USS Liberty: draft article
January 2nd, 2009 From
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>Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 12:33:11 -0700
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>From: Jim Ennes
>Subject: Re: USS Liberty: draft article
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>At 10:02 AM 5/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >Last year I contacted a pro-Israeli partisan who supposedly could
> >discuss USS =Liberty= (AGTR 5). He provided no information and assailed
> >me personally as anti-Semitic for raising the issue. (I have,
> >incidentally, a Jewish relative by marriage who perished in the
> >Holocaust, probably at Auschwitz-Birkenau; his daughter is my aunt.) Try
> >it: e-mail your questions to Prof Alan Stein at the University of
> >Connecticut, stein@math.uconn.edu. His apparently publicly-funded web
> >site, http://www.math.uconn.edu/~stein, also calls (or did last year)
> >Jim Ennes an anti-Semite. I thought scholars were supposed to be
> >open-minded. Anyway, this situation could explain why list masters might
> >discourage discussion of the =Liberty= incident.
>
>I have not found Professor Stein to be open minded. On the contrary.
>In this case, I was advised by an attorney to file suit against Professor
>Stein for his outrageous public libel against me. Instead, I asked the
>University authorities to have the remark removed. They referred my
>letter to the Connecticut Attorney General who advised me that the
>web site was an inappropriate use of university property and that he
>had been ordered to remove it. Instead, he made a slight but
>inadequate change of wording. Last time I looked the site was
>still there.
>
>
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