Community Outraged by Anti-Semitism on Campus

May God have mercy upon you,
(Continued from Page 1)
munity against the outrageous oc- up valuable newspaper space, were have and all parents have for their
it not for the presence of Lhese so- children: that they be better men Mr, Katz.
that appeared in the WSU paper. currences.
Alexander S. Ullman, M.D.
Is their statement they declare:
One of the most satirical con- called "Jews." They are the ones than we were.

"To attack a whole people, to demnations of what was perpetrat- to whom I address this letter.

single out a people for special ed on the WSU campus was written
blame, to accuse another people by Dr. David Wineman, a faculty Open Letter to Jews Who
of 'losing their soul' — these are member who has been among the Helped Organize This Teach-In

''manifest acts of racism, in this leaders in the civil rights move-
Especially to David Katz:
case, of anti-Semitism.
ment and who is now subjected to
You may remember me as the
"As Christian clergymen, we are abuse in spite of his having lent middle aged man who—after the
very conscious of the problem his leadership in the movement for lectures—asked you if you were a
which we Christians have long had just rights for the black com- Jew. Frankly, I could not believe
with anti-Semitism. It is our prob- munity.
that a Jew—for whatever reason—
lem because much of its origin is
The Jewish socialists' actions are would lower himself to lend his
Christian. Every form of anti- exposed in the following report by name to and join a group whose
. Semitism, from whatever source, Dr. Alexander W. Ullmann, who sole purpose is to wipe Israel off
must be clearly condemned for the attended the teach-in at WSU last the map of the world at the price of
indecent kind of racism that it is. Saturday:
destroying and killing—if necessary
* * *
"Our century has witnessed
—2,000,000 Jews. You are too young
enough of the barbarism and evil
By ALEX. W. ULLMAN, M.D.
to remember how 6,000,000 of us
of anti-Semitism without it being
and his brothers sold Joseph were killed between 1939 and 1945.
raised in the current discussions to - the Ishmaelites."
I was there. My parents, brother,
regarding the situation in the
The Organization of Arab Stu- grandparents were among those
Middle East and black-white rela-
dents together with the Young So- victims who died because there
tions in the United States."
was not a country in the world
Rev. Locke and his associates, in cialist Alliance sponsored a teach-in which would have accepted them
order to offset the damage caused at Wayne State University Feb. 8 when they still had a chance to
by the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic on the topic of the Arab Liberation leave. Have you ever heard of a
propaganda, arranged for a public Struggle and its Relationship to ship called Struma which finally
- forum for Wednesday afternoon, at Zionist Israel. An invitation to at-
went to the bottom of the ocean
the university, for presentation of tend was extended to all by a with
all its Jews because nobody
the facts that have been distorted David Katz in the now well publi-
in the one-sided debates conducted cized infamous official "student" would let them ashore? The blood
newspaper of Wayne State Univer- of these 6,000,000 is the price we
until now.
paid to awaken the conscience of
End.
In his letter to the editor of the sity, South
the world which finally gave its
In the belief that the "Character consent
WSU paper, (quoted in Purely
to the establishment of a
Comemntary in this issue), Presi- of Israel" should be presented to Jewish state. I said we, Mr. Katz
dent Keast mildly suggested that the future leaders of America en- not you. You told me you were not
the editor meet with him and the tirely by Arab students—who would only a Jew, but went to Hebrew
university adviser on publication to thus appear the only qualified ob- School for nine years and even had
try to amend the ways pursued of jective experts on the subject—I a Bar Mitzva. Armed with all this
spreading bias. In his program on attended this meeting, hoping that knowledge, you can not be the
Sunday night, Lou Gordon strong- sometime during the eight-hour simple boy of the Hagada who
ly condemned such a weak way of series I shall have the opportunity doesn't even know how to ask ques-
treating a dangerous situation ere. to show the other side of the coin. tions, but the Rasha, the wicked
ated by an editor who asserts that My second purpose was to meet son, who excluded himself from the
Katz, one of the organizers of this

