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Apparently this school now wides with the anit-Jewish group the American Studies Association and its boycott of Israel.

What/who is the American Studies Assocition anyway and what is it with this school?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/us/members-of-jewish-student-group-test-permissible-discussion-on-israel.html?ref=education&_r=0[/quote]

As a proud Jew with deep religious faith, I resent your lies about this article.  There is nothing anti-Jewish about what was done here.  The Swarthmore Hillel (Jews, by the way.  Students who actively seek to identify as Jewish) has chosen to respect the diversity of opinion within the Jewish community -- a Jewish value, by the way.  I don't agree with the boycott but I do have a problem with this idea that the American Jewish community has to be monolithic in its beliefs.[/quote]

As Mr. Dershowitz notes this is NOT a free-speech issue. The question is a branding one - Hillel does not want its brand to be diluted.  [/quote]

PP again -- Alan Dershowitz is a complete reactionary on this topic.  of course it isn't a First Amendment issue.  Perhaps its more appropriate to call it a free expression issue, free expression within a private community that can make its own rules.  However, as THE campus jewish organization, it seems to me that Jewish students should be able to decide to be inclusive.  Its like the Republican Party was free to exclude the gay Republican group but it sure made me think less of them.  if I was a Republican, and I'm not, I would have advocated for more inclusion.[/quote]

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