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Last spring, after 64 Harvard professors signed a petition calling for the University to withdraw from its investments in Israel??estimated at more than $600 million—University President Lawrence H. Summers said Harvard did not intend to divest from the beleaguered state...
Summers later said such petitions calling for divestment because of Israel??s actions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...
Recently, even the Concordia student agenda became a locus for controversy. The 2001-2002 student planner—named Uprising after the Palestinian Intifada—claimed that May 15, the anniversary of Israel??s independence, was simply Al Nakba, “the catastrophe.” The planner called July 1, Canada Day, “anti-Canada day,” and encouraged students to burn the flag. And the planner contained an essay claiming that the “‘Jewish’ rector knows how much money the university owes...
...wholeheartedly to peace. While the first priority is the elimination of terrorism on the Palestinian side, Israeli leader Ariel Sharon needs to implement his own policies for peace. The continuing construction of new settlements and new settler “outposts” in the West Bank severely undermines Israel??s commitment to peace. While this construction activity is in no way the moral equivalent of suicide bomber attacks, halting any and all settlement construction immediately is imperative to show respect for the Palestinians...
Both Graham and Hanson signed a petition last year calling for divestment from Israel in protest of Israel??s counter-terrorism operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Graham later removed his name from the petition...