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November 1, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=2346

Divestment Equals Anti-Semitism

(New York Jewish Week) Abraham H. Foxman - What started as a whisper on campus has turned into a full-fledged assault on the Jewish state. It is a new movement that is sweeping many campuses across the country. While the movement has largely failed to gain any momentum on campus, concerns about the wider issues raised by divestment campaigns are strongly felt in the Jewish community. Not surprisingly, this assault against Israel has turned nasty. The singling-out of Israel goes beyond criticism of Israeli government policies to hateful comparisons of a kind appropriately described this fall by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers as being "anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent."

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