"Pipes has repeatedly demonstrated hostility towards Arabs and towards Islam as a religion," said Mitchell Plitnick, co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace, a San Francisco Area Middle East peace group. "Of equal concern is that Pipes has often espoused the view that force is the most appropriate solution to the problems in the Middle East and the Muslim world. Pipes's entire history shows him to be an individual who merits no place in any Institute of Peace. As Jews, we have a special stake in Middle East peace and it is intolerable that a man who espouses such racist and militaristic views as Pipes even be considered for such a position."
Jewish Groups Against Pipes Nomination
Common Dreams Progressive Newswire JULY 30, 2003
