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Jews Not Wanted on Campus If They Support Israel - Not Even at Brandeis
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/762/brandeis-michael-oren
Excerpt: The world is watching. Will Brandeis turn out to be another version of the University of California at Irvine, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, or will it continue to model individual achievement over mob rule, will it defend genuine free and academic speech? Michael B. Oren, the distinguished historian and author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East and Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present, the co-editor of New Essays on Zionism, and Israel's Ambassador to the United States, has been invited to deliver the keynote address at Brandeis's 2010 commencement exercises. It is shocking but not surprising that a number of Brandeis students and faculty have denounced this choice while others applaud it. The denouncers claim that Ambassador Oren will be "political," and as such "divisive" and "polarizing." According to long-time activist and professor Gordon Fellman, "His role obligates him to defend Israeli policies…that includes defending the Israeli incursion into Gaza, housing policies of the occupation, and so on. I think for many people that's a third rail. Why mess up a commencement with a third rail?" Read the complete original version of this item... | |||||
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