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...Sept. 22 letter, Rustin Silverstein '99 and David Honig '99 criticize the printing of a Reuters photograph of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy being beaten by an Israeli soldier, saying that this coverage was "surprising and sad." Surprising, perhaps, since the U.S. media is generally so skewed towards the Zionist perspective, but not sad, for by no means is every critical exposure of Israeli biased or wrong. This photograph represented a move towards more balanced coverage, while their letter was simply a return to the revisionist writing about Israel and Palestinians that is normalized in mainstream U.S. discourse...
...hope and believe that this was an isolated instance of oversight and that we can continue to receive the same quality of journalism from the Crimson in the future as we have come to expect in the past. --Rustin Silverstein '99, David Honig '99 Co-Chairs, Harvard Students for Israel
...Rustin C. Silverstein '99 is a Crimson editor who lives in Lowell House...
...equal footing with the battle against racial oppression. "A lot of black brothers and sisters think talking about homophobia and sexism will dilute the attack on racism," says West. "But black culture is unimaginable without James Baldwin, the poet Audre Lorde or ((civil rights activist)) Bayard Rustin, and I won't even begin to talk about black gay brothers and sisters and the role they play in the music of the black church." As for sexism, says West, "for too long, black brothers have been beating up black sisters just like white policemen beat up Rodney King...
...reactionary critics but (2) that the welfare state, in its present form, is too constricted to address adequately the demands of a truly humane civilization. As for my reported call for "revolutionary" change, I mentioned the word revolutionary in the context of quoting the following statement by Bayard Rustin: "The Negro's struggle for equality in America is essentially revolutionary. While most negroes...unquestionably seek only to enjoy the fruits of American society as it now exists, their quest cannot objectively be satisfied within the framework of existing political and economic relations...