Word: petitionã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...petition??€™s author, David L. Fox ’91, said he has been impressed by the response generated “solely by word of mouth...
Hanson said that while the masters considered some of the petition??€™s safety concerns, they ultimately decided that kegs posed a greater threat to student safety...
While Chopra said he hopes yesterday’s decision by the masters will not end student discussion of the ban, Hanson said he thinks it highly unlikely the petition??€”if submitted—will be successful...
Furthermore, the petition??€™s justification for the campaign suggests that Israel and Israel alone is responsible for all the misery in the region. Such a suggestion displays willful ignorance of the history of the conflict; it ignores the fact that whenever in the last 10 years there was movement toward a settlement—that is, movement toward the end of occupation for the Palestinians, and an end of belligerency for all—Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians increased. It ignores the fact that many of the most violent Palestinian groups have been quite forthright regarding their...
That is, in my reading, we confront here a world-view that assigns greater moral value to the lives of some human beings—Palestinian civilians—than to the lives of others—Israeli civilians (not all of them Jews, to be sure). Here the petition??€™s rhetoric is simply shameful, its dehumanizing effects thoroughly offensive. Yet again, Summers got it right: anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...