The Anti-Defamation League is criticizing UNC Chapel Hill's selection of Nobel Prize Winner Desmond Tutu as its May commencement speaker.
ADL National Director Abraham Foxman wrote today that Tutu is a "poor choice" to author commencement addresses at UNC-CH and Michigan State University this year because of his long history of a critic of Israel.
In a statement released by the ADL today, Foxman said in part:
"His statements about Israel have time and again conveyed outright bigotry against the Jewish homeland and the Jewish people, and his deepening involvement in the anti-Israel boycott should have raised a flag. This is not someone to be held up as a model or awarded an honorary degree, given his history of bombastic rhetoric and unceasing support for the anti-Israel effort."
Tutu is widely regarded as a central figure in the fight to end apartheid in South Africa. He was selected by a campus committee to give UNC-CH's commencement address May 10 in Kenan Stadium.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
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Comments
Not a surprising choice for
Tue, 04/07/2009 - 06:40 — SweetsieNot a surprising choice for the idiots in Chapel Hill that select commencement speakers.
Good fight
Mon, 04/06/2009 - 23:29 — PercyKutionEXCELLENT!!! When the Evolutionary Rejects and the Chosen Few start a peeing contest, it's bound to be a good one!!!!!
TUTU
Mon, 04/06/2009 - 21:23 — radiomanTutu is widely regarded as a central figure in the fight to end apartheid in South Africa. Isn't that when the Country went to hell, they took the farms from white farmers that had lived there for over 100 years and destroyed the government!