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"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- Terry Sever Helene Simon Arthur Morrison Beverly Neumann Alexander Continued from preceding page Fred Samson Anne Saperstein Barbara Scaglione Joseph Scaglione Bruce Gale Deborah George Gwen Gilbert DENISE Critical Clergy FREE Municipal Bonds Listing Receive Weekly Report Member SIPC 4G Edwards & S Inc BOB mOria ■ im 336-9200 1400-3659200 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