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

[David Green]

In the final analysis, it's important to remember that the images reflect exactly the intentions of those who defend Israel's policy--to depict some, many, most, or all Palestinians not only as wanting to exterminate Jews, and just for the sake of their being Jewish. I also suspect that, couched in scholarly language, this will be the speaker's message. It will be important to remind him and the audience that the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, now a 60-year project, proceeds, and that Palestinian efforts for a peaceful solution have been repeatedly rejected by Israel and the U.S.

Marilyn Booth <mbooth at uiuc.edu> wrote:  The speaker has just communicated with me, also sending me the text of a 
message he has sent to the Rabbi Teichtel objecting strongly to the 
representation and asking that it be removed.

My interest in this was in actively objecting to an offensive 
representation and having it taken out of public space. I will inform 
him about the postcards.

MB

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






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