Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2006/04/21/phony_and_outrageous.php
Friday, April 21, 2006
Originally Printed November 9, 1988
The undersigned, who are Jewish, deny emphatically that The Dartmouth Review is anti-Semitic. We regard the charge as scurrilous. We also regard it as a short-run and opportunistic use of the charge of anti-Semitism for political purposes. Anti-Semitism is a serious matter, and to use the charge frivolously is dangerous.
The Dartmouth Review has been a staunch supporter of Israel, an opponent of the PLO, and very firm on issues of intense concern to the Jewish people. The record of The Dartmouth Review could well stand comparison on these points with the record of Dartmouth’s president, James O. Freedman.
It is clear that the Dartmouth administration is using, opportunistically, an article that was in questionable taste, as part of its ongoing effort to crush an independent newspaper. And this effort is being made by a Dartmouth College, which recently honored Angela Davis, an anti-Semite who is a public supporter of Louis Farrakhan. In today’s world, serious anti-Semitism is coming from the Left. It is real and it is dangerous. For the Dartmouth administration to attempt to smear student journalists with anti-Semitism is phony and outrageous.
David Brudnoy, TV commentator and journalist
Chris Ehrlich, Dartmouth student
Don Feder, columnist
David Horowitz, author
Steve Kaplitt, Dartmouth student
Adam Meyerson, editor, Policy Review
David Klinghoffer, National Review
Burt Pines, author of Back to Basics
Sidney Zion, author and journalist
Diana West, Washington Times