Word: exhibiter
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...public event at Hillel invited four Harvard students who served in the IDF to discuss the exhibit with Oded Na’aman, a former IDF soldier presenting “Breaking The Silence” during its time in Boston, which ended Sunday. While some student panelists welcomed the exhibit, others criticized it for a lack of context and for portraying a negative image of Israel...
...Shira Kaplan ’08—a panelist who said she served some of her “best two years” in Israeli intelligence—said the exhibit added to an existing mountain of anti-Israeli rhetoric...
...Na’aman responded to such criticisms by saying that the exhibit was not about “human rights violations.” But panelist Asher A. Fredman ’08 said that when he went to the online Web site for the exhibit, the main headline he saw read “killing” and “murder.” Fredman said he could understand how a Harvard student audience without much background knowledge could take away a distorted image...
...Arab war against Israel is now in its 60th year,” she said. “Soldiers who want to break the silence ought to remind us of why they have to be fighting in the first place, and that context is entirely missing from the exhibit...
...panelist Mishy Harman ’08 said the exhibit did not critique Israel itself...