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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...
...because we sympathized with the cause and feared that someone else might blow this up into a false Black-Jewish dispute that we were extremely careful to do nothing but work closely with the BSA to persuade Townsend that her form of protest was too hurtful...
...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...
...when Jacinda T. Townsend '92 taped a black swastika to her Cabot House window in response to the whole affair, she upped the ante touching a raw nerve, particularly in the Jewish community. Almost too coincidentally, the controversial flags were hung just as parents of juniors were arriving for a weekend of University-sponsored activities...
...Townsend removed her swastika earlier this week in what she called an effort to avoid a rift between Blacks and Jews, but the two Confederate flags remain...