A group of concerned alumni of Yeshiva University’s Cardozo law school has set up a website to oppose former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s appearance there on Wednesday, and has sent out the following email to alumni.
On Wednesday April 10, 2013 – that is this Wednesday -, Jimmy Carter will be honored at Cardozo to receive the International Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Jimmy Carter has an ignominious history of anti-Israel bigotry. He is responsible for helping to mainstream the antisemitic notion that Israel is an apartheid state with his provocatively titled book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”, the publication of which prompted mass resignations from the Carter Center. He has met numerous times with leaders of the terror group Hamas whitewashing their genocidal goals and undermining US efforts to isolate Hamas. And Carter’s record of slandering Israel is so voluminous that both CAMERA and Alan Dershowitz have written books refuting his lies.
While Carter may be credited for the role he played in the Camp David Accords as President of the United States and the resultant cold peace between Israel and Egypt that ensued, that event took place close to 30 years ago. Since the end of his presidency, Jimmy Carter has exhibited extreme antipathy towards Israel – and by extension the Jewish people – that places him firmly in the camp of the likes of Walt and Mearsheimer.
It is simply unconscionable for a Jewish affiliated school to honor someone who has played such a high profile role in demonizing the Jewish state.
We therefore urge you to condition any continued support of Cardozo, be it financial or otherwise, on the cancellation of this event.
Please also take 2 minutes out of your busy schedules to contact the Dean of Cardozo and President of Yeshiva University to express your outrage. Contact details are below.
Professor Matthew Diller, Dean of Cardozo: Tel – 212-790-0310; Email – [email protected]
Professor Richard Joel, President of Yeshiva University: Tel – 212 960 5300; Email – [email protected]
We have established a website at www.shameoncardozo.com where you can find more information.
Please share and forward this email with your friends.
Silence is complicity.
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As a YU alumnus, I am embarrassed that this shameful thing is scheduled to take place. How dumb can they be???
THIS they protest?? Big deal! YU has all their priorities messed up. YU Cardozo sponsors and FUNDS the YU Cardoza Toeiva Club.
Fech.
I think one should protest the Gay clubs that YU has, first. Then you can worry about everything else.
This is the same YU that sent a busload of bachurim to a Carter rally with signs in Hebrew saying Reagan. How quickly they forget. (This is also the same YU that refused to join the pro MBP lawsuit so I’m not surprised.)
Whose crazy idea was this in the first place?
I was surprised to learn from a few of my chareid friend’s that attended law school, that Cardozo student body is mostly non frum and that they are hostile towards the chareidi students. While Fordham law school is extremely accommodating towards their frum students.
it would appear in light of the aged mans profile and in light of the article and in light of the comments it would appear that they are more connected with conservative judaism then the frum community..
i would elect not to post about them any longer and let the freiyeh mentchen have their frummeh rabbis
it would appear they dont deserve to be mentioned on this site anymore
how shocking to see how an institution seeks favour in the eyes of the goyim in the name of political correctness – at the expense of the cause of its own brothers’ over whose blood this antisemite shows no concern.
Yasher Koach to the alumni for speaking up, and shame on the school for such a choice!
Cardozo should be ashamed of this, too:
https://www.cardozo.yu.edu/news/cardozo-alumna-challenging-cas-ban-same-sex-marriage
This story needs a little bit of context.
First, it is Cardozo–not YU. They are a secular law school attached to YU, and I’m sure if they meddled in it all the time, they would just get the whole faculty to resign in protest.
Second, it is a student journal–not the law school. The school is not in the business of micromanaging every decision made by a student journal. And if they did, all the students would be really mad and they would likely suffer in getting students the next year.
Obviously, if they were honoring Hitler, it would be a different story. But Jimmy Carter is considered well within the mainstream among Democrats.
Nevertheless, I agree with the protest since I think Carter should be outside the mainstream. My only point is that in your zeal, you should retain some context of who it is you are angry at and what you are angry for.
We do owe some hakoras tov to Carter Y”M”SH. Had be not been such an inept president, Reagan would have not been elected.
Protest, demonstrate and scream.
Carter is violently anti-Israel which means Jewish BTW. Every word that he speaks is Pro-ARAB and Palestinean.
Not that he needs my haskoma, but Popa is right:
Are you all so small minded & blinkered that you cannot see the opportunity of a former president, with very unfortunate views on Israel (though not much worse than the many expressed in the various comments made on articles throughout this site) coming to speak with educated young Jews, many of whom are future communal leaders? How is hiding away from such a person going to help us or him? Perhaps if they only heard from the people we all agree are Israel lovers, we’d be better off? Bring on George W Bush then! I find the views here sad, small, and ignorant.