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Jack Schwartz

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Jacob Theodore "Jack" Schwartz was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

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Notable works: The My Lai Massacre and its cover-up: beyond the reach of law? : The Peers Commission report

About Jack Schwartz

Jacob Theodore "Jack" Schwartz was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language and started the NYU Ultracomputer project. He founded the New York University Department of Computer Science, chairing it from 1964 to 1980.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jack Schwartz

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures…

Bank

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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

About

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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition…

After

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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Democracy

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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

Avoid

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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region.…

Archaeology

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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

Ask

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Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to…

Anti semitism

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Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of…

Created

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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the…

Anti semitism

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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political…

Agenda

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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

Attracts

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Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

Alter

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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

Any

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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

Benevolent

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Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and…

Against

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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

Absence

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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is…

Boycott

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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

Anti semitism

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In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as…

Accept

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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which…

Caught

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When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else…

Arab

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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it…

Anything

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