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...deeply upsetting that The Crimson editorial board has chosen to overshadow and in effect dismiss the council’s ardent efforts with overblown rhetoric and disrespect toward council members’ hard work (Editorial, “Communication Failure, Again...
Under the Brandano procedure, the judge would reject the plea of guilty, offer pre-trial probation, continue the case for a period of two years and ultimately dismiss the case without a final finding...
...seek the end of occupation as Westerners normally understand that term. Rather, they seek the “liberation” of all historic Palestine from the “Zionist invaders.” While I do not doubt that many of the signers of the petition will dismiss these concerns as Jewish paranoia, they are easily documented, and must be taken unto account. Taking them into account means that it is not at all clear that “ending occupation” will in fact bring peace and security to the region; it is, of course...
...appalled that the president of Harvard tried to dismiss a political argument by branding its proponents as racists—without justification. Furthermore, calling their position “anti-Semitic” corrupts the meaning of that term...
However, to say that the actions of Israelis toward Palestinians over half a century have led to the violent, unresolvable conflict that country finds itself in today is an opinion with which one may agree or disagree—but it was outrageous to dismiss the argument as “anti-Semitic.” Financial support from the American government, private Americans both Jewish and Christian, the American armaments industry and American Jewish “settlers” of the West Bank have all enabled Israel’s defiant persistence with policies such as the bulldozing...