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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 04:49 PM
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The president of the University of St. Thomas acknowledged he made the wrong decision
and invited Archbishop Tutu to campus!

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With your help, we kept the issue on the news and the editorial pages of a number of local, national, and international newspapers (see a partial list below), including an op-ed published today by JVP's Cecilie Surasky and Mitchell Plitnick. This op-ed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune finally demolishes the myth that Tutu compared Israel to Hitler, putting the libel to rest in an American paper for the first time.

The Anti-Defamation League came out with a statement yesterday in support of Archbishop Tutu. After an exchange of letters between JVP and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), which mistakenly attributed the false quote to Tutu, the JTA reported today that the Zionist Organization of America incorrectly quoted Archbishop Desmond Tutu as comparing Israel to Hitler and apartheid, despite the ZOA's protests to the contrary.

At the same time, eighteen member's of the university's law faculty released a letter urging the university to reissue the invitation.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 05:05 PM
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1. That's in Houston right?
Who put out that myth?
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 05:11 PM
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2. What myth?
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 05:15 PM
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3. excellent!
it is good to see the Israel Lobby's LIES Exposed!
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