Word: claims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While organizer Paula Puhak '90 said she confirmed the concert with the promoter in September, yesterday he called her claim "a total, complete fabrication...
...viewpoint and constant questioning of our assumptions that ultimately comes from diversity. Unless Harvard changes course, it will stagnate with a faculty ossified by background and academic standards. Only a school with a more visionary conception of its faculties and the role of minorities and women in them can claim to be the world's greatest university...
...occupation which not only frustrates hopes of Palestinian nationalism, but also erodes Israeli democracy and encourages the growth of racism. For as long as Israel continues to deny fundamental rights to the non-Jewish population of the West Bank and Gaza, Americans cannot in good conscience claim that Israel is a democracy. Nor can we sit silently and continue to financially enable the human rights violations that America has so proudly attempted to eradicate the world over. This is the reasoning and the motivation behind Question...
...Arab Americans, is secretly seeking the total destruction of Israel. As further evidence of our alleged bias against Israel, the opposition points out that the referendum does not call on the U.S. government to apply pressure on the Palestinians. The referendum's attention to only Israeli atrocities, they claim, is proof of its one-sidedness...
...refuse to negotiate with the PLO. Question 5 urges a more balanced approach to the entire conflict, an approach which stresses that both Palestinians and Israelis have equal rights to statehood and there must come a day when our government treats both peoples equally. Until that day, however, any claim that Question 5 is "one-sided" or "biased" against Israel, ignores the fact that America's Mideast policy is itself "one-sided" and "biased" in favor of Israel. Question 5 seeks to balance the scales...