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The Tony Kushner “affair” indicates an amazing transformation in the ability of those critical

of Israel policies to express their views publicly.

Only a few years ago, anyone expressing criticism would have been consigned to the darkness.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow provides valuable insights into the reasons behind the rejection of the effort to cast Kushner into darkness, as well as into the radical changes that are taking lasix buy place in the Middle East. The beginning of Rabbi Waskow’s piece is below, with a link to the full article.

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Behind online ampicillin the Tony Kushner story:
The deeper reasons for CUNY’s rejection & reversal –

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Last night, the executive committee of the CUNY Board

of Trustees  reversed the Board’s refusal of an honorary degree to Tony Kushner.

Behind the Board’s original decision and its reversal are three stories.

The first: There has been a concerted attack against Silagra buy phentermine order levitra Soft”>Kamagra Soft the best traditions of open debate and exploration of opinion in academia and in Jewish life, when it comes to criticism of the Israeli government.  The second story: There is a new wave of bold resistance to such arrogance, in the world and in the Jewish community. The third: The Middle East is on the dizzying verge of an opening toward peace

– and that infuriates some hawks on both sides of the barricades. 

1. Mr. Trustee Wiesenfeld, Brand Cialis who swept cheapest propecia outburst.

He had earlier temporarily won the dismissal of a Brooklyn College Cialis for sale professor (later reversed by the college) for the same reasons; he had led the fight to squash the first Arabic-language charter school in New York, reviling its professional educator Debby Almontaser; he  opposed the right of Muslims to create a community center/ mosque in Lower Manhattan.  And a network of such bigots has been haunting academia for several years.

2. The new story is that this time, a wave of outrage levofloxacin stopped this bigotry in its tracks.  Jews committed to Jewish values, intellectuals, artists, academics, joined in condemning viagra sales the Board’s action. (We amoxil online at The Shalom Center were among the earliest to respond.

And we admire the swift and vigorous response of Jewish Voice for Peace.)

This uprising — which we should take honorable joy in –  is why Benno C. Schmidt Jr., chairman of the CUNY board since 2003 and a former president of Yale University,  told the Times that  the board had “made a mistake of principle, and not merely of policy,” in failing to approve Tony Kushner’s degree, Buy Cialis online at its meeting last Monday.  “Freedom of thought and expression is the bedrock of any university worthy of the name,” said Mr. Schmidt.
Duhhh! – It’s not likely that Mr. Schmidt was fast asleep and snoring so loud he couldn’t hear Mr. Trustee Jeffrey S.

Wiesenfeld’s  "impassioned speech" against a made-up caricature of the real Tony Kushner, when the issue came before the Board last week. 

It’s more likely Chairman Schmidt was thinking that bigots like Wiesenfeld have more money, more glower, buy cialis cialis and more power, than gay playwrights, wimpy professors,  and soft-hearted peaceniks.   If so, he purchase viagra online was awakened by the wave of outrage that swept over the CUNY Board.

Five years ago, or even five weeks ago, many of those who rose up might well have rolled cialis buy cialis jelly online their eyes but kept their cytotec buy mouths shut.

Why now? propecia generic For one thing, a new sense of ferment Buy Female Viagra is bubbling, from Tahrir Square to Madison, Wisconsin. Cialis 0nline pharmacy online God is troubling the Waters.

3. And the third story: The REALLY New Middle East levitra brand vs generic is challenging Israel to think anew. Its government might respond by making new wars, or seeking a newer, broader peace.

Whichever direction it now takes, those Jews who disagree will be tenser than ever, more fearful that the old path or any new one spells disaster. Expect bitter fights, expect less room for shrugging off the struggle, expect more efforts to “excommunicate” the the diet pills critics. 

In the last two weeks, we have seen the tiny openings Buy Nolvadex Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed for a possible though perilous passage toward peace buy cialis pills between Israel and Palestine.

In Israel, for the first time in years those committed to peace have raised their voices with serious buy ampicillin online proposals for a two-state solution.

Thirty crucial veteran leaders of the military / security establishment (not the usual peacenik suspects) have put forward a detailed plan. Hundreds of writers, artists, scholars who are the usual suspects but have for years now kept their mouth shut –  the intellectual flower of Israel – have also called for action Kamagra to that end.

Among the Palestinians, buy real viagra without prescription Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah have all agreed to halt attacks on Israel and create a caretaker government of national unity, led by technocrats rather than political figures. Some leaders of Hamas have said that if a majority of the Palestinian people cheap Amoxil votes for peace with Israel, Hamas will set aside its original framework calling for the abolition of the state of Israel.

The new government of Egypt has announced that its border with Gaza will be opened for trade – import and export.

Plans are moving ahead for the UN General Assembly ampicillin can you buy viagra in stores | buy cialis brand | levitra buy acomplia drugs buy online to admit a new Palestine, within approximately the 1967 Green Line boundaries, as a UN member.

All this could lead in the direction of a true peace settlement, supported by peace treaties between all Arab governments, the new state of Palestine, and the state of Israel – as the Arab League has several times proposed during cheap levitra generic the last decade.  (Till Cialis Kamagra now, these proposals have generic amoxil been ignored by the government of Israel and the Hamas government of Gaza.)

Or the very possibility of a breakthrough for peace might drive hawks on either or both sides, in or out of their governments,  viagra online to sabotage these openings.

If that happens, there could be another wave of violence as both the Israeli government and some parts of the Palestinian leadership react with fear viagra for women online and rage to yet another collapse of hope for peace. Online Viagra Shops

So far, the Netanyahu government and the Obama government have rejected the notion of a Palestinian government of national unity that includes Hamas; have rejected the notion of a UN role in establishing Palestinian buy cialis tablets independence; buyviagra and have failed to end the blockade of civilian goods from entering or leaving Gaza, to Online Viagra buy end the demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, and to stop the settlement amoxil nolvadex online online of Israelis in the West Bank.  This triple rejection makes peace impossible…

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