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The deplorable state of Middle East Studies on college campuses has been a topic of grave concern for many of those who follow the declining fortunes of American scholarship. That an entire field of academic study has grown up in the last quarter-century that seeks to delegitimize Zionism and Israel is not news. But efforts to do something about it are worth mentioning. How bad is the situation? Bad enough that Gratz College, a nondenominational Jewish institution here in the Philadelphia area, feels that it's worth it to create a new institute specifically designed to be an academic answer to...

England's Alan Rickman, star of stage and screen, is here with his gift, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, so that we can all hate Israel together. That play, which Rickman co-wrote, directed and championed, is now running off-Broadway with Megan Dodd as its only performer, so there's no room for Vanessa Redgrave or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It's all about this American woman, a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who got run over by an Israeli bulldozer. Apparently, she was trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian Arab homes in Gaza - homes that are frequently used to conceal tunnels...

A potential Off Broadway production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," an acclaimed solo show about an American demonstrator killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home, has been postponed because of concerns about the show's political content. The production, a hit at the Royal Court Theater in London last year, had been tentatively scheduled to start performances at the New York Theater Workshop in the East Village on March 22. But yesterday, James C. Nicola, the artistic director of the workshop, said he had decided to postpone the show after polling local...

Presbyterian Church USA now joined by HRW in divesting in Caterpillar. Human Rights Watch called on U.S. heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday to stop selling heavy bulldozers to Israel because they are used to destroy Palestinian homes. The New York-based rights group said the bulldozers, which are armoured by Israel, were the army's "primary weapon" to raze Palestinian houses, destroy agriculture and ruin infrastructure such as sewage pipes and roads.

WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) - Still angered by the death of Rachel Corrie, a U.S peace activist who was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer, peace campaigners here are urging U.S. legislators to investigate the death of the 23-year-old activist. Corrie was killed in Rafah, Palestine while trying to stop the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) on Mar. 16, 2003. The U.S. company Caterpillar Inc, based in Illinois, built the nine-ton bulldozer that ran over Corrie, a college student from Olympia in Washington State. Her death made...

On April 23, in Peoria, Illinois, three peace activist groups, including Rachel Corrie's parents, intend to protest the manufacture of Caterpillar bulldozers that are bought by Israel. The details of the protest are in the below pro-palestinian propaganga: Event: Stop Cat demonstration at CAT headquarters in Peoria www.peacechicago.org Description: Buses from Chicago and the surrounding area are being organized, for tickets contact me at matt@stopcat.org Our plans for April 23rd are to meet at Bradley Park (1700 Park Ave) in Peoria at Noon for a short rally, then march to CAT headquarters and demand that James Owens, the current CEO,...

It was a year ago today (March 16, 2003) that Rachel Corrie, traitor and terrorist supporter, was dispatched to Hell while attempting to defend the home of a terrorist from an Israeli bulldozer. Since that time she’s becoming something of a martyr to those on the left, a sort of symbol for their cause. Rachel, some of them will tearfully tell you, gave her life for peace. And so she did. The question is what sort of a peace they mean. “Peace,” the Soviets used to say, “ultimately means communist world rule.” This is something close to the attitude of...

(Editor's note: On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie died in a bulldozer accident in the Gaza town of Rafah.) Today is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza, via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died defending. Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom--oops, death--have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in Jerusalem, killing men, women and schoolchildren (two of them classmates of my daughter and...