Word: apartheidã
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...novel is glaringly reminiscent of its more renowned contemporary, J.M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Whereas Coetzee uses myth to provide an account of nobility in the midst of brutality—itself a critique of South African apartheid??Rodoreda’s rootless fantasy world communicates comparatively little of Coetzee’s allegorical power. Through the unnamed narrator, Rodoreda implements an emotionally stripped style as a stand-in for wanton horror: “The blacksmith did not want me to entomb my child in the tree...
Dershowitz took special pains to address Carter’s policies towards Israel, calling Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid??, “full of bias...
...Boston Globe in December that he would not debate someone who “knows nothing about the situation in Palestine.” Carter has defended the controversial title of his book, saying in a statement on the Carter Foundation Web site that the “apartheid?? refers to conditions in the Palestinian territories and not in Israel. The leader of the Harvard Progressive Jewish Alliance, which generally opposes Dershowitz’s hawkish views on Israel, said in an interview after the event that she was impressed by the law professor’s rhetoric...
...over a book comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with earlier state-sponsored racism in South Africa, President Jimmy Carter met an overwhelmingly friendly crowd at a Harvard Square bookstore on Jan. 23. The Nobel Peace Prize winner signed copies of “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid?? at the Harvard Coop while in town for a highly anticipated speech at Brandeis University. Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said he had ordered 1,600 copies of “Palestine” for the store. The hundreds of people hoping...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner signed copies of “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid?? at the Harvard Coop while in town for a highly anticipated speech at Brandeis University...