Letter: Opinions can be expressed without hate
This is not an open letter to Megan Marzec.
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This is not an open letter to Megan Marzec.
If you look at my Twitter or Facebook profiles over the last week, you won’t see any opinions about Student Senate President Megan Marzec’s controversial video. I have retweeted many articles and opinion pieces, but I haven’t posted an opinion. I felt I needed some time to think about how I felt.
Some students and Athens residents have expressed support for Megan Marzec following her "blood bucket" challenge.
Senate felt the need to apologize for President Megan Marzec’s ‘blood’ bucket challenge. But was that the best political move?
[The below open letter is currently being circulated by a group of Ohio University faculty. If you are a faculty member at OU and would like to add your name to the letter, please send your full name and department (for identification purposes only) to right2speech@yahoo.com]
A group of faculty signed a letter, released Tuesday, supporting OU Senate President Megan Marzec's right to express herself.
Ohio University President Roderick McDavis was threatened late last week.
We have received numerous letters regarding the Megan Marzec’s “blood bucket” controversy, and we are continuing to run as many as we can on our opinion page, with the rest appearing online.
Ohio University officially supports the colonization of Palestine and the genocide of Arab people living in the territory.
A group of faculty are to release a signed a letter Tuesday supporting OU Senate President Megan Marzec's right to express herself.
As an Arab Muslim and OU student, I really felt concerned especially about the amount of hatred and racism expressed blindly towards Arabs and Muslims alike in the emails sent to Megan.
Student responds to Marzec chaos.
am the daughter of a Jewish man and although raised Catholic, I have always felt strongly about those who practice anti-Semitism. Like my father before me, I went to Ohio University and it was the best five years of my life. When you poured blood and defamed my college, you broke my heart. You made my college dirty with hate and left me sick with anger.
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return deplores the witch-hunt against Megan Marzec, president of the Ohio University Student Senate, following her protest of the recent U.S.-backed Israeli massacre in Gaza, which has taken the lives of more than 2000 people, many of them civilians, children, entire families, the elderly, and the disabled.
Megan Marzec clearly stated her position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It speaks volumes about her opponents that they'd rather silence her than attempt to argue against that position. From the online death threats to that masterpiece of passive aggressive condescension Rabbi Danielle Leshaw authored, those demanding Marzec's resignation from Student Senate (and/or her head on a platter) don't seem to want to talk about the issue at hand any more than they want Marzec to talk about it.
I am a 2013 graduate of Ohio University writing to express my full support for Megan Marzec. As Post readers know, Megan posted a video last week that called on Ohio University to cut its ties with the apartheid state of Israel. The video generated enormous controversy locally and nationally, and Megan received over 1000 critical emails and messages in 24 hours, the majority of which were steeped in vitriolic, racist, misogynistic language, and some of which included death threats.
As an Ohio University alum, I am deeply concerned. As an Arab American woman, I have been extremely troubled with the thoughts of what has been happening at OU.
The accusations that Megan Marzec was out of line by calling on Ohio University to break ties with Israel over its war crimes against Palestinians is ridiculous. What do students want from a leader? Someone who is unengaged? Someone who will ignore oppressive forces on our campus and in the world? On the contrary, we have a student body president who is unafraid to stand up for students on campus who are the most oppressed, such as Palestinians.
As an Ohio University alum, I am deeply concerned. As an Arab American woman, I have been extremely troubled with the thoughts of what has been happening at OU.
I would like to congratulate you for your act with the Blood Bucket Challenge. You have actually done such a great service to my country—Israel—that I, as a proud Israeli who has just returned from a visit to your state, must thank you for doing what you did.