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coupled with its willingness to send observers to Israel

the national vice-president of the guild. After learning that the guild had decided to send an observer to a trial of an alleged terrorist in Israel

to choose sides. The guild changed dramatically in the late 1960s and early 1970s

according to one member of the delegation

the guild subsequently decided to send what it called an objective delegation to the Middle East. The organizer of this “objective” group was Abdeen Jabara

especially among lawyers who had represented left-wing causes and individuals. Battle lines were quickly drawn. Some

the radical Left was beginning its campaign against Israel. In a highly publicized speech delivered on October 19

a lapsed Catholic priest who had become the darling of the hard left as the result of his anti-Vietnam War activities

the PLO was a terrorist gang that was hijacking airplanes

the consensus regarding human rights was beginning to change. Although the Soviet Union had long used the language of “human rights” (as well as the language of “civil rights”) as a club against western democracies

trash-talked me or in any way misbehaved

but I’ve never experienced so grim a place as this “life or death row

I learned about a legal provision that seemed unique to China. When the sentence of death was imposed for certain types of crimes

including the use of unacceptable interrogation methods

instead of being formally charged with a crime. I was in Israel at the time writing a long article on the practice of administrative detention (or as Americans call it “preventive detention”). I was critical of the practice though I underst...

but also to try to get to Robin’s Island to meet with the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. I was working with Professor Irwin Cotler

I was invited to speak at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. Many in that university had been on the forefront of opposing Apartheid and I was anxious to lend support to these efforts by delivering a strong human rights message.....

but still I’m sure that if I examined it as closely as you have

the ACLU decried the “blacklisting” of Ms. Redgrave because of her politics as a violation of her civil liberties. I am waiting to hear from the ACLU on the U.N. blacklist.

and the list includes some performers who “were not aware of the cultural boycott.”