<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_2805" dir="ltr">Friends,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_2838" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_2996" dir="ltr">I hope this holiday season finds you in good health.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3127" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3128" dir="ltr">Below are links to two recent letters to the News-Gazette, both of which incorporate my call for discourse and dialogue in the New Year in Urbana-Champaign regarding the problem of Israel/Palestine, both among Jews and among all of those intimately and passionately involved in this conflict. I think that this would provide some substance to the notion of academic freedom that has been so intensely invoked in recent months, but rarely if ever practiced in good faith regarding this issue.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3328" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3342" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3341" href="http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2014-12-23/diverse-discourse-israel-needed.html">http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2014-12-23/diverse-discourse-israel-needed.html</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3683" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3688" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_4168" href="http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2014-12-09/nelson-apologist-zion-sophistry.html">http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2014-12-09/nelson-apologist-zion-sophistry.html</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3984" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3985" dir="ltr">Best regards,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3986" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3987" dir="ltr">David Green</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3958" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3959" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3682" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3340" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3339" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3191" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3192" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_2999" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419347516697_3066" dir="ltr"> </div></div></body></html>