Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The latest on the CUNY/Kushner Saga, and Violent Jihadists as Freedom Riders






































The Phyllis Chesler Organization






Facebook
Twitter
RSS



Jewish Umbrella Group Defends Wiesenfeld in CUNY/Kushner Saga



by Phyllis Chesler

NewsRealBlog

May 17, 2011



http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/996/jewish-umbrella-group-defends-wiesenfeld





















Be the first of your friends to like this.



Excerpt:



On the evening of May 15, 2011, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) emailed a letter to the Board of Trustees at City University of New York about the Wiesenfeld/Kushner/CUNY scandal. SPME is an academic group which represents 55,000 professors, researchers and students on 3,500 campuses worldwide. Thus far, no New York mainstream media has covered this truly significant event and unprecedented act of academic courage. I checked today's New York Daily News, the New York Post, and New York Times (NYT). As we know, the NYT published more than 10 articles, blogs, and columns on the brouhaha. With the exception of the article written by Stanley Fish, the articles essentially defended Tony Kushner as a Great Artist-victim and pilloried Jeffrey Wiesenfeld as a bully.



Read the complete original version of this item...







Violent Jihadists: The Contemporary Left's Freedom Riders?



by Phyllis Chesler

NewsRealBlog

May 17, 2011



http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/997/violent-jihadists-freedom-riders





















Be the first of your friends to like this.



Excerpt:



Last night I watched an incredibly moving documentary about the early civil rights movement in America in 1961. The film is based on Raymond Arsenault's book about the many hundreds of young volunteers who faced savage beatings and possible death as they rode buses in an attempt to end Jim Crow racial segregation laws and practices. Directly by Stanley Nelson, the film shows us the extraordinary dignity and determination of the "freedom riders" whose courage inspired and guided even the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.



Read the complete original version of this item...







To subscribe to the Phyllis Chesler mailing list, go to
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/list_subscribe.php




The Phyllis Chesler Organization




No comments:

Post a Comment