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...Sept. 22 letter, Rustin Silverstein '99 and David Honig '99 criticize the printing of a Reuters photograph of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy being beaten by an Israeli soldier, saying that this coverage was "surprising and sad." Surprising, perhaps, since the U.S. media is generally so skewed towards the Zionist perspective, but not sad, for by no means is every critical exposure of Israeli biased or wrong. This photograph represented a move towards more balanced coverage, while their letter was simply a return to the revisionist writing about Israel and Palestinians that is normalized in mainstream U.S. discourse...
Silverstein and Honig argue that using the name "Arab East Jersualem" inaccurately describes the eastern part of Jerusalem because there is currently a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. However, they neglect to mention that this majority was only achieved through a systematic pumping in of Jewish settlers and concurrent expulsion of native Palestinians by means of physical and legal violence. To uphold the policy of keeping Palestinians off of their land, denoted by such incidents as the notorious 1947 Deir Yassin massacre in a village in the Jerusalem district, Israeli law refuses building permits to native Palestinians in Jerusalem, legally...
...instance, last semester Harvard's decision to deny tenure to Assistant Professor of Government Bonnie Honig prompted outrage across the University, including a sharp letter from 12 senior faculty members to President Neil L. Rudenstine, and allegations of discrimination and intellectual bias were splayed in newspapers nation-wide...
...hope and believe that this was an isolated instance of oversight and that we can continue to receive the same quality of journalism from the Crimson in the future as we have come to expect in the past. --Rustin Silverstein '99, David Honig '99 Co-Chairs, Harvard Students for Israel
...multi-million dollar initiative to centralize financial and administrative information services across the University. * Rudenstine seemed rested, renewed and optimistic after a month long working-vacation in Europe this summer. Though not out of mind, many of last year's controversies-like those over Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig, Harvard Institute for International Development and Harvard's Allston land purchase-seemed out of sight. * And Rudenstine should have more time to devote to his agenda, since the staff of senior administrators Rudenstine relies on to run a complex and far-flung University seems stable for the first time...