SOC 2070 Chapter Notes -Syphilis, Lawrence Summers, Unit
8 Jul 2013
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Divestment proponents try to equate israel with apartheid south africa, which was the target of a divestment campaign aimed at ending racial segregation there. This is an offensive comparison that ignores the fact that all israel citizens are equal under the law. The divestment campaign against south africa was specifically directed at companies that were using that country"s racist laws to their advantage. Harvard university president lawrence summers observed that the divestment efforts are anti- semistic. Profoundly anti-israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities. Part of the problem is the failure of the university to teach critical thinking skills. Columbias president bollinger wants to retain the myth of the purity of the ivory tower, but he left out what has become a far greater influence on the university than scholarship, and that is money. Legality is not the issue in evaluating the anti-israel, sometimes anti-semitic speeches and teachings of faculty and speakers on campus.
