[Peace-discuss] Hillel responds to the apartheid wall

Mon Apr 30 20:57:29 UTC 2012

FWIW, I wrote a post in SP related to the SSPX boarding school in Vermilion
County that was mentioned on the news.  SSPX has been criticized by the ADL
and Southern Poverty Law Center for anti-Semitism, and one of their bishops
is infamous for Holocaust denial.

http://www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/priest_suing_n-g_part_of_catholic_splinter_group/

Maybe a stupid question, but why does Hillel not get more concerned about a
guy like this indoctrinating kids than a wall built on campus for less than
a week?

Wendy

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> So at most (I assume) a couple of dozen SJP students manage to build a
> wall in order to provide information about Israel's occupation of
> Palestine, basically people with weapons against people without (military)
> weapons. And against this is arrayed a couple of dozen
> organizations--student, off campus Jewish, Israel Lobby, etc. (although I'm
> not sure what sort of political position some of these organizations think
> they are consenting to). And beyond that is included the "Jewish Studies
> Program," presumably the Program for Jewish Culture and Society. This is a
> real smoking gun. What is a campus program doing endorsing this political
> program? There should be a huge, public stink about this, if nothing else.
>
> DG
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> As you have been and continue to be an important part of our Illini Hillel
> community, we want to share the following update with you:
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> For many years, our Illini Hillel, supported by JUF's Israel Education
> Center (IEC), has celebrated Israel's independence through a week-long
> series of events both on and off campus called Israel Week, marking
> Israel's many achievements in its short history.  This week of programming
> is the pinnacle of the year's worth of Israel education at UIUC.
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> [image: Apartheid wall 2012]This year, the week that preceded our
> celebration was marked by a series of events organized by a Registered
> Student Organization (RSO) called "SJP - Students for Justice in
> Palestine," the local chapter of a national organization by the same name.
> As part of a campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel, they built a
> large wall in the middle of campus and organized events that tried to
> establish a parallel between Israel's policies in the West Bank, and
> South-African Apartheid. While the comparison is a blatant
> misrepresentation, the truth is that the wall did attract attention from
> our campus community.
>
> How Hillel and JUF's Israel Education Center responded:
>
>    - We increased our Israel-related programming, organizing a
>    professors' panel about the crisis in Syria, a lunch session about the
>    Israeli myth of Masada and a candle vigil at the quad for the commemoration
>    of *Yom HaShoah*, which attracted more than 100 people. Altogether,
>    over 250 people attended the events organized by Hillel - many more than
>    the numbers SJP attracted to their three events;
>    - IEC Israel Interns and other Hillel students had their letters
>    published by the Daily Illini, the students newspaper (click here<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fXy7Eie3QkbX-Tx6g4Q00uE7uDPnBn9ts2y8KBxTv5GNUmFGBn-4WByVKgQ5D0z1LZYTb6WRezqZPmdo-zNPrEELvxUlsCF0I2UDL82eNRoSRbSGS8XwXjQ7tPoXAoDVGoMu4WeiN_s=>to read them);
>    - We organized our events in cooperation with other student
>    organizations, such as Interfaith in Action, College Democrats, Illini
>    Conservative Union, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and Amnesty International -
>    focusing our efforts on helping people develop a deeper understanding of
>    the conflicts in the Middle East, and of the potential effects of
>    anti-Semitism;
>    -  We are working with University officials to understand how the
>    wall, a semi-permanent structure, was allowed to be built and remain in the
>    quad for five days.
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> We have been strategic about our response, avoiding actions that would
> only bring more attention to the aggressive message put out by SJP and
> other Israel detractors. We have also been strategic in placing more
> emphasis on our positive Israel programming than in reacting to
> provocations.
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> This past Friday we finished the celebration of Israel Week that was led
> and planned by Hillel and the Israel Illini RSO. During this week....
>
>    - We tabled on the quad and interacted with over 2,000 students and
>    faculty; we had a number of RSOs tabling with us on campus including: AEPi,
>    AEPhi, SDT, ZBT, Students for Environmental Concerns, AISC, Tamid,
>    KravMaga, Israel Illini and the Illini Conservative Union.
>    - Our *Yom HaZikaron* ceremony was attended by over 100 students and
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>    - We celebrated *Yom HaAtzmaut* all day long - starting with a
>    communal event at Sinai Temple, continuing with a party throughout the
>    night and ending with a barbecue party on the deck of the Cohen Center. A
>    total of 500 people attended the *Yom Haatzmaut* Events;
>    - We partnered with the Israeli community in Champaign-Urbana and
>    welcomed them for a significant part of our celebrations;
>    - We had a special Israel-themed Shabbat dinner, attended by over 120
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