he conducts a revolutionary paper

patterned only after the rules of anti-Jewish lecture series. My open community and about whom it is
"had he been there, he
Cuba, North Vietnam and Red letter which follows below is ad- written:
would not have been redeemed."
China.
dressed to him.
I called you a Quisling, Mr. Katz:
The Wayne State University
The speakers of the teach-in re-
a person who undermines his own
Fund adopted of resolution con- hashed all the old, baseless accusa- nation
from within, who helps the
demning the existing situation and tions against the State of Israel,
to destroy the very people
demanding that there should be the Jews who supported morally or enemy
who
brought
him forth. Maybe I .
projected "as accurate an image financially, the U.S. whose capital-
as possible of the university, its istic-imperialistic policy is being was wrong: you are not a leader
administration, its faculty and stu- created, aided and abetted by Jew- as Quisling was; Lord Howe or
dents." Mrs. Olga F. Dworkin, ish agencies and lobbyists, and Tokyo " Rose" would have been
chairman of the WSU Fund, ex- generally against everybody who better comparisons. In Auschwitz __
pressed dlte$ concern over the can not swallow and digest the there were Kapos who helped the
Posture of the student periodical. storieg of Israeli atrocities corn- Nazis to destroy their fellow Jews;
- The scandals revolving around mitted daily against innocent Arab I even have an excuse for them:
the WayrrS tate University cam- children and women. They accused they did it to save their own skin.
pus assumed new dimensions on the Israelis of stealing the land What is your excuse, Mr. Katz?
You told me that you know better
Wednesday when—
from the Arabs, killing mercilessly
It became known that Dr. Flint' the defenseless populace and dous- and that you do as your own con-
Purdy, WSU Librarian, refused ing them with napalm. Their science dictates. Do you really be-
to remove the anti-Semitic and charges were: Israel is nothing but lieve that your wisdom of 21 years
anti-Israel material from the ex- a pawn and outpost of the Ameri- (or is it 19?) or your knowledge of
hibition for which he apparently • can, British, and Portuguese im- a few years of college is greater
is responsible; perialism, set up there to disrupt than the knowldege of those who
The announcement was made Arab unity. The expansionist Zion- spent a lifetime in the service of
that the WSU anti-Semitic news.' 1st imperialists don't want peace the community? Or is your ethic
paper editor had just enrolled as but a constant state of war and they superior to that which grew out of
a student; that the semester , try to expand their borders from the combined efforts of scholars
course lasts 13 weeks and that! Cairo to Baghdad. If you are not and rabbis of 2,000 years?
A great man of another small
six of the 13 weeks had already aware of it yet the Israelis have
elapsed during which he had not the atomic bomb developed by nation once said: "There are so
few
of us, that we have to forgive
German
scientists,
ready
to
be
been a student at all;
That WSU President Keast was dropped at a moment's notice on even a patricide." I can not forgive
you,
Katz, for what you have
to meet with the non-student edi- the unsuspecting capitals of the done. Mr.
I have no ax to grind with
for of the newspaper financed by Arab nations. The Israeli economy
Michigan's taxpayers at 1 p.m. is in shambles and is maintained the Arab students; they did what
Wednesday on the basis of "be a solely by American, German and they believed to be in the best in-
good boy" approach, thus giving Jewish money. Hitler's Nazis were terest of their people. Nor do I
substance to the demand made by kind, innocent gentlemen in com- blame the Black Nationalists. I
agree with their methods but,
Lou Gordon on his television pro- parison with the Jews of Israel. don't
gram that Keast should be fired The El Fatah' terrorist commandos in their own way and to the best of
and then the anti-American editor were depicted as Arab revolutionist their knowledge they try to im-
heroes who will bring the Jews to prove the lot of their people. But
should be dealt with properly;
That a TV Station member their knees and who shall be sup- how are you going to live with
(Joe Weaver) was beaten when ported by all revolutionist socialists yourself if one day the seeds you
helped sow were to bring forth
he came to get a photographic of the world. I could go on and on fruit
and you suddenly felt as an
story for his station from the but I think you already have the
general idea of what was taught. accessory to the annihilation of the
WSU editor.
Jews of Israel?
It also became apparent that a It was not more, nor less, than 2,000,000
One last word, Mr. aKtz, I feel
number of deluded Jewish youths what one would expect from the
very
sorry
for your parents, who-
Organization
of
Arab
Students.
the
giving
encouragement,
on
were
basis of their socialism, to the anti- That is the way they think and I ever they are and whatever they
may
be.
Once
they must have had
could not even feel angry.
Semitic editors.
The teach-in was attended by less the same dream about you that I
Jewish groups here have become

deeply aroused, as were also stu-
dents (there'll be a student rally
at the Jewish Center Tuesday
night) and faculty members. The
latter, non-Jews as well as Jews,

are framing a strong resolution of
protest this week. Louis Panush,
president of the Zionist Organiza-

tion of Detroit, played a leading
into in efforts to arouse the cora-

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

than a hundred people; mostly
Arab students, maybe a dozen
Black Nationalists, some hippies,
one or two faculty members, and
10 or 15 clean cut young white peo-
ple who identified themselves as
leaders and members of the Young
Socialist Alliance, most of them
Jewish. The entire event would
have ben too insignificant to take

Friday, February 14, 1969

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LBJ Invited to Israel

JERUSALEM — Former Presi-
dent Lyndon Johnson has been in-
vited to visit Israel by President
Zalman Shazar.
The announcement said Shazar
issued the invitation in a letter to
Mr. Johnson wishing him "bless-
ings for the new phase of your
15 life."

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