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...Harvard] student admitted to me that she was afraid—afraid to express support for Israel, afraid to take part in pro-Israel organizations, afraid to be identified,” Israeli Minister of Jerusalem and World Jewish Affairs Natan Sharansky wrote following a Sept. 16 visit to Cambridge. The student, a doctoral candidate at one of the University’s professional schools, only agreed to speak to FM on the condition of anonymity...
...grandmotherly Wisse has long been one to speak up for Israel, and in the process has emerged as an intellectual hero to Jewish conservatives. “The liberal betrayal of the Jews remains one of the most painful questions for me,” says Wisse. “I cannot understand why liberals of all people—who pretend to believe in democracy, who pretend to believe in freedom…who pretend to believe in tolerance—could fail to speak out energetically on behalf of [Israel]…One has to conclude that...
...Marglin worked tirelessly to be a peacemaker as tensions flared at the last two dialogues. Now she is aiming to bring progressives and hard-liners within the Harvard Jewish community together in a “Jewish-Jewish dialogue” next semester. “I think the Jewish-Arab dialogue is something that Jews who are very far on the right would never feel comfortable with,” she says. “The more dialogue, the merrier...
...organizers of the Mather and Lowell events, the third attempt in the past three years to generate a sustained conversation, think that the Arab-Jewish dialogue can successfully encompass a wide range of ideologies. The overarching goal, says David A. Weinfeld ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, is the “humanization” of the conflict. He believes that if Arab and Jewish student leaders develop strong personal relationships, perhaps Harvard can avoid the polarization that came in the wake of the divestment petition and the Jubran visit...
...Hamdi and Weinfeld face an uphill battle. The first three sessions revolved around factual disputes rather than substantive exchanges. Meanwhile, as Dershowitz notes, faculty have failed to provide any model for dialogue on Arab-Jewish issues. Most importantly, in a phenomenon not limited to Harvard, increasingly extreme viewpoints are drowning out more conciliatory ones...