Jewish Students Combat Arab Propaganda
By BEN GALLOB
(Copy right 1969. JTA. Inc.)
An accelerating program of Arab-
sponsored. anti-Israel — and some-
times anti-Semitic—propaganda
activities on American college
campuses is being combated con-
sistently by Jewish students, ac-
cording to a report from the •\ mer-
ican Zionist Youth Foundatl
- The propaganda activities are
organized by Arab student groups
with occasional assists from mili-
tant student leftists.
Assistance to the Jewish students
for the counter-effort and for a
wide variety of other pro-Israel
programs on the campuses is pro-
vided by the AZYF through its
university service department,
which has arranged for student
Zionist representation on 38 of the
campuses. The departme;:t also
works with Jewish student organi-
zations on more than 80 campuses.
Philip Horn, director of the uni-
versity service department, said
that the department provides the
student groups with program ideas
and materials from many sources,
including appropriate materials de-
veloped by other Jewish organiza-
tions.
The AZYF report said that the
Arab propaganda program seeks
to reach not only radical students
and black militants. but also the
general student bodies. Methods
reported in use include enlistment
of faculty members, development
of university programs and courses,
efforts to influence public debates
"and a concerted and active cam-
paign to influence the editorial
policy of campus newspapers."
Hostile articles have been pub-
lished in the past in student
i newspapers at Brandeis Univer-
sity, Michigan State, University
of Michigan and Wayne State
University, all of which were an-
swered. A Jewish Action Com-
mittee was created at Wayne
State to combat anti-Israel and
anti-Jewish material in the cam-
pus paper, South End, which
evoked widespread concern in
the local Jewish community.
After informal talks were held
with South End editors, the pe-
riodical published material giv-
ing Israel's case.
At New York State University in
Buffalo, stamps of the Arab ter-
rorist El Fatah were on sale in the
Afro-Asian bookstore, and a vulgar
anti-Israel poem was printed in the
campus underground newspapers.
After complaints were voiced, the
paper published replies from indig-
nant Israeli students. An ad hoc
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18—Friday, December 12, 1969
committee was set up to challenge
Arab propaganda on the campus.
A major anti-Israel program was
staged last spring at Columbia
University. There, local chapters
of the Arab Student Organization,
Youth Against War and Fascism
and other militant leftist and for-
eign student groups conducted a
"teach-in" at which one of the fea-
tured speakers was George Tomeh,
the Syrian ambassador to the
United Nations.
The AZYF said that while the
meeting had been advertised as
' open to the general public, persons
seeking admission had to make
contributions to El Fatah, and that
only after all 200 seats in the audi-
torium had been filled were Israeli
and American Jewish students ad-
mitted.
The report added that a squad
of "strong-arm" men wearing
Fatah buttons patrolled the audi-
ence. No questions by the Israelis
or the local Jewish students were
permitted, and some efforts were
made to forcibly evict those stu-
dents, leading to several fist fights.
The Jewish response was a teach-
in sponsored by Kadimah, Yavneh
and the Israel Students Organiza-
tion. A crowd of 1,200 persons
came to hear an address by Israeli
Ambassador Itzhak Rabin.
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Challenged by Arne rican Branch
understand the reasons for the
NEW YORK (JTA)—The chair-
apparent deviation in this case."
man of the American branch of
Amnesty International issued a
The chairman also declared that
statement Tuesday questioning as- he regretted the London statement
sertions of the London-bajed inter- had not made clear that while
national civil liberties group that Amnesty had been permitted to
Israeli authorities had mistreated send an investigation team into
Arab prisoners.
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cials took sharp issue with the been the case in any of the Arab
Amnesty report and said no fur- countries.
ther visits would be permitted by
Moreover, Benenson asserted,
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occupied territories.
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ment. He added that under the understood that all of the cases
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supposed to help nonviolent "pris- of in Amnesty's opinion."
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Benenson reported that the
Arab prisoners involved in the con- American affiliate had called for
troversy were "apparently ter- an impartial investigation of im-
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