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Five supporters of the Harvard-MIT petition to divest from Israel cited personal experience and historical precedent as they argued their position in front of a predominately pro-Israel audience at a Harvard Law School panel yesterday...
...ecstatic to see the pro-Israel turnout,” said HSI President David B. Adelman ’04. “It’s great to see the campus so galvanized over this issue...
...anti-Israel activities that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” He was quickly and roundly chastised for stifling debate on Israel, allegedly the consequence of equating anti-Israel demonstrations and fundraising with anti-Semitism. The irony, of course, is that the critics who denounced Summers’ speech on these grounds only vindicated him and contradicted themselves: Far from silencing the opposition, Summers has ignited debate on a sensitive but vital topic. In a year when the administration of San Francisco State University stood idly by while pro-Israel demonstrators...
...President summed up his lead-a-lonely-but-moral-crusade approach to foreign policy in April when he was asked whether he understood that Palestinians consider the Israeli occupation to be a form of terrorism. The context for his statement was a brief period in which Bush suspended his pro-Israel tilt and tried to act as an honest broker between both sides in the conflict, calling on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to halt Israel's incursion into the West Bank. That's when he said, "Look, my job isn't to try to nuance. I think moral clarity...
...CONVICTED. RUDOLF FISCHER, 52, German nightclub owner; of incitement to hate and anti-Semitism after he canceled a pro-Israel fund raiser involving the granddaughter of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; in Munich. Fischer argued that he simply didn't want to host political events; the prosecution claimed he had said he "wanted nothing to do" with Jews and would rather host a right-wing organization. He was fined $2,480 and sentenced to two months' probation...