Word: palestinians
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Fein charges that MIT Professor Noam Chomsky "has long denied the right of Israel to exist," and is "known for anti-Zionism bordering on Anti-Semitism." The first claim is dead wrong; the second is libelous. Chomsky has long called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is the position of most of the world, a growing number of U.S. Jews and of the Israeli peace movement. Chomsky opposes Israeli policies, many based on mainstream Zionism (not the Zionism of Martin Buber and Albert Einstein), which deny Palestinians basic human and national rights. Chomsky believes in a single standard, condemning...
...supporter of self-determination for Black South Africans, Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, I find these ties, which include nuclear weapons cooperation and Israeli aid in maintaining apartheid, e.g., by giving South Africa counter-insurgency aid, repugnant. Rather than attack the messenger, Israel's friends, such as Fein, ought to heed the message. At the least, they ought to support the right of conferences, whether pro- or anti-Israeli policy, to be held at universities. Free speech is free speech, and we cannot allow the exclusion of meetings because they "would have obscured real debate." Edmund R. Hanauer Executive Director...
...Harvard, I have seen Zealots react to this intellectual crisis in three ways. The first is to suppress the notion that Israel has done anything wrong. Once during my first year, a Palestinian student posted a sign on the entryway bulletin board that showed an Israeli soldier beating an unarmed Palestinian woman with the butt of his rifle...
Within hours, a Jewish student in the entryway had torn the poster down. When the Palestinian confronted her about the incident, the Jewish student responded "I'm sorry, but I just couldn't bear to see it there...
Both parties, Aruri said, would benefit from the continued employment of 110,000 Palestinian workers in Israel and the joint management of scarce water supplies...