From The Washington Post (Follow up to a post from yesterday)-
Time to revisit Rev. Shipman, the Episcopal Chapman at Yale. Readers will recall that Rev. Shipman wrote a letter to the N.Y. Times, responding to an op-ed about growing violent anti-Semitism in Europe, suggesting that the “best antidote would be for Israel’s patrons abroad to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for final-status resolution to the Palestinian question.” I pointed out that by holding Jews responsible for anti-Semitism, Rev. Shipman was engaging in unacceptable victim-blaming. Let me put it even more bluntly now: he is blaming the victims of racism for the existence of racism.
More here-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/08/27/yale-episcopal-chaplain-rev-bruce-shipman-digs-deeper/
Opinion – 18 December 2024
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