Boston Jewish Community Hits Tufts U. Anti-Zionism Course
BOSTON — Tufts Univer-
sity is facing a battle be-
tween proponents of a class
which teaches anti-Zionism
and members of the Boston
Jewish community.
Tufts officials have, mean-
while, scheduled the course,
"Zionism Reconsidered" for
a second year. The course is
taught by Martin Blatt, a
student of Uri Davis, who
taught the course last year.
Davis, who was awarded a
fellowship at Brandeis Uni-
versity, was deprived of the
Philatelic Exhibit
Planned in Jerusalem
NEW YORK — The Inter-
nal Stamp Exhibition
ti be held Dec. 19-30 in
Jerusalem, the Israel Phila-
telic Agency in America
announced here.
The exhibition will feature
2,500 frames displayed by
about 2,000 overseas phila-
telists and displays of 35
government postal adminis-
trations including France,
Australia. Belgium, Holland
and the U. S.
Special postmarks will be
issued commemorating the
1,900th anniversary of the
Masada Revolt and another
in honor of Hebrew Jeru-
salem's 3,000th anniversary.
There will be seals for the
exhibition's youth day, vet-
eran collector's day and air-
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grant when his anti-Zionism
was discovered.
Prof. Gerald Wohlberg of
vestigating the situation, said
two issues are involved, ac-
cording to an article he
Boston University, who is in-
wrote in Boston's Jewish Ad-
vocate. The first was the
establishment of a Tufts-
Hillel Non-Zionist Caucus by
two Jewish students. The
second involved the anti-
Zionism course in the Tufts
University Experimental
School.
According to Prof. Wohl-
berg, "The Hillel representa-
tives at Tufts attempted to
enjoin the students from
using the name Hillel, and
when they were unsuccessful
in this, they expelled the two
students.
"Action was then taken
through the Tufts Committee
on Student Life. This became
a cause celebre on campus.
The committee on Student
Life decided that the name
Hillel could not be used but
that the students had to be
reinstated in Hillel. This was
accepted by Hillel but not by
the two students." One of
the students was a supporter
of Blatt.
In his investigation, Prof.
Wohlberg discovered Blatt's
involvement in anti-Zionist
activities which he detailed
in the Jewish Advocate.
Prof. Wohlberg wrote:
"Blatt is an active sup-
porter of the Palestinian
cause. Besides teaching his
course on anti-Zionism at
Tufts University, he attempt-
ed to teach the same course
at the Boston Center for
Adult Education. Charges
have been made that the
course was dropped because
of a representation of the
Jewish Community Council
to the administrators of the
Boston Center for Adult Edu-
cation.
"The representation did
occur, but the Boston Center
was not responsive to the
community's request. The
course was dropped because
of poor attendance."
According to Prof. Wohl-
berg, Blatt's required read-
ing list "contains five types
of books, according to inde-
pendent Middle East scholars
whom we 'consulted: (1)
quasi - scholarly pro - Arab
propaganda; (2) non-scholar-
ly trash; (3) classic anti-
Zionist Marxist critiques;
(4) token outdated Zionist
readings; and (5) books by
distinguished authors only
peripherally related to Zion-
ism."
Prof. Wohlberg appealed
to the community to inform
the president and the board
of trustees of the commu-
nity's position.
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Friday, August 31, 1973-3
Katzir Seeks Help of Sephardic Youth
JERUSALEM (JTA)—"You
can help us in overcoming
social problems in Israel,"
President Ephraim Katzer
told a group of 23 young
leaders of Sephardic com-
munities in the U.S., India
and England.
ment of Sephardic Communi-
ties.
The symposium is designed
to establish a bridge between
Israel and the Sephardic
communities throughout the
world.
The leaders are participat-
ing in a seminar held by the
World Zionist Executive De-
partment for Education in the
Diaspora and the Depart-
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