[R-G] Archbishop Desmond Tutu 'Poor Choice' for Commencement Ceremonies

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

Just ask the League to explain the Gaza genocide in response to defaming
Desmond Tutu!

Suzanne


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Sid Shniad <shniad at sfu.ca> wrote:

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> Press Release
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> Archbishop Desmond Tutu 'Poor Choice' for Commencement Ceremonies
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> New York, NY, April 6, 2009 … Citing his long history as a strident critic
> of Israel and his vocal support for anti-Israel boycotts, the
> Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said that Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a
> "poor choice" to deliver the commencement addresses at Michigan State
> University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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> "Desmond Tutu is a poor choice for commencement speaker," said Abraham H.
> Foxman, ADL National Director.  "His statements about Israel have time and
> again conveyed outright bigotry against the Jewish homeland and the Jewish
> people, and his deepening involvement in the anti-Israel boycott effort
> should have raised a red flag.  This is not someone to be held up as a model
> or awarded an honorary degree, given his history of bombastic rhetoric and
> unceasing support for the anti-Israel boycott effort.
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> "It is one thing to give him a platform to speak on campus; it is quite
> another to confer an honorary degree on an individual who actively promotes
> academic boycotts," Mr. Foxman added.
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> In a letter to Dr. Lou Anna K. Simon, President of Michigan State
> University, the League called on the university to reconsider the invitation
> extended to Archbishop Tutu unless he "publicly repudiates" his support for
> an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
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> "Archbishop Tutu has unequivocally endorsed an academic boycott based on
> ideas that are anti-Semitic and should be anathema to any institution of
> higher learning truly committed to academic freedom," the League said it its
> letter to MSU.  ADL sent a similar letter to Dr. Holden Thorp, Chancellor of
> the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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> The League noted that MSU's president and UNC's chancellor were among more
> than 200 U.S. college and university presidents who issued, in July 2007, an
> unequivocal statement against university-led boycotts.
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> Archbishop Tutu is a participant in the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and
> Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).  The campaign prominently includes
> Bishop Tutu as a member of its Advisory Board, whose formation was announced
> on March 30.  The USACBI refers to Israel's "illegal occupation of Palestine
> and its apartheid system" and calls for the "complete academic and cultural
> boycott of Israeli academic institutions."
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> The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
> organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that
> counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
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