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AIPAC
Continued from Page 1
battle for public opinion,
young people are involved in
a significant role. This battle
is being played out across the
country on college campuses.
Pro-Israeli and pro-Arab
students, using some very
sophisticated techniques, are
confronting each other on an
almost daily basis.
"I think that over the last
decade we've seen a slow but
steady increase in student in-
volvement in overall political
issues and political cam-
paigns," said Jonathan
Kessler, Political Leadership
Director at AIPAC. "The pro-
Israeli students — the Jewish
students in particular —
seem to be leading the way."
But Kessler, himself only
29 years old, said there was
an important difference to-
day. "It seems as though the
Jewish students are much
more Jewishly aware, more
Jewishly conscious in their
developing political participa-
tion than the last time around
in the 1960's," he said in an in-
terview. "They are working
not only on campus, but they
are working in the commun-
ity."
Kessler, who has visited
scores of colleges and univer-
sities in recent years organiz-
ing pro-Israeli political activi-
ty, has been instrumental in
creating an AIPAC presence
in many of them. As a result,
he was sharply criticized by
former Republican Represen-
tative Paul Findley of Illinois
in his book, They Dare Speak
Out.
Findley, a member. of the
House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee who was seen as pro-
Arab, was narrowly defeated
in 1982 by Democratic
challenger Richard Durbin,
an outspoken friend of Israel.
Both Findley and Durbin
have said that the lastminute
involvement of scores of pro-
Israeli college students
played a decisive role in the
final outcome.
"Although AIPAC doesn't
rate or endorse candidates,"
Kessler said, "we do en-
courage our student members
to get involved in the political
process on every level." Refer-
ring to the highly publicized
Findley-Durbin race, Kessler
said that some 150 students
at the University of Illinois
drove to Springfield on Elec-
tion Day where they volun-
teered to help bring out the
vote for Durbin. Durbin won
the election by a slim margin
of slightly over 1000 votes.
Two years later, pro-Israeli
students were also very much
involved in the effort to defeat
Republican Senator Charles
Percy of Illinois. He was fac-
ing a tough challenge from
Democrat Congressman Paul
Simon. "In 1984," Kessler
said, "over 400 students were
involved in the Simon effort
to beat Percy."
"I think that AIPAC has
been instrumental in facil-
itating what could legitimate-
ly be called a revolution in the
way pro-Israeli students are
involved on campus and in
the community," Kessler said.
In the last decade, he con-
tinued, pro-Israeli students
have moved largely from
public relations — organizing
Israel Independence Day
celebrations and all sorts of
cultural events involving
Israel — to "tangible political
activity." In the-process, they
have responded aggressively
to Arab propaganda, which
often is quite effective in try-
ing to isolate Israel.
Kessler estimated that
there are approximately
400,000 Jewish students at
any one time enrolled in
American universities. He
said that in the last five
years, AIPAC has "either af-
filiated or trained" over
10,000 of them in various
seminars.
There are other national
Jewish organizations on the
campuses, namely B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundations
and, on a smaller scale, the
American Zionist Youth
Foundation. But by law, those
tax-exempt organizations are
not allowed to spend too
much of their time dealing
with political affairs. AIPAC,
on the other hand, is not a
tax-exempt organization, but
a political lobby.
Sometimes, there is friction
between AIPAC and the
other Jewish student organ-
izations. AIPAC's President,
Bob Asher, defended his
organization's decision to go
beyond its traditional agenda
by organizing students. He
denied that AIPAC was in-
fringing on the turf of other
Jewish groups. "We work
very closely with Hillel," he
said.
Kessler is most proud of the
fact that among Jewish
students, there is a certain
cache nowadays to being in-
volved politically on behalf of
Israel. It's often a popular
thing to do on campus. And
that bodes well for Israel and
the American Jewish com-
munity in the years ahead.
Hadassah Holds
Convention
New York — Hadassah will
hold its 72nd national conven-
tion Sunday through Wednes-
day in Miami Beach, Fla. The
convention is being preceded
by the annual meeting of the
Hadassah national board.
Featured speakers at the
convention will include Israel's
ambassador to the U.S., Meir
Rosenne and Benjamin
Netanyahu, Israel's United
Nations ambassador.