Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Professor Ed Morgan responds to the The Institutionalization of “Israel Apartheid” Activities at York University

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4 comments:

Josephine said...

Thanks very much, BCF!

Blazing Cat Fur said...

NP, but thanks are really due to the reader who forwarded this to my attention.

sue930 said...

Isn't Professro Morgan the presewnt head of Canadian Jew2ish Congress' legal committee and its immediate past president?

Blazing Cat Fur said...

Why yes I believe it is. The same Ed Morgan who wrote:

"The complaints filed against Hasbara allege that the very image of the blue-and-white Israeli flag appearing on the group’s pamphlets is hateful and must be banned. The complaints filed against Maclean’s allege that the very discussion of radical Islam contained in that publication is hateful and must be banned. That anyone can take either complaint seriously shows how dangerous the suppression of speech in the name of anti-hate can be. It turns out, if we read our history correctly, that the Holocaust began not only with words, but with book burning. Once we go down the road of censorship for the sake of promoting tolerance, we may soon be standing at the heights of intolerance. "

And:

"Fighting bad speech with good speech has turned out to be the right way to go,..."

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15557&Itemid=86