Purely Commentary

Hate Mongers on the Campus

How does one dispute "intellectual' gangsterism" in order to purify
the air, to establish truth, to refute gross misrepresentations and to
establish conditions that can assure decent human relations rather than
disrupt the best relations among citizens?
It is a question that may puzzle us for a long time in view of the
re-emergence of an element, in a university, that is bent upon causing
trouble, that foments hatred, encourages anti-Semitism and has no
regard whatever for either truth or the basic principles of good relations.
The platform that has been given to El Fatah in the WSU college
paper calls for investigation. Why have students suddenly undertaken,
in a paper supported with our tax dollars, to glorify a cause that seeks
to destroy a Jewish community in the Middle East?
There are other questions relevant to the contents of a published
sheet that has no regard for news values or for affairs related to the
university. But while tackling an issue, one would expect honesty,
factuality, a concern for the very attitude the so-called freedom-seeking
advocates propagate, and that is the right to differ. But one can not
differ with advocates of the basic lie, and to enter into a debate with the
spreaders of hate would merely dignify hate-spreading.
Suddenly, at least on the Detroit campus, Israel is the villain who
oppresses Arabs, who aligns with the worst elements in the world; and
who's the authority for such a charge? El Fatah, the so-called Arab
liberators who bravely throw bombs into crowds of people who are
shopping for their groceries in a Jerusalem market, or attack places
with Israeli tourists or throw button-sized bombs into courtyards
where school children are playing! Who is the authority? The Kremlin
that walks into Czechoslovakia to deprive a free people of its rights!
Who is the authority? The East German Republic (sic!) whose aim
is not to create a free democracy but to expand Communist domination!
But you can't argue with people who speak of destroying Zionism
and the State of Israel and do not draw any lines: their aim is that
all Jews of Israel must be exterminated! Shades of Hitler in the guise
of a New Left interracial movement!
The pity of it is that when the El Fatah supporters gang up
on Israel and Zionism they also explore every abuse rooted in anti-
Semitism. The pity is that these hate mongers, the new type of anti-
Semites, are making a black-white issue out of the dispute and are
seeking to enroll blacks in a battle against Israel and Jewry. And in
the process, there is hidden the fact of Israel's earnest desire to wipe
out color differences of Israel's democratic status, of Jewry's wish for
amity and good will. Had it not been for Israel, hundreds of thousands
of Arabs now in Israel still would be oppressed under the domination
of the dictators in Arab lands!
Arabs in the tens of thousands were restricted prior to June 1967.
Now they can travel freely, can trade freely, have a higher standard
of living! But what has that to do with hate spreaders? Their aim is to
destroy, they now reject the Jewish role in the civil rights and libertar-
ian movements — why therefore concern themselves with the sentiments
and deepest feelings of Jews who desire to continue to share in raising
the standards of liberty-loving people?

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The Rebellion on the Campus

The experience of the Wayne State University campus may have
a strong relationship with the occurrences on campuses elsewhere.
Surely, abuse of privilege by school periodicals is as vile as intrusions
into buildings, destruction of professors' papers, the breaking of furni-
ture in school buildings.
Dr. Robben W. Fleming, the president of the University of Michi-
gan, last week found it necessary to call upon the faculty to oppose
"plainly illegal and disruptive tactics that some students are willing
to use." But despite his strong stand, he would not call in police to end
demonstrations. And this is exactly the situation at Brandeis University.
President Morris Abram will not call police to oust a handful of students
who have taken over the communications center. He was compelled
to expel a group of students. By a vote of 153 to 18, the Brandeis
faculty upheld his condemnations of the action by dissidents who
had not previously asked for negotiations but apparently demonstrated
for the sake of demonstrating and took over a school building for
the sake of gaining notoriety. Can't the rebels recognize a willingness
to negotiate with them and the obstruction caused by voilence?
While comparisons are not always realistic, the contrast with stu-
dent actions in Israel is worth noting. The students in Israel have no
time for revolts. They have studies to pursue under difficult conditions.
They have a country to defend. They have economic obstacles to over-
come, and they know they have no right to demand what is not
procurable.
American students' revolts are often understandable, but not
when they reach a stage of violence. There should be a way among
fellow citizens in our midst to strive for an approach to proper coordi-
nation of efforts without a civil war.

Another Platform for Israel's Enemies

Another platform has been created for Israel's enemies. It is dif-
ficult to understand why Oakland University, another of the great
schools in our midst, should have undertaken to sponsor a study course
on the Middle East to be conducted by lecturers who appear to be, in
their entirety, aligned with the enemies of Israel. Why isn't such a
course patterned for study of the issues objectively, not at the direction
of propagandists?
On the face of it, while the university purely has no motivations
of spreading hate, it is difficult to believe that the type of faculty
chosen for the projected lectures spells anything but bias, and an
explanation is in order.

