Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poor Professor Toynbee! He has dared to criticize Israel and must now be branded as antiSemitic. Criticism of Jews or Israel is for some uncanny reason construed as advocating a pogrom or approving the ghastly atrocities of the Nazis. Professor Toynbee could have excoriated Southerners, Protestants, Puerto Ricans and Catholics with impunity, but he made the unpardonable mistake of expressing an opinion uncomplimentary to Zionists (and not necessarily to Jews...
...losing our freedom to criticize, to think and to judge in a society that identifies the criticism of Israel with antiSemitism. We are losing our sense of intellectual balance in believing that anti-Protestantism, anti-Catholicism and anti-Southernism are less deplorable than antiSemitism. They are equally deplorable, though certain shallow liberals would have us believe that anti-Semitism alone is objectionable...
...taken A. J. Toynbee to face up to some of the harsher ramifications of the Palestine problem. If one wrong (Nazi persecution of the Jews) can be righted by another (expropriating the land of 800,000 Arabs), then, and only then, can Israel be justified...
Astronomer Edward Israel, fresh out of the University of Michigan, babbled of home and mother's cooking, then collapsed. The first twelve men to die were dragged to a barren hillock and covered with gravel. After that, the weakened survivors could do no more than push the emaciated corpses into a tidal crack...
...blockade-running Israeli refugee ship Exodus, reported some reservations back home about the bestselling (4,000,000 copies to date) novel inspired by his 1947 heroics. "Israelis," he said, "were pretty disappointed in the book, to put it lightly. The types that are described in it never existed in Israel. The novel is neither history nor literature." From his literary lair in Encino, Calif., Exodus Author Leon Uris rebutted: "You may quote me as saying, 'Captain who?' and that's all I have to say. I'm not going to pick on a lightweight. Just look...