Word: weiss
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...tied for 22nd—and seeing three wrestlers qualify as All-Americans, including the first freshman All-American in program history. “To come back with three All-Americans, there’s not much more I could ask for,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “That’s what we trained for and everything just came together.” All four Crimson wrestlers reached the round of 12 at the tournament, where a win means an All-American nod and a loss means an exit...
...political moderate, long-time Crimson reader, and Harvard alumnus, I was concerned about disinformation in Michael Segal and Jacob Victor’s op-ed “The Finkelstein-Weiss deception.” Although I cannot speak to attacks against Weiss, I had attended the Feb. 22 talk by DePaul University professor Norman G. Finkelstein at the Kennedy School of Government entitled “Is Jimmy Carter Anti-Semitic?” At the lecture the “fringe views among the general public” expressed by Finkelstein through his entire, very moderate and reasoned...
Still, a line can be drawn at some point as to what constitutes a "Jewish view," and it is fair to say that both Weiss and Finkelstein have routinely crossed that line. They not only disparage other Jewish opinions as inauthentic and conspiratorial, but have supported those who commit violence and threaten genocide against the Jewish people...
...Weiss’ talk on "foreign policy and social justice," he described Reform Jews, Conservative Jews, and Zionists as "the works of Satan." Claiming that he was "God’s messenger," he advocated for the complete dismantling of Israel. Unfortunately, this represented a relatively moderate view for Weiss, who as a defender of Ahmadinejad, has implicitly adopted the Iranian President’s message that Israel, and its six million Jews, should be "wiped off the map." Nonetheless, Weiss had the audacity—some might say willful ignorance—to claim that Ahmadinejad’s call...
...dialogue. Student groups seeking to sow the seeds of peace, rather than to engender further misunderstanding, should not play into this deception and should instead seek out speakers that accurately and responsibly represent the different perspectives surrounding the conflict. It is important to remember that the extreme beliefs that Weiss and Finkelstein hold are no more legitimate because these men are Jewish. Rather, all sides should agree that such men, who further conspiracy theories, apologize for violence against civilians, and excuse calls for genocide, have no place on a campus interested in coexistence and mutual understanding. Michael Segal...