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Perhaps you’re not convinced that blonde discrimination is a big deal. Here’s some things to think about. According to the Budapest Sun, blonde jokes are set to be banned after close to 100,000 people in Hungary signed a petition calling for an end...
At the time, Summers said the petition and the Islamic Society effort were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent”—words that immediately made a splash.
Divestment petition supporters were vastly outnumbered on the Harvard faculty by members who expressed agreement with Summers’ views. The divestment effort garnered 75 faculty signatures; an anti-divestment petition drew 439 faculty members’ support.
“I commend President Summers’ efforts on behalf of the UJA,” professor of Psychology Patrick Cavanagh, a signatory of the Israel divestment petition, wrote in an e-mail. “I might mention that the United Palestinian Appeal is also a worthwhile...
Some signers of the divestment petition also said that comparisons between Israel, apartheid South Africa, and even Nazi Germany, are perfectly legitimate.