Cleopatra
4th May 2003, 11:43 PM
You know I don't trust press sources... so, if this is true... it's terribly sad and i can't believe that this is happening to USA...
Such things don't help us guys... they don't help at all...
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Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel
Views To Lose Funding
Congress To Pass 'Ideological Diversity' Legislation
By Michael Collins Piper
American Free Press
americanfreepress.net
4-21-3
Republican members of the Senate are planning to introduce
police-state- style "thought control" legislation designed to prohibit criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
The third-ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate, conservative Rick Santorum (Pa.), plans to introduce so-called "ideological
diversity" legislation that would cut federal funding for thousands of
American colleges and universities if those institutions are found to
be permitting professors, students and student organizations to openly
criticize Israel, which Santorum considers to be an act of
"anti-Semitism."
Santorum wants to rewrite the federal funding formula under Title IX
of the Higher Education Act to include "ideological diversity" as well
as sexual equality in education as a perquisite for federal funding.
Joining Santorum is another Senate conservative GOP stalwart -- and a
leading pro-Israel ideologue -- Sen. Sam Brownback (Kan.) who has his
own scheme to call for a federal commission -- critics call it a
"tribunal" to be established under Title IX to "investigate"
anti-Semitic incidents on American campuses.
This is no "conspiracy theory." It's a fact -- but not one that is
getting much attention except in a few high-level circles. Although
the average American student or college professor has not heard of the
Santorum-Brownback scheme, Wayne Firestone, director of the Center for
Israel Affairs for the Hillel Foundation, says that "Everywhere I go,
this is the lead topic. This is drawing a lot of interest."
In fact, it was Firestone's organization, Hillel -- which has units on
campuses across America -- that first leaked word of Santorum's
scheme. Further details appeared in a circumspect report on April 15
in the small- circulation New York Sun, a stridently pro-Israel
"neo-conservative" daily published in Manhattan.
Hillel told its supporters that Santorum, along with several other
members of the Senate, had invited representatives of a number of
powerful Jewish organizations to attend a private meeting on Capitol
Hill in order to discuss the senators' concerns about growing
criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
The senators in question -- all Republicans -- were: Santorum, Robert
Bennett (Utah), Sam Brownback (Kansas), and newly-elected Norm Coleman
(Minnesota).
In addition, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.), and
his GOP colleagues, Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and George Voinovich
(Ohio) sent staff representatives.
Jewish organizations represented at the private meeting were the Anti-
Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, the Zionist Organization of
America, the American Jewish Committee and Hillel, represented by the
aforementioned Firestone and his college Jay Rubin, Hillel's executive
vice president. Louis Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, represented the
Bush administration.
During the private Senate session -- of which there are no transcripts
available to the taxpayers who footed the bill for the enterprise --
an ADL representative reportedly claimed to the gathering that the
ADL's "annual audit" of anti-Semitic activity in America had detected
an increase by 24% of anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses in the
year 2002. That 24% increase -- even by the ADL's own admission --
constituted only 21 actions.
However, the ADL definition of "anti-Semitism" is so broad that it
largely includes even the mildest criticism of Israel that doesn't
happened to be framed in the particular parameters that the ADL
determines to be acceptable. In the meantime, word of the
Santorum-Brownback initiative is spreading among leaders of the
educational community.
However, spokesmen for universities and educational organizations are
being quite circumspect about commenting too quickly or too loudly,
recognizing that they, too, could be accused of encouraging
"anti-Semitism" if they dare to speak out against the thought control
mechanism that Santorum, Brownback and their allies want to set in
place.
Santorum is rapidly emerging as one of Israel's leading Senate
spokesmen. He is one of the chief co-sponsors of the so-called Syrian
Accountability Act that accuses Syria of supporting terrorism and
developing weapons of mass destruction and demands that Syria withdraw
from Lebanon. Forces now clamoring for war against Syria are using
these allegations as the foundation for launching a war against the
Arab republic.
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Such things don't help us guys... they don't help at all...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel
Views To Lose Funding
Congress To Pass 'Ideological Diversity' Legislation
By Michael Collins Piper
American Free Press
americanfreepress.net
4-21-3
Republican members of the Senate are planning to introduce
police-state- style "thought control" legislation designed to prohibit criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
The third-ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate, conservative Rick Santorum (Pa.), plans to introduce so-called "ideological
diversity" legislation that would cut federal funding for thousands of
American colleges and universities if those institutions are found to
be permitting professors, students and student organizations to openly
criticize Israel, which Santorum considers to be an act of
"anti-Semitism."
Santorum wants to rewrite the federal funding formula under Title IX
of the Higher Education Act to include "ideological diversity" as well
as sexual equality in education as a perquisite for federal funding.
Joining Santorum is another Senate conservative GOP stalwart -- and a
leading pro-Israel ideologue -- Sen. Sam Brownback (Kan.) who has his
own scheme to call for a federal commission -- critics call it a
"tribunal" to be established under Title IX to "investigate"
anti-Semitic incidents on American campuses.
This is no "conspiracy theory." It's a fact -- but not one that is
getting much attention except in a few high-level circles. Although
the average American student or college professor has not heard of the
Santorum-Brownback scheme, Wayne Firestone, director of the Center for
Israel Affairs for the Hillel Foundation, says that "Everywhere I go,
this is the lead topic. This is drawing a lot of interest."
In fact, it was Firestone's organization, Hillel -- which has units on
campuses across America -- that first leaked word of Santorum's
scheme. Further details appeared in a circumspect report on April 15
in the small- circulation New York Sun, a stridently pro-Israel
"neo-conservative" daily published in Manhattan.
Hillel told its supporters that Santorum, along with several other
members of the Senate, had invited representatives of a number of
powerful Jewish organizations to attend a private meeting on Capitol
Hill in order to discuss the senators' concerns about growing
criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
The senators in question -- all Republicans -- were: Santorum, Robert
Bennett (Utah), Sam Brownback (Kansas), and newly-elected Norm Coleman
(Minnesota).
In addition, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.), and
his GOP colleagues, Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and George Voinovich
(Ohio) sent staff representatives.
Jewish organizations represented at the private meeting were the Anti-
Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, the Zionist Organization of
America, the American Jewish Committee and Hillel, represented by the
aforementioned Firestone and his college Jay Rubin, Hillel's executive
vice president. Louis Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, represented the
Bush administration.
During the private Senate session -- of which there are no transcripts
available to the taxpayers who footed the bill for the enterprise --
an ADL representative reportedly claimed to the gathering that the
ADL's "annual audit" of anti-Semitic activity in America had detected
an increase by 24% of anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses in the
year 2002. That 24% increase -- even by the ADL's own admission --
constituted only 21 actions.
However, the ADL definition of "anti-Semitism" is so broad that it
largely includes even the mildest criticism of Israel that doesn't
happened to be framed in the particular parameters that the ADL
determines to be acceptable. In the meantime, word of the
Santorum-Brownback initiative is spreading among leaders of the
educational community.
However, spokesmen for universities and educational organizations are
being quite circumspect about commenting too quickly or too loudly,
recognizing that they, too, could be accused of encouraging
"anti-Semitism" if they dare to speak out against the thought control
mechanism that Santorum, Brownback and their allies want to set in
place.
Santorum is rapidly emerging as one of Israel's leading Senate
spokesmen. He is one of the chief co-sponsors of the so-called Syrian
Accountability Act that accuses Syria of supporting terrorism and
developing weapons of mass destruction and demands that Syria withdraw
from Lebanon. Forces now clamoring for war against Syria are using
these allegations as the foundation for launching a war against the
Arab republic.
***