Thursday, July 31, 2003
Academic Nazis By Deborah Passner - CAMERA | July 31, 2003
The fall conference will be hosted by a group called New Jersey Solidarity, a self-described pro-Palestinian organization that openly calls for the destruction of Israel. Most of the media's initial reports on NJ Solidarity ignored the extremism and avowed goals of the organization. Only following widespread criticism of the group from the community, Rutgers' President McCormick, and Governor McGreevey did the newspapers begin reporting the facts about NJ Solidarity. Still, much of the media continues to obscure the most contentious fact - that the group's proclaimed "mission" is to "liberate all of historic Palestine," that is, area comprising modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.[...]
Impression: I do think it's a very fine line to tread, between risking censoring unpopular speech, as in the case of this conference, and letting haters and violence advocates use public resources theyhave no right to. Key to the question, however, is that the group's message and goals be clearly communicated and not white-washed as this article describes.
In order for people to make up their own minds in an intelligent way, the truth of the truly radical statements of the group leaders must be accurately reported.
