Word: berrigans
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...argument. Fortunately, I spoke from a text, a perusal of which will convince any fair-minded reader that The Crimson account bears little relationship to my remarks. Firstly, I most emphatically deny that I accused Daniel Ellsberg of advocating violence. Your reporter obviously confused Daniel Ellsberg with Daniel Berrigan, who I did soundly criticize. Secondly, I did not say--nor do I believe--that "The Palestinians were wrongly expelled [from Israel]". What I said was as follows...
...lack of perfection, Israel shines by comparison with every other Arab state and all but a handful of states throughout the world in civil liberties, political freedom, feminism, and distribution of income. It is a flawed socialist-democracy, but even with its flaws, it is not--as Daniel Berrigan recently called it--a "criminal Jewish community" that employs a "racist ideology" comparable to that used by the Nazis. When viewed from the perspective of the values that we share, it is beyond doubt, near--though not at--the top of any list of nations, and clearly...
Dershowitz, who called himself "pro-Israeli", last night described Israel as "a flawed socialist state," but not, as Daniel Berrigan had stated, "a criminal state with racist ideology...
...diplomats and businessmen stationed there. Occasionally the virulence has struck spectacularly elsewhere in the world, as in the 1970 kidnapings by French-Canadian separatists of Quebec Minister of Labor Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross. But in the U.S., political extremism has taken other forms, though the Berrigan brothers and their friends did kick around an almost comic-opera scenario to kidnap Henry Kissinger as part of their antiwar activities...
...Hire. Schulman, 46, comes to his avocation from a radical background. He calls himself a "broken-down academic," having lost posts at Cornell and City College of New York because of his activism. He got into the Harrisburg case partly because of his friendship with Daniel Berrigan. Christie, 55, a Columbia professor of social psychology, became involved through his friendship with Schulman...