Word: apartheid
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...editors: Re: “Dershowitz Lambastes Former President,” news Feb. 28. I am deeply disappointed with your coverage of recent lectures on campus about Jimmy Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” and the conflict in Palestine and Israel. On Tuesday, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz gave a talk in Emerson Hall criticizing the former president and his book. The next day his picture graced your front page and an article detailed the event and some responses to it. Last Thursday, Feb. 22, Norman Finkelstein gave...
Lessac argues that "the basis of hope for the rest of the world" lies in a wider appreciation of the word on which post-apartheid South Africa was founded. Ubuntu is a term that expresses that idea that each man - rich, poor, friend, enemy - is irrevocably bound to the next. Its English translations are various: "togetherness," "humanity toward others," "I am because we are." Nelson Mandela explained ubuntu as follows: "A traveler through our country would stop at a village, and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food...
...Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected President of South Africa. Just a year earlier, he had received a Nobel for helping bring about the end of apartheid...
...former President for refusing to engage in a debate and calling his latest book an “ahistorical” work. In a 90-minute solo appearance at Emerson Hall, Dershowitz extended his public assault on Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which was released in November. He criticized the book’s argument and called Carter’s writing irresponsible, saying that the situation in Israel could not be compared with state-sponsored racism in South Africa, and that blame for instability in the region rested squarely...
...during Ashura, were derided as pagan. Many rulers forbade such ceremonies, fearing that large gatherings would quickly turn into political uprisings. (Ashura was banned during most of Saddam Hussein's rule and resumed only after his downfall in 2003.) "For Shi'ites, Sunni rule has been like living under apartheid," says Vali Nasr, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future...