Hunter College Pulls Screening of Film Critical of Israel
Briefly

The documentary, Israelism, investigates what it calls the uncritical love of the Jewish state inculcated in American Jews, through the stories of two young Jews who travel to Israel and the West Bank.
The first priority of Hunter College is to ensure the safety of our learning community, Kirschner said in a statement posted online. We seek constructive dialogue that avoids targeting any students, faculty or staff based on their identity: the essence of bigotry.
But faculty members said there was an email campaign criticizing what it described as the film's anti-Israel sentiment and calling for cancellation.
Read at www.nytimes.com
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