"Decision to divest draws charges of anti-Semitism at Hampshire" by Tracy Jan and Peter Schworm | February 22, 2009
Hampshire College has categorically denied that its recent decision to divest from a mutual fund was motivated by the fund's ties to Israel. Still, critics continue to denounce the move.
Harvard University professor Alan Dershowitz, the father of a Hampshire graduate and a staunch defender of Israel, wrote a blistering column in The Jerusalem Post in which he accused Hampshire of bigotry in singling out Israel and of caving in to the demands of a "virulently anti-Israel group" that pressed for the divestment. And StandWithUs, an Israeli advocacy group, called the move a "watershed exercise of prejudice" and joined Dershowitz in calling for a ban on donations to the college in Amherst.
I'd wear that as a BADGE of PRIDE, Hampshire!! When the HATE-MONGERING ZIONIST AMONGST US screech at you, you are doing something right!
On Thursday, college president Ralph Hexter and trustees chairman Sigmund Roos answered Dershowitz in an open letter posted at The Jerusalem Post's website, saying they were frustrated by his public comments.
"Hampshire College has made a strenuous, good-faith effort to explain its decision to exit a problematic mutual fund," Hexter and Roos wrote. "We make this effort again, without equivocation: Israel was not the cause for divestment from the State Street fund."
See what the Zionist pressure does? I'll tell you, anyone who can stand up to these controllers above and beyond all others is to be commended and deified!
Hexter and Roos said that members of the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine mischaracterized the trustees' decision to pull out of the fund, which they said was motivated by broad ethical concerns over its holdings. "The decision was entirely unrelated to Israel or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," they wrote.
Now GET OFF THEIR BACKS, NaZionist scum, because you ain't getting that precious money back, f****!!!!!!!
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