Not enough of us protest!
Apparently, protesters at MIT held a small gathering of 60 to protest Israel. This quote caught my eye:
Harvard’s Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama, who supported the Harvard-MIT petition to divest from Israel in 2002, was present at the event.“Harvard professors should take a more evenhanded view and not just be all pro-Israel,” he said in an interview before the event, holding a poster that read “NO U.S. $$$ FOR ISRAEL AGGRESSION!”
While I've known that certain political elements live in a fantasy world, that's a pretty impressive leap, given:
- The push for divestment
- The Israeli Lobby paper
- The Harvard Israel Review noted that "if an undergrad wants to learn about Modern Israel, most of the classes he will end up taking will be about Middle Eastern conflicts. The Harvard faculty thus sends the message that Israel is a troublemaker, worthy of study only in that respect."
- Pro-Palestinian professors being invited onto campus to speak
Apparently, the real problem is that professors like Ruth Wisse and Alan Dershowitz are pro-Israel, and proud of it.
