"One senior educator in the district, who is Jewish, told The Free Press she was “appalled” by the poster. “It’s clearly connected to the ethnic tropes of Jews having big noses. Quite frankly, it reminded me of Nazi comics. I had a visceral reaction to it. It was antisemitic.”"
For a person of Arab descent to post this raises the possibil…
"One senior educator in the district, who is Jewish, told The Free Press she was “appalled” by the poster. “It’s clearly connected to the ethnic tropes of Jews having big noses. Quite frankly, it reminded me of Nazi comics. I had a visceral reaction to it. It was antisemitic.”"
For a person of Arab descent to post this raises the possibility that she was trying to educate students that people like her also have noses that don't that aren't the same shape as white noses, and that it doesn't matter matter. I don't see this as inherently anti-Semitic. These days, after generations of intermarriage, a great number of American Jews don't have "Jewish noses."
The other reports in this article are appalling and alarming. However, I would encourage Jewish readers to read up on the other sides arguments and historical accounts. No Jew is harmed by knowing in detail what the other side is thinking. The works of Rashid Khalidi, and the Israelis Ilan Pappé and Benny Morris, are important works.
What irks me is that college administrators university administrations decided that it was necessary to take a stand on the current conflict. It appears to me that that led to a whole lot of unneccessary grief. Campuses are for inquiry, but all verbal and physical harassment is off-limits, and offenders should be quickly and significantly sanctioned. The administration of Yale was very derelict in its handling of the harassment of the Professors Christakis in 2015.
Civic life is different after the invention of the cell phone. We must find ways to recapture a civil discourse
"One senior educator in the district, who is Jewish, told The Free Press she was “appalled” by the poster. “It’s clearly connected to the ethnic tropes of Jews having big noses. Quite frankly, it reminded me of Nazi comics. I had a visceral reaction to it. It was antisemitic.”"
For a person of Arab descent to post this raises the possibility that she was trying to educate students that people like her also have noses that don't that aren't the same shape as white noses, and that it doesn't matter matter. I don't see this as inherently anti-Semitic. These days, after generations of intermarriage, a great number of American Jews don't have "Jewish noses."
The other reports in this article are appalling and alarming. However, I would encourage Jewish readers to read up on the other sides arguments and historical accounts. No Jew is harmed by knowing in detail what the other side is thinking. The works of Rashid Khalidi, and the Israelis Ilan Pappé and Benny Morris, are important works.
What irks me is that college administrators university administrations decided that it was necessary to take a stand on the current conflict. It appears to me that that led to a whole lot of unneccessary grief. Campuses are for inquiry, but all verbal and physical harassment is off-limits, and offenders should be quickly and significantly sanctioned. The administration of Yale was very derelict in its handling of the harassment of the Professors Christakis in 2015.
Civic life is different after the invention of the cell phone. We must find ways to recapture a civil discourse