February 14, 2009

Yiddishers against zionism?

Many thanks to J.Otto Pohl for picking up on a significant fact about the Hampshire College divestment from the Israeli economy. Here's his post:
Hampshire College in Amherst has now become the first US institution of higher education to divest from Israel. The school is famous for a couple of reasons, but one of them is that it hosts the National Yiddish Book Center. The conflict between certain elements of the Jewish Diaspora and Zionism is not new. But, the presence of such a symbolic institution of the cultural history of the Jewish Diaspora at Hampshire certainly highlights this conflict. In the larger scheme of things it looks like the movement for Palestinian human rights is finally starting to get some support in the US.
It certainly does....

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