Tuesday, February 8, 2005
The following was left as a comment to the post below.
Much of the mail I have recieved critical of divestment has been well written and actually brought up points we made in our editorial on the subject.
1) A divestment of israel ingores the human rights abuses of other regimes in the mideast and around the world
2) Racists have used seemingly valid criticism of Israel to promote hatred
3) Isreal has been a major force for peace in the last half century
4) taking Isreal's actions out of context from the whole picture of Mideast violence paints a distorted picture of the middle east
Still, the divestment issue brings up legitimate questions and I think my readers would be very interested in a pro israeli response.
Do pro-isaeli people deny the allegations made by those supporting divestment?
Most of the charges of human rights abuses made against Isreal by pro-divestment have been backed by Amnesty International.
Conservative Jews have veiwed all Iraelli divestment racist.
Questions...
In what context is criticism of Isreali national security policy NOT racism?
Would ANY (Israeli)government action justify sanctions?
If so, how is this context different?
Having contact with people on faculty senate, I highly doubt anti semitism had anything to do with the vote.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you
(exponent@uwplatt.edu)
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