tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59301604701498078242024-03-19T07:45:34.514-04:00Fairness To IsraelWe are Fairness To Israel (FTI), an independent association of Vassar alumni, parents of current Vassar students and friends of Vassar who are united in the belief that Israel has a right to exist, as a nation and as the recognized homeland of the Jewish People, with secure borders. We promote and support open and balanced debate about the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict in an atmosphere of tolerance that is the cornerstone of a liberal arts institution. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-15810206181128147062016-10-10T09:57:00.001-04:002016-10-10T09:59:08.927-04:00One Vassar Student's Perspective on "Pinkwashing"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Readers might also be interested in <a href="http://miscellanynews.org/2016/10/05/opinions/claims-of-pinkwashing-rely-on-toxic-antisemitic-tropes/" target="_blank">this student letter</a> to the editor of the Miscellany News, which was apparently also in response to Prof. Joshua Schreier's op-ed (<a href="http://miscellanynews.org/2016/09/28/opinions/bret-stephens-pinkwashing-ignores-israeli-state-violence/" target="_blank">"Bret Stephens’ ‘pinkwashing’ ignores Israeli state violence"</a> 9/28/16):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Claims of ‘pinkwashing’ rely on toxic, antisemitic tropes</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By JESSER HOROWITZ on October 5, 2016</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Israel is the only safe place for homosexuals in the Middle East. In Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, homosexuality is punishable by death. In Gaza, homosexuality is illegal. In the West Bank, homosexuality is legal, but being outed would be a death sentence (Washington Post, “The State of Gay Rights Around the World”, 06.14.2016).</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Israeli attitudes toward homosexuality are far less than perfect. Like every country, it has its fair share of bigots. However, Israel, unlike most countries in the world, recognizes same-sex marriages performed outside the country, welcomes LGBTQ+ people to serve in the military and allows same-sex couples to adopt children jointly. Tel Aviv is even considered one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if I told you that by giving you that series of objectively truthful information, I played my part in a global Zionist conspiracy to distract the world media from Israel’s human rights violations against the Palestinian people by co-opting the cause of LGBTQ+ rights?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You’d probably say that I’m an idiot, an antisemite and that I should go back to 4chan. That’s because you are at least a semi-rational person. However, that is the philosophical basis of pinkwashing, an idea that has gained popularity among supporters of the BDS movement, anti-Zionists and other fervent critics of Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read the full letter <a href="http://miscellanynews.org/2016/10/05/opinions/claims-of-pinkwashing-rely-on-toxic-antisemitic-tropes/">here</a>.</span></div>
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FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-32256434990478625812016-10-08T16:07:00.000-04:002016-10-09T16:46:47.256-04:00Laurie Josephs' Letter to the Editor of the Miscellany News responding to Prof. Joshua Schreier's "Pinkwashing" Charge against Israel<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By LAURIE JOSEPHS '78 <b><a href="http://miscellanynews.org/2016/10/05/opinions/letter-to-the-editor-10/#comments" title="Comment on Letter to the Editor"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></b></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Although unwilling to directly debate Bret Stephens regarding Stephens’
purported “pinkwashing,” Professor Schreier offered his thoughts in a closed
session “talk back” two days later and in his recent opinion piece in the <i>Miscellany
News</i> (09.28.16: “Bret Stephens’ ‘Pinkwashing’ Ignores Israeli State
Violence.”). For those of you who find
it difficult to follow Prof. Schreier’s tortured logic, here is his message in
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Dear LGBTQ Community: Although those
of you living in the Arab Middle East and many other Muslim-dominant countries
are at constant risk of imprisonment, torture and death (including by such
choice means as being tossed off roofs or hanged from cranes), not to worry. I am doing my best to convince students and
future leaders of the world that it is racist even to mention such things. Indeed, I am pushing them to focus instead on
demonizing and vilifying the one nation in the Middle East where you can live
openly and be true to yourselves, Israel. And I do this because of all the horrible
things that Israel does to Palestinians – you know, the big bad security fence
(that almost eliminated the suicide bombings that plagued Israel in the Second
Intifada) and the usurping of Palestinian water (never mind that due largely to
Israeli efforts, the Palestinian water supply in the West Bank has become much
more abundant and technologically advanced than it was prior to 1967). And of course, there is that “low-octane
genocide” accusation that I have been known to fling – notwithstanding that the
Palestinian population continues to grow exponentially. Nope, not to worry. After all, who knows, someday the Arab and Muslim-dominant
nations might change their homophobic ways and, if not, I am sure you don’t
mind being sacrificed for the greater good of eliminating the world’s only
Jewish state.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would indeed be funny were it not so terribly sad that at Vassar,
Professor Schreier is the only faculty member teaching courses on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</span></span>FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-53722973204877789982016-10-08T15:55:00.000-04:002016-10-09T18:53:51.041-04:00 Seven Comments on the Situation with Bret Stephens and That Professor Guy<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of my favorite political commentators is Yoel Marcus of the left-wing
Israeli newspaper <i>Ha'aretz</i>. He
used to publish columns called "Comments on the Situation." This is my version.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Is it possible to
talk about what happens outside of the West without talking about the West? We're myopically obsessed with ourselves, and
Joshua Schreier is the most nearsighted among us. Gay people are jailed in 21<sup>st</sup>-century
Egypt, stoned in 21<sup>st</sup>-century Iran, and deported from 21<sup>st</sup>-century
Bahrain, but Josh wants to talk about 19<sup>th</sup>-century French
homophobia. Sorry, Middle East LGBTQ
community. The academy has sacrificed
you on the altar of post-colonial political correctness. Rainbows require sunshine, and Joshua
Schreier has focused all of his on Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. As long as we’re
talking about color, Black Lives Matter.
