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Monday, October 19, 2009

J Street nixes poetry session over speaker’s remarks

JTA
J Street canceled a poetry session at its upcoming conference after the revelation of controversial remarks by one of the scheduled participants.

Monday's decision comes a few days after some conservative Web sites critical of J Street posted examples of the work of Josh Healey, a scheduled speaker at the poetry session.

In one poem, Healey wonders whether "the chosen people" have been "chosen to recreate our own history, merely reversing the roles with the script now reading that we're the ones writing numbers on the wrists of babies born in the ghetto called Gaza?"

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