Word: propagandaã
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...column by Jordana R. Lewis ’02 entitled “Indoctrinating, Not Educating” (Opinion, Nov. 15) accuses me of conducting “indoctrination” and almost “propaganda?? in Foreign Cultures 17: “Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East.” Allow me to respond to these serious and misleading charges...
Lewis accuses me of coming close to “propaganda?? essentially for organizing a session on the Oslo accords and for showing two films in a separate series. On Oslo, I did invite Associate Professor of Government Eva Bellin and Rami Khouri to speak to our students for 20 minutes each to open up a discussion. Khouri is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard from Jordan. He is a Christian Palestinian, respected as a journalist who is generally considered to be a “dove.” He made what seemed rather a mild statement since...
...background of what we read in the papers. I do not believe that it is wrong to bring such matters to the attention of our students who certainly have the critical faculties to assess what they are watching. The pretense that all this amounts to almost “propaganda?? and “indoctrination” is an insult to the intelligence of our students. It is also a slur on the dedicated work being carried out by 10 gifted teaching fellows...