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LOCAL NEWS
Kahane skips Detroit
BY ALAN ABRAMS
Special to The Jewish News
For the second time this year,
controversial Rabbi Meir Kahane
was no-show at a scheduled De-
troit appearance.
Having been banned last week
from his Young Israel of Green-
field venue by a Halachic ruling,
Kahane was scheduled to speak
Tuesday night at a fund-raising
meeting sponsored by the Jewish
Idea at Roma Hall in Bloomfield
Hills.
Instead, Kahane was on a plane
enroute to Israel for Wednesday's
Knesset session at which Premier
Shimon Peres had been expected
to present his Cabinet. Neither
Kahane nor any member of his
staff contacted Mrs. Harriet
Drissman, president of the Jewish
Idea, to advise her of the cancella-
tion.
Last spring, Kahane abruptly
cancelled a Detroit appearance in
order to make a speaking tour of
Canada, which had just lifted a
ban imposed upon him earlier.
The sudden change in plans left
Drissman uncertain whether she
would again involve herself in
any project to bring Kahane to
Detroit. Her husband Michael, a
political scientist, addressed the
Roma Hall gathering in Kahane's
stead.
Approximately 40 people
attended the Tuesday night meet-
ing. Drissman spoke for 45 min-
utes, while five or six Nazis pic-
keted outside. As the audience be-
came aware of the Nazi pickets,
the Nazis left the area.
Earlier, both Drissmans told
The Jewish News that "pressure"
from federal judge and former
Jewish Welfare Federation
president Avern Cohn was re-
sponsible for the decision to cancel
Kahane's Young Israel speech.
Cohn acknowledged that he spoke
to YI-Greenfield's Rabbi Reuven
Drucker and "expressed my opin-
ion of Rabbi Kahane," but said he
did not suggest that the syna-
gogue should cancel the forum.
Meanwhile, a group of Detroit
area rabbis signed a letter object-
ing to Kahane's appearance here.
Their letter stated:
"We, Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform rabbis of Metropoli-
tan Detroit strongly deplore the
invitation to Meir Kahane to
speak at this time in our commu-
nity. The right of free speech must
be coupled with responsible con-
tent. The President of Israel and
the great majority of its popula-
tion have expressed their disgust
and disdain for the racism and
hatred which Meir Kahane mis-
represents as Judaism.
"We call upon all fellow Jews of
conscience to stand with our
brothers and sisters in the gov-
ernment, rabbinate and citizenry
of Israel and to repudiate this
man's words of violence and dis-
sension."
The letter was signed by the fol-
lowing rabbis: Robert Abramson,
Kenneth Cohen, Ernst J. Conrad,
Leon Fram, Noah M. Gamze,
Elimelech Goldberg, James I.
Gordon, Benjamin Gorrelick,
Irwin Groner, Richard C. Hertz,
Harold S. Loss, David Nelson,
Norman T. Roman, Stanley M.
Rosenbaum, A. Irving Schnipper,
Dannel I. Schwartz, Efry Spectre,
Lane Steinger, M. Robert Syme,
Max Weine and Richard A. Weiss.
The anti-Kahane message of
Detroit's Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and Jewish Community
Council, which was printed in last
week's Jewish News, was echoed
this week in statements from the
Chicago Board of Rabbis and the
Jewish Federation-Council of
Greater Los Angeles. They con-
demned Kahane's "message of ra-
cism and bigotry."
A Los Angeles spokesman said
that Kahane's announced policies
of removing all Arabs from Israel
and its territories "violates both
the letter and the spirit of Israel's
declaration of independence
which accords freedom and equal-
ity of citizenship to all people re-
gardless of race or religion . . . and
is also antithetical to Jewish Law,
tradition, ethics and morality and
our belief in democratic values."
In an interview broadcast by
the British Broadcasting Corp.
last week, Kahane described as
"dogs" people who termed him a
fascist and said he would not reply
to their "disgusting insults." He
said that democracy would have
to give if it proved incompatible
with his view of a Jewish state.
Rejecting comparisons with the
Nazis, Kahane compared his Arab
expulsion aims with the way the
Czechs and Poles had thrown out
ethic Germans at the end of World
War II. "I am not thinking about a
final solution. But I would rather
we have the Arabs hating us from
outside Israel than inside" he
said.
Last week, a spokesman for
Arab groups in the United States
wrote to Secretary of State George
Shultz, "The State Department
should not interfere with Rabbi
Meir Kahane's right to his Ameri-
can citizenship regardless of the
fact that the rabbi has become an
Israeli citizen and has been
elected to the Israeli Knesset and
taken an oath of alliance to Is-
rael." There are report that the
State Department is studying the
possibility of stripping Kahane of
his citizenship.
Citing a landmark Supreme
Court decision, Afroyim v. Rusk
(1967), Dr. M.T. Mehdi, president
of the American-Arab Relations
Committee, a pro-Arab organiza-
tion which is strongly opposed to
Zionism and what it terms
"Kahane's political theology,"
said that an American citizen
cannot be stripped of his citizen-
ship except if he "voluntarily re-
nounces his citizenship."
He said that under the Afroyim
case, "an American citizen may
become a citizen of another coun-`
try; vote in foreign elections; be
elected to foreign parliaments and
accept high foreign posts" without
losing his American citizenship.
Even more, Mehdi, whose aca-
demic field at the University of
California (Berkeley) was Ameri-
can constitutional law, said, "a
U.S. citizen may join foreign ar-
mies and fight in foreign wars"
without losing his American citi-
zenship.
Mehdi said that he disagreed
with Kahane and all the Zionists.
"The Jews have no right to occupy
Palestine" as Kahane and the
Zionists maintain, Mehdi said.