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...misguided faculty initiatives can get was the 2002 petition circulated by a group of Harvard and MIT faculty, students, and other affiliates, urging divestment from Israel and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel. This call for divestment was part of a much broader political initiative by the Arab League, which has since the 1940s declared a boycott of “Jewish products and manufactured goods,” ordering all Arab “institutions, organizations, merchants, commission agents and individuals...to refuse to deal in, distribute, or consume Zionist products or manufactured goods...
Instead of admitting their desire to join this oppressive boycott, the signatories to the petition blamed Jews for oppressing and displacing the Palestinian Arabs. The petitioners’ offense was thus three-fold: they joined the war against Israel, they absolved Arab leaders of their historical and ongoing role in ensuring that Palestinian Arabs remain “refugees,” and they tried to hold Israel responsible for what the Arab League had wrought. Since then, British professors have taken this process a giant step forward by trying to bar Israeli academics from academic journals. And just...
...referring to a small Jewish settlement that was situated in the northeast corner of Gaza.“There is smoke in the air, it’s 110 degrees,” he said, beginning a dramatic description of an operation that resembled a battle scene of an Arab-Israeli war.Except this time, it was Jew versus Jew.Oren said of the settlers: “Their rabbis told then that God would send a miracle at the last minute. We walked into houses where people were eating lunch. They hadn’t packed...
...think Dean Kidd is being overly cautious,” said Rami R. Sarafa ‘07, the former president of the Harvard Society of Arab Students...
...Certainly having students who are Arab or Arab-American going out and talking about their experiences is far more effective...than if I’m out there,” Bodine said...