Word: foodes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much has been made of Martin Kramer’s suggestion that Palestinians be denied food and medicine in order to weaken their opposition to the Israeli occupation. We, along with a group of 25 other professors, scholars, and Harvard alumni, add our voices to the chorus of condemnation directed towards Dr. Kramer and express our concern that the Weatherhead Center has lent him its credibility. As academics, we question both the ethical and scholarly basis of Dr. Kramer’s public statements. We maintain that this is not a question of protecting Dr. Kramer’s free...
...Israel’s current economic blockade of Gaza, now in its fourth year, represents a successful effort to “break Gaza’s runaway population growth.” He therefore argued against what he called “pro-natal subsidies” of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid that help to reproduce the “constant supply of superfluous young men” demanded by a so-called “culture of martyrdom” in Gaza...
...described as racist. Indeed, his statements are rooted in a polemic that would have been unacceptable in reference to any other population. To quote Weatherhead Center executive committee member Stephen Walt, “What if a prominent academic at Harvard declared that the United States had to make food scarcer for Hispanics so that they would have fewer children? Or what if someone at a prominent think tank noted that black Americans have higher crime rates than some other groups, and therefore it made good sense to put an end to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and other welfare...
Upon discovering one of Beaulieu’s food stamp receipts in Glauber’s home, police arrested Beaulieu in Russel, Mass. and placed him in a Cambridge jail, according to The Boston Herald...
With the help of their friend Scott J. Yim ’13, the pair filmed over 50 freshmen speaking candidly to their future selves about friends, Annenberg food, bad movies, extracurriculars, and potential concentrations over the past three weekends...