SPME Faculty Forum Network Weighs In On Berkeley Effort

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Responses to SPME President Peter Haas’s Letter to SPME Faculty Forum Network

SPME friends –

If divestment plans of this sort find their way to any of our Michigan campuses, please be sure to let me know, and I include the emails of some other faculty supporters locally. The materials you used at Berkeley and elsewhere will be useful for us if and when the time comes.

Thanks for all your fine work.

Nigel Paneth MD MPH
University Distinguished Professor
Departments of Epidemiology and Pediatrics & Human Development
College of Human Medicine
Michigan State University

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Interesting. Good job in insuring that not just one side was presented.

Ron Sievert
Bush School of Government
University of Texas
SPME Faculty Fellow 2008

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Dear Professor Haas

I would like to send my congratulations and thanks to all those involved in these pursuits on our behalf. It is very reassuring to know that such well coordinated efforts are being made to counter these vicious allegations.

Thanks and best wishes

Simon Nadel
Imperial College School of Medicine
UK

As it happened, I was with Rabbis Cooper and Adlerstein at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles at the time of the veto and shortly thereafter. Sitting in that place would remind anyone of why that vote was so important, and every organization that helped defeat the motion, including SPME, deserves our undying thanks.

Richard Benkin, Ph.D. Chicago

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You are to be commended for your work and honest efforts. Good for you! Unfortunately, as long as the Arabs all around us don’t accept a Jewish sovereign anywhere in an area that is considered the Moslem Umma, then all of our efforts are in vain.

Israel and you can make all kinds of efforts but as long as we are NOT accepted here under any circumstances it is in vain. Just read all their websites!

Thank you for your time-

Joan Zia Kahn Ben-
Gurion University

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Thank you Peter and the leadership of SPME for your wonderful work.

Ed Weissman
Cornell University

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All these activities in support of the so-called “human rights” are nothing but poorly disguised anti-Semitism and hatred toward the Jews. Unfortunately, history repeats itself. However, to fool the gullible public these people take their clues not from the vehement ant-Semitism of the National-Socialist variety, but rather of Stalinist regime and its heirs ( Khrushchev and Co.).

There the anti-Semitic actions were disguised as a fight against what they called “rootless cosmopolitans” and “bourgeois nationalists”. Later their double-speak become a little bit more subtle, and the Soviet leadership (and naturally all the media and academia and the rest of the public) rallied against the “Zionist aggressors” and “Zionism” in general. This thinly-veiled reference to the Jews did not fool anyone in the former Soviet Union and surely not in the West. In the former USSR the incessant campaign against the “Zionism” was translated into the action against the Jews, in particular, making their access to the higher education very difficult ( introducing the quotas, sometimes reducing them to 0), making almost impossible for the scientists, who were still working to get their higher degrees.

Unfortunately, lessons of history mean nothing to these new storm troopers, and they forgot about the fate of the preceding priests of hatred. But as the Russian saying goes, “A law is nor written for fools, and if it is written then it is not read; if it is read it is not understood, and if it is understood then in a wrong way!”

These despicable events, coupled with the onslaught on personal liberties of the American people, make me very sceptical about the future of this country. Would it go the way of another great nation, Ancient Rome? I think the probability of that happening is very high: we are on our way not to decline but to the fall. Rephrasing W.Churchill, I would say, “This is not the end of the beginning, this even not the beginning of the end, but this is the end”.

Sincerely,

A.Granik, Prof.Emeritus
University of the Pacific

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Dear PH,

It might be interesting to learn who are the persons who asked to be removed from that panel for which Cohen was scheduled to attend..who are those either pusillanimous or bigoted or politically obscene fools… Their names should be announced, because it can be a strong shaming act, if they are capable of shame.

Jascha Kessler
UCLA

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Thank you for the great work that your organization does. This report in particular prompted me to make a modest donation. As the parent of a college junior and an incoming college freshman, student activities on campus that have an anti-Israel slant concern me greatly.

Take good care,

Debra Kriete
Attorney and Past Executive Director of Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition and Chair, Harrisburg, PA Community Relations Council

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Good Job….

Ariel Anbar
Arizona State University

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Well Done.

Myer Leonard
University of Minnesota

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Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!! For the report and the activism!

Tibbi Duboys,
Brooklyn College

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Good work, Peter

Edwin Black
International Investigative Author

******************* You make your membership proud,COL Zane E. Finkelstein
US Army War College
Carlisle, PA

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Thank you for this timely mobilization and successful effort!

Aggie Hoffman, Attorney, CA

SPME Faculty Forum Network Weighs In On Berkeley Effort

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