Marc Lamont Hill
The event on “Race, Liberation and Palestine” includes Marc Lamont Hill and Nick Estes, who both have histories of antisemitism.
Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters and new CUNY employee Marc Lamont Hill are among the slated participants at an upcoming “Palestine Writes” literary festival on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
Former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said Robin L. Garrell leaving sends a message to “to stop hiring Jew-haters.”
Marc Lamont Hill’s arrival will leave “Jewish students and staff feeling even less safe than they do now,” says New York City Councilman Ari Kagan.
A panel of activists debate contemporary anti-Semitism with many decrying the false contradiction too often presented between being both progressive and Jewish.
Nearly 1,000 viewers tuned in to watch the panelists discuss their thoughts on combating anti-Semitism, yet in a twist that didn’t go unnoticed, many anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist remarks were made during the 90-minute event.
The Dec. 15 webinar is being sponsored by JVP Action; IfNotNow; United Against Hate; Jewish Currents; Foundation for Middle East Peace; Arab American Institute; JFREJ; the Jewish Vote; and the People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation.
“These departments are basically sponsoring a hate-fest,” said attorney Karen Hurvitz, who is representing the students. “They need to move this rally off campus and not sponsor it in any way.”
“These departments bill the event as a defense of free speech, and yet they plan to silence pro-Israel voices by not including them,” says CAMERA’s Hali Haber. “The event is really nothing more than ugly political theater pretending to be liberal and academic for reasons of public relations.”
“Providing the imprimatur of three academic departments to such a politically motivated and directed event violates the core academic mission of the university, suppresses student expression and impedes the free exchange of ideas so essential for any university,” said a letter to UMass chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.
If you were to believe the headline at “The Independent” (of a story cross-posted from “The Washington Post”), you would believe that CNN fired political commentator Marc Lamont Hill merely for criticizing Israel and calling for a “free Palestine.”
Temple University professor and CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill takes the heat for calling for “a Free Palestine From the River to the Sea.”
