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Israeli policy has likewise come under criticism from human rights organizations for the treatment of Palestinians under its control. Arabs living in the Israeli state are subjected to harassment and are not truly regarded as equal citizens. Those living under the Palestinian Authority have repeatedly been barred from going to their jobs in Israel, and have suffered from the loss of income. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights censured Israel in 1974 for its policies in the lands it had taken since its independence. Human rights concerns thus similarly show "the Palestinians' problem" to be an issue of international concern...
...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations was founded in 1981 at a time when the number of minority students was rapidly growing, buoyed by the expansion of equal-opportunity and affirmative-action programs. That year, Harvard President Derek C. Bok created a task force headed by Rev. Peter J. Gomes to examine intercultural relations on campus. On the task force's recommendation, the Foundation was created...
...turnabout culminates a quarter-century of legislative and legal maneuvering. The 1963 Supreme Court decision and its broad-brush enforcement by school administrators infuriated conservative Christians, who gradually developed enough clout to force Congress to make a change. The resulting Equal Access Act of 1984 required any federally funded secondary school to permit religious meetings if the schools allowed other clubs not related to curriculum, such as public-service Key Clubs. The crucial rule was that the prayer clubs had to be voluntary, student-run and not convened during class time...
...speech he announced that "nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones or requires all religious expression to be left at the schoolhouse door." A month later Clinton had the Department of Education issue a memo to public school superintendents that appeared to expand Equal Access Act protections to include public-address announcements of religious gatherings and meetings at lunchtime and recess...
...been much less controversy than one might have expected from the hysterical predictions we made." Americans United director Barry Lynn notes that "in most school districts, students are spontaneously forming clubs and acting upon their own and not outsiders' religious agendas." A.C.L.U. lobbyist Terri Schroeder also supports the Equal Access Act, pointing out that the First Amendment's Free Exercise clause protecting religious expression is as vital as its Establishment Clause, which prohibits government from promoting a creed. The civil libertarians' acceptance of the clubs owes something to their use as a defense against what they consider a truly...