Ousted Student Leader Becomes Darling of Left

[Classical_Liberal]

An irate e-mail to the Israeli Embassy in Washington may have cost Jilian Redford her job as the leader of the Jewish student organization on her campus, but it transformed the 20-year-old into a darling of Jewish peace activists nationwide......

Redford described the e-mail that started it all as a political "coming out" in an interview with the Forward. During most of her time as Hillel president, Redford had muzzled her political views on Israel. One day in February, however, after receiving two copies of the same e-mail message from the Israeli Embassy, she says she decided not to hold her tongue any more. In her impromptu response, Redford wrote, "Could you please stop sending me email after email about radical zionist propaganda , I don't know if you realize that Hillel's mission statement is based on fostering religious life on college campuses and not organizing marches, protests, or listening to speakers who encourage us to hate our Palestinian neighbors in Israel......"

The political views Redford disclosed in her e-mail were part of the problem, according to Looney, but the larger issue was that Redford's e-mail to the embassy, which ended with Redford's standard e-mail signature as "UR Hillel President," was "disrespectful and inappropriate."

In dismissing Redford, Looney also cited a previous incident just weeks earlier, when Redford had called a professor at the university "racist." That professor, Redford says, had told her privately that Palestinians were "inherently evil."

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=popper200405051143

[EdGy]

1. that is how the Right silences people

by using fear. by threatening people who dissent.

right wingers are right wingers whether they are Likud apologists or Bush apologists. they cannot stand it when people publicly disagree with them, and they do all in their power to silence dissenters.

[Jim Sagle]

3. This was a voluntary student organization. Therefore the term "silencing"

does not fit.

[Classical_Liberal]

4. I guess clear channell didn't silence the Dixie Chicks either

.

[Jim Sagle]

5. I guess your analogy makes no sense either.

Comparing a campus org to a multimedia conglomerate is like comparing a toy truck to an 18-wheeler.

[Classical_Liberal]

6. It has chapters on every campus in the country and

seems to have done this in response to the Israeli embassy. It isn't innocent as you claim. No doubt they are trying to discourage dissent in all jewish orgs. Given the great disconnect between the official Jewish community and the ordinary Jews, I am not surprised. Jewish public opinion is much less supportive of Sharon then most Jewish organizations.

[Jim Sagle]

7. But more supportive than Jilian thought, evidently.

[Classical_Liberal]

8. I don't think the organization was representing Jewish public

opinion which shows alot of support for the two states solution, negotiating with the PLO, and trading land for peace.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. I like her

She actually sounds like a moderate person. No one of her quotes are over the top. (Provided that teacher REALLY said that about Palestinians)