the BDS Fail Video to see if Fruchter or his cousin/wife are in the video. I’m almost positive his wife is the purple teletubbie woman, and I think Fruchter is the fiddler!
