Re: Shames & Hillel Disingenuously Seek to Shed Responsibility
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Posted by Bill Narvey on 12:36:17 2008/09/25
In Reply to:
Speakers Clash About What to Do About Campus Anti-Semitism posted by David Murrell
Shames said:
"Drawing the line between anti-Israel rhetoric and anti-Semitism on campus is not the responsibility of Hillel or any other Jewish group it's up to universities to do so....
there has been more anti-Israel activity that has "pushed a line either towards anti-Semitism, blurred that line, or leaped over that line into anti-Semitism.
It is a grey area that poses the most problematic challenge for university administrators to find where that line is. When does anti-Israel become anti-Semitic, and when does free speech become hate speech?" she asked.....
"But it is not for us to determine. It is the university's decision, and it is the university's dilemma. It is not our dilemma......
"universities struggle with enforcing their own regulations, with ways to properly uphold free speech for all sides, and it's not up to Hillel to decide how to handle issues that arise.
Hillel does not and cannot play the role as the police force on campus, and we cannot be held responsible for a rally of anti-Israel events happening on campus,".
What self defeating spineless drivel!!!
This is from a leader who is busy waving white flags and occupying herself with making more white flags?
Shames is no leader. She is an ideologue who is useless, if not dangerous for Jewish students for she leads them nowhere!
The chutzpah of Shames to suggest anti-semitism on campus is the universities problem and the universities responsibility to deal with is utterly appalling and ignorant.
Shames has the incredibly stupid audacity to suggest that universities are the ones to draw the line between legitimate views and anti-semitism.
How trusting of her.
Pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel activists, advocates and propagandists have no compunction in pushing the universities to move that line to encompass their messages that clearly cross the line as anti-semitic.
Jews must take responsibility. Where universities are being pushed by pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists to tolerate anti-semitism and euphemistically calling it legitimate points of view, Jews must be there, united and in full strong voice to push the university to not succomb to anti-Israel pressure and leave their good and common sense aside.
The Tilly Shames' of the Jewish world are the last people the Jewish community and organizations like Hillel should turn to for leadership let alone guidance on how to ensure Jewish identity and Jewish pride are instilled and Jewish students band together to stand up to, put down and undermine the views and the efforts of the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel propagandists both on and off university campuses.
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