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(313) 881.5200 MARV SAYS SAVE FROM 20% TO 50%* CUSTOM WALL MIRROR SPECIALISTS TUB & SHOWER ENCLOSURES MIRRORED BIFOLD OR SLIDING 'DOORS r INSULATED MOBIL AUTO GLASS SERVICE GLASS REPLACED \''-- TABLE TOPS STORM DOORS & WINDOWS PATIO DOOR WALLS REPLACED • STORMS & SCREENS REPAIRED VISIT OUR SHOWROOM `Suggested List Price 92 aft MI w it IN GLASS & AUTO TRIM • CUSTOM WALL MIRRORS TIRES & ACCESSORIES p SOUTHFIELD: 24777 Telegraph 353-2500 Other locations: Wayne and Lincoln Park FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1988 Editorial Freedom Or Anarchy? `Daily' Draws Student Backlash SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE Special to The Jewish News I n the past month, the Michigan Daily has been making headlines, not just writing them. The in- dependent, student-run Uni- versity of Michigan news- paper has been the focus of considerable campus controversy. "People are just disgusted," says Todd Endelman, a pro- fessor of history. Across the campus, students and faculty have felt a growing alienation from the paper. A number of students, like Marc Selinger, editor of the Michigan Review, another student-run publica- tion, have voiced concern about what they consider to be the Daily's abrogation of professional and ethical stan- dards. "Reporters should report the news, not make it," explains Selinger, referring to Kahane ban token On October 19, the Israeli Supreme Court banned Meir Kahane's Kach Party from par- ticipating in today's Knesset elections on the grounds that his party is racist towards Arabs. While a propoganda triumph for Israeli public relations, the decision bears little relevance to the conduct of Israeli politics and policies. As journalist Robert Friedman points out, "the Israeli right is angry with Kahane because he says what they think: that the Jewish state should annex the occupied territories and expel all of Israel's unruly Arabs" (The Na- tion, Oct. 31, 1988). The censure of Kahane is a cynical maneuver on the part of Israel, because Zionism — the official ideology of the state — is from its inception a racist construct, as the United Nations • affirmed in Resolution 3379 which defined Zionism as "a form of racism and racial discrimination!' rIb be fully appreciated, Zionism must be examined in the context of its crea- tion — as a political ideology whose theorists drew from 19th-century European colonial ideology and its concurrent no- tions of "pure-race' societies. The original premise of Zionism is that Jews and non-Jews are in- capable of living together harmoniously since non- Jews are inherently anti-Semites. A corollary to that premise is that Jews must live apart from non-Jews in order to preserve their "Jewishness," i.e., Jews must not assimilate. Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, illustrates those points when he says, "A preservation of national in- tegrity is impossible except by a preservation of racial purity, and for that pur- pose we [Jews] are in need of a territory of our own!' (Jabotinsky, "A Letter on Autonomy," Israel Among the Nations). The racist aspects of Zionism are unabated in the present day, as both Labor and Likud govern- ments confiscate Palesti- nian land and expel the in- digenous population. The Labor Party's Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin's current anti-uprising policy of "might,force, and beatings" is a logical step towards the concept of "transfer," a strangely an- tiseptic term that means the mass displacement of Palestinians from all of Palestine. Meir Kahane ad- vocates the transfer policy, as does the majority of the Likud party. The idea, however, is gaining popularity across the political spectrum in Israel as the uprising and its ex- pression of Palestinian na- tionalism threatens Israel's control of the West Bank and Gaza. Seen in context, Kahane is the logical culmination of Theodor Herzl (the father of Zionism) and Jabotinsky, not an aber- rant strain of Zionism. The Israeli state's censure of Kahane is a hypocritical and cynical gesture devis- ed to placate "liberal" Zionists whose sen- sibilities are offended by his pure racism and ensure more votes for the mainstream parties. The Michigan Daily editorial of Nov. 1. recent incidents at the paper that have blurred the line be- tween the two. Others, like Barbara Ransby, spokeswoman for the United Coalition Against Racism, have complained about the Daily's coverage of racial issues. Some students have even picketed the paper. Students aren't the only ones upset with the paper. Last month, U-M Regent Phillip Power, who owns several suburban Detroit newspapers and who was editor at the Daily when he attended the University, com- plained that the paper was confusing confrontation and activism with journalism. Many Jewish students and staff have been following the Daily with increasing concern and alarm. "This isn't a pro- blem that just came up," says Lorne Zalesin, 21, a political science major who also sits on the governing board of Michigan's B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. "It's just surfac- ing now." Zalesin feels that since last January there's been a noticeable change in the Dai- ly's coverage of news, issues and op-ed articles relating to Israel. But for many, the most obvious and disconcerting change has been showing up in the editorial section of the paper. "The Daily is constant- ly condemning Israel," says Selinger. "The general perception on the part of many students and faculty who read the Daily is that its editorial page has been taken over this year by a small group of students with an anti-Israel ax to grind," says Michael Brooks, director of Hillel. "Because of the peculiar structure of the paper this is not difficult for a dedicated group to do!' Brooks says. For many Jews on campus, the straw that broke the camel's back was the Nov. 1 editorial about the decision of Israel's Supreme Court to for- bid Meir Kahane's Kach Par- ty from participating in Israel's elections. The editorial equated Zionism with racism. "The story is a total repudiation of Jewish na- tionalism," says Endelman. "It's one thing to criticize the politics of the current govern- ment; it's another to deny the legitimacy of the state (of Israel)." Endelman perceives the editorial dualistically. "It's a combination of a fashionable