As my people say, <i>Bimherah V’yameinu</i>, may justice come speedily
and in our time. But what did Schreier
mean when he compared American racial justice campaign to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Is the
United States the subject of an intensive international campaign to demonize
its people and effect its dissolution?
Israel is. Is the United States
the subject of structural discrimination at the UN, where states with human
rights records inferior to its own line up to condemn it? Iran condemns Israel as it stones gays to
death. China condemns Israel as it
occupies Tibet. Russia condemns Israel
as it persecutes Muslim Chechens. Israel
faces far more opprobrium than any of these countries. Tell me, Vassar students. Why is that?
(Hint: It’s not just about the occupation.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. By the way, does
Vassar have any actual students? None of them were quoted in the Misc's
coverage of Bret Stephens. Instead, we
got a long quote from some mensch who gave a beautiful Talmudic dissertation
about respecting one another's strongly-held views and an even longer quote
from some other guy who called Stephens a racist, misquoted him, repeated
discredited BDS talking points, and suggested that people who support dialogue
and a two-state solution weren't making a positive contribution. The professor is the Talmud guy, right? If not, he should be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Speaking of mensches,
Bret Stephens seems super-nice. Without
raising his voice once, Bret called on people to respect each other's
viewpoints, and even apologized for expressing concern about being
disrupted. His concern was
legitimate. SJP, with Josh Schreier's
support, had chosen to preemptively slander him as a racist and had encouraged
their members to attend his event. They
even pre-planned a post-Stephens whine-fest to complain about the invasion of
Vassar's commune by a non-lefty Pulitzer Prize winner. And it's not like SJP chapters across the
country aren’t known for shouting down speakers and storming stages, when they
aren’t forcing disinvitations or scaring speakers away, as they did at Brown,
where SJP forced Janet Mock, an African-American trans speaker, to withdraw
because her appearance was co-sponsored by Hillel, the Jewish students
organization.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Of course, I josh,
and my terrible puns are always intended.
The real Bret Stephens was terrible, horrible, even. Stephens said that the two-state solution was
the best moral outcome in a conflict where both peoples have strong political
and ethnic identities. Terrible. He encouraged grassroots, rather than
top-down, activism. Horrible. He even encouraged people to take small
gestures to help build trust between Israelis and Palestinians, and he asked us
to recognize the humanity on both sides.
Despicable. He also encouraged
students to think critically and to reject those calling for Israel’s
dissolution, something virtually every major BDS activist supports, or, in the
case of Vassar’s SJP, regards as a desirable outcome. Stephens also took lots of questions. Curiously, none came from Josh Schreier. He waited until he was among other BDSers to
speak.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Speaking of BDS
scholars-cum-shills, can gay Palestinians in Israel be openly gay? Of course
they can; sexual orientation freedom is covered by Israel's Basic Law: Human
Dignity and Liberty and by Israel Supreme Court precedent, and it’s been that
way for more than 50 years. The Israeli
health system covers sexual reassignment surgery. Do gay Palestinians living in the West Bank or
Gaza have these rights? No, because
their civil rights are determined by Article 9, Section II, of Palestine's
Basic Law, which, like similar legislation throughout the Middle East, does not
cover sexual orientation, and it’s not because they forgot to put it in. It’s just not safe to be gay and out in
Palestine. That’s why gay Palestinians
take refuge in Israel, and no, it’s not because the Mossad signs all of them up
as collaborators. It’s because they want
to survive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Speaking of gay
people in the Middle East, Schreier seems to think that criticizing the lack of
LGBTQ rights in the Middle East is the same as assuming that their cultures
have always been this way and always will be.
