Word: swastikaed
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...accusation that Hillel attacked the BSA for the display of the swastika is simply not true. When did Hillel do anything that could possibly be perceived as an attack on the BSA or, for that matter, on any part of the Harvard community...
...have made sure every step of the way to coordinate our actions with the BSA to make sure we would not do anything to which the BSA objected. Our joint statement should have made it clear to everyone that we were united against both the Confederate flag and the swastika. Not only have we succeeded in preserving the relationship between Hillel and the BSA, we have strengthened it enormously...
Hillel did not publicly condemn Townsend individually, nor did we organize any protest against the swastika, even though walking by the swastika calls up the sickening images of our great-grandparents being incinerated inside their synagogues. We refrained from public protest in order to prevent even the most cynical from mistakenly seeing the act of one individual as anything more than that. Where anyone could get the notion that Hillel and the Jewish community framed her protest as "an expression of the entire Black community, I have no idea...
...Townsend herself says, the swastika has "no real purpose in today's society except to hurt people." The point we made privately, and the point I would like to make publicly now, is that even a just cause must be pursued only in a moral fashion. Otherwise, the protester stoops to the level of those he or she is protesting against...
...interethnic attacks, but at the same time I must point out that my action is an action of individual sensitivity. While I may be sensitive, there are many individuals who are not, and without a policy change we may not be able to "sensitize" the person who hangs the swastika next year, next month or tomorrow. Jacinda T. Townsend...