Robert Fishman

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Robert G. Fishman is executive director of George Washington University's Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. He received his PhD in anthropology from SUNY at Buffalo in 1983. For eight years, he served as administrative coordinator and assistant professor of anthropology at Georgia State University. In addition, for six years he taught part-time as an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Florida Atlantic University while serving as Campaign Director of the South Palm Beach County Jewish Federation. From January 1990 to August 2002, Fishman served as Executive Director of Israel Bonds for the Washington region where he secured over a quarter billion dollars in loans for the State of Israel during his 13-year tenure.

He called a pro-Palestinian law student a recognized terrorist and subsequently apologized when threatened with a lawsuit. ^{[1] [2]}

Further information: Hillel:_The_Foundation_for_Jewish_Campus_Life#Criticism

In response to a visit by President Jimmy Carter in March 2007 to George Washington University to promote his book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," Fishman helped organize a response to Carter. Along with a group of Hillel students, a series of questions were put together that emphasized many of what they believed to be errors and ommissions in Carter's book. He orchestrated a group of Hillel students to read a series of questions based on questions written by Deborah Lipstadt and members of the faculty at Emory University. Students took the initiative and were able to get many of these questions answered during the question and answer period. One member of the audience accused Fishman of blocking the microphones from other students thus giving the media the impression that the audience was critical of Carter despite repeated standing ovations. ^[3].

Further information: Palestine_Peace_Not_Apartheid#George_Washington_University_visit

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