Stephens didn’t say this, and neither do I. Unfortunately, change moves in more than one
direction, and the same-sex relationships that may have been tacitly accepted
in the Middle East two centuries ago have given way to a culture of fear and
repression today. Again, <i>Bimherah
V’Yameinu</i>, it should change speedily in our time. But it sounds like we have a long way to
go. This year, the Grand Imam at Al-Azhar
University, generally considered Sunni Islam’s most prestigious educational
institution, called homosexuality a “moral disease” that undermines the innate
quality of humanity, <a href="http://bit.ly/2dxce3D"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://bit.ly/2dxce3D</span></a>. But who cares about that
guy? No one takes him seriously,
right? Josh Schreier doesn’t seem
to. How could he? The venerated clergyman did not even mention
19<sup>th</sup>-century France.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>This letter in response to Prof. Joshua Schreier's "Talk Back" event on Sept. 22 and his recent opinion piece in the Miscellany news (<a href="http://miscellanynews.org/2016/09/28/opinions/bret-stephens-pinkwashing-ignores-israeli-state-violence/">"Bret Stephens' 'pinkwashing' ignores Israeli state violence"</a>) appeared in the </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miscellany News <i>on </i></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a href="http://miscellanynews.org/2016/10/05/opinions/letter-to-the-editor-11/" target="_blank">Oct. 5</a>.</i></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-tQ53ga5ttfvUkocKNHSa8dgMj_34eReZ0R0gyBTXGwJg_dkRArWQCGFK0KzF2o7G43BSsG9o2EZta2LJmm5Jn-8j35Y0AqjXWef7-N4g_LUYGc7oxS7OlNHJUipA4S2QU4NrdsbUNLC/s1600/Brett-Stephens-at-Vassar-College-e1475177317381-620x432.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-tQ53ga5ttfvUkocKNHSa8dgMj_34eReZ0R0gyBTXGwJg_dkRArWQCGFK0KzF2o7G43BSsG9o2EZta2LJmm5Jn-8j35Y0AqjXWef7-N4g_LUYGc7oxS7OlNHJUipA4S2QU4NrdsbUNLC/s200/Brett-Stephens-at-Vassar-College-e1475177317381-620x432.png" width="200"></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
columnist and news commentator, was interviewed at Vassar on Sept. 20 by Steven
Cook, ’90, on the topic of “Why I Support Israel and Why You Should, Too.” The event was funded by the Office of the
President as part of the administration’s “Dialogue and Engagement Across
Differences” initiative. Cook, who is a
senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations and author of two books on the Middle East, posed a series of
questions to Stephens regarding his support for Israel and his views on
anti-Israel activism in the US. The
audience comprised about 70 students as well as several alumni and a few
professors, college administrators and some community members. The audience was seated around tables, and
interim College president Jonathan Chennette, who introduced the event, said
the seating was intended to provide the audience with the opportunity to
discuss the topic with each other and formulate questions to Stephens after the
interview. What follows is a summary; a
video of the entire interview can be seen at <a href="https://youtu.be/t6f5PQqVV9U">https://youtu.be/t6f5PQqVV9U</a>.</span></span><br>
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</div><a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2016/09/bret-stephens-interview-at-vassar-why-i.html#more">Read more »</a>FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-90543697639965969782016-06-25T10:31:00.001-04:002016-10-10T09:45:57.639-04:00Reunion Panel on “Israel-Palestine” Dialogue Disappoints Alums<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQ8cMmjwzoNAIgXDA92F8yav2vd-v7vzQ49aGjianB9zbqy_D9Th1A4TDjcNmGDtrLf-Yep7fr2UK7zil6bMCGpEj43z2KeD_OgbWlZjYIVlMqBlk_7Mlt_HJl57llFZuIvWGasoGG2j3/s1600/Vassarlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQ8cMmjwzoNAIgXDA92F8yav2vd-v7vzQ49aGjianB9zbqy_D9Th1A4TDjcNmGDtrLf-Yep7fr2UK7zil6bMCGpEj43z2KeD_OgbWlZjYIVlMqBlk_7Mlt_HJl57llFZuIvWGasoGG2j3/s1600/Vassarlogo.jpg"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Reunion 2016, the College presented what was described</span> as a workshop, “Campus Perspectives on Israel-Palestine: Opening up the Dialogue.” The event, held early on Friday afternoon of June 10, was supposed to give alumni the opportunity to discuss the campus atmosphere with members of the faculty and administration. It appears to have been well-attended (reports ranged from 100-150 alumni attendees). However, based on feedback we received from some attendees, the event was conducted in such a way that there was minimal opportunity for alumni to obtain specific information. Rabbi Kerry Chaplin (Rose and Irving Rachlin Director for Jewish Student Life) introduced the panel, which consisted of Peter Antelyes (Director of the Jewish Studies Program), Ed Pittman (Associate Dean of Campus Life and Diversity); Chris Roellke (Dean of the College) and Sam Speers (Director of Religious and Spiritual Life and Assistant Dean for Campus Life). Each panelist spoke at length; then, with only 15 minutes remaining, the Rabbi announced that the alumni would be divided into small discussion groups. One alumna spoke out against the planned format and called upon the panel to address questions from the entire audience, whereupon the panel agreed to a very short question and answer session.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The panelists provided no new information about the stridently anti-Israel atmosphere on campus and offered no assurances that programs and classes would embrace a balanced view of Israel. They merely repeated prior statements by the administration over the course of the past two years: people should not believe everything reported in the media; students must expect their views to be challenged; and Vassar has procedures to deal with bias. Based on reports, more than a few alumni were dissatisfied with the event and some subsequently advised President Hill (who was in attendance) it was not worthy of Vassar’s standards.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thus, in net numbers, only about 25% of the entire student body of over 2,000 supported either the BDS referendum or the amendment, despite what we were told was a virtually non-stop campaign by the student organizations promoting BDS (Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace).<br></span><br>
