[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] The "new anti-semitism" is back on campus

[Marilyn Booth]

you're correct; the "poster" or image is on the website that David sent. 
I think the important issue is that the image is out there and it is 
important to object to the content of it.

Laurie at advancenet.net wrote:
> Evidently, the postcard may have been designed and sent out by someone in
> the sponsoring group and not the speaker.  However, David said he got a
> postcard not a poster; your message to the speaker about a poster may very
> well have confused the speaker who may have known about the postcards but
> truthfully could claim to have no knowledge of a poster, which may not
> exist.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net [mailto:peace-discuss-
>> bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Marilyn Booth
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:27 AM
>> To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>> Cc: Peace List; Peace Discuss
>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] The "new anti-semitism" is back on
>> campus
>>
>> I have just sent the speaker a message protesting the content of the
>> poster. He immediately responded saying he had seen no poster and would
>> I send him the link, which I have done.
>>
>> Marilyn Booth
>>
>> David Green wrote:
>>> Friends,
>>>
>>> I received a postcard in the mail announcing a campus event on Feb.
>>> 27th, an image of which is to be found at
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.jewishuiuc.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/632321/jewish/Th
>> e-New-Anti-Semitism.htm
>>> It depicts a Palestinian and another khaki-clad individual
>> besmirching
>>> the flag of Israel, next to a photo of a Nazi death camp. As far as I
>>> know, there have never existed any death camps administered by
>> Palestinians.
>>> While William Brustein is a prolific scholar, it appears that we are
>> in
>>> for another equation of anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel. That
>> is,
>>> an apologetic for Zionist criminality.
>>>
>>> Needless to say, I find this offensive, not to mention defamatory and
>>> racist. It can hardly be any more offensive, but given the historical
>>> moment, I fear that this is the case.
>>>
>>> David Green
>>>
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Marilyn Booth, D.Phil.

Director
Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Illinois 
        	
221 International Studies Building
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820

	217-244-7331
	217 265-6399 fax
	psames at uiuc.edu
	http://www.psames.uiuc.edu

Associate Professor
Program in Comparative and World Literature
3080 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana IL  61801

	217-333-0023
	217-244-4019 fax
	mbooth at uiuc.edu

Book Review Editor
Journal of Women's History
Department of History
318 Gregory Hall
810 South Wright St.
Urbana, IL  61801

	217-244-6735
	217-333-2297 fax
	womenshistory at uiuc.edu