Brandeis May Re-Invite Carter; No Debate Necessary
What a bunch of pussies (emphasis mine)...
President Jimmy Carter may yet come to Brandeis University to speak about his controversial new book about Israel -- and even get the stage to himself.
Some professors are planning to craft a new invitation to Carter to give a lecture without having to debate an opponent. Last week, the former president told the Globe he declined an invitation to Brandeis because of the string attached. President Jehuda Reinharz, at a trustee's suggestion, invited Carter to campus to debate "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" with a vehement critic of the book, Alan Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School. Carter said Dershowitz knows nothing about the situation in Palestine.
Several dozen Brandeis professors have been trading e-mails on what could be done, according to two professors on the e-mail list of left-leaning faculty. Patricia Johnston, a professor of classics, said she and many colleagues have offered to chip in perhaps $100 each to pay for whatever travel and security costs a Carter visit would entail.
"Who is Alan Dershowitz?" Johnston sniffed haughtily said. Carter "is the former president of the United States, who has done so much to further the cause of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere. It's an insult to suggest that he should have to defend himself that way."
That was Dershowitz's point, wasn't it?
Posted by: Raj 2006-12-22 |