More on the Bard College conference on racism and antisemitism

JVL Introduction

Yesterday we reposted a letter from Kenneth S. Stern to Forward. Here is a further letter from the organiser of the conference.

We draw readers’ attention to  these exchanges because they show there is a fightback from within the US Jewish Zionist milieu – a realisation that the hunt for antisemites is getting out of control and that free speech is under threat.

Let us hope for a similar realisation here. And soon…

[Since posting this article our attention has been drawn to a further piece on Bard by Philip Weiss. It repeats some of Kenneth S. Stern and Roger Berkowitz’s letters, but contains much else besides. We have added it to this post.]

This article was originally published by Forward on Mon 14 Oct 2019. Read the original here.