George Soros-Backed University Has Been butt slapped out of Hungary

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George Soros-Backed University Says It’s Been ‘Forced Out’ Of Hungary

By Marton Dunai

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The Central European University, founded by George Soros, said on Monday it had been forced out of Hungary in “an arbitrary eviction” that violated academic freedom, and it confirmed plans to enroll new students in neighboring Austria next year.

CEU’s statement is the culmination of a years-long struggle between Hungarian-born but U.S.-based Soros, who promotes liberal causes through his charities, and the nationalist, anti-immigrant government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

“CEU has been forced out,” said CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff in a statement.

“This is unprecedented. A U.S. institution has been driven out of a country that is a NATO ally. A European institution has been ousted from a member state of the EU.”

“Arbitrary eviction of a reputable university is a flagrant violation of academic freedom. It is a dark day for Europe and a dark day for Hungary,” the statement added.

Michael Ignatieff, rector of the Central European University, attends a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, December 3, 201
BERNADETT SZABO / REUTERS
Michael Ignatieff, rector of the Central European University, attends a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, December 3, 2018. (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo)
CEU’s legal status has been in limbo for more than a year since changes to a higher education law that meant a foreign-registered university could no longer operate in Hungary unless it also provided courses in its home country.

Orban’s critics say the changes deliberately target CEU, which is regularly ranked as the top university in Hungary and offers U.S. degrees. Orban accuses Soros of encouraging mass immigration into Europe, a charge the philanthropist denies.

Earlier this year, Open Society Foundations, Soros’ main funding network, was also forced to leave Hungary.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/geo...b2116a2a01

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huge huge victory for nationalism

[Skookum Charlie]

(12-04-2018 06:19 AM)pug-thug Wrote:  George Soros-Backed University Says It’s Been ‘Forced Out’ Of Hungary

By Marton Dunai

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The Central European University, founded by George Soros, said on Monday it had been forced out of Hungary in “an arbitrary eviction” that violated academic freedom, and it confirmed plans to enroll new students in neighboring Austria next year.

CEU’s statement is the culmination of a years-long struggle between Hungarian-born but U.S.-based Soros, who promotes liberal causes through his charities, and the nationalist, anti-immigrant government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

“CEU has been forced out,” said CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff in a statement.

“This is unprecedented. A U.S. institution has been driven out of a country that is a NATO ally. A European institution has been ousted from a member state of the EU.”

“Arbitrary eviction of a reputable university is a flagrant violation of academic freedom. It is a dark day for Europe and a dark day for Hungary,” the statement added.

Michael Ignatieff, rector of the Central European University, attends a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, December 3, 201
BERNADETT SZABO / REUTERS
Michael Ignatieff, rector of the Central European University, attends a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, December 3, 2018. (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo)
CEU’s legal status has been in limbo for more than a year since changes to a higher education law that meant a foreign-registered university could no longer operate in Hungary unless it also provided courses in its home country.

Orban’s critics say the changes deliberately target CEU, which is regularly ranked as the top university in Hungary and offers U.S. degrees. Orban accuses Soros of encouraging mass immigration into Europe, a charge the philanthropist denies.

Earlier this year, Open Society Foundations, Soros’ main funding network, was also forced to leave Hungary.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/geo...b2116a2a01

Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian academic and former politician who ran for the office of Prime Minister in 2011 as the leader of the Liberal party, leading the party to a devastating defeat at the polls which saw Ignatieff lose his own home riding seat in humiliating fashion. He is from Russian aristocratic stock and is married to a Hungarian woman.

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"(Ignatieff) later adapted this series into a book, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, detailing the dangers of ethnic nationalism in the post-Cold War period"

The perfect Globalist.

[Skookum Charlie]

(12-05-2018 05:43 AM)Chaos Reigns Wrote:  "(Ignatieff) later adapted this series into a book, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, detailing the dangers of ethnic nationalism in the post-Cold War period"

The perfect Globalist.

Indeed. He is almost stereotypically high level NWO material. Left leaning capitalist politician with a serious academic background from an extremely privileged background. I had wondered what he had gotten up to since ghis disasterous fling at politics actually.

He isn't Jewish though; he is an 'agnatic' Russian noble.

