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With such a void in our religious education, it is difficult to imagine what connects a Druze in Lebanon to a Druze in Israel, Syria, or Palestine??even though the Druze were originally found in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel/Palestine. At the same time, the Druze religion represents a progressive break from Islam in all countries, since the Druze man is forbidden to marry more than one woman, and the institution of marriage is based on equality between men and women...
...world music,” a term that has become marginalized and even slightly pejorative in the ears of mainstream music fans. The releases of Sublime Frequencies emphasize not only the nuanced differences, but also the similarities between seemingly disparate cultures. While releases like “Radio Palestine??—samples of Palestinian radio stations spliced into one another— and “Streets of Lhasa,”—field recordings of Westerners exploring Tibet in search of musicians—may capture the imaginations of many. The experience of listening...
...expertise in international law or Middle East studies—is teaching a seminar on legal issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The course focuses almost exclusively on Israeli abuses of Palestinian rights. Kennedy is the faculty advisor for the “Justice For Palestine?? group at HLS, and has flown in radical critics of Israel, at Harvard’s expense, for guest lectures. Nobody has contested his right to criticize Israel in the classroom...
...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 is being destroyed before our eyes by U.S.-backed Israeli actions...
...Ruth R. Wisse vocalized the underlying rationale of such censorship as few other professors have dared. Denying that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are separate phenomena, she declared anti-Zionism—that is, the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine??the worst kind of anti-Semitism. For such defenders of Israel, any acknowledgment that Zionism in principle and in practice violates Palestinian rights is tantamount to an endorsement of the Holocaust...