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Book Fair

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in the Middle East.
As a Democratic senator
from South Dakota, Abourezk
was a critic of Israel. After
leaving the Senate, he found-
ed the Arab-American Anti-
Discrimination Committee
(ADC) and is active with the
Palestine Human Rights
Campaign.
Despite Abourezk's political
stance, "We looked at the
book and found nothing offen-
sive," Silver explained. "But
we never shy away from con-
troversy."
She
believes
that
Bookbinder will be able to
hold his own when he debates
Abourezk at the Book Fair.
"You have PLO position
countered by a very strong
Zionist," she said. "I don't feel
like I'm playing a game of
cards and gambling [on
Bookbinder]."
"I think Bookbinder gets
the better of the argument,"
said David Jaffe, president of
the Detroit branch of the
American Jewish Committee,
which extended the invitation
for the pair to speak at the
Book Fair.
Jaffe said an Abourezk-
Bookbinder debate would be
a "worthwhile thing to have
at Book Fair. Do I agree with
Abourezk? No. But he is so-
meone out there in the world
with whom we have to deal.
There is good in knowing
one's adversary."
The local ADC branch will

also host the pair, Jaffe said.
As the Jews will have to
listen to Abourezk, "they've
got to hear Bookbinder."
However, a spokesman for
the ADC in Washington, D.C.
said the local branch only
plans a reception for the pair,
not a debate.
Reaction to Abourezk's
planned appearance at book
fair has been mixed. The
Jewish Community Council
declined an invitation to
cosponsor the debate, accor-
ding to Council Executive
Director Alvin Kushner.
Arnold Michlin, founding
co-chairman of the American
Arabic and Jewish Friends
group, said Abourezk's ap-
pearance "is going to open up
some Jews to see that there
are two sides to the question."
Jews and Arabs have to live
together in the U.S., he add-
ed. "We have to avoid hostili-
ty, to neutralize venom. I'm
certainly willing to sit down
and talk with [Abourezk]
about how we have to be
friends in America."
The Detroit Zionist Federa-
tion believes that the Jewish
Book Fair is the wrong forum
for Abourezk to address the
Jewish community. "The
Book Fair is a cultural-
educational activity," said
DZF President Norman
Naimark. "There are much
better speakers available
than Abourezk, with his ad-
vocacies and background."

IOPINION

South Africa

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and pro-Buthelezi (just as it is
a gross distortion to argue
that the ANC is "anti-Israel,"
and equally bizarre to find ex-
planations for this in
analyses furnished by "South
African officials"). Jews are
visible across the political
spectrum in South Africa: two
Jews are even members of
Parliament for the ruling Na-
tionalist Party, the party that
created apartheid.

If we wish to avoid clever
campaigns seeking to
stampede us into what is
ultimately the pro-apartheid
camp, American Jews in-
terested in South Africa
might learn a bit about the
various points of view held by
South African Jewry.

While there, I met with
community leaders, spoke to
rabbis, gave a sermon at a
synagogue, lectured to
Habonim, and spoke before
Jews for Social Justice in

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Johannesburg. Try as I
might, I discovered no single
point of view or analysis:
Jews were as split as other
whites.
Many Jews are leaving
South Africa; others, as
whites living in extraor-
dinary privilege, profit from
apartheid and are not eager
to end it; others, for example
Rabbi Selwyn Franklin and
his organization in Cape
Town, are principled and ac-
tive members of the anti-
apartheid movement and
work closely with the United
Democratic Front. In fact, his
organization, Jews for
Justice, includes many com-
munity leaders in Cape Town
and takes positions drastical-
ly different than the
Buthelezi supporters.
In short, there is no
substitute for learning about
reality. And the reality is
much different than Levine's
"article" suggests.

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