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Report as: spam offensive Come on Stanford on 5/20/08 at 7am

Why would you cave to these people?

Report as: spam offensive pro-Israel on 5/20/08 at 11am

What a shame!
What will Stanford put up next - Hamas manifesto!?

Report as: spam offensive Priya on 5/20/08 at 11am

I don't see why Old Union should be a center for propaganda from stupid groups (or any group)like SCAI.

Report as: spam offensive '05 alumna on 5/20/08 at 12pm

Whatever happened to free speech/academic discussions?

Report as: spam offensive student on 5/20/08 at 1pm

I applaud Chris Griffith for doing an admirable job in negotiating a tricky situation and trying to respond to student needs. I think this was a good compromise.

Report as: spam offensive H. Bomb on 5/20/08 at 1pm

TO: Priya, pro-Israel, and anybody else against with the SCAI...


"Even after 60 years, Arabs in Israel are Outsiders"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/world/middleeast/07israel.html

That was a front page story in the New York Times from a couple weeks ago. With that in mind, the SCAI raises some quite legitimate grievances.

I personally am not in the SCAI or any pro/anti-Israeli group, but I do wonder how the self-touted "only democracy" in the Middle East could treat a portion of its own citizens in this manner.

We didn't stand for it in South Africa, and we shouldn't stand for it in Israel.

Report as: spam offensive Alumn '96 on 5/20/08 at 1pm

It's called free speech. Get out of your ivory tower and welcome to the real world.

Report as: spam offensive Re: anyone claiming "free speech" on 5/20/08 at 2pm

That is not an absolute right. And there is absolutely NO provision for free speech on private property. None whatsoever. Pick up a book or two instead of mindlessly repeating incorrect drivel.

Report as: spam offensive Fadi Quran on 5/20/08 at 2pm

Provost Etchemendey, Vice Provost Boardman, and Associate Vice Provost Griffith deserve a heartfelt thank you for their caring, consideration and help in brining this exhibit back up. They are great administrators and I am proud to be at a University with leaders like them.

Report as: spam offensive Bill of Rights on 5/20/08 at 2pm

The first amendment exists to protect free speech from oppression by the government. Private institutions can subdue free speech as much as they want - please stop parotting that ignorant talking point.
White Plaza is a free speech zone. Old Union is not.

Report as: spam offensive old timer on 5/20/08 at 4pm

"White Plaza is a free speech zone." No. As I said before, look at that letter in the April 11, 2008 Daily.

Anyway, I am kind of sick of hearing this stuff about the constitution and amendments - that's history.

Report as: spam offensive problem with SCAI on 5/20/08 at 10pm

SCAI members somehow manage to ignore suicide bobmings, lynchings, hostage taking by Palestinian terrorists (apparently with plenty of support from their "dance-and-hand-out-candies-when-Jewish-kids-are-murdered" Palestinian society.
But, wait, it's not fashinable to criticize Arabs/Muslims these days....they could riot...talk about peaceful people.

Report as: spam offensive H. Bomb on 5/21/08 at 2am

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"dance-and-hand-out-candies-when-Jewish-kids-are-murdered" Palestinian society

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Wow, what a poignant observation of Palestinian society, as a whole.

I bet you were also one of the people who fell for the "babies are being thrown out of incubators by Saddam's troops" lines during the '91 Gulf War, eh?

Plus, discrimmination/apartheid against ALL Arabs in Israel cannot justified by pointing a finger at terrorist acts. That's like doing the same to all black folk in the U.S. cuz the biggest prisoner population per quota (by race) lies with blacks.

Report as: spam offensive The hypocrisy of it all on 5/21/08 at 3pm

This has nothing to do with how Israel treats its own citizens. They try really hard to treat their Arab minority well, even though many are hostile to the state of Israel. Muslim citizens have all the rights of Jewish citizens - freedom of speech, press, voting, religious freedom etc. These are rights that Arabs lack in the the other 22 countries of the Arab League. Jews and Christians are considered infidels and treated accordingly. 900,000 Jews were expelled from Muslim lands between 1948-1970.

This is about the Arabs in the disputed territories, which came under Israel's jurisdiction when it beat back 5 Arab armies bent on its destruction. Israel has been trying to give these territories back for a peace agreement ever since.

This is about an Arab population that wants to make Israel the 23rd Arab Muslim state. This becomes a conflict because the Jews want to keep their one state the size of New Jersey and don't want to submit to Islamic law as would be the case if the Muslims took over.

Jews have a long history in this land yet they have shown over and over, a willingness to partition the land so that both people can live side by side in peace. The last person to say NO to this arrangement was Yasir Arafat.

Report as: spam offensive phil on 5/21/08 at 3pm

Apparently H.Bomb doesn't believe that "handing out candy..." is relective of Palestinian society. That's fine , but just show me ONE instance where any member or members of Palestinian society showed one iota of protest or compassion at the terrors inflicted on Israeli's or US citizens.

Report as: spam offensive SCPM on 5/23/08 at 9am

You're invited to join a new organization at Stanford called the SCPM, "STUDENTS CONFRONTING PALESTINIAN MURDER". We're going to do a photo display of Palestinian suicide attacks against Israelis, and shootings of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for being Zionist collaborators.

The murders are real and documented. The so-called "apartheid" is a fiction made for political propoganda.

Question: How can there be apartheid if there was ethnic cleansing? Which one is it? Maybe we should ask the 1.5 million Israeli Arabs who prefer to live in Israel than under the Palestinian Authority.

Report as: spam offensive f*ck's sake on 6/06/08 at 3pm

i dont think members of scai disagree that terror is an awful thing. however, in light of things like (for example) the gazan fullbrights that werent allowed to leave, its clear that the israeli government does not properly target the problem. it doesnt negate the fact that stopping electricity and water to a virtual prison is wrong and irresponsible.
hamas being voted in is just proof that people are really unhappy and disillusioned.
israeli troops have been documented over and over (check out b'tselem) commiting atrocities, too, and yet they dont fall under question. scai (though sometimes a little overboard in its rhetoric) provides that other view.




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