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Matory defines anti-Zionism as "the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Zionism’s supposedly racial nature would surely surprise the German and Yemenite Jews who built the Jewish state together. His claims that Zionism is race-based and "violates Palestinian rights" are strikingly similar to the biased screed that "Zionism is racism...
...serious scholar—least of all Professor Ruth R. Wisse, whom Professor Matory quotes directly—would ever claim that only Zionists are legitimate Jews and that all Jews share the same opinions about Israel...
...consider the substance of his critique. Matory claims that Israel is based on a "racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Anyone who describes Israel—which is a kaleidoscope of races—in these terms is clearly uninformed. The collective Jewish right to self-determination is not racially based and does not exclude Arab self-determination in the same land...
...foundational sophomore tutorial for the concentration, is considered, according to the Courses of Instruction, to be “a prerequisite for sophomores applying to social studies.” This unpleasant discovery has drawn its fair share of discontent from potential social studies concentrators, who claim that they are effectively being forced to choose their concentration long before the official deadline of Monday, Dec. 3. Students who elect to concentrate in social studies later than sophomore fall can elect to take Social Studies 10 concurrently with the one-semester tutorial in their junior year. Taking two intensive tutorials...