Word: intentioned
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...Debate” (Editorial, Sept. 23) needlessly attacks University President Lawrence H. Summers for voicing his opinion. Summers’ speech was moderate and personal, and he precisely said that the petition is among the actions that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” The editorial suggests that divestment is no more an attack on the people of Israel “than opposition to the Bush’s administration’s policies is an attack on the American people”. However, it has not at any time...
This year, 93 students filed petitions declaring intent to run for council representative posts, council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 wrote in an e-mail yesterday. This is a sharp drop-off from last year, when 120 students ran for office...
...nature of the divestment campaign—and not the specious accusations regarding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ speech on the issue, I would like to suggest why I believe the campaign is properly characterized as “anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent.” I would like to look carefully—if necessarily briefly—at the strategy of the campaign and the rhetoric of the petition, in order to show how it implicitly demonizes Jews...
...powerful and destructive to express opposition to a set of specific policies in any focused way (apartheid was much too pervasive a political and social phenomenon to be called a policy). Rather, the divestment strategy was aimed at the very foundations of a morally repugnant state. Whatever the intent of the signers, the strategy chosen cannot help but say that we as a moral community cannot tolerate our hands being dirtied by association with the State of Israel. Summers understood this well when he described the campaign as seeking “to single out Israel among all nations...
...civilians—than to the lives of others—Israeli civilians (not all of them Jews, to be sure). Here the petition’s rhetoric is simply shameful, its dehumanizing effects thoroughly offensive. Yet again, Summers got it right: anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...