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...seems so inconsistent unless you understand what the real agenda is, and then everything becomes completely clear and totally consistent. The agenda is Israel. If you’re against Israel—as Matory, Foner, and their ilk are—then they want you to have complete freedom to speak against the Jewish state (as they certainly should and do). If, on the other hand, you’re perceived as pro-Israel (or pro-American, for that matter), then suddenly you have no right to free speech. It is so transparently cynical that...
...reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” Indeed, the Faculty already has in place an extensive and nuanced position on free speech which upholds these basic values. The real point of Matory’s resolution, then, was not to reaffirm trite platitudes, but to push an agenda. The critical subtext of the resolution is that Matory believes that academics who criticize Israel, such as himself, are marginalized and silenced by their colleagues. While his resolution does not explicitly mention Israel, Matory has previously stated that the proposed motion was a response to his perception of the current state...
...Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite political party Hizballah, which possesses its own military, is using its influence to press for a new President friendly to its agenda and the interests of its Syrian and Iranian backers. Meanwhile, pro-Western, anti-Syrian politicians threaten to elect a President from their own camp if the opposition rejects a consensus candidate. Hizballah and its allies say they will not recognize an anti-Syrian President and hint they will form a rival government instead...
...serve its patron Iran, thus dragging Lebanon into the frontline of the power struggle between Washington and Tehran over the latter's nuclear ambitions. Hizballah maintains that its weapons are the only means of deterring Israeli aggression against Lebanon and that calls for its disarmament serve a pro-Israel agenda...
...politicians on both sides of the aisle compete to look greener - David Cameron, the young leader of the Conservative Party, even changed his party's traditional freedom-torch symbol to an oak tree to trumpet his environmental credentials. Green living is "just higher up on the agenda," says Alex Harvey, a Canadian environmental activist who moved to Britain four years ago. "People are looking at lifestyle and consumption, across-the-board issues...