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Yisroel Dovid Weiss the 55 year old US Haredi rabbi, activist and spokesman for a branch of Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist group, has been interviewed on Aljazeera explaining why Zionism and Judaism are not the same, “This is against the will of the Almighty and this is not what it means to be a Jew.” Weiss is renowned for his stance against the legitimacy of the Jewish state and occupation of Palestine. Weiss is quoted as stating, “The Zionists use the Holocaust issue to their benefit. We, Jews who perished in the Holocaust, do not use it to advance our interests. We stress that there are hundreds of thousands Jews around the world who identify with our opposition to the Zionist ideology and who feel that Zionism is not Jewish, but a political agenda…What we want is not a withdrawal to the ’67 borders, but to everything included in it, so the country can go back to the Palestinians and we could live with them…” On the issue of Iran Weiss has stated that Ahmadinejad is not an enemy of the Jews, but is a “God-fearing man [who] respects the Jewish people and he protects them in Iran”.

 

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Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner the 54 year old Pulitzer Prize winning US playwright has had his name removed from a list of recipients to receive honorary degrees at the City University of New York (CUNY) based on a university trustee pro-Israel activist Jeffrey Wiesenfeld’s statement regarding Kushner’s beliefs about Zionism and Israel. Kushner who is Jewish denied the allegations in the statement and accused Wiesenfeld of slander. Three previous prominent honorees Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Cunningham and Ellen Schrecker in support of Kushner had declared they will return their degrees in protest at his treatment. Cunningham stated "To deny him an honorary degree because certain members of the board disagree with some of his political views is a chilling indictment of the freedom of expression CUNY has always championed." Inspired by Paul Harris ow.ly/4QaVE image source bwaydaily.com ow.ly/4Qbpo An offence against intellectual discussion (May 16 2011)

Anthony Robert “Tony” Kushner the 54 year old Pulitzer Prize winning US playwright has had his name removed from a list of recipients to receive honorary degrees at the City University of New York (CUNY) based on a university trustee pro-Israel activist Jeffrey Wiesenfeld’s statement regarding Kushner’s beliefs about Zionism and Israel. Kushner who is Jewish denied the allegations in the statement and accused Wiesenfeld of slander. Three previous prominent honorees Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Cunningham and Ellen Schrecker in support of Kushner had declared they will return their degrees in protest at his treatment. Cunningham stated “To deny him an honorary degree because certain members of the board disagree with some of his political views is a chilling indictment of the freedom of expression CUNY has always championed.”

 

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