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(12-05-2018 05:57 AM)Skookum Charlie Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 05:43 AM)Chaos Reigns Wrote:  "(Ignatieff) later adapted this series into a book, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, detailing the dangers of ethnic nationalism in the post-Cold War period"

The perfect Globalist.

Indeed. He is almost stereotypically high level NWO material. Left leaning capitalist politician with a serious academic background from an extremely privileged background. I had wondered what he had gotten up to since ghis disasterous fling at politics actually.

He isn't Jewish though; he is an 'agnatic' Russian noble.

Apparently he wrote a biography of a guy called Isaiah Berlin, Jewish 'anti-Marxist'.

[Skookum Charlie]

(12-05-2018 06:19 AM)Chaos Reigns Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 05:57 AM)Skookum Charlie Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 05:43 AM)Chaos Reigns Wrote:  "(Ignatieff) later adapted this series into a book, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, detailing the dangers of ethnic nationalism in the post-Cold War period"

The perfect Globalist.

Indeed. He is almost stereotypically high level NWO material. Left leaning capitalist politician with a serious academic background from an extremely privileged background. I had wondered what he had gotten up to since ghis disasterous fling at politics actually.

He isn't Jewish though; he is an 'agnatic' Russian noble.

Apparently he wrote a biography of a guy called Isaiah Berlin, Jewish 'anti-Marxist'.

Hmm. I guess so, his name Ignatieff actually translates to something like 'of the noble line'. His background is well known. How Zionist the Russian nobles are is a question I'm afraid I haven't looked into.

[Skookum Charlie]

I recall being a little perplexed at the time that someone would leave a position at I believe it was Harvard to run for Prime Minister of Canada as a political neophyte though. That was very unusual.

His wiki profile is downright chilling:

Quote:In 2000, Ignatieff accepted a position as the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[16] Ignatieff's influence on policy continued to grow, helping to prepare the report The Responsibility to Protect for the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. This report examined the role of international involvement in Kosovo and Rwanda, and advocated a framework for 'humanitarian' intervention in future humanitarian crises. He delivered the Massey Lectures in 2000, entitled The Rights Revolution, which was released in print later that year. He would eventually become a participant and panel leader at the World Economic Forum in Geneva.

2001 marked the September 11 attacks in the United States, renewing academic interest in issues of foreign policy and nation building. Ignatieff's text on Western interventionist policies and nation building, Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond, won the Orwell Prize for political non-fiction in 2001.[17] As a journalist, Ignatieff observed that the United States had established "an empire lite, a global hegemony whose grace notes are free markets, human rights and democracy, enforced by the most awesome military power the world has ever known."[18] This became the subject of his 2003 book Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, which argued that America had a responsibility to create a "humanitarian empire" through nation-building and, if necessary, military force.[19] This would become a frequent topic in his lectures. At the Amnesty 2005 Lecture in Dublin, he offered evidence to show that "we wouldn't have international human rights without the leadership of the United States".[20]

Ignatieff's interventionist approach led him to support the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.[21] According to Ignatieff, the United States had a duty to expend itself unseating Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the interests of international security and human rights. Ignatieff initially accepted the argument of George W. Bush administration that containment through sanctions and threats would not prevent Hussein from selling weapons of mass destruction to international terrorists. Ignatieff wrongly believed that those weapons were still being developed in Iraq.[18]

In 2004, he published The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, a philosophical work analyzing human rights in the post-9/11 world. Ignatieff argued that there may be circumstances where indefinite detention or coercive interrogations may need to be used on terror suspects to combat terrorism.[22][23] Democratic institutions would need to evolve to protect human rights, finding a way to keep these necessary evils from offending democracy as much as the evils they are meant to prevent.[24] The book attracted considerable attention. It was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize, but also earned him some criticism. In 2005, he was criticized by his peers on the editorial board for the Index on Censorship, where human rights advocate Conor Gearty said Ignatieff fell into a category of "hand-wringing, apologetic apologists for human-rights abuses". Ignatieff responded by resigning from the editorial board for the Index,[25] and has maintained that he supports a complete ban on torture.[26]

By 2005, Ignatieff's writings on human rights and foreign affairs earned him the 37th rank on a list of most influential public intellectuals prepared by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines.[27]