Monday, May 16, 2011

SPME to CUNY on Kushner's Honor: 'reverse this deeply uninformed decision'






































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SPME to CUNY on Kushner's Honor: 'reverse this deeply uninformed decision'





by Phyllis Chesler

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May 16, 2011




http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/995/spme-cuny-kushner























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I have just received news of an astounding and unexpected "first."



Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, (SPME) a group which represents 55,000 scholars, researchers and students on 3,500 campuses across the world has just written to every Board of Trustee member at the City University of New York (CUNY) about the Kushner/Wiesenfeld cause célèbre. They are the first group of scholars to weigh in on another side—perhaps even on the "other" side. SPME is horrified by the way in which a private Board member's views became public so quickly and by how quickly the Trustees caved into the goon-squad tactics of the left intelligentsia and the media.



Playwright Tony Kushner, who mistakenly views Israel as "a mistake," and as involved in "ethnic cleansing," was immediately glorified as the victim both by the media and by the CUNY professoriate.




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