Comments on: Bias crimes plague Rutgers after Palestine Conference cancelled

By: mo1

mo1 — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:12:33 +0000

all on-campus events such as this are funded with school money. and what were the two conferences?

By: crandan

crandan — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:55:44 +0000

you’re horribly mixing things up here. two conferences were organized. one got a permit, the other didn’t. therefore voices were silenced. whether or not a college should pay for one or the other is irrelevant; I’m not even sure that money is involved. We’re talking about a permit only I believe.

By: mo1

mo1 — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:46:16 +0000

why should rutgers/the state of nj pay for racists to come to their campus and draw swastikas on the jewish student union building? why should rutgers/the state of nj pay for palestinian supporters to come and call for the destruction of israel? they shouldn’t…

By: mo1

mo1 — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:43:53 +0000

we’re not talking about silencing dissent, we’re talking about allocating state and school funds to finance the vocalization of that dissent. the government nor any public education facility should not be pledging their support to anyone’s causes with their funds.

By: crandan

crandan — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:15:48 +0000

let’s use the same logic elsewhere. NYC should not allow anti-globalization protests because in other parts of the world, there have been violent clashes between police and “unsavory elements.” Do you agree?

I would hope not. And yes it is the same. Listen carefully, you cannot silent dissent just because there are a few dissenters who are violent/racist/sexist/homophobic.

By: mo1

mo1 — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:50:04 +0000

the reason the conference was cancelled was because they expected even more rampant antisemitism on campus during the convention. take a look at what's going on on campuses around the country and the way that pro-palestinian campus groups are feeding antisemitic sentiments... http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/Jewish-Students-Attacked.html http://www.hillel.org/hillel/NewHille.nsf/0/039d27fb094e07b385256c3e00734215?OpenDocument http://www.yourish.com/archives/2002/sfsu.html ...you think rutgers wanted to host a hate fest that would welcome all these unsavory elements to their campus?

By: crandan

crandan — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:51:32 +0000

I really hope NJ Solidarity had nothing to do with this. It was wrong for the school to cancel the Palestinian Solidarity conference, but this was not the correct reaction. If they were behind it, activists everywhere should remove their support for NJ Solidarity.