Tag Archives: Tony Kushner

Exhibit C(UNY): How the lobby works

The New York Times reports today that “pressure continued to mount on Tuesday for the resignation or removal” of Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, the City University of New York (CUNY) trustee who attempted to nix Tony Kushner’s honorary degree.  But there’s a … Continue reading

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Shoe is now on Wiesenfeld’s foot

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld has made it a career habit to try and marginalize anyone he perceived to be insufficiently pro-Israel and to smear Muslims and Arabs. But in the wake of the Tony Kushner degree controversy, it is Wiesenfeld’s politics, racism … Continue reading

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The upshot of the Kushner muzzling

The decision by the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees to block famous playwright Tony Kushner’s honorary degree at John Jay College is rightly being met with outrage. But there’s also an important upshot to the controversy: … Continue reading

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Hollywood dramatized ethnic cleansing in India and Pakistan, why not the other I/P?

Proof if any more is needed of the existence of a powerful Israel lobby in our country: Tonight over dinner I watched the last 30 minutes of Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982) on Turner Classics. I was staggered to see the … Continue reading

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Huffpo gives platform to Israel lobbyist’s claim based on 3000-year-old artifacts

Marty Kaplan at Huffpo: “I take Israel personally.” Further proof that the left is permeated by the Israel lobby. Further proof that Zionism has produced a giant IQ drop in what I grew up thinking were the smartest people in … Continue reading

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