Is any other issue in the liberal American discourse subject to the blackmail and obloquy to which our issue– support for Palestinian human rights — is subject? No. From the JTA:
A San Francisco Bay Area law school is under fire for withdrawing its support of a Palestinian rights conference on its campus.
On Tuesday, officials at the University of California at Hastings College of the Law revealed that they had made a last-minute decision to remove the school’s name from “Litigating Palestine,” a conference devoted to using the courts to promote Palestinian rights.
At a March 24 meeting, the school’s board of directors also canceled a welcoming speech by the university dean scheduled for the next morning, when the two-day conference opened.
The decision followed a March 21 meeting between the board and representatives of the Anti-Defamation League and San Francisco’s Jewish Community Relations Council…
