Michigan State University announced last week that retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu would give this year’s commencement address. Two days later, the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization, filed a protest … Professors and students interviewed Thursday were unanimous in their support of Simon’s stance on academic freedom and on allowing Tutu to speak. 

Clark University canceled a campus talk scheduled for later this month by controversial Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein, saying his presence “would invite controversy and not dialogue or understanding,” and would conflict with a similar event scheduled around the same time … Finkelstein’s address would conflict with a similar conference hosted by the university’s Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, scheduled for April 23-26, two days after Finkelstein’s speech, Bassett said in his letter. That conference could draw Holocaust scholars who MacMillan said may disagree with Finkelstein. 

Israel on Trial 
George Bisharat — The New York Times
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_55343.shtml 

Chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that there may be more violations to come. Hamas’s indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians also constituted war crimes, but do not excuse Israel’s transgressions. While Israel disputes some of the soldiers’ accounts, the evidence suggests that Israel committed the following six offenses …