(By Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post). A Nebraska school district has canceled two speaking events for a Palestinian Christian activist out of concerns over reported anti-Semitic harassment.
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Nora Carmi, formerly of the group Kairos Palestine, was scheduled to speak at two high schools in Omaha through the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.
However, a school official with Millard Public Schools explained to the Omaha World Herald that Carmi’s talks were canceled amid alleged anti-Semitic incidents on campus.
“The district … heard concerns from a local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League that a Jewish student or students were being verbally harassed,” reported the World Herald last week.
“The details of the alleged harassment are not clear, but Millard decided to withdraw Carmi’s invitation to both high schools.”
Millard Public Schools spokeswoman Rebecca Kleeman told the local media outlet that the cancellation came as a result of the incident and not, as some claimed, due to a complaint that Carmi’s presentation would be one-sided.
“We could see this was a situation that was spilling out of the classroom and becoming a disruption to our learning environment,” said Kleeman to the World Herald.
Born in Jerusalem months before the establishment of the modern state of Israel, Carmi has in the past campaigned for boycotts against Israel over the occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
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Someone has their States confused
I will pose the same question as I did during the last GA-BDS fiasco. Is the PCUSA an antisemitic organization? Does the Administrative State PCUSA, at lest, program for, and harbor those who could be called antisemitic by either belief or policy?
I think the response by and large is no. Not using either the classic or more modern definition of the term. But what the PCUSA is ,at least at the Administrative State level, is an organization that harbors deep animus if not overt hostility to Israel as a nation state, and Israeli Jews, or anybody else on the other side of their BDS institutional dogmas. What the PCUSA did, along with their allies in the greater academic, school house left, alt-left, antifa movements is to ‘weaponize’ the concept of BDS as a tool, both of public policy and an instrument to use against their opponents. So it is no surprise when their supported BDS mouthpieces are denied access, welcome, or something less than a free pass on public property or grounds to espouse their intolerance. Now if the PCUSA chooses to support or program voices from the other side for balance or fairness, then maybe their speakers would have greater acceptance, but from the start this was a one sided dogmatic indoctrination. And all knew it.
Why would you re-post an article that clearly can’t even get its states correct? Journalism integrity should be the first rule.