Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson, who has had several books published by the Harvard University Press, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning In Human Nature, said Rosenthal's best qualities have been keeping editorial standards at very high levels and maintaining an excellent relationship with faculty members...
...politics, people who rationalize human rights violations are called apologists. Professor of Law and noted civil libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz, who attacks public nativity scenes as grave threats to the U.S. constitution, has no trouble rationalizing egregious curtailments of civil liberties in Israel...
Zealots also rationalize Israel's antidemocratic actions by pointing out how much more morally palatable Israel is than the neighboring Arab states. The Crimson can scarcely print an opinion piece criticizing Israel without drawing letters about how much worse the human rights violations are in Jordan...
...when American Jews' enthusiasm for the Jewish state exceeds their enthusiasm for Israeli democracy, they do a disservice to both Israel and democracy. When American Jews fail to take a critical stance toward human rights violations in Israel, they squander the support of non-Zionists in the U.S. who are potential friends of Israel...
...long run, as the oil-producing gulf states become more geopolitically important and the relative importance of Israel declines, friends of Israel will have only one card to play when soliciting aid from the U.S. That card is political democracy and respect for human rights. Jews should be pressuring Israel to guard that card scrupulously, or they could find that they are Israel's only remaining friends...