Scott Kennedy

Staff Writer

Finkelstein Speaks Important Truths

Finkelstein Speaks Important Truths

For three decades the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) has brought an extraordinary range of speakers on Middle East issues to Santa Cruz. These speakers range from the Chief Justice of the Israeli High Court to the founder of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. We’ve hosted an Israeli whose son was killed by a Palestinian sniper and a Palestinian whose 10 year-old daughter was killed by an Israeli Border Policeman as she walked home from school.

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Walk the Talk on Tolerance

It is disappointing that Rabbi Abraham Cooper, representing the Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance in Los Angeles and a speaker at Temple Beth El last week, is a chief advocate for building a new “Museum of Tolerance” on top of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. This hardly seems consistent with the Wiesenthal Center’s declared purpose of “worldwide promotion of tolerance education.”

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