The Race Issue and Infighting

What is needed to offset the dangers in racial strife is strong lead-
ership. The spread of Negro anti-Semitism has become a matter of most
serious concern, and it is sad to admit that the cooperation that existed
between Jews and Negroes in the first half of this century now is either
inoperative or has vanished.
Where are the Negro leaders to speak out against the linking of
blacks with the Arab propagandists? Who is there among them to call
for a halt to prejudice? Two men spoke up last week: Roy Wilkins of
NAACP and Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National
Urban League. Young warned Negroes and Puerto Ricans in New York
against anti-Semitic expressions and said:
"There are racial elements in our society who would dearly
love to see Negroes and Jews — New York City's two largest ethnic

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

The Lie Invades the Campus in
Tragic Confusion . . . Israel's Role
vis-a-vis Russia, France, the U.S.

groups — at each other's throats, because this infighting weakens
the capacity of both groups to fight the true racists of our society."
How true! And when will leadership and the masses see the verity
of such a warning?
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Is Russia in the Trial-Balloon Business Now?

This business of imposing a peace on the Middle East, and the plan
proposed by Russia, poses another question: is the USSR floating trial
balloons? Surely, the Kremlin knows that Israel will not move an inch
from territory now in its possession until there is discussion, on a basis
of meeting with those who are involved—the Arab neighbors—on the
methods of withdrawal, the agreements on which they are to be based,
the rights to be agreed upon. Israelis are the Arabs' neighbors: will they
speak to one another or will they have to negotiate through Moscow —
or Washington—or Paris?
These are basic questions, and any attempt to impose a peace, no
matter where the trial balloon is shot into the air, is subject to utter
rejection.
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The Problems That Spell Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle has emerged among the chief villains in the
current drama. His plane manufacturers have $100,000,000 of Israel's
money and they won't release either planes or money — on his orders.
What will this lead to?
The tragedy involving France is that de Gaulle is being upheld by
his government in spite of the criticisms he has earned. Now he' has
his minister of information, George Gorse, in Lebanon, giving courage
to the terrorists, and is himself planning to go there!
And what is worse is the statement, intended as appeasement, by
French Foreign Minister Michael Debre, who spoke as sanctimoniously
as his chief when he said Israel has a right to live, if Israel wishes, but
France has special interests for friendship with Arabs, and France's
interests are of primary concern. In other words, the advice to Israel
is "live if you wish or can," and meanwhile the French government
contributes to Israel's destruction — if it can. But all indications are
that the French people do not support such a policy. Even if Joel le
Theule has gone to the extreme of accusing the French press of yielding
to Israeli "influence," the fact is that the French are not entirely on
the side of the devil.
There is a rather sad item in the current issue of Atlas magazine
which, quoting Milan's Corriere della Sera, reveals: "Twenty out of
a hundred Frenchmen openly admit they are anti-Semitic; one out of
a hundred approve of Hitler's mass extermination of the Jews. This
means that there are in France 10,000,000 anti-Semites, and 500,000
people who approve of Auschwitz. These figures, the result of a recent
survey, were cited recently over a weekly program on French tele-
vision."
There is still the majority, and Israel believes France again will
emerge a strong ally and friend, something for which we pray, hoping
that it won't be necessary to penalize the French people with a boycott
that is not approved in the best judgment of Israelis.
In some quarters — not necessarily Jewish! — it had been sug-
gested that a boycott be instituted against trade with France and
tourism to France. But in Israel demonstrators carried signs of "Vive
la France" while acclaiming "Down with de Gaulle."
Gaullists have had the gall to charge that Jewish influence upon
the French press is responsible for the condemnation of de Gaulle's
actions in the French press! Is a better example needed to prove that
the de Gaulle program is as much anti-Jewish as it is anti-Israel?

Israel's 'Secret Weapon'

Does Israel have a secret weapon? Have Israelis developed the
atom bomb? The latter is nonsensical: they have developed weapons but
not a bomb that requires billions they do not have (they need the funds
to rescue Jews from lands of oppression, most of them coming from
lands under the aegis of Moslems!). They have not the space to det-
onate such a bomb, the Negev notwithstanding (the Negev is needed
for the settlement of stateless and oppressed people!). But they do
have a secret weapon that is defined in four words: the will to live!
And such a secret weapon, based also on the no-alternative of choos-
ing life, has produced the manpower that has given Israel skill to
survive threats and to win wars!
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William S. White's Objectivity

