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PLO activity on college cam-
puses is growing, an AIPAC of-
ficial told a Detroit audience
last week.
Speaking at the Einstein
Luncheon Forum, the official,
who asked not to be identified
for security reasons, said the
General Union of Palestinian
students has active branches on
many college campuses. GUPS
is a voting member of the PLO
executive board.
In her talk, the spokeswoman
recounted incidents in which
GUPS proved troublesome.
In one incident, a representa-
tive of AIPAC (American Israeli
Public Affairs Committee) was
speaking before a group of 40
Jewish students at Ohio State
University. During the talk,
about 60 students, dressed in
traditional Arab garb, entered
the room and scattered among
the audience. Following the
talk, the Arab students, using
violent rhetoric and screaming,
intimidated, shocked, and scared
the Jewish students who were
unprepared for this type of. be-
havior.
The spokeswoman pointed out
that the anti-Israel lobby has
grown dramatically in recent
years, becoming well-organized
and well-funded. "They have de-
veloped more political savvy and
more money and are aiming
their campaign at U.S. students
and policymakers," she said.
AIPAC is the only lobby for
Israel in the U.S. Its primary
purpose is to educate Congress
and the American people about
Israel's strategic importance to
the U.S. and the need for a
strong U.S.-Israel relationship.
"The campaign to discredit Is-
rael is a real threAt. People need
to be aware of it and become
political activists" the speaker
said. "Israel faces a struggle to
survive every day. The enemies
of Israel are trying to foster an
image of Israel as a pariah.
They claim that the root cause
of terrorism is the Palestinian
refugee problem."
The NAAA (National Associa-
tion of Arab Americans) is
against foreign aid to Israel. It
has taken out ads in major
newspapers headlining such
statements as "American Small
Businesses Fail While Israel
Seeks Aid," "American Farmers
Go Bankrupt While Israel Seeks
Billions In Aid," "Student Aid
Cut and Israel Seeks Billions in
Aid." However, "They never
mention that Egypt gets almost
the same amount of aid as Is-
rael," she said.
The NAAA has taken credit
for the defeat of Congressman
Clarence Long of Maryland, who
was head of the House Appro-
priations Committee, claiming
he was giving Israel a blank
check for foreign aid. It has also
targeted legislators Arlen Spec-
ter and Larry Smith for their
pro-Israel views. The NAAA
takes members of Congress on
tours of the West Bank and Jor-
dan and , to speak to the people

An anti-Israel pamphlet.

living in the Palestinian refugee
camps.
"All of this costs money," said
the spokeswoman. "There are
only three million Arabs in the
U.S. Eighty percent of these are
Lebanese Christians who do not
belong to any of these groups.
The money comes from
elsewhere. A large portion
comes from American corpora-
tions doing business in the
Mid-East."
She pointed out that Steven
Emerson in his book American
House of Saud stated, "More
than 700 of America's largest
corporations in 42 states held
contracts for about $35 billion
worth of business in Saudi
Arabia alone." Ford, Heinz,
Westinghouse, Proctor and
Gamble, IBM, Kellogg's, Fisher
Price Toys and American Air-
lines were only a few named in
the book.
Another problem faced by Is-
rael she said, is the compliance
of U.S. corporations with the
Arab boycott of Israel. The
boycott, which is against the
law, was instituted in 1945 by
the Arab League. In the late
1970s the Commerce Depart-
ment established the Anti-
Boycott Legislative Office whose
sole purpose is to investigate al-
legations of U.S. companies ob-
serving the Arab boycott. It has
fined more than 500 corpora-
tions since its inception.
The AIPAC spokeswoman
quoted Dr. Baruch Gitles in urg-
ing her audience to become ac-
tivists. "Psychologically, if the
first information a person re-
ceives is not countered it is al-
ways considered as truth and if
it is repeated and not countered,
it becomes not only the truth
but the individual's image and
concept of truth."
Changing the truth and ques-
tioning history is the purpose of
a 'pamphlet published by Thun-
derbolt, an anti-Semitic group.
The pamphlet Was There Really

