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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">From: Boyle, Francis A [<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu</span></a>]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Subject: The Common Ills: Prof Boyle Schools Harvard President Faust About Prejudice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Prof Boyle Schools Harvard President Faust About Prejudice
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Francis A. Boyle is an attorney and a professor of international law. He's also the author of many books including, most recently, United Ireland, Human Rights and International
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Professor Boyle Schools Harvard President Faust About Prejudice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Dec. 27, 2013
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Dear President Faust:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">I notice your condemnation of the ASA Boycott against Israel in today's New York Times. I note for the record that Harvard has never once apologized to those of us Harvard
Alums who participated in good faith in the Harvard Divestment/Disinvestment Campaign against Israel when your predecessor Larry Summers accused us of being anti-Semitic-- a charge which he refused to defend against me as related below. As a matter of fact,
Harvard is so notoriously anti-Palestinian that the late, great Edward Said refused to accept Harvard's top chair in Comparative Literature when Harvard offered it to him. As a loyal Harvard alum I spent an entire evening with Edward at a Chinese Restaurant
in Manhattan trying to convince Edward to take this Chair. I thought it would be good for Harvard to have Edward teaching there. As a lawyer and a law professor, I can be quite persuasive. But Edward would have none of my arguments. As Edward saw it, Harvard
was so anti-Palestinian that Harvard would have thwarted his intellectual creativity to move there. So Edward stayed at Columbia. Of course Edward was right. And the anti-Palestinian tenor and orientation of Harvard has certainly gotten far worse since when
Edward and I were both students at Harvard. Harvard should be doing something about its own longstanding bigotry and racism against the Palestinians. Not criticizing those of us trying to help the Palestinians suffering from Israeli persecution, war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and outright genocide. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Yours very truly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">sent by Francis Boyle - Jul 30, 2007
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The Cowardice of Harvard's Larry Summers
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">I'm not going to go through the subsequent history of the divestment/disinvestment movement, except to say that in the late summer of 2002 the President of Harvard, Larry
Summers accused those of us Harvard alumni involved in the Harvard divestment campaign of being anti-Semitic.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">After he made these charges, WBUR Radio Station in Boston, which is a National Public Radio affiliate, called me up and said: "We would like you to debate Summers for one
hour on these charges, live." And I said, "I'd be happy to do so." They then called up Summers and he refused to debate me.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Summers did not have the courage, the integrity, or the principles to back up his scurrilous charges. Eventually Harvard fired Summers because of his attempt to impose
his Neo-Conservative agenda on Harvard, and in particular his other scurrilous charge that women are dumber than men when it comes to math and science. Well as a Harvard alumnus I say: Good riddance to Larry Summers! (laughter).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">WBUR then called me back and said, "Well, since Summers won't debate you, would you debate Alan Dershowitz?" And I said, "Sure." So we had a debate for one hour, live on
the radio. And there is a link that you can hear this debate if you want to. I still think it's the best debate out there on this whole issue of Israeli apartheid. Again that would be WBUR Radio Station, Boston, 25 September 2002.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The problem with the debate, of course, is that Dershowitz knows nothing about international law and human rights. So he immediately started out by saying "well, there's
nothing similar to the apartheid regime in South Africa and what Israel is doing to the Palestinians."
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Well the problem with that is that Dershowitz did not know anything at all about even the existence of the Apartheid Convention. That is our second Handout for tonight.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The definition of apartheid is set out in the Apartheid Convention of 1973.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">And this is taken from my book Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, Trial Materials on South Africa, published in 1987, that we used successfully to defend
anti-apartheid resistors in the United States. If you take a look at the definition of apartheid here found in Article 2, you will see that Israel has inflicted each and every act of apartheid set out in Article 2 on the Palestinians, except an outright ban
on marriages between Israelis and Palestinians. But even there they have barred Palestinians living in occupied Palestine who marry Israeli citizens from moving into Israel, and thus defeat the right of family reunification that of course the world supported
when Jews were emigrating from the Soviet Union. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Israel: An Apartheid State
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Again you don't have to take my word for it. There's an excellent essay today on Counterpunch.org by the leading Israeli human rights advocate Shulamit Aloni saying basically:
"Yes we have an apartheid state in Israel." Indeed, there are roads in the West Bank for Jews only.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Palestinians can't ride there and now they're introducing new legislation that Jews cannot even ride Palestinians in their cars.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">This lead my colleague and friend Professor John Dugard who is the U.N. Special rapporteur for human rights in Palestine to write an essay earlier this fall that you can
get on Google, saying that in fact Israeli apartheid against the Palestinians is worse than the apartheid that the Afrikaners inflicted on the Blacks in South Africa. Professor Duguard should know.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">He was one of a handful of courageous, white, international lawyers living in South Africa at the time who publicly and internationally condemned apartheid against Blacks
at risk to his own life. Indeed, when I was litigating anti-apartheid cases on South Africa, we used Professor Duguard's book on Human Rights and the South African Legal Order as the definitive work explaining what apartheid is all about.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">So Professor Duguard has recently made this statement. Of course President Carter has recently made this statement in his book that Israel is an apartheid state. And certainly
if you look at that definition of the Apartheid Convention, right there in front of you, it's clear - there are objective criteria. Indeed if you read my Palestinian book I have a Bibliography at the end with the facts right there based on reputable human
rights reports, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc. Many of them were also compiled and discussed by my friend Professor Norman Finklestein in his book Beyond Chutzpah, which I'd encourage you to read.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">On Point Radio - Sep 25, 2007 broadcast
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Across the country, the push for divestment has spread to more than 40 campuses. The movement condemns Israel for human rights abuses against the Palestinians. Hundreds
of big-name academics have signed on, but so far no university has moved to divest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The current debate isn't the first time divestment has been used on college campuses as a means to effect social and political change. In the 1980s, the South African divestment
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Do you see parallels with the apartheid debate? Has Israel become a trendy target?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peace [mailto:peace-bounces@lists.chambana.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Naiman via Peace<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> peace <peace@lists.chambana.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Peace] ACLU vs. Rodney Davis on criminalizing speech against the Israeli government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">The ACLU has come out foursquare against the bipartisan, bicameral, AIPAC-supported "anti-Israel boycott bill," that would impose criminal penalties for advocating for a "boycott of Israel," on Constitutional, free
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Consistent with past AIPAC-supported Congressional efforts along this line, "boycott Israel" is defined to mean, "including settlements in the West Bank," i.e. this bill is expressly aimed at European policies that distinguish between "Israel" and "the settlements." <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Here's a write-up in the Intercept. They interview bill sponsors and ask them, did you know the ACLU is against this bill? And the sponsors are like, really? I had no idea there were free speech issues with this
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Rodney Davis is a co-sponsor of the House bill. If you don't agree with that, why not give Rodney Davis a piece of your mind? Please note the opposition of the ACLU to the bill in your phone call. <o:p></o:p></p>
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Robert Naiman<br>
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<a href="https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-roll-calls-on-davidson?r_by=1135580">https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-roll-calls-on-davidson?r_by=1135580</a><br>
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