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director Richard Lobenthal
said that there is a thin line
between exposing someone
like Rev. Farrakhan and
promoting him, between
protesting and standing up
against prejudice, and mak-
ing something overblown.
Mr. Lobenthal said that
this time around, the ADL
would provide a fact sheet on
Rev. Farrakhan's anti-
Semitic background, and the
organization would urge
Jews to participate in the
unity march.
"That, we believe, is a
statement of racial unity,"
he said. "(Rev.) Farrakhan is
a statement of racial
divisiveness. We decided
this time to provide factual
information in the form of
our fact sheet. We felt that to
do more was to, on one hand,
give more credence to (Rev.)
Farrakhan, and on the other
hand, would focus on the
divisions between blacks
and Jews. (Rev.) Farrakhan
doesn't represent the black
community. And it's in that
vain that we decided not to
make a huge issue out of this
this time."
Mr. Lobenthal added that
it is necessary to at least
make some symbolic act of
protest to Rev. Farrakhan's
appearance, so that it
doesn't appear to anyone
that the Jewish community
is acquiescing and does not
care.
"We want to make the
statement each time that his
presence is rejected," Mr.
Lobenthal said. "If we are
passive, we are counter-
productive."
Rev. Farrakhan has been a
popular speaker on both pri-
vate and public college cam-
puses. In October of 1985, he
appeared before 1,500
students at Baltimore's
Morgan State University.
There were no empty seats
in the auditorium. Local au-
thorities and weather
forecasters were urging
Baltimore area residents to
remain home that evening
in expectation of Hurricane
Gloria. But the "storm" of
reaction from the crowd that
night from within the
auditorium was stronger
than anything going on out-
side.
That is what concerns
Hillel directors who now
more than ever must deal
with the presence of
speakers coming on campus
with anti-Israel or anti-
Semitic message.
Eli Finkelman, the Hillel
director at Wayne State
University, said that there is
a delicate balance between
ignoring the messenger and
the message and reacting to
the message.
"The downside to being
oversensitive is that it will
make everything into a fed-
eral case," he said. "My
mother's cousins living in
Berlin in 1938 called it a
joke when Hitler was elected
chancellor. They felt they
didn't have to do anything
about it. Maybe we as Jews
learned too much from that.
Maybe we're being alert to
situations that aren't as
dangerous as Hitler.
"But," he continued, "we
shouldn't minimize (Rev.)
Farrakhan's popularity. He
has a real base, and we
shouldn't minimize the role
that Jews play in his
thought. We are, unfor-
tunately, kind of important
to him." El
U.S. Hedging
Israel Support?
Washington (JTA) — A
senior State Department of-
ficial has refused to confirm
that U.S. military forces
would come to Israel's
defense if the Jewish state
were attacked by Iraq.
Reginald Bartholomew,
undersecretary of state for
international security af-
fairs, would only repeat a
statement Secretary of State
James Baker made Oct. 2 at
a news conference in New
York.
"There certainly would be
an appropriate response by
the United States" if Israel
were attacked, Mr. Baker
was quoted by Mr. Bar-
tholomew as saying.
He declined to elaborate
when asked at a congres-
sional hearing Oct. 3 what
an appropriate U.S. response
might be.
Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-
Ind.), chairman of the House
Foreign Affairs subcom-
mittee on Europe and the
Middle East, said he was
confused by the Bush ad-
ministration's stance.
He said he had always
understood Israel's position
as not wanting U.S. military
intervention in the event of
an attack, preferring instead
U.S. arms and equipment so
that the Jewish state could
defend itself.
But he said State Depart-
ment officials had been
quoted last week as saying
the United States would re-
spond "immediately and
forcefully" against Iraq if
Israel were attacked.
But Mr.Bartholomew
maintained that Mr. Baker's
statement "must stand as it
is."