Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believed that truth was vindicated, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent, but on oneself. That belief comes from Christ himself, the sermon on the Mount, and further back from the Jewish and Hindu traditions. There's no question that by setting such an example, you get others to do it. That is the real essence, but that is difficult. That's what separates ordinary men from great men. And we're all pretty ordinary men in those things...
What are the implications of the anti-Zionist resolution? Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. The Zionist movement asserts the right of that people to determine their destiny in Israel, their homeland. By equating Zionism and racial discrimination, the United Nations denies the right of national sovereignty to one particular people, the Jews, thus subverting their own principles and perpetuating the very practice it purports to condemn. Morever, the United Nations' attempt to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict through linguistic obfuscation limits its capacity to reconcile the claims of the two vying national liberation movements...
...national liberation when it called for the establishment of the Israeli state in 1947. Israel's continued existence demonstrates that the U.N. cannot thwart that same struggle. Whatever the United Nations says or does the State of Israel will survive as the expression of the right of the Jewish people to national self-determination...
...daresay it would be both presumptuous and callous of, say, Protestants at Notre Dame University, Methodists at Augustana College (Lutheran), Mormons at Furman University (Baptist), Gentiles at Brandeis University (Jewish), or Jews at Harvard to insist that securing these groups' presence in universities of different cultural origins and distinctiveness required the latter's extinction. Thus, in the model of American pluralism, as Notre Dame adjusted over time to this model its Catholic leadership is required only to surrender its nativist phobia--its fear that having Protestants, Jews, Muslims, etc. among us will destroy us, deny our cultural distinctiveness...
...then, within the framework of both the spirit and practice of this delicately calibrated model of American pluralism that I reject Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's militant Jewish thrust in the Harvard community. And though I sympathize with Mr. Epstein's low-profile approach to Jewish militancy, I reject it equally...