We need to actively counter this and isolate, expose and pursue zionists control of our institutions. This seems another instance of the intense pressure to support Israel inside elite institutions, because that’s all the Israel lobby has now in the wake of Gaza. This Yale student called on the church to dismiss Shipman for “incendiary comments” demonstrating “profoundly poor judgment and insensitivity,” and the church’s board of governors evidently sided with that student. Rabbi Brant Rosen resigned from his synagogue in the Chicago area because “I gradually became a Palestine solidarity activist rather than liberal Zionist,” as he told Haaretz. His synagogue was riven by the controversy, as Yale must be, too. Rosen will surely have more freedom now, and Father Shipman will too. I think good things will come of this. The resignation demonstrates the pattern of blacklisting/corruption in prestige institutions that is bound to crack at some point, and it opens up more space at the grassroots for free discussion of these important questions.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:20:41 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015