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he New Republic
labels the State
Department's recent
report on whether the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization is adhering to Yassir
Arafat's December 1988 re-
jection of terrorism as an
"absurd," "bowdlerizing"
example of "sophistry."
In its lead editorial, the
magazine ponders the
"honesty" of the Depart-
ment's "unnuanced" report
in which it gives flying
colors to the PLO. The
government report states
that while at least nine of
the 30 attacks launched
against Israel since the PLO
renounced terrorism in-
volved "constituent groups
of the PLO," the U.S. has
"no evidence ... that the ac-
tions were authorized or
supported by the PLO Exec-
utive Committee or by
Arafat personally."

"By this absurd standard
of proof," state the editors,
"it would be hard to prove
that the PLO was ever in-
volved in terrorism in a big
way."
The New Republic ac-
knowledges that Arafat
"can't control the behavior
of everyone who carries his
logo," but it reminds its
readers that "various Pales-
tinian terrorists once
thought to be rogue groups
—remember Black
September? — turned out to
be part of Fatah, Arafat's
own PLO faction. Moreover,
the U.S. dialogue that was
officially sanctioned at the
end of 1988 was not framed
as being with Fatah alone,
but with the PLO."
The magazine poses two
possibilities: "Either Arafat
isn't trying to keep the PLO
away from terrorism, or he
isn't capable of doing so.
Either way, one is forced to
ponder the value of doing
business with this man."

Should America
Ban Hate?

Can laws, such as the one
passed in 1970 in Canada
that outlaws the incitement
of hatred, work in the
United States? Yes, says
Kenneth Lasson, law pro-
fessor at the University of
Baltimore. No, says Lee
Bollinger, dean of the Uni-
versity of Michigan Law
School. Their articles appear
side by side in B'nai B'rith
Monthly.

Many American Jews,
says Lasson, consider the
Constitution's First
Amendment "profound and
perplexing,' It protects
freedom of religion, while its
free speech clause protects
hate-mongers.
Using th::. Supreme
Court's ruling that the First
Amendment does not offer
blanket protection to
obscenity or pornography as

