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...were shocked and dismayed by the falsifications and manipulations of truth contained in the Palestinian Solidarity Committee’s (PSC) advertisement, entitled, “Palestine in Brief,” which ran in The Crimson on April 26. Such distortions signal nothing less than the beginning of a malicious propaganda war aimed at slandering Israel...
...information provided in regards to the fence—the ostensible purpose of the ad—is similarly misleading and erroneous. The primary manipulation lies in the fact that the ad’s information dates from October 2004. Since then, as the leaders of the PSC should be aware, Israel has dramatically changed the route of the fence in order to significantly reduce hardships that the previously planned route would have caused for Palestinian civilians. Citing this clearly outdated information is deceptive...
...land” will be “annexed into Israel.” The reality, as reported April 19 in the New York Times, is that the barrier’s route leaves no more than 8 percent of the West Bank on the Israeli side. The PSC also claims that 9.7 percent of Palestinians will be cut off from “cultivated lands” by the barrier, but the real number, as reported in the same article, is one half of one percent...
...members of PSC, however, say they are upset and disappointed at the administration’s decision. “It doesn’t seem necessary for the University to follow State Department regulations, especially when Harvard has no connection to the State Department,” Gulay said...
Mohammed J. Herzallah ’07, co-chair of PSC, said Palestinian students are hoping to meet with the dean to discuss the issue...