“Presbyterian Peacemakers”:

I know I’m supposed to be on a blogging slowdown, but how can I resist stories like this one? A group called “Presbyterian Peacemakers,” which on its website professes to pursue “a journey of racial justice and understanding,” as well as a commitment to overcoming prejudice, brought a virulently anti-Israel speaker to Wooster College who gave a blatantly anti-Semitic presentation. This speaker, among other things, “presented the fraudulent, antisemitic screed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a factual book that ‘explains’ how Zionists have been taking over the world’s political, economic, religious and communication organizations.” This lecture was presented twice, including during an ethics class. The individual responsible for inviting the anti-Semitic lecturer had this to say for himself: “I regret that the director of the Hillel Foundation (Professor Peter Pozefsky) chose to be offended by it, rather than take it as a teachable event.” Gotta love those Presbyterian Peacemakers. I’d hate to see what the Presbyterian Racist Warmongers are like. To make matters at Wooster worse, Prof. Pozefsky’s valid concerns about this and other anti-Semitic speakers–concerns that reportedly involved no calls for censorship–were ignored or critcitized by his colleagues. Alumni and friends of Wooster College, let your voices be heard!