Strange days indeed when the mainstream daily dares runs such an honest piece on “The Lobby.”
Joel Beinin
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, February 4, 2007
Last Sunday in San Francisco, the Anti-Defamation League sponsored “Finding Our Voice,” a conference designed to help Jews recognize and confront the “new anti-Semitism.” For me, it was ironic. Ten days before, my own voice was silenced by fellow Jews.
I was to give a talk about our Middle East policy to high school students at the Harker School in San Jose. With one day to go, my contact there called to say my appearance had been canceled. He was apologetic and upset. He expected the talk would be intellectually stimulating and intriguing for students. But, he said, “a certain community of parents” complained to the headmaster. He added, without divulging details, that the Jewish Community Relations Council of Silicon Valley had played a role.
Diane Fisher, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Silicon Valley, says that although she left a message for the school principal, she never actually spoke to him, and any suggestion that the council was responsible for the cancellation of Beinin’s appearance at the school is inaccurate and an “unlikely inflation of JCRC’s influence.”
Such modesty.
Browse Timeline
- « Brave and kick-ass column in the Houston Chronicle
- » MuzzleWatch barks at those who try to bite a chunk out free expression over U.S. policy on Israel and Palestine
Related Entries
-
MuzzleWatch barks at those who try to bite a chunk out free expression over U.S. policy on Israel and Palestine...Rachel Corrie’s detractors seek to silence message of Hope and Peace...UN official considers leaving “Quartet” due to U.S. bully tactics...No room in Bethlehem for peace campaigners...Interesting analysis on the Israel scapegoat for the U.S.’s war against the Iraqi people...
Loading ...
Recently commented