[Peace-discuss] Hillel responds to the apartheid wall
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 30 21:36:37 UTC 2012
And how is this relevant to the real world?
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> From: Wendy Edwards <wayward710 at gmail.com>
>To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com
>Cc: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>; Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Hillel responds to the apartheid wall
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>Wanna see what SSPX has to say about Jewish people? They scrubbed this from their website, but it's still available from archive.org
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>http://web.archive.org/web/20090205120405/http://sspx.org/against_the_sound_bites/mystery_of_the_jews.htm
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>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.
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>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.
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>>>http://www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/priest_suing_n-g_part_of_catholic_splinter_group/
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>>>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?
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>>>Wendy
>>>On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>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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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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 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.
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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 community members who came together to remember Israel's fallen soldiers;
>>>>> * 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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