Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Next Thursday, Dore Gold will be debating Richard Goldstone at Brandeis (see the event calendar). This doesn't sit well with the campus radicals at Brandeis who are considering an organized disruption of...Dore Gold's presentation (you didn't think they were going to boo Goldstone did you?). Here's an email forwarded to me from an anonymous source (edited to remove extraneous forwarded email line breaks):
To: sds sds@lists.brandeis.edu
Subject: Goldstone Forum Action Planning - Wed. @ 10!
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:32:19 -0400 (EDT)
Hey!
As many of you know, Brandeis will be hosting a forum next Thursday, 11/5, to discuss the Goldstone Report, a report from the United Nations which determined that Israel used excessive force in its occupation of Gaza. Believe it or not, this was poorly received within the Zionist community.
Thus Brandeis is hosting a forum between the report's author, international jurist Richard Goldstone, and former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Dore Gold. Full details here: http://brandeis.edu/now/2009/october/goldstonegold.html.
Many of us are concerned that this forum is inherently slanted, as it contrasts 'nuetral' international opinion with a wildly pro-Zionist message, excluding voices from the Palestinian community. In light of this, activists across campus will be meeting this Wednesday, 10/28 @ 10 PM in the Village C Lounge to discuss a possible response. Possibilities include inviting Palestinian speakers to come participate, seeding the audience with people who can disrupt the Zionist narrative, protest, and direct action.
Please come and help us coordinate a response!
Fuck the occupation,
Jon
[snip original event announcement]
I have a feeling Brandeis officialdom is aware of the situation. We await to see what action they take and what disciplinary actions are applied, if any. Hey Brandeis, your own email system is being used to coordinate disrupting your own events.
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We've now reached a point where it's unsafe for Jews to defend Israel for defending Jews... at a traditionally Jewish university.
But presumably anti-Zionism is in no way a pathological indulgence driven by ugly undercurrents. Quite the opposite, it's a fine-grained response to actual Israeli actions...