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...Science Center lawn yesterday were welcomed with music, Hebrew name bracelets, and free falafel. iFest, the annual celebration of Israeli culture, drew about 500 people, said event organizer Dana A. Stern ’09. “It’s a chance to bring the beauty of Israel??s society and Israel??s history to the greater student body,” said Stern, president of Harvard Students for Israel (HSI). Tables were set up around the edge of the tent where students could plant a seed to simulate the communal farming of kibbutzim...
...were denounced as anti-Semites.In the book, which is essentially a larger, more thorough, and more up-to-date version of the original piece, the two take tremendous pains to controvert any such criticisms.Their careful and logical argument—that the numerous groups that lobby for Israel??s interests in America are uncommonly powerful and are pushing the United States government towards actions that damage our own national interest and perhaps even that of Israel??is well-defended against such criticisms by extensive and thorough research. The book’s final arguments reach...
...mail, “Among dedicated anti-Semites, or passionate supporters of the destruction of Israel, an Israeli film festival would no doubt be interpreted as ‘being political.’ By the same token, among anti-Palestinian racists, or passionate supporters of Israel??s right to crush Palestinians, a ‘festival centered around Palestine’ will no doubt be interpreted as ‘being political.’”“Of course there is a crucial asymmetry,” Chomsky writes. “Palestine...
...consider the substance of his critique. Matory claims that Israel is based on a "racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Anyone who describes Israel??which is a kaleidoscope of races—in these terms is clearly uninformed. The collective Jewish right to self-determination is not racially based and does not exclude Arab self-determination in the same land...
...addition, Matory misrepresented former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, who, in fact, said that "there is much...in Israel??s foreign and defense policy that can be and should be vigorously challenged," but added that singling Israel out was one example of "actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...