Tag: Israel
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Is BDS a defensible position?
There’s this guy on the Huffington Post, named Rabbi David Wolpe. He basically argued that there are two strains of thinking regarding Israel (among Jews) that are beyond the pale: Boycot/Divestment/Sanctions (BDS) on Israel, and “throw the Arabs out of Israel”. His argument leaves me really leery of the standard journalistic trope of false equivalency: […]
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Jewish Yelling for Peace
Right before Brandeis’ Israel Occupation week, a group of students Jewish Voices for Peace (not from Brandeis) gained notoriety as they heckled Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as he spoke to the Jewish General Assembly in New Orleans. Benjamin Netanyahu was interrupted five times by protesters who shouted and held up signs while the Israeli prime […]
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The New Media Meme: “Brandeis Hates Israel!!!”
Last Wednesday, Jonathan Mark of The Jewish Week published an article striking back at the perception that Israel is, even among Jews, losing the respect of the American people that it has enjoyed for so long. While I try to avoid injecting myself into Israeli political debates as much as possible, I do find it […]
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Another articulation of the division Oren causes our community
Many people unfamiliar with the Brandeis community view us as a strictly Jewish institution, when in fact we are a very diverse community. We have members from a wide spectrum of Jewish backgrounds, from the many faiths of the world, and from no faith. For a great number of our students, faculty, and staff, the […]
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Another petition
As you already know, there’s an open letter of students and other Brandeis-affiliated people who are thinking about skipping commencement circling around. To quote one signer: With as rich a selection of potential candidates as we have right now, it is a shame that the school has chosen such a politically loaded commencement speaker. There […]
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An Interfaith Success Story
If you could sum up successful interfaith dialogue in three words, what would they be? How about “Homies in Harmony”? If those aren’t quite the words you had in mind, then you clearly weren’t one of the organizers of last week’s Jews and Muslims Session: Homies in Harmony III. I wish that I had been […]
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Empty Crown?
The Crown Center’s response to Sahar’s recent post. The Tragedy in Gaza: Competing Narratives January 14, 2009 12:15 – 1:45pm Rappaport Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library Dr. Amaney Jamal, Assistant professor of politics at Princeton University Prof. Shai Feldman, Judith and Sidney Swartz Director at the Crown Center Moderator: Prof. Robert Art, Christian A. Herter Professor […]