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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.