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Kamau Bobb later apologized for the blog post, saying that what he wrote "crudely characterized the entire Jewish community."
Let's celebrate two University of Iowa jewels: Hancher Auditorium and Center for Human Rights Shams Ghoneim © Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen The sun sets near Hancher Auditorium on the University of Iowa campus, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, over the Iowa River on the Park Road Bridge in Iowa City, Iowa. It is a rare happening in a city the size of Iowa City to have two jewels in its crown. The University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium and the Center for Human Rights are these rare entities that have for decades had significant impact on Iowa City, statewide, nationally and g...
View Comments It is a rare happening in a city the size of Iowa City to have two jewels in its crown. The University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium and the Center for Human Rights are these rare entities that have for decades had significant impact on Iowa City, statewide, nationally and globally. The original Hancher Auditorium opened in 1972, hosting world-class artists. The auditorium was home to an array of University of Iowa student performances as well as community events, commencements and more. Hancher for the past 49 years and under the leadership of director Chuck Swanson since 2002 ...
Get email notification for articles from Alex Galitsky Follow May. 9, 2021 10:30 AM The Armenian genocide in many ways shook the established world order to its very core.Here was an atrocity so inexplicably depraved that there was no word to describe it, and no system to resolve it. In this watershed moment in human history, the basis of our modern system of international governance, human rights, and international law were born. It wasn’t, however, until the crime of genocide was repeated with the annihilation of Europe's Jewish population – inspired in part by the Ottoman Empire's exte...
Get email notification for articles from Alex Galitsky Follow May. 6, 2021 1:27 PM The Armenian genocide in many ways shook the established world order to its very core. Here was an atrocity so inexplicably depraved that there was no word to describe it, and no system to resolve it. In this watershed moment in human history, the basis of our modern system of international governance, human rights, and international law were born. It wasn’t, however, until the crime of genocide was repeated with the annihilation of Europe's Jewish population – inspired in part by the Ottoman Empire's exte...