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Justin Elliott
May 9, 2011
http://www.salon.com/news/israel/index.html
Reversing an earlier vote, the board of the City University of New York decided tonight to award an honorary degree to the playwright Tony Kushner following a five-day debate about Israel and academia. That's according to various reports from the board meeting.
The board last week blocked a proposed honor for Kushner after one member, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, opposed the honor because of Kushner's critical statements about Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians. Wiesenfeld, a right-wing pro-Israel activist, later described Kushner as a "Jewish anti-Semite" and suggested Palestinians are "not human" because they "worship death for their children."