[Peace-discuss] Hillel responds to the apartheid wall

Mon Apr 30 21:49:59 UTC 2012

I want to know why Hillel gets bent out of shape about a wall on campus
that's up for less than a week and doesn't seem to care about a group
that's been criticized repeatedly for anti-Semitism is running a boarding
school in East Central IL and indoctrinating kids.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:36 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> And how is this relevant to the real world?
>
>    *From:* Wendy Edwards <wayward710 at gmail.com>
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> *Cc:* David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>; Peace-discuss List <
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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
>
>
> 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
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> 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.
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> 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
>
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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
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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.
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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<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fXy7Eie3QkbX-Tx6g4Q00uE7uDPnBn9ts2y8KBxTv5GNUmFGBn-4WByVKgQ5D0z1LZYTb6WRezqZPmdo-zNPrEELvxUlsCF0I2UDL82eNRoSRbSGS8XwXjQ7tPoXAoDVGoMu4WeiN_s=>to read them);
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>    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
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>    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....
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>    total of 500 people attended the *Yom Haatzmaut* Events;
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>    welcomed them for a significant part of our celebrations;
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