Calling the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) to a Higher Standard!

CALL FOR ACTION!!!

Calling the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC)
to a Higher Standard!

Please read this background and then sign and send the email below to UMKC officials.

Two groups, Culturally Speaking and Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, on the UMKC campus are sponsoring a talk by Norman Finkelstein on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 and are allegedly supported by UMKC funds. Finkelstein is a notorious Jewish-born, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel Holocaust detractor who, in 2007, was rejected from receiving a tenured academic appointment at DePaul University. Previously he had been fired by NYU and Hunter College because of anti-Semitic writings that did not meet minimal academic standards.
Thus far UMKC has not taken any action to prevent this controversial event from taking place on its campus under the guise of defending `freedom of speech`.
Even if the scheduled talk by Dr. Finkelstein will be completely benign and apolitical, contrary to all expectations, the track record of his extreme anti-Jewish and anti-Israel views, expressed in his books, articles and lectures, should have been sufficient for the UMKC academic administration to deny this speaker a university funded forum on its campus.

The text of your letter is written below. You may send it "as is" or make changes as you wish. Copies will go to UMKC administrative officials and related department heads.
The text of your letter is written below, you may send it as is or make changes as you wish. Copies of your email will will go to UMKC administrative officials and related department chairmen.

Please fill out the form and read letter here:  http://israelunitycoalition.org/aa/alert.php?id=72