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Fein charges that MIT Professor Noam Chomsky "has long denied the right of Israel to exist," and is "known for anti-Zionism bordering on Anti-Semitism." The first claim is dead wrong; the second is libelous. Chomsky has long called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is the position of most of the world, a growing number of U.S. Jews and of the Israeli peace movement. Chomsky opposes Israeli policies, many based on mainstream Zionism (not the Zionism of Martin Buber and Albert Einstein), which deny Palestinians basic human and national rights. Chomsky believes in a single standard, condemning...
...caller did not identify himself, and the claim could not be immediately authenticated...
...Germans as a people. In fact, there are a lot of things I strongly dislike about some Germans, just as I disagree with many other people. But since Cooper attacked the Germans as a people, and, by implication, me personally, I feel I had to respond and claim that the Germans as a whole are not essentially different from other people. Rather than making wholesale accusations, it would be more constructive to address specific issues arising from the rapid changes now taking place in Eastern Europe. Stephan Klasen...
...buttress his claim, the former employee cites a personal letter Ehrman apparently sent to members of her family in February 1987. In the complaint, Kupelnick says he received the letter "anonymously through the mail" shortly after he was notified of his termination...
...gastronomical theory can explain the enduring appeal of the Thanksgiving dinner. The traditional menu is largely a 19th-century re-creation of Pilgrim and Indian fare, and none of these groups normally claim membership in the world's great culinary traditions. But miraculously the meal remains a monument to pre-microwave American cooking. Not even McDonald's has had the audacity to create McTurkey, nor does Domino's deliver cranberry pizza. So too are the food faddists outflanked, as sun-dried tomatoes, imported chevre and oat-bran anything give way to overstuffed lassitude...