Word: pro-israel
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...wrote me a letter when I was a freshman at Columbia that said that he wouldn’t have been proud of Tchaikovsky [who was homosexual] if he was his son.”An outspoken critic of Israeli policy, Kushner has been subject to criticism from pro-Israel groups, especially in light of what some see as an unsympathetic portrayal of Israeli governmental assassins in “Munich.”When a questioner asked Kushner about his stance on Israel, the audience that laughed along with Kushner’s bouncy portrayal of his difficult childhood...
Indeed, since June, when filming began, the movie has been surrounded by rumors, criticism and suggestions that Spielberg was too pro-Israel to make a fair movie on the subject. The filmmakers responded by keeping the details of the movie very quiet. Reporters were not allowed to visit the sets in Malta, Budapest, New York and Paris, and only a few actors got the complete script--many didn't even know what the whole movie was about. The shoot took three months, a quick turnaround for a movie to be released Dec. 23. That lessened the chance of leaks...
...policy of giving the targets of an attack an opportunity to respond for purposes of the story. Had I been called and told that The Crimson planned to publish Finkelstein’s accusations of perjury and fraud, I would have reminded the reporter that Finkelstein accuses virtually every pro-Israel writer of these literary crimes. I also would have reminded the writer that when Finkelstein first made these accusations more than two years ago, I insisted that Harvard investigate them. Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok was appointed to conduct the investigation and found no plagiarism. Neither did James...
...whole unfolding of events for the past two years, I’ve seen only one batty conspiracy theory,” he said, referring to Dershowitz’s accusation that Finkelstein conspired with MIT’s Noam Chomsky to vilify pro-Israel professors.Finkelstein also claimed that the editorial had not been written by The Record, whose opinion editor, Mitchell D. Webber, is one of Dershowitz’s research assistants.“That wasn’t written by this fellow. He just took everything that Professor Dershowitz sent him,” Finkelstein said.Dershowitz denied...
...Espionage Act] being used to prosecute leaks to the press." Though Ellsberg's indictment was dismissed, the statute was used to convict naval analyst Samuel Morison, in 1985 for giving a satellite photo to a defense magazine, and Pentagon official Lawrence Franklin last week for passing secrets to a pro-Israel group. --By Viveca Novak and Mike Allen