Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case in point: the violently anti-Israeli opinions of Jesuit Radical Daniel Berrigan, once imprisoned foe of the Viet Nam War, longtime champion of the underdog, and soul brother of the late Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, American Judaism's most poetic Zionist. At a meeting of the Association of Arab University Graduates this fall in Washington, D.C., Berrigan excoriated Israel as "a criminal Jewish community. The creation of millionaires, generals and entrepreneurs... is rapidly evolving into the image of her ancient adversaries." Israel's "historic adventure, which gave her the right to 'judge the nations...
...sure, Berrigan was harsh with Arab leadership as well ("Their capacity for deception, remarkable even for our world ... their contempt for their own poor"). He also tried to soften his criticism by asserting that as "a priest in resistance against Rome" and as "an American in resistance against Nixon," he was "very like a Jew." Berrigan's remarks, his choice of audience, and his pose as an archetypal Jew infuriated Jewish leaders. Historian Arthur Hertzberg, noting that the Jesuit has never been to Israel, ticked off a number of factual errors made by Berrigan in an angry reply...
Acerbic Views. Berrigan's speech was still causing trouble last week. The American Jewish Congress protested plans to give Berrigan the Gandhi Peace Prize next month. And the Rev. Donald Harrington of the Community Church of New York withdrew from the presentation. Berrigan "has ceased to be a witness for peace," Harrington said. "His speech was not a prophetic utterance, only an inflammatory...
Leonard B. Boudin is the name. And the man's legal defense record is an impressive march through American social history; starting with labor leaders in the thirties, to alleged Russian spies in the forties, past anti-McCarthyites in the fifties, and onto Spock, Berrigan, and Ellsberg in the last decades...
...Philip Berrigan argued that "men of conscience had to take a higher law into their own hands." Former Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening, 86, maintained that resisters "deserve an accolade"; but he would not comment on how Armstrong should be punished because his act "turned out rather tragically." Historian Gabriel Kolko of Toronto's York University insisted: "To condemn Karl Armstrong is to condemn a whole anguished generation. His intentions were more significant than the unanticipated consequences of his actions...