Responding to articles and letters from us and other alumnae/i, Katherine Howard ’12 purports to offer her own “case for academic freedom” (The Miscellany News, “Vassar BDS sentiments not shared by all,” 2.19.14). Thank you, Howard, for providing an excellent example of what the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement is actually about. As your letter makes clear, you are not concerned with Israel’s supposed wrongdoing—much less about trying to persuade Israel to correct alleged misdeeds—but with Israel’s “wrong-being”. For you and other BDS proponents, Israel has no right to exist.
It should be an uphill battle to convince the world that the only stable liberal democracy in the Middle East should dissolve itself. After all, it was almost 67 years ago that the UN recommended (through UN Resolution 181) partition of the land in order to create a Jewish state, and, thereafter admitted that state into the United Nations. But Howard shows us how surprisingly easy it can be, if one assumes the audience is intellectually lazy or already indoctrinated. READ THE ARTICLE HERE
NOTE: This is a great rebuttal published yesterday in the VASSAR COLLEGE Student newspaper, the Miscellany News. You may want to Read the Original Howard Piece Here first and see what prompted this elegant reply. Vassar College has recently been the scene of action by anti-Hillel, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish and pro-BDS students. As we've previously pointed out this has not gone unnoticed, including an editorial peice in the Wall Street Journal, the Times of Israel and today a letter from the President of Vassar to alumni calling on all for "respectful" dialogue.
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