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...companies doing business with Israel until the country ended its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, Summers called the petition’s signers “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” His conviction lay not in any evidence of the petitioners?? personal anti-Semitism, or of their inaction against racism in Sudan and South Africa, or in any disproof that Israel was committing illegal acts of occupation or violence against its indigenous people—all with extraordinary financial, military, and diplomatic support from our government. Summers?...
Instead of admitting their desire to join this oppressive boycott, the signatories to the petition blamed Jews for oppressing and displacing the Palestinian Arabs. The petitioners?? offense was thus three-fold: they joined the war against Israel, they absolved Arab leaders of their historical and ongoing role in ensuring that Palestinian Arabs remain “refugees,” and they tried to hold Israel responsible for what the Arab League had wrought. Since then, British professors have taken this process a giant step forward by trying to bar Israeli academics from academic journals. And just...
...substantive due process right, the right to free movement,” Harber said. The judges awarded the prizes of best overall performance and best set of briefs to the respondents’ team, but gave the prize of best oralist to Joshua Hurwit of the petitioners?? team. During the arguments, Justice Souter questioned whether the curfew violated any constitutional rights and defended the right of the State to consider age in its legislation. “You agreed that we shouldn’t develop a framework in which a five-year-old has the same rights...
...petitioners??who have addressed their letter to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71—are specifically concerned with the fate of the health care policy certificate, one of several such acknowledgments of extensive work in a particular area of study...
...Petitioners?? Big Lie” (Opinion, Oct. 24), Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz writes: “The divestment petition, which singles out Israel for criticism in the face of the reality that its human rights record is far better than that of any other nation in the region, is anti-Semitic in effect because it demonizes and delegitimizes the only Jewish nation for sins committed far more frequently and grievously by others...