[lbo-talk] Kushner's Zionism

Mark Bennett bennett.mab at gmail.com
Wed May 11 14:31:23 PDT 2011


Oh, yeah, and Jeffrey Wright steals the show, as usually does.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:


> I haven't seen Angels on stage (and the length of the thing would make
> Parsifal seem like a matinee), but I thought the HBO series was damn good,
> all things considered. Worth a weekend's viewing. Too much stuffed into one
> production, but there are excellent scenes, and fine acting. One of the
> best things Al Pacino has done since Dog Day.
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:07 PM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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