Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...identity that retains the most impact on her daily life is her membership in the Palestinian Diaspora community. This year she founded the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on Palestine, and last year she served as the President of the Society of Arab Students...
Would Nur Yalman, professor of social anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, please explain his use of the word "pansy" in the April 24 Crimson news article, "Arab Scholar Ajami Negotiating Tenure"? The professor was quoted as saying, "He is a man of strong opinions. He is not a pansy on criticizing the Arabs...
...real hypocrites, "Dersh" goes on to argue, are the anti-Semites who criticize Israel while turning a blind eye to atrocities in the Arab world and elsewhere. Here Dershowitz hits upon a thorny problem. The anti-Semitism he describes surely exists--his collection of anti-Semitic hate mail is evidence enough of that--and many do use criticism of Israel as a thin disguise for anti-Semitism...
Granted, radical Third World types have an infuriating tendency to condemn Israel for abuses that pale before those committed in Arab states and most of the nations on Earth, for that matter. But that's no reason to tar those who believe that Israel should be held to a higher standard (it being completely dependent on the U.S. for its survival and all) with the brush of anti-Semitism...
Western frustration with Israel may be running deeper than top diplomats are willing to admit publicly. In a stinging private speech before an Anglo-Arab group, David Gore-Booth, the British assistant under secretary for Middle Eastern affairs, declared that in its handling of the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Israel is little or no better than any other Middle Eastern state in terms of its militarism, standard of democracy and denial of human rights. The Foreign Office expert attributed the instability of the region to "Israel's refusal to allow the Palestinians to have the same rights as those...