Test Bank For Human Relations

The Tyranny of Deceit

The entire Western world has suffered from a lack of moral authority for decades. Today, we in the West are reluctant to use our full military power or seek victory in war lest we appear imperialistic. We hesitate to enforce our borders lest we appear racist. We are reluctant to ask for assimilation from new immigrants (especially in Europe) lest we appear xenophobic. We are pained to give Western civilization primacy in our educational curricula lest we appear supremacist. In short, today the West is on the defensive, because the very legitimacy of our modern societies requires constant dissociation from the sins of the Western past - racism, economic exploitation, imperialism and so on. And, in the process, we’ve lost the ability to discern right from wrong. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the demonization, de-legitimization and the double standard applied against Israel in the international arena. As the memory of the Holocaust fades into history, as we continue to transfer petro-wealth to our enemies; as Europe morphs into Eurabia; as dictators, despots and Islamists take control over the UN and other international bodies; as the Arab Spring evolves into an Arab Winter, and as our universities become hotbeds for virulent anti-Israel teachings and rhetoric - logic fades, facts and fictions become interchangeable, democracies become indistinguishable from dictatorships, history becomes irrelevant, and anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism become indistinguishable. Sharansky noted several years ago, that there is a 3D test we should use to distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism – de-legitimization, demonization and the double standard. Taking these three factors into account, one can discern that the new anti-Semitism manifests itself in many different forms and in many different forums – through divestment campaigns, international boycotts of Israeli products, boycotts of Israeli or even pro-Israel academics (like Alan Dershowitz) by Norwegian universities, holding Israel to standards no other nations in the world is required to meet, and through “Israel Apartheid Week” on Canadian and American college campuses : “Google "Israel and apartheid" and you will see that the two are linked in cyberspace” despite the fact that Israeli Arabs, about one-fifth of Israel’s population, have the same civil and political rights as do Israeli Jews, and even sit in the Knesset.

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I never imagined an email about the Office of Disability Employment Policy’s Workforce Recruitment Program from my university’s Office of Disability Services would bring many opportunities and open doors for me in the near future. 

My interview was unlike any other I’d had before because it was the first time I’d interviewed with someone who was deaf and had an interpreter; it was the first time I knew the person across the table had a disability just like me.  I started receiving phone calls from several government offices in various cities wanting to interview me further.  Then, I started packing my things for a summer in Columbus, Ohio with the Department of Defense as a Marketing Intern for the Small Business Programs Office at DLA Land & Maritime.  The Department of Defense!

My supervisor, Cindy Nevin, was very supportive, inviting, and eager to ensure I had a fun and rewarding internship for the summer.  She made sure to ask if there were any accommodations I needed for my workspace related to my disability.  This was the first time I did not have to initiate the dreaded conversation of explaining my disability.  I really appreciated that.

Cindy allowed me to shadow a Graphics Designer and Public Relations Specialist just because I expressed interest to her in learning more about those positions.  Moreover, I was given the opportunity to produce an article (bottom of page 9 and 13) for the DLA Land & Maritime’s weekly publication, The Columbus Federal Voice,

I also attended a top executive meeting with my supervisor where I was complimented by many of the executives for my work.  I received so much recognition for participating in the WRP and for the hard work I did, all in that one day — it was then that I was most thankful and appreciative for the program.

After the summer ended, I was going into my last year of my undergraduate degree and immediately began searching for a place to begin my career with a permanent job.  I stayed in communication with my WRP contacts in order to intern for the program once more if it was going to take longer for the full-time job search.  Meanwhile, I attended a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch informational recruiting event. Then I applied for the Bank’s Global Markets Operations and Middle Office (GMO&MO) rotational program and was invited to interview for it.