<a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2016/05/bds-fails-in-campus-wide-referendum.html#more">Read more »</a>FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-10046441403656365202016-03-19T11:02:00.001-04:002016-03-19T11:20:56.155-04:00Refuting Jasbir K. Puar<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Puar’s infamous Feb. 3 talk at Vassar, “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters,” was so replete with distortions, mischaracterizations and outright lies that it would require an entire article to refute them – and <a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/p/critique-of-jasbir-puar-feb-3-lecture.html" target="_blank">here</a> it is.</span></span></div>
FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-22052582401203045892016-03-18T00:14:00.002-04:002016-04-06T12:11:41.970-04:00FTI Report on the Webinar - a discussion about current issues and tensions within our community related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict<div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On February 25th, Vassar held a webinar to address alumni/parent concerns in the wake of the recent Wall Street Journal op-ed ("Majoring in Anti-Semitism at Vassar.") Alums were invited to submit questions beforehand and over 930 alumni/parents listened in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But while I accept the validity of some of the criticism of the college, I ask you also to remember that <b>the recent cacophony of criticism has come from a relatively small number of alumni who, in some cases, have distorted the facts</b> and have been successful in enlisting concerned but not fully informed outsiders to amplify their views in publications that have not even bothered to ask the college for comment on their articles. Whatever you may think, that is not how fair minded people act. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But the Fairness to Israel anti-BDS petition, which garnered over 700 signatures and almost as many scathing comments in a period of just two weeks, tells a different story.</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last night, the 22-member VSA Council, which is Vassar's representative student government and which controls a budget of some $900,000, passed a resolution endorsing the BDS movement. The resolution passed by a vote of 15-7, despite repeated prior assurances to FTI from the administration that there was little chance of this happening. In connection with the BDS vote, the VSA took the following measures:</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">• Rejected, by a vote of 12-10, an amendment (which requires a 2/3 majority) to the VSA Constitution that would have denied reimbursement to Vassar student organizations for purchase of products such as Sabra Hummus and Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream; and</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">• Rejected (by an overwhelming majority) a J Street resolution that expressed support for the two state solution and called for the creation of a VSA committee to educate students on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Procedurally, both J Street and SJP/JVP, who sponsored the BDS Resolution and Amendment, still may petition for referenda, which would take place during student elections. To place a referendum on the ballot for a resolution that has passed (i.e., the BDS resolution), a sponsoring organization must get the signatures of 5% of the student body. For a resolution that has failed (i.e., the J Street resolution and the SJP amendment), the sponsoring organization must get the signatures of 15% of the student body.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has now been about a month since Jasbir Puar gave her infamous talk at Vassar College, about which I wrote here. Thanks to a strong reaction by Fairness to Israel, a Vassar alumni group, and the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), a new group devoted to combating the propagandistic treatment of the Israel-Palestinian issue on college campuses, the College is facing criticism. That criticism culminated in this Wall St. Journal op-ed, written by Mark Yudof and Kenneth Waltzer, board chair and executive director respectively of AEN. The Wall Street Journal has a circulation of 2.3 million. So Vassar, whose response had been muted, recently held a webinar, listened in on by 930 alums and parents, and featuring, among others, board chair Bill Plapinger, President Catharine Hill, and Peter Antelyes, director of Jewish Studies. The gist of their message: look over there!</span></blockquote>
