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E-PrinceThe Princeton Committee on Palestine has sponsored a referendum for a vote next week that, if approved, would ask Dining Services to offer an alternative to Sabra hummus in University retail locations. Students should vote no on this referendum.
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Best editorial this year? Quite possibly
I guess now we know where the Prince editorial board stands on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This explains the newspaper's generally biased and inaccurate coverage of the Sabra initiative.
A reasonable editorial on a (fake but) serious issue.
One qualm is that the "abuses" of Golani have been blown far out of proportion, compared to, say, the similar-level "abuses" of the American Marine Corps.
One doesn't have to have a particular "stand" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to think that this "boycott" is juvenile, counterproductive, and meaningless.
Likewise one can hate Fox News and still think PCP's goals are antithetical to really helping Palestinians, and it's view of the conflict hopelessly immature.
Well done.
It's juvenile, meaningless...but serious.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
The same people who claimed this initiative was trivial are the ones investing hundreds of hours desperately trying to counter it. That has nothing to do with an effort to preserve "maturity" or to help Palestinians.
The reason why the Editorial Board is opposed to this is the same reason TFI is opposed to it, namely that it brings light to the constant violations of human rights being committed by Israel against innocent Palestinians and that it shows Princeton students the ways in which they are personally involved in supporting the occupation.
The Editorial Board is being as impartial here as Samson Schatz was impartial in appealing the referendum for "technical reasons", as the majority of the USG was impartial in upholding that appeal on baseless grounds, as impartial as Fox News is in their coverage of the Tea Party.
They are all ideologically committed to one side of the issue, in this case supporting Israel, and no matter what bogus excuses you try to come up with, this is an indisputable fact.
Why do you guys hate Fox News? Because they're the most successful news outlet in the U.S. and they're conservative? Sounds like a combination of jealousy and a liberal superiority complex to me.
Oh damn, if only we could all be successful and conservative...the body of Fox News's audience has no idea that they're being taken advantage of by idiots like you.
Hilarious to watch PCP freaking out over this editorial. Chill out... It's hummus... The editorial board isn't showing its political bias. If anything, the bias they're showing is a bias against stupid, annoying initiatives.
thanks for a balanced and appropriate response.
here's to hummus...
Isn't the editorial board at least a little skeptical about the aptly named PCP's motives behind this attempt to boycott yet another Israeli product? If their true motive was to work to protect human rights, one would expect them to focus on the tyranny of Hamas and the corruption of Fatah. One would also expect them to focus on the thousands of Israelis killed and the thousands more maimed by terrorists from these same 'organizations'. Where is the PCP when Israeli civilians are targeted for murder? Their selective outrage is stupefying.
They are not even asking to ban Sabra hummus. They are just asking for an alternative. What is the big deal? Students have the right to ask for the hummus they want. Even if the link between the hummus and human rights violation is weak as you say, students should have the right to not support human rights violations(however weakly that is).
Also, could you please explain how having an alternative hummus would increase university's cost? I found the statement "the University need not incur additional expense to stock another brand just to address the concerns of a few" ridiculous. How much would it cost a rich university like princeton? Should the university not listen to the concerns of the minority?
I think the editorial board is completely biased on this one.