12-21-2014 Roth was fired because DC Jewish leaders demand aquiescence to Israeli positions—[Tony] Kushner - Philip Weiss Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/12/acquiescence-israeli-positions?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=f774602439-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-f774602439-398495333


,,,[John Judis says that] "There is a looming split in that part of the Jewish community between an older generation that sees Israel entirely as a victim and any criticism of it as verging on anti-Semitism, and a new generation that goes from J Street to Jewish Voice for Peace to Open Hillel that believes that a commitment to Palestinian as well as Jewish rights is intrinsic to a Jewish ethical outlook," Judis writes. "What's at stake here is not simply artistic censorship, but the attempt to snuff out works of art that recognize that Jews and Palestinians share a common humanity." -    

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