Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Orwell al lavoro

Professoressa di lingue Arabe a New York cacciata via per aver...
correttamente tradotto dall'Arabo una parola.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/nyregion/11school.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=nyregion&adxnnlx=1186905696-HmSm+BRpdIEBvhWh+QAifA
The principal of New York City's first public school dedicated to the
study of Arabic language and culture resigned under pressure
yesterday, days after she was quoted defending the use of the word
"intifada" as a T-shirt slogan.
...
Yesterday morning, speaking on his weekly radio call-in program, Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg said he continued to support the school, but
welcomed Ms. Almontaser's departure.
"She got a question, she's not all that media-savvy maybe, and she
tried to explain a word rather than just condemn," he said. "But I
think she felt that she had become the focus of - rather than having
the school the focus - so today she submitted her resignation, which
is nice of her to do. I appreciate all her service, and I think she's
right to do so."
Ms. Almontaser's remarks, made last weekend, were in response to
questions from The Post over the phrase "Intifada NYC," which was
printed on T-shirts sold by Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media, a
Brooklyn-based organization. The shirts have no relation to her
school.
"The word basically means 'shaking off,' " Ms. Almontaser told the
paper. "That is the root word if you look it up in Arabic."
With the help of the Education Department's press office, she
apologized on Monday, saying she regretted her remarks. "By minimizing
the word's historical associations, I implied that I condone violence
and threats of violence," she said in the statement. The word has come
to be associated with Palestinian attacks on Israel.
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Poi, ovviamente, c'e la censura d'ordinaria amministrazione:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/08/07/speechless-in-chicago/
Speechless in Chicago
Jay Solomon reports on controversy over a planned speech.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has canceled a September speech
on U.S.-Israel relations and Washington's pro-Israel lobby by two
prominent U.S. political scientists.
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt were scheduled to use the Sept. 27
address to outline their upcoming book, "The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Foreign Policy," which is expected to be released by Farrar, Straus &
Giroux early next month. But the president of the Chicago Council,
Marshall Bouton, canceled the event under pressure from critics who
were uncomfortable with the academics' arguments, according to a
letter drafted by Mearsheimer and Walt to the Council's board.
These opponents of the event argued that the two political scientists
could only address the Chicago Council if someone from the opposing
side, "such as Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League,
concurrently appeared on stage with the authors.
"One might argue that our views are too controversial to be presented
on their own," Mearsheimer and Walt wrote. "However, they are seen as
controversial only because some of the groups and individuals that we
criticized in our original article have misrepresented what we said."
Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, and
Walt, on the faculty at Harvard, set off a political firestorm last
year when they penned an article for the London Review of Books,
called the "Israel Lobby," that argued pro-Israel interest groups had
distorted U.S. policies in the Middle East. They also argued that
these groups played a central role in promoting the Bush
administration's decision to invade Iraq.
Since the original article appeared in March 2006, the two academics
have appeared at a number of ventures to explain their views, such as
the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Press Club and
Georgetown University. But a number of leading Jewish-American
organizations, such as the ADF and the American Jewish Congress, have
consistently charged that Mearsheimer's and Walt's views are anti-
Semitic and overemphasize the power of the pro-Israel lobby.
Mearsheimer and Walt deny being anti-Semites and said the charges are
designed "to discourage respected organizations like the Council from
giving us an audience."

 Poi, ovviamente, c'e la censura d'ordinaria amministrazione:
Certo, certo....
*pat pat*
-Stefano