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sraeli dissident Israel
Shahak spoke before a
crowd of 400 supporters
and detractors at the Univer-
sity of Michigan last
Wednesday.
Shahak, the chairman of
the Israel League for Human
Rights and professor of
chemistry at Hebrew Univer-
sity in Jerusalem, spoke on
the topic "The Palestinian In
tifada: The Road to Freedom
and Independence,' a pro-
gram sponsored by the Ann
Arbor chapters of the
Palestine Solidarity Commit-
tee and the New Jewish
Agenda.
According to sophomore
Zala Timo, a member of the
PSC, the program was "an
ideal opportunity to hear a
humanistic Jewish opinion of
the situation in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip from a
world-renowned scholar?'
Others in attendance were
less supportive. Represen-
tatives from several campus
pro-Israel groups began pass-
ing out fliers 45 minutes
before Shahak's speech. The
fliers asserted that Shahak
"believes that Israel does not
have a right to exist as a
separate, independent state,"
and accused Shahak of
."engaging in half-truths."
Shahak called the fliers a
"complete fabrication," ad-
ding, "Those who print and
distribute this are cowards
who are afraid to identify
themselves?'
Shahak, the author of
Racism in the State of Israel,
was born in Warsaw in 1933
- and survived the Bergen-
Belsen concentration camp.
After liberation, he moved
with his family to what was
then British Palestine.
"I came from a religious,
Zionist family;' said. It
wasn't until the early 1960s,
when he spent two years in
the United States, that he
"became committed to
democratic principles" and
abandoned Zionism, he said.
"I believe that the situation
of Jews in Poland in 1935 was
not as horrible as the situa-
tion of the Palestinians in
Israel today," he said. "The
state of Israel is undergoing
a process of Nazification."
In his lecture, Shahak
described the intifada as a
grass-roots, popular move-
ment that is unifying and
transforming Palestinian
society by freeing Palesti-

nians from both "external
and internal oppression."
"Before the intifada, there
was a tremendous drug pro-
blem in the territories, which
the Israeli army did not at-
tempt to control. Today, the
problem is almost gone," he
said. "Palestinians will not
allow their peers and
neighbors to use drugs. It was
done by raising social con-
sciousness and placing power
in the hands of democratical-
ly elected popular commit-
tees."
Shahak also pointed to the
liberation of women in the
territories. "No society can be
regarded as free if women do
not have absolute equality
with men. As a result of the
intifada, we are on the road to
equality," he said.
"The strength of the in-
tifada is that it has taken

Shahak
complained about
Israel's
"Nazification" and
said the intifada
has improved life
in the territories,

power away from where it has
traditionally been, in the
heads of the family and in the
village chiefs, and placed it in
elected committees who were
chosen for their activism, not
for their age," he said. "The
best road to freedom is not
from above, but from below,
from the people."
In a question-and-answer
session following the lecture,
Shahak addressed the issue of
the killing of collaborators by
their fellow Palestinians.

"Yes, collaborators are be-
ing killed," he admitted. "But
as a survivor of the Warsaw
Ghetto, I can tell you that the
uprising could not have suc-
ceeded if collaborators had
been allowed to live. It is a
natural and necessary reac-
tion to kill collaborators and
traitors," he said.
When one questioner accus-
ed Shahak of "supporting ter-
rorism," he interrupted, "This
is a complete fabrication on
the level of the Gestapo. It is
similar to the propaganda in
the Elders of Zion.
"You only prove my point
that Jews are becoming
Nazified," he added, as the
audience applauded.
Responses to Shahak were
mixed. Members of the NJA
and PSC, many wearing khaf-