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FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-88269921370323466212016-03-06T14:16:00.002-05:002016-03-07T08:49:27.231-05:00Peter Beinart at Vassar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Wednesday, March 3, J Street U sponsored a talk by Peter Beinart, Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY. The lecture, entitled “The Crisis of Zionism” (also the title of his 2012 book), was co-sponsored by President Hill’s Dialogue and Engagement Across Difference Fund, the Jewish Studies Program and the Religion Department.An alum who attended the event published a detailed account on Facebook, stating that Beinart, who describes himself as a "liberal Zionist," "offered an educated perspective (whether you disagree or not with his views) on the issues involving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as well as on BDS.” According to the report, Beinart "explain[ed] his views on why he believes in a two-state solution and his criticism about current Israeli leadership." He was also quite critical of the BDS mission and positions, while stating that he agreed with some boycotts of Israeli settlement products, and suggested that BDS does not have the actual needs of Palestinians on its radar. In response to a question, he also addressed "the concerns of alumni as well as the generational gap differences with millennials" by challenging both to understand each other's concerns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">they feel they are happy and able to be Jews at Vassar and that the BDS movement is not limiting their voice or their ability to represent their causes; that the BDS movement is a big concern to them but they are addressing it and working to combat the referendum; that there is a concern about the Jewish Studies Department where there is a strong anti-Israel bias that is in some sense driving the BDS movement on campus; that the Puar speech did create angst and concern within the Jewish community; and they would like to see more alumni engaged in personal dialogue with them on the campus.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the report, President Hill and a number of faculty members attended the event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those who are on Vassar4Israel's Facebook page can read the full report here</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For a comprehensive analysis of the response to Beinart's book, see:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bassem Eid, founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG), spoke to an audience of 85 students and three faculty members at Vassar on February 17. He was neither invited nor sponsored by any department, academic program or student group; instead, his appearance was made possible by the college administration and a student who is involved with CAMERA. One faculty member, from the film department, agreed to serve as moderator. Faculty members in the Jewish Studies program were notably uninvolved with the event and none attended.<br /><br />Eid is well-known for his criticism of the Palestinian leadership. In his speech at Vassar, he stated that poor leadership and the divisions between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas were the chief causes of the Palestinians’ problems. He added that many Palestinians acknowledge they get better treatment in Israel-controlled areas than in Gaza and that the PA is corrupt.<br /><br />According to a student who attended, several members of SJP were in the audience. Eid did not spare their feelings. “I don’t believe that the Students for Justice for Palestine will bring any kind of justice for the Palestinians,” he said, “because the only one who can bring justice for the Palestinians is the Palestinians themselves.”<br /><br />In his writings and talks elsewhere, Eid has gone on record in opposition to BDS, and at Vassar he repeated his stance. He said, “I don’t believe that BDS is going to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I don’t even know one person in the PA or Gaza that knows what BDS is.” He added that BDS undermines Palestinian economic interests, citing the loss of 500 jobs for Palestinian workers because of the closure of the SodaStream factory, which was forced to leave the West Bank, in part due to by pressure from pro-BDS groups in the West.<br /><br />Asked if Israel was an “apartheid state,” Eid said, “Using that word doesn’t help me. It’s a waste of everyone’s time. Just come [to Israel] for one day, and you’ll throw out the word apartheid.” He added, “Palestinians need to start believing in co-existence. Palestinians can’t deny the existence of Israel and the right of Israel to exist.”<br /><br />According to an FTI member who attended and provided information used in this article, the students were very receptive to Eid’s remarks and there was much applause. When it was over, many went over to thank him.<br /><br />Vassar included an <a href="http://info.vassar.edu/news/features/2015-2016/160229-bassem-eid.html" target="_blank">article </a>on Eid in its on-line news site.</span>FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-4016359983707871342016-03-02T14:02:00.000-05:002016-03-04T17:26:12.138-05:00February BDS Blitz at Vassar<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The campus has been bombarded with a veritable blizzard of events and programs advocating BDS in the run-up to the March 6 Vassar Student Association vote on whether to adopt <a href="http://vsa.vassar.edu/orgs/vassarsjp/bds-resolution/" target="_blank">this BDS resolution (and amendment)</a> . Lectures, art exhibits, film screenings, dramatic presentations, group discussions and ... pizza! The descriptions of the events are taken from the College calendar, the SJP Facebook page and/or the JVP Facebook page. Details after the jump:</span><br>
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(see below), Prof. Joshua Schreier, professor of History and Jewish Studies at
Vassar (and former Director of the Jewish Studies Program), commented on her
charge of deliberate maiming as a tactic of "biopolitical control"
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Schreier</b>: It’s something you are talking to as well, I’m
kind of curious about this incredible apparat - technological apparatus that’s
