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sity of Michigan's Near East
Center. Her programs in the
public schools have been
called biased by Jewish
observers in Ann Arbor. The
Detroit Jewish Community
Council is monitoring the
situation.
"We are very concerned
about what appears to be the
unbalanced nature of that
programming," said Council
Executive Director David
Gad-Harf, who described Ms.
Barlow's work as sympa-
thetic to the Palestinians
and antagonistic toward
Israel.
Another who is perceived
as antagonistic toward
Israel is Rev. Gepford,
drafter of the letter on the
bui-ned mosque. A friend of
Rev. Gepford's, Rev. James
Lyons of the Ecumenical In-
stitute for Jewish-Christian
Studies in Southfield, de-
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Rev. Lyons:
"It is pure PLO propaganda."
scribes the letter as "pure
PLO propaganda."
"These people are not in-
terested in the poor Palestin-
ians any more than the Pa-
lestinian leadership is inter-
ested in the poor Palestin-
ians," Rev. Lyons says.
"This is all choreographed.
It is crazy to me, but how do
you get through to these
people? They just all smile
benignly when you talk to
them. They don't under-
stand that this is a forgery
from top to bottom.
"So what do I do with my
friend? Do I risk alienating
him? Do I send him
background material? Do I
call him?" Rev. Lyons asks.
Rev. Gepford is concerned
that he hasn't received any
calls. He claims he has never
received criticism from
fellow churchmen or Jewish
organizations for his views
on the Middle East. He serv-
ed the Presbyterian church
in Lebanon for 10 years in
Sharona Shapiro:
"We have to be more ag-
gressive."
the 1950s and has frequently-
written letters and preached
about human rights and
events in the Middle East.
He complains that he has
received little response from
Israeli officials. Three years
ago, he wrote Moshe Arens
to protest "political in-
carcerations" of Palestin-
ians without trial. The April
letter to Israel's ambas-
sador, published in the Free
Press, elicited a four-page,
point-by-point response from
Israel's consul general in
Chicago, Uri Bar-Ner.
Rev. Gepford says he
sought clarifications in a
written reply to Bar-Ner, but
has heard nothing further
from the consul or the am-
bassador.
"I honestly have no axes to
grind," says Rev. Gepford. "I
am trying to come down on
the side of human rights, no
matter who it is. If a syn-
agogue is trashed, I will
speak out, just as when Pa-
lestinians are hurt. I am
equally supportive of the
Jewish people as people as I
am of the Palestinian people
as people."
Richard Lobenthal, Mich-
igan regional director of the
Anti-Defamation League,
doesn't buy these
arguments. "You're deal-
ing with a liberal church
orientation to the Middle
East and an anti-Israel
orientation. But these people
don't think they are anti-
Israel and they would be
scandalized if you called
them anti-Jewish.
"But they don't know how
to be anti-Israel without be-
ing anti-Jewish."
Mr. Lobenthal makes a
logical extension of remarks
by some clergymen who ex-
cuse Arab violence against
other Arabs and describe the
intifada uprising against
Israel as moderate. This, he
feels, "is not only a double