Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What Harvard does will set the tone for thewhole nation, not what the Massachusetts pensionfunds does," Connolly said. "RJR has a policy ofmaking a profit off of human suffering...
Question 5, the Cambridge-Somerville referendum, is a product of this changing attitude in America. It calls for an end to Israel's human rights violations, stopping "all expenditure of U.S. taxpayers' money for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza," and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with peace for all states in the region including Israel. Question 5 is a product of the realization that the national aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians must be met before there is ever to be peace in the Middle East...
...encourages the growth of racism. For as long as Israel continues to deny fundamental rights to the non-Jewish population of the West Bank and Gaza, Americans cannot in good conscience claim that Israel is a democracy. Nor can we sit silently and continue to financially enable the human rights violations that America has so proudly attempted to eradicate the world over. This is the reasoning and the motivation behind Question...
...away to Israel each year. As American citizens, we, the people of Cambridge, have not only the right to express our opinion about the misuse of our tax dollars--we also have that responsibility. It is true that Israel, as an independent country, cannot be forced to cease its human rights violations. However, let us not forget that America too is an independent country, and while we may not be able to put an end to Israel's brutality, we are certainly under no obligation to foot the bill...
...explicit security guarantee for Israel. There is none for Palestine either. There are those who object because the referendum does not condemn PLO atrocities. But the U.S. already condemns various actions of Palestinians; the referendum does not challenge this policy. It only seeks to hold Israel to the same human rights standards applied to South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Central America. The most frustrating excuse that opposition to Question 5 has invented is that the situation is far too complex to be addressed in a referendum. This is, of course, a not-so-subtle attempt at preserving the status...