kind of being deployed here to do this kind of harm, to do this kind of
maiming, to do this and the use of a
kind of notion of you know of a disappearing society sometimes it’s the
opposite of that. You know? It’s a
tremend - as as horrific, as effective as it is at maiming and creating and
maintaining these bodies, so many bodies alive yet disabled and stunted or
whatever at the same time it’s - given the kind of discourse of demographic
threat and the kind of biopolitical discourse, you know, it’s very thick over
there, it’s interesting at the same time how much of a tremendous failure it
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sense that it’s, you know, it can do all this incredible damage and yet there’s
zero, obvious hegemony, there’s zero and the and the and the growth rate
continues despite this incredible apparatus meant to control, stem, funnel or
whatever. So I just, I don’t know, I don’t know how I can phrase that in a
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FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-84643528318326588392016-02-28T09:16:00.000-05:002016-03-03T14:14:58.365-05:00Professor Jasbir K. Puar Spreads "Blood Libel" Innuendo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By now, the controversy created by Prof Puar's appearance at Vassar on February 3, 2016, is well known. In her talk, “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters,” she promoted such distortions and falsehoods such as:</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[There have been] “more than 120 deaths by field assassinations of young Palestinian men, largely between the ages of 12 to 16, by IDF soldiers… Some speculate that the bodies were mined for organs for scientific research.”</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[Israelis seek] “…perfection of drone technology as a rationalization for the slaughter of Gazans…”<br>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[Israel’s actions include] “…the policy of calorie restrictions, the bombing of numerous hospitals and a disability center, the destruction of the main electric power plant in Gaza, the flattening of homes, schools and mosques, and the targeting of youth and children, the likely use of white phosphorus…”<br>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“…we need BDS as part of organized resistance and armed resistance in Palestine as well.”<br>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The Jewish Israeli population … need[s] the Palestinians alive in order to keep the kind of rationalization for their victimhood and their militarized economy.”</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The lecture was <a href="https://info.vassar.edu/calendar/2016/02/03/30970-87113.html" target="_blank">publicized in advance</a>, by Vassar, as follows:</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This lecture theorizes oscillating relations between disciplinary, pre-emptive, and increasingly prehensive forms of power that shape human and non-human materialities in Palestine. Calculation, computing, informational technologies, surveillance, and militarization are all facets of prehensive control. Further, the saturation of spatial and temporal stratum in Palestine demonstrates the use of technologies of measure to manufacture a "remote control" occupation, one that produces a different version of Israeli "home invasions" through the maiming and stunting of population. If Gaza, for example, is indeed the world's largest "open air prison" and an experimental lab for Israeli military apparatuses, infrastructural chaos, and metric manipulation, what kinds of fantasies (about power, about bodies, about resistance, about politics) are driving this project?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On February 11, SJP at Vassar posted this item on its Facebook
page, in which it advertised the sale, at an upcoming SJP event, of what looks
like a hoodie emblazoned with the image of Leila Khaled, a notorious
Palestinian terrorist and hijacker, holding a machine gun. (The language in the caption was later cleaned up.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">September</span> -- Angela Davis spoke on Sept. 16 at an event marking the 30th anniversary of Vassar's Women's Studies program. Although the topic of her speech had no apparent connection of the Middle East, students who attended reported that she devoted considerable time to suggesting a link between racism in America and racism in Israel. During the Q&A, she was asked about the connection between activism on behalf of Palestinians and anti-semitism. In response, Davis endorsed BDS, pointed out that Jews are involved with BDS and suggested that this was because they didn't want the Holocaust "to happen again." Video of that exchange was posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thTi2CWMbHc" target="_blank">here</a> by the community activist who posed the question.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">October</span> -- Students for Justice in Palestine attempted to </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">halt sales</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of Sabra </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hummus at the Re<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">treat. When FTI </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">learned of it, members immediately <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">alerted </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the administration, which confirmed that the Retreat would continue offering Sabra hummus for sale a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">long with another brand.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">November </span>-- </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "Conversation about Israel/Palestine"</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> -- see <a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2015/11/conversation-on-israelpalestine.html" target="_blank">article</a><br /><br />The Anti-Defamation League and Chabad on Fulton sponsored a series of workshops for Vassar Jewish students during the 2015-2016 academic year.</span></span></blockquote>
FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-28496857245591474082015-11-23T09:49:00.002-05:002016-03-01T23:38:18.222-05:00"Conversation on Israel/Palestine" - a "Dialogue Across Differences" Panel at Vassar<div class="MsoPlainText">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Prof. Yehezkel Landau, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Associate Professor of Interfaith Relations and Director
of the Building Abrahamic Partnerships program at Hartford Seminary (CT), and
Imam Abdullah Antepli, adjunct professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University,
gave a joint presentation on November 12 described as a "Conversation about
Israel/Palestine." This event was sponsored by the Office of the
President, the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life (RSL), the RSL Forum
for Inter-Religious Dialogue, Africana Studies, Jewish Studies and the
Department of Religion. It was developed
as part of the “Dialogue and Engagement Across Differences,” initiative created
by President Hill to encourage civil and open discussion of contentious issues on campus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ziva Dahl, FTI Core Council member, attended the
presentation and wrote a detailed report, which can be found <a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/p/eventdialogue-across-difference.html">here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-35802139899542220252015-11-22T17:18:00.001-05:002016-03-01T18:20:43.792-05:00The Perilous Position of Being Jewish and Pro-Israel at Vassar College<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week, FTI's Ziva Dahl published an op-ed on the challenges that Jewish and pro-Israel students face at Vassar. Her article has been picked up by a number of news outlets, including <a href="http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12790:the-perilous-position-of-being-jewish-and-pro-israel-at-vassar-college&catid=121:special-features&Itemid=325">this one</a>. (You may notice that Alan Dershowitz, in his <a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2015/11/safe-spaces-for-hypocrisy-dangerous.html">NY Post op-ed today</a>, clearly used Ziva's piece as a source for his reference to Vassar.)</span><br>
<a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-perilous-position-of-being-jewish.html#more">Read more »</a>FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-12844396425185152772015-11-22T12:59:00.000-05:002016-03-02T14:05:21.650-05:00Safe spaces for hypocrisy: The dangerous sensitivity double-standards at play on America's college campuses<div class="MsoPlainText">
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style="cursor: move; margin-top: 0px;" width="200"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alan Dershowitz has <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-safe-spaces-hypocrisy-article-1.2442092">an op-ed</a> in today's New York Daily News, discussing the glaring double standards employed by activists on college campuses today when it comes to "safe spaces" and free speech for Jewish students. He cites Vassar as a prime example.</span></div>
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imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><img alt="Jill S Schneiderman" src="http://www.truth-out.org/media/k2/users/46515.jpg" height="294" style="height: auto; width: 100px;" width="320"> On July 3, 2015, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/academias-boycott-on-ideas/2015/07/03/a7e51d3a-138a-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html">this op-ed</a> by Vassar Professor of Geology and Earth Science Jill Schneiderman was published in The Washington Post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am a tenured geology professor at Vassar ,
an elite liberal-arts school . I research, teach and write about the
complex and intimate connections between land and water resources and
social justice. For the study trip I led to Israel and the Palestinian
territories, I created a syllabus designed to explore difficult issues
and engage diverse perspectives that was vetted by Vassar’s faculty and
administration. I have successfully led numerous similar trips to
locations such as the Appalachian Mountains and the Mojave Desert. My
modest goals for such trips are to impart knowledge and share
experiences with my students that can be realized only by traveling to
the regions we are examining. In studying arid regions without seeing
the situation with their own eyes, it is difficult for students from
places where water is relatively abundant to think about solutions to
the problems that occur when local residents must share a meager supply.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br>
</blockquote><a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2015/07/jill-schneidermans-op-ed-at-washington.html#more">Read more »</a>LBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00862468829093711203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-37086609049842041262015-06-24T13:42:00.000-04:002016-03-02T11:38:00.862-05:00New Webpage Documents Student Testimonies of Antisemitism on Campus<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/06/23/jewish-students-admit-feeling-targeted-terrified-in-new-webpage-documenting-antisemtism-on-campuses/#">The Algemeiner</a>:</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A new webpage was launched on Monday featuring over one hundred
