Posted on 05/04/2022 7:48:00 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
A former Crimson president wanted to blast the paper's decision to endorse BDS. Crimson president Raquel Coronell Uribe won't publish his letter.
The Harvard Crimson on Friday broke with the paper's longstanding editorial position to endorse—in a lengthy but borderline illiterate editorial—the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that aims to economically isolate the Jewish state of Israel. The endorsement came at the tail end of an "Israeli Apartheid Week" hosted by the Ivy League school's Palestinian Solidarity Committee, replete with an art show that equated Zionism with "racism" and "white supremacy." (The Crimson editorial characterized this as "a colorful, multi-panel ‘Wall of Resistance' in favor of Palestinian freedom and sovereignty.")
The former Crimson president, author, and columnist Ira Stoll wrote a letter to the paper's editor blasting the decision. Crimson president Raquel Coronell Uribe is declining to publish that letter, which the Washington Free Beacon is publishing below, edited lightly for clarity.
Dear Raquel:
For sure I made my share of mistakes as president of the Crimson. The content of the paper should be up to the undergraduates, not the alumni.
Even so, I wanted to write to express my fury, dismay, and disgust with the staff editorial today backing the effort to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel. It makes me embarrassed to be associated with the Crimson.
The editorial says you "unambiguously oppose and condemn antisemitism in every and all forms." Actually, it is an example of antisemitism to single out Israel for boycott, divestment, and sanction while giving a free pass to the many countries with far worse human rights records, countries like Communist China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. A boycott of Israel would mean Harvard scholars could not collaborate with Israeli academics in advancing life-saving technologies, and that no Israeli students—no matter their background or political views—could study at Harvard.
The editorial goes on about "privilege" and "power imbalance." That struck me as particularly tone-deaf this week. Thursday was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
My father's family was from the Town of Wlodowa in Poland. The Encyclopedia Judaica entry on Wlodowa reports that "In June 1942 all the children up to the age of ten were taken to Sobibor and murdered. On Oct. 24, 1942 the entire Jewish population was sent to death in the Sobibor gas chambers. During these deportations hundreds of Jews fled to the forests and organized partisan units. … In the late autumn of 1942 the Germans ordered the establishment of a special ghetto in Wlodowa for all Jews who voluntarily left their hiding places in the forests of the northeastern Lublin province. They were promised that no further deportations would take place. Several thousand Jews who had taken refuge in the forests, but who lacked arms and food supplies and could not survive the winter there, trusted the German promise, and settled in the new Wlodowa ghetto. On April 20, 1943 all were deported to Sobibor and murdered."
Feel free to publish or share this letter if you wish. Or maybe just think of it the next time an institution you lead wants to lecture the Jews about privilege and a power imbalance.
Cordially,
Ira Stoll
Former Crimson President
For the record, this is the same Harvard that Justice “I’m a judge, Jim, not a biologist” Ketanji got her law degree.
Does it mention the whistleblower??
Can’t say the name of the whistleblower!
Have we not yet had enough of Harvard and Yale and all these other elite New England schools? IMHO attendance at any of these schools should automatically disqualify you from the Supreme Court or any other Presidentially nominated position. OTOH, I would give extra credit for going to a land grant school. We have got to rout out these elite east coast pinheads.
Slavery - ended 160 years ago and was so wrong we must give every person of color reparations.
Also The Left:
The Holocaust - happened 80 years ago but BDS.
I loathe these cretins.
“Have we not yet had enough of Harvard and Yale and all these other elite New England schools?”
I certainly have. America, and the world, would be better off if they were razed to the foundations, the land sown with salt, and every employee driven naked into the howling wilderness.
L
“For the record, this is the same Harvard that Justice “I’m a judge, Jim, not a biologist” Ketanji got her law degree.”
More frightening than her biologist statement was her statement she had no position regarding natural rights. Inalienable natural rights are the foundation of our Constitution and system of justice. Our Constitution’s primary purpose is to preserve and protect the natural rights of citizens from government. If she has no position on natural rights, then she cannot uphold her oath of office.
“America, and the world, would be better off if they were razed to the foundations, the land sown with salt, and every employee driven naked into the howling wilderness.”
I don’t know if I want to see any of that crowd naked. Make them wear potato sacks. But other than that, you are spot on. ;-)
>> We have a certain community-wide tendency to dismiss opposing views as inherently offensive and unworthy, straw-manning legitimate arguments and obfuscating difficult but necessary discussions. Yet civil discourse and debate, even when trying, are fundamental steps towards a better reality.<<
Oh, if only the Left had the tiniest ounce of sincerity or aversion to hypocrisy.
Then again, a former Crimson president complaining about the editorial unfairness of the current Crimson is also brilliantly hypocritical.
Samuel Alito—Yale Law School
Clarence Thomas—Yale Law School
Brett Kavanaugh—Yale Law School
Neil Gorsuch—Harvard Law School
“Samuel Alito—Yale Law School
Clarence Thomas—Yale Law School
Brett Kavanaugh—Yale Law School
Neil Gorsuch—Harvard Law School”
For the record, except for ACB the rest of them also went to Harvard or Yale, as have most of their recent predecessors.
So, when did these guys graduate? Those creeps in the Ivy league are now well aware that they are the gatekeepers for those who will run this country, and they no longer let in the ideologically impure. We had better start now to get more “diversity” among those who run things or in a couple of decades we are going to have freakish Harvard professors dictating our lives by remote control.
poisonous palestinianism virus is trendy, sadly.
The Nazi Slander. The Crimson, May 17, 2002.
...the Israelis face virulent hostility from both the Arabs who condemn them as Nazis and from those who privately idolize Hitler’s achievements
Is it, though?
Harvard plays second fiddle in this concert!
You can always tell a Harvard man. You just can’t tell him much.
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