“New Paltz Accountability” was founded to improve awareness of policies concerning victims of sexual assault, a worthy purpose.(“Students Demand New Paltz Accountability Be Held Accountable”).Unfortunately Jews Cassie Blotner- the founder of New Paltz Accountability – and Ofek Pries, have been forced out of New Paltz Accountability in a Progressive coup because they correctly believe that Zionism is the foundation of Judaism: the Jewish Bible aka The Old Testament — the raison d’etre of Judaism — has only ONE foundational narrative — the Jewish people’s Return to Zion — what today is Israel.In the antisemitic tradition of Joseph Goebbels and his Brown Shirts any Jew — regardless of her personal concern about the issue of sexual assault — who believes in the foundational Zionist narrative of the Jewish Bible is now verboten at New Paltz Accountability.It is a truly shameful that the remaining “leadership” of New Paltz Accountability have forsaken the wisdom and prescience of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..who said at Harvard shortly before his death: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews; you’re talking antisemitism”.To throw Jewish women who are concerned about sexual assault policies and may have suffered sexual assault themselves out the door onto the cold stones of New Paltz in order to embrace antisemitism is truly pathetic and gives a new horror to the meaning of amorality. To deny Jewish women NPA’s services because they believe in the foundational Zionist narrative of the Old Testament comes straight from the stone cold perverse minds of Mengele, Eichmann and Goebbels and now from the “leadership” of New Paltz Accountability.
Richard Sherman
