[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: Zionist propaganda in the DI!

[patton paul]

>
> >I think that this is an absolutely urgent matter.
> >
> >David Green
> >
> >--- Hadeel Assali <hadeelassali at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>  Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:04:30 -0800 (PST)
> >>  From: Hadeel Assali <hadeelassali at yahoo.com>
> >>  Subject: Zionist propaganda in the DI!
> >>>
> >>  Please read this editorial:
> >>
> >http://www.dailyillini.com/nov02/nov21/opinions/stories/edit.shtml
> >  >
> >>  This is an absolute outrage and will cause SERIOUS
> >>  damage to the image of the Palestinians in the
> >>  Champaign-Urbana community. As students, as faculty,
> >>  as community members and as alumni, we cannot let
> >>  this happen. Free speech is an inalienable right,
> >>  but free speech of our oppressors, who ARE in power,
> >>  is lethal. it is used to instigate and direct
> >>  military might against ordinary people all over the
> >>  world, in this case Palestine.

I just read the DI editorial, and I think it is an impressive and
courageous defense of free speech.  If we don't respect everybody's free
speech rights, even the free speech rights of those we deem oppressors,
then we will be in a weaker position to defend free speech rights,
including especially those of the oppressed and marginalized.
I don't think AWARE should protest the DI, because its editors clearly
don't agree with or endorse the views of the One Truth Foundation.  I
think it would be better for AWARE to concentrate on countering the
distorted views of the Palestinians likely to be contained in the ads.
Could we, maybe, run our own ad?
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