Ad in Harvard Student Paper Causes Outrage

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FarmerTom is spot on. Censorship is simply that - not allowing the free exchange of information. Does not matter why. I am an adult. Let me make up my mind. The person who denies verified history or verified present events is choosing instead to create their own version of the world. Many do so in many ways. It hurts when we know the facts to be otherwise.

To Emam of XX, what is the basis of your claim of Palestine? What makes it 'yours'?

It is the fact that Moslems will not share the land and dream only of winning a war for their incapable-of-fighting-for-himself god, that prevents any real hope of peace. They demand the freedom to bomb their neighbors into the Mediterranean.

Let's try this - no more killing for God. If God wants someone dead - let Him do it. If no man raises a hand against another man for any religion, god, ceremoney, or anything else that would lead one man to interfere with or take the life of another, peace defaults.

If you think God told you to kill someone - you heard wrong! Damn it. You heard wrong.

The One Creator made all men - of all colors, shapes and sizes, whether He used Evolution or not - and He wants the killing, genocide, rape, murder, bribes, corruption, and vaccination (which violates the blood and is causing these modern diseases) to stop.

P.S. Why didn't their brothers and sisters come to the aid of the Palestinians when they needed a refuge?

Jeff Prystupa of CO 8:55PM September 21, 2009

If freedom of speech is merely the freedom to say only that which is inoffensive, then it's not really all that free. I think the Crimson errs in its decision NOT to (continue to) run the ad. If the Crimson censors the nature of the advertisements it runs, then its readers are "protected" from anything that might be deemed offensive, without being given the choice whether to be offended or not.

Please note, I am not supporting the content of the ad. I am supporting the notion that the Crimson needs to think twice about whether it really wants to be an agency of censorship. The editorial position of the paper should be made clear in its editorials. It does not want to be in the position of weighing in pro or con (presumably pro) on anything advertised in its pages...

FarmerTom of IA 12:34PM September 14, 2009

Funny how "overwhelming outpourings of outrage" come out of the woodwork whenever the Holocaust is questioned. Why? Because it's the foundation on which Israel excuses its ethnic cleansing of Palestian. Whitout the western guilt for the holocaust, the world would not turn a blind eye to what is happening. Passivity towards Palestine's oppression, rape and genocide is the west's compensation to Israel.

Eman 2:49AM September 12, 2009

Funny how "overwhelming outpourings of outrage" come out of the woodwork whenever the Holocaust is questioned. Why? Because it's the foundation on which Israel excuses its ethnic cleansing of Palestian. Whitout the western guilt for the holocaust, the world would not turn a blind eye to what is happening. Passivity towards Palestine's oppression, rape and genocide is the west's compensation to Israel.

Eman 2:49AM September 12, 2009

Note: This is intended as sarcasm. DO NOT ACTUALLY DO IT!

If you meet Bradley Smith feel free to slap him. It never happened, he doesn't exist.

I never heard of him therefore he can't possibly exist.

David of AZ 1:43PM September 10, 2009

I join those who expressed their outarage. Iam a Holocaust survivor who moderates the Yahoo! group Remember_ The_Holocaust which has a worldwide membershop. More about me below in an article by author Kate Kelly on Huffington Post, August 25, 2009> Th "In what can only be described as a miracle of Internet connectivity, I have heard from a person whom I mentioned in a blog post I wrote last autumn about how and when the tradition of presidential debates began http://americacomesalive.com/blog/2008/09/long-history-of-debates.html. In the post, I noted that debates are a relatively recent phenomenon, originally suggested in 1956 by a University of Maryland student by the name of Fred A. Kahn, who was credited with the idea in newspapers of the day.

Kahn did what he could to get the idea rolling, but it was four years later when the League of Women Voters stepped forward to sponsor the first scheduled presidential debates in 1960. That debate, of course, was the precedent-setting televised debate between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

About a month ago, I checked my In Box and found several e-mail messages from Fred A. Kahn. Because several months had passed, I did not immediately remember the name, but something caught my attention, and I opened the first message and realized who it was. Wow! This was thrilling! I quickly responded to Mr. Kahn, and set a time for a telephone interview. I wanted to hear about how the idea of the debates had occurred to him and what had happened to him since that time.

Kahn's story represents everything that is good about this country. Kahn was born in 1932 to Jewish parents in Germany, just 40 days before Hitler came to power. His parents fled to Belgium to escape the Nazis. Because traveling with a newborn would have put them all at risk, they left the baby with a childless aunt and uncle eager to care for him. The political situation did not improve so returning for their son became unworkable, but in 1938, with the signing of the Munich Pact (with Great Britain and France agreeing to many of Hitler's demands), circumstances for Jews in Germany became more dire.

Kahn's father worked through connections to arrange for a family friend, a Christian, to bring Kahn by tram to the German border where the family hoped guards would feel there was no harm in letting such a young child cross into Belgium without the necessary paperwork. The two countries had a "no man's land between them," and Kahn's father stood on the Belgian side imploring the guards to let the young boy cross, calling, "C'est mon fils!" Fritz, as he was called then, finally was permitted to cross to the father he had never known, and he went into hiding with his family. He and his parents survived the war but the aunt and uncle who had cared for him were killed in a death camp in Germany."

see more on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-kelly/the-american-spirit-perso_b_268138.html

Fred A.Kahn of MD 12:15AM September 10, 2009

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