[lbo-talk] Kushner's Zionism

[// ravi]

On May 11, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On May 11, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Mark Bennett wrote:
> 
>> It seems a bit odd that CUNY's trustees would be up in arms over Kushner's
>> statements about Israel, but apparently they have no problem with the
>> celebrated speech that he put in Belize's mouth
> 
> You think they've read or seen his work? Wiesenfeld or whatever the fuck his name is just read some things that Kushner had said on Norman Finkelstein's website.
> 

One of the other trustees pretty much said she had no idea who Kushner was.

http://l.ravi.be/kU4INw


> “I have no idea who Mr. Kushner is; I don’t know his issues,” said Valerie Lancaster Beal, a trustee who said she felt the board should not have singled him out. “To me, it should have been all or none.”

(I should say I had no idea who he was either before this kerfuffle)

	—ravi