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Sunday, April 07, 2002
# posted by Kevin @ 5:41 PM
Maya Aizenman writes:
In response to Berkeley Observer:
Imagine that in the days following Spetember 11th a Muslim student or a
Middle-Eastern looking student were attacked. No one would have dared
made the insinuation that it was a botched robbery or a gang initiation
and that the Arab and Muslim community were "crying wolf." Instead, the
act would have been condemned and the community would gather together to
examine how we could eradicate such attacks. However, your berkeley
observer, tries to downplay the incident rather than the need for a
"hate free" community as so many posters promote all over berkeley.
If you were a robber would you wait for your victim to offer you your
money or would you have asked for it up front. The daily cal reported
"During the incident, the victims offered the assailant everything they
had, including the clothes off their backs. The victim said the
assailant only responded once, declaring, 'So give me everything you've
got.' "
My point is to say that the United States made it clear after September
11th that scapegoating attacks against Muslim or Middle-Eastern looking
people were deplorable and we all agreed to uphold these strong values
and beliefs as best we could here at Berekley. However, even in the days
post September 11th posters placed on Sproul to be signed by all, were
scrawled with anti-semitic statements, in addition to a few anti-Muslim
statements (I have pictures of these posters). No one condemned the
posters then. No one blinked when students were egged coming out of Yom
Kippur service in October 2000, at the start of the current violence in
the middle east. No one even cared when a Orthodox man was attacked on
our campus a couple months back after an attacker made him admit he was
a citizen of israel. More people took notice when a student was attacked
on campus after confronting two men making nazi goosteps marches and
berating the victim. However, the dailycal article was cut off in the
middle in the print edition adn never printed the rest in the days
following the incident. The 'sit-down against hate' on sproul was not
even reported by the daily cal either.
Now we see this berkeley observer seems to once again try to downplay
the lingering anti-semitism that is pervading our community. Instead of
universal condemnations, he offers an analytical decompostions and
rationalization of the event, something which would have never been
accepted in the days post-semptember 11th if the attack were on a Muslim
or Middle-Eastern looking person.Email This
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