Thursday, October 16, 2014

Open Hillel Conference Points to the Truth of Kate's Quip That "The Opposite of Diversity is University"

350 students gather at Harvard and discuss need for inclusion of non-Zionist voices in Jewish campus conversations about Middle East conflict

As if "non-Zionist voices" haven't already monopolized the conversation on university campuses. As if the call for "inclusion" isn't really a call to ix-nay the Ionism-Zay, m'kay?:
The two-day Open Hillel conference included lectures, panels and workshops on topics such as “Israel/Palestine Politics of College Campuses,” “Race in the American Jewish Community,” “Intermarriage: Good, Bad, or Neutral for the Jewish People?” and “Philanthropy and Power: How Big Donors Shape the Agenda in the Jewish World.”
Speakers at the event included Rashid Khalidi, a controversial Columbia professor of Arab studies who was recently barred from speaking at Ramaz High School; gender theorist Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has made provocative statements about Israel and its enemies; Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who identifies as a “progressive Zionist”; and journalist Peter Beinart, the author of the 2012 book "The Crisis of Zionism."
Enemies of Zion, the lot of 'em. And, as leftists who march in lockstep, about as un-"diverse" as it gets.

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