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...Lori E. Fein's article, "Don't Legitimate Propaganda" (November 2), which supports Harvard Divinity School's refusal to allow on its premises a conference on Israeli-South African ties, deserves response on several counts...
...Fein charges that MIT Professor Noam Chomsky "has long denied the right of Israel to exist," and is "known for anti-Zionism bordering on Anti-Semitism." The first claim is dead wrong; the second is libelous. Chomsky has long called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is the position of most of the world, a growing number of U.S. Jews and of the Israeli peace movement. Chomsky opposes Israeli policies, many based on mainstream Zionism (not the Zionism of Martin Buber and Albert Einstein), which deny Palestinians basic human and national rights. Chomsky believes in a single standard, condemning...
Since our conference "Apartheid's Are and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections" has provoked debate in your pages, I would appreciate the opportunity to reply to Lori E. Fein's charge that our real aim is to "deceive" the audience (November...
...Fein has several complaints about our conference. She says it is not "balanced," that the speakers lack "particular expertise" and that its effect will be to obscure "real debate on an already murky issue." Let me take each in turn...
...business to inform ourselves about what is done with our tax dollars--in defiance of our own legislation? Would Fein have preferred that NBC steered clear of this critically important subject? I would suggest to her that in order to foster the "real debate" she claims to favor we first need the facts: and the "angry denials" reported by NBC to be Israel's reaction to its news report may indeed represent an "opposing viewpoint," but they hardly move the discussion forward in a factual...