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THE PATRIOT RETURNS |
Vol. 44, No.1 February 24, 2009
THE PSC AND ISRAEL:
At the Delegate Assembly's January 26 meeting, our Dear Leader, Barbara Bowen, discarded regular order. As a result, no record would be made of the anti-Israel tirades of New Caucus delegates, supporting the PSC's various resolutions condemning Israeli foreign policy. PSC "democracy" in action, we said at the time. We now hear, from a source inside the New Caucus Politburo, that the Dear Leader did keep informal notes of the session. Therefore, we call upon the PSC to release a full accounting of the January 26 Delegate Assembly session, including a list of the speakers and their full remarks on the anti-Israel resolutions. How else can the membership fairly evaluate its union representatives? To make our own contribution to union transparency and the democratic process, we extend an offer to resolution co-sponsors Ros Petchesky, Renate Bridenthal, and Sandor John: The Patriot Returns will publish, unedited and without commentary, your full remarks on the anti-Israel resolutions. We hope the New Caucus trio will accept our offer. Surely, they are not afraid that the membership will recoil if their remarks are widely dispersed? ------------ SAPIR'S ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Hamas' first attack on Sapir College, located in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. The rocket attack killed Roni Yihye, a father of four and student at the college. Another Sapir student was injured. "We cannot continue studying like this," said the head of the college's Student Union. Neither the PSC nor the Dear Leader and her minions have ever condemned the attack on Sapir College. Why is this silence notable? Because amidst the Gaza war, the New Caucus redefined "academic freedom" to include attacks, for any reason, on institutions of higher learning. Explained New Caucus apparatchik Costas Panayotakis, "Israel has bombed a university in Gaza, surely a more extreme infringement of academic freedom than any boycott." Will the PSC apply its own (novel) definition of academic freedom to the Hamas attack on Sapir? Or are some colleges and universities more entitled to this new "academic freedom" protection than others? --------- EYES AND EARS: A TPR REQUEST PSC operatives, under the leadership of "Sidekick Steve" London are gearing up for their campus Middle East "re-education" initiatives, as mandated by the resolution approved at the January 26 meeting. The purpose of these sessions isn't hard to determine: "organize" the membership to approve of the Dear Leader's positions on Middle Eastern affairs, so the New Caucus doesn't face political blowback for implementing their anti-Israel agenda. As the PSC's chief enforcer, Brooklyn College's Nancy Romer, explained, such a move is necessary before "implicat[ing] the union in a decision for which we haven't done our homework." We ask TPR readers at the various campuses to attend these sessions. And, in the name of union transparency and the democratic process, we will publish notes of the sessions in future editions.
Sharad Karkhanis, Ph.D.
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