[TopQuark]

''I simply couldn't afford to sit back any longer,'' said Harvard psychology professor Elizabeth Spelke,

Sure, I understand. The question I have is why this esteemed professor can continue to "sit back" with regard to all the atrocities that happen in the rest of the world today? What is it that places Israel at the bottom of the heap?

Acceptance. Some will sell their souls for it. Some will sell their own heritage. Some will do both.

[dennisw]

Sara Roy, a child of Holocaust survivors and a Middle East researcher at Harvard, has not signed the divestment petition but is seen as an ally in the movement because of a Holocaust Remembrance Lecture she gave this year and published last month. In the speech, she said: ''For my mother and father, Judaism meant bearing witness, railing against injustice, and forgoing silence. ... What sort of meaning do we as Jews derive from the debasement and humiliation of Palestinians?''

I like the one above. No room for G_d it seems in her and her folk's version of Judaism. But plenty of room to use weary clichés such as humiliation of Palestinians. I may not be Harvard material but I know enough to avoid clichés.