personal testimonies from Jewish students who have experienced
antisemitism on campuses across the U.S. over the past year-and-a-half. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Behind the project is the non-profit campus watchdog AMCHA Initiative
which gathered the extensive testimony from public reports, and
students at 47 colleges and universities in 20 states. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In their reports on the site, some students said they felt
intimidated and frightened. Others said they wanted to hide their Jewish
identities for fear of being targeted by classmates. One student from
University of Washington said that after seeing his Star of David, some
people “brand me as someone toxic, someone worthy of their disdain and
vitriol.” </span></blockquote>
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</blockquote><a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2015/06/new-webpage-documents-student.html#more">Read more »</a>FTI Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961833639801606757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-43669337870728338622015-05-31T17:46:00.001-04:002016-03-07T08:46:31.026-05:00Incoming VSA Prez Labels Campus Lecture "Islamophobic"On April 24, the Vassar Conservative Libertarian Union (VCLU) hosted a lecture by American Enterprise Institute scholar and Vassar alumnus (class of '89) <a href="http://www.aei.org/scholar/marc-a-thiessen/">Marc Thiessen</a>, who spoke on "America's Failed Response to Radical Islam." Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-58429187749696100202015-04-14T12:56:00.001-04:002016-03-02T11:40:13.342-05:00Pro-Israel Professor targeted at Connecticut College<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">David Bernstein has been covering this story at The Volokh Conspiracy (Washington Post). First <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/04/08/the-hypocrisy-and-dishonesty-of-attacks-on-connecticut-college-professor-andrew-pessin/">here</a>:</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The hypocrisy and dishonesty of attacks on Connecticut College professor Andrew Pessin</span> </b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Andrew Pessin is a distinguished philosophy professor at Connecticut
College. He is also, as I understand it, the only Jewish professor at
the college who regularly speaks up on behalf of Israel in an
intellectual climate that is often dominated by left-wing and foreign
students hostile to Israel.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This made him the target of one Lamiya Khandaker, a student who took his intro to philosophy class without incident last Fall. . . .</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The background and links provided in this article go a long way toward clarifying what at first appears to be a murkier picture.</span><br>
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<a href="http://fairnesstoisraelatvassar.blogspot.com/2015/04/pro-israel-professor-targeted-at.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930160470149807824.post-80236977539990788922015-03-24T13:31:00.001-04:002015-03-24T13:45:56.159-04:00Berkeley’s Swastika Problem: Are America’s Liberal Colleges Breeding Anti-Semitism?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">From neo-Nazi graffiti at Berkeley to the grilling of a Jewish student
at UCLA, anti-Semitism is on the rise at liberal schools thought to be
bastions of political correctness.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disturbing 03.19.15 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emily Shire</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/us/debate-on-a-jewish-student-at-ucla.html?_r=0" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">grilling of student Rachel Beyda</a>
over whether she was unqualified to join the UCLA’s student judicial
board, merely because she is Jewish, shocked people with its blatant
display of anti-Semitism at one of the nation’s most liberal schools.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Given that you're very active in the Jewish community, how do you
see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?” Fabienne Roth, a
member of UCLA’s Undergraduate Student Association Council, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l3NBbiQ11Q#t=1180" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">asked</a>
her. After Beyda left the room, another member of the council opined,
“I don't know. For some reason I am not comfortable. I just don't know
why. I can definitely see she's qualified. I am just worried about her
affiliations.”</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The remarks made during her questioning are disturbing, as is the
fact that these undergrads appear to be oblivious to how anti-Semitic
they sound. (The council <a href="http://dailybruin.com/2015/03/12/regents-chair-napolitano-condemn-anti-semitism-across-uc-campuses" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism</a> last week in response to the uproar over Beyda’s confirmation, after the writing was already on the wall, as it were.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What’s
even more frightening is that Beyda’s case was nothing new, a
run-of-the-mill example of the suspicions and hostility directed toward
the Jewish community at some of the most socially progressive campuses
across the country.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read the full story <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/berkeley-s-swastika-problem-are-america-s-liberal-colleges-breeding-anti-semitism.html">here</a>. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com