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Organizations. Previously endorsed by 250 influential Israelis, the statement criticized "extremists" within the Israeli government who "distort Zionism and threaten its realization." Implicitly opposing the Begin policy of building more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the statement also condemned those who "advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence" and concluded that "their way endangers and isolates Israel." The statement, in the view of Brandeis University Professor Leonard Fein, was "a vote of no confidence in the present Israeli government by a significant segment of the American Jewish leadership...
Genovese's personal reputation or political views should never have been used to judge whether he is qualified for an academic position. President Bok's last open letter to the Harvard community says, "Efforts to impose political, economic, or moral judgements are likely to distort the appointment process." Every candidate for an academic position, according to Bok, should be considered solely on the basis of his scholarship. Given Afro's need for scholars and Genovese's credentials, this hardly seems the place to make exceptions to this University policy...
...what if everyone who feels as strongly as you do about Harberger acts the same way? There are people who really feel passionately in ways that would scare the pants off those students. Once you legitimize the idea that it's okay to get in there and try to distort the normal appointments process by pushing your point of view across, you're going to get a lot of people pushing with considerably greater batallions than the students have...
Covert and clandestine practices by the intelligence agencies in their relationships with the academic community distort the rights and responsibilities of the academic community and thus undermine academic freedom to the detriment of society...
Viet Nam did not threaten our freedom: a takeover of the Persian Gulf region by the Soviets will. Did our involvement in Viet Nam so distort our thinking that we can no longer differentiate between a folly and a serious threat to the future of freedom in America...