Anti-Semite?

Things have been strange since the last update. Wednesday I had a midterm in my Judicial Politics class, which went reasonably well. My bike was stolen sometime over the past few days, which was a bit of a bummer. And then I was accused, at least by association, of promulgating anti-Semitic propaganda. Strange indeed.

Dave Fialkov, a Senior at Clark and classmate in the above-mentioned Judicial Politics class, wrote an opinion article in The Scarlet (Clark's officially-sanctioned student publication). In this column, Fialkov accused This Is Not The News (the witty, satirical, alternative weekly newspaper I co-edit with Chris Caesar and Troy Hill) of being anti-Semitic propaganda. As I am not running in the election, I was not named in the article. Chris and Troy, on the other hand, were. Being called stupid or a doofus is one thing, but anti-Semitism is some pretty serious stuff. Very unfair, considering that the column was in no way anti-Semitic (nor was it even written by any of us!). Fialkov got most of his facts wrong, which was amusing. For one, he claimed Troy wrote a "condescending non-apology" in the second issue. In fact, Troy did not contribute at all to the second issue, nor did his name appear. Fialkov also claims we made a promise to write an apology for the original "offensive" article, while we made no such promise (nor would we, for we in no way regret the printing of the article, nor do we find it in any way inappropriate).

More on this to come.