[Peace-discuss] Hillel responds to the apartheid wall
Wendy Edwards
wayward710 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 21:07:18 UTC 2012
Wanna see what SSPX has to say about Jewish people? They scrubbed this
from their website, but it's still available from archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20090205120405/http://sspx.org/against_the_sound_bites/mystery_of_the_jews.htm
If you want to see the entire paper written by a man who'd gone to an SSPX
seminary, it's at this link starting at page 233:
http://www.jsantisemitism.org/pdf/jsa_1-2.pdf
>From what the account says, it sounds like the current headmaster of the
school sees the expulsion of Jews from Spain as a noble achievement on
Queen Isabella's part. But this guy isn't just some crank living out in
the county; he's in charge of a religious high school.
Wendy
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>wrote:
> Good theme for a letter to the DI.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Wendy Edwards <wayward710 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> *From:* Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
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>>> *Important update on recent events at UIUC*
>>> Dear Robert
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> [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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>> community members who came together to remember Israel's fallen soldiers;[image:
>>> Israel on the Quad 2012]
>>> - 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 students;
>>> - We strengthened our partnership with organizations on and
>>> off-campus, co-sponsoring events with, among others, AISC, TAMID, ZBT, SDT,
>>> AEPi, AEPhi, Students for Environmental Concerns, Environmental Brigades,
>>> Illinois Dance Department, African Cultural Association, the Jewish Studies
>>> Program, Sinai Temple, and the Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation.
>>>
>>> We are extremely proud of Hillel's Israel programming at the University
>>> of Illinois. Our students are engaged and are knowledgeable about the
>>> issues at stake; we are building partnerships and educating the broader
>>> campus community; and we celebrate a positive agenda for Israel all year
>>> long! When Israel's detractors come to campus with the aim of denying
>>> Israel's right to exist, we respond in a strategic and effective way.
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