All is not black on the horizon.Occasionally, as in the instance of
Winstcn Churchill, grandson of the great British war-time prime minis-
ter, a non-Jew speaks up in defense of Israel. William S. White, plead-
ing in a recent column (it was not published locally) that reprisal by
Israel should be put into the perspective of history, wrote inter alia:
"All this breast-beating condemnation of Israel by "world
opinion" for the Israelis' reprisal attack upon the airport in Leb-
anon needs some cool re-examination and some factual perspective.
It is true that Israel's action here, in retaliation for a terrorist
Arab assault upon an Israeli aircraft in Athens in which an Israeli
lost his life, was unwise and excessive — if judged in total isolation.
For Lebanon has been a moderate force within the Arab bloc and
has thus far joined only by words in the "holy war" being conducted
against Israel by more vehement — and Communist-oriented —
states such as Nasser Egypt.
Still, this whole business cannot be understood out of its whole
context. When all the facts, and not just some of them, are seen
without prejudice, Israel comes off incomparably better than it is
coming off in the excited indictments now being flung about inside
and outside the United Nations.
"First of all, Israel's commandos at any rate took the greatest
care in Lebanon to take no man's life. But the essential points are
vastly deeper. Here is a nation dug out of the, hard, arid earth that
for all its life has been tirelessly menaced by extremist Arabs
from every side.
"Week after week, month after month, year after year the
Israelis have been drenched by the poisonous hatred of Cairo Radio.
"Eternally threatened they have lived in a stockade state, much
as did the American pioneers along their frontiers. Endlessly at-
tacked along their frontiers, they have responded with a courage
and an elan rarely seen in contemporary times.
"Explicitly and repeatedly told by Arabs that they are going
to be destroyed by Arabs, it is perhaps not too surprising that after
two decades it is growing difficult for them to see that 'big picture'
which statesmen far from the scene are pleased to paint for them.
"Is it very surprising, then, that finally they react with undue
violence, considering the further point that never once have they

By Philip '
Slomovitz

been granted elementary justice
by a UN presently headed by the
openly prejudiced Secretary
General U :Thant?
"The simple, historic reality
is that the Israelis have never
stood a chance in the UN, where
the Russians and their tinpot
and sometimes crypto-Communist
allies among the African and
Asian states have used this
tough and tiny Western outpost
as a kind of badminton shuttle.
cock in the cold war.
"But there is an even more
fundamental truth, and it is this: -
It is no longer liberally chic to .
be pro-Israel, where once it was `.-
too liberally chic altogether. 4=
Twenty years ago, 'elite' Amer. -
lean opinion sentimentalized Is-
rael out of reason. Today, 'elite
American opinion can hardly
find anything good about the
Israelis.
"It would require a book fully
to explore this turnabout; this--
columnist's opinion is that Israel: -
has fallen out of grace not be _
cause of its considerable faults- -
but rather because of its old- -
fashioned virtues.
"For the Israelis oddly cling
to certain outmoded concepts
which in a shorthand way are
, more conservative than other-
wise, to wit:
"They do not happily embrace
any and all 'revolution' such
as Col. Abdel Gamal Nasser's
exported 'revolutions' in places
like Yemen. They feel no shame
in being patriots. They love their
country; they will unhesitatingly
fight for it. And they will not be
talked out of their right—and
duty — of self-defense.
"That Lebanon is not really a
part of this conspiracy is true
enough. That Lebanon's airport
has been attacked is in every
way regrettable. But that the
world can hardly expect a people
so long brutalized by hostile
neighbors to respond in every in-
stance with all prudence and res-
traint is surely also true. When
a man is fighting for his life,
it is a little hard to expect him
to proceed with all the solemn
care that might be exercised by
some fellow who never felt a
wound."
George Eliot said: "Not man need
despair as long as there is just
one person left in whom he can
place trust and confidence." And
there still are people we can trust
and have confidence in!
The Genocide Threat
Wherever there is a sense of
honor, there must be recognition
of the threat of genocide against
Israel, Israelis and the Jewish peo-
ple.
Yet many overlook the intentions
of Israel's enemies.
In the report on the current
situation from Cairo, by John M.
Cooley in the Christian Science
Monitor, the following comment
was bracketed:
"Reliable sources said Cairo
privately informed France, Italy
and possibly other European gov-
ernments of the danger of more
Palestinian commando attacks on
aircraft, for which it could not be
responsible. It suggested that in-
ternational airports bar the Israeli
El Al Airlines flights as the only
sure safeguard, the sources said."
Cooley, in another dispatch to
the Monitor from Cairo, wrote:
"Canada is another country of
m ajor interest to Egyptian di-
plomacy. Egyptians feel that a
large and influential Jewish com-
munity, especially in Toronto, has
influenced Canadian foreign poli-
cy in favor of Zionism and Israel.
However, Foreign Minister (Mah-
moud) Riad, in an interview with
this reporter, said Canadian Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau re-
cent l y told him privately that
Israel is clearly an 'expansionist'
country, and that the Western
world must wake up to this be-
fore the Middle East 'blows up
again.' "
The aim, apparently, is to blow
up Jews, Israel, Israelis. The gang-
up is another form of genocide.

