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

Wed Feb 13 23:54:58 CST 2008

I am not familiar with the work of Dr. Brustein, but I did take a look at
his CV which is posted with his faculty biography and he has done extensive
work on studying antisemitism. The communication that he asked for the image
to be removed indicates that he may not have known about his.
 *
I also suspect that, couched in scholarly language, this will be the
speaker's message*.

The best way to really make that determination would be to either read his
work, or attend the presentation.

On Feb 13, 2008 1:42 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 217-244-6735
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> womenshistory at uiuc.edu
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