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n Arab students' pro-
test Monday night
which cancelled a
basketball game between
the University of Michigan-
Dearborn and an Israeli
team won't deter Israel from
sending more teams to the
United States.
"Not at all," said Moshe
Fox, press consul for the
Israeli consulate in Chicago.
"Just because a certain uni-
versity couldn't handle its
people doesn't mean our
teams won't play in this
country.
"We have Israeli teams
over here quite often. We re-
cently had Maccabi Tel Aviv
play in Los Angeles against
the Lakers and there was no
problem.
"We are playing all over
the place," he said.
The game against UM-D
was cancelled after about
five minutes when Israeli
team manager Amit Gal
took his Hapoel Hagalil
Elyon team off the floor in
the face of continuing pro-
Palestinian chanting and
flag-waving by Arab pro-
testers seated behind the
Israeli team's bench.
Some 50 protesters — two-
thirds of whom were from
UM-Dearborn and other
area colleges, according to
UM-D officials — had mar-
ched into the field house
before the game and, carry-
ing picket signs and waving
Palestinian flags, began pro-
testing Israeli governmental
policies toward West Bank
Palestinians.
During the teams' warm-
up, the protesters sat in the
middle of the basketball
court. Moved off the court by
campus security, they took
seats behind the team ben-
ches, chanting "Israelis go
home," "Victory, victory
Palestine," "Freedom for
one, freedom for all" and
"Victory, victory, long live
the Palestinians."
The Israeli team moved its
chairs to the opposite side of
the court, but several pro-
testers followed, continuing
to chant and wave flags.
Mr. Gal, the team manag-
er, said he intended to re-
start the game, "but not in
this kind of atmosphere."
After the protesters moved
with the team and sat
behind them, "the game lost
any value of sport," he said.
The exhibition contest was
the last of eight against
Michigan and Ohio college
teams for the Israelis, who
flew back to Israel Tuesday.
There were no reports of pro-
tests at the other games.
Steve Wasko, UM-
Dearborn community rela-
tions director, said it was the
Israelis who cancelled the
game and said he "strongly
defended the students'
rights to do what they did.
It's their right to protest, to
dissent, to have free speech,
to can-3T banners and signs"
as long as "they don't
interfere with the progress
of the game."
However, he said, the pro-
testers "could not have been
moved (from behind the
Israeli bench) without infr-
inging on their rights. We do
not tell people where to sit at
games. They were not on the
court. They were not
interfering with the game."
"It's a joke," said Mr. Fox,
the Israeli press officer, of
Mr. Wasko's statement.
"What does that (disrupting
the game) have to do with
freedom of speech?"
Mr. Fox said the consul of-
fice routinely asks all host
schools to "beef up their
security, to make sure such
an incident wouldn't
happen. They (UM-
Dearborn) didn't do
enough."
Dr. Peggy Foss, UM-D
athletic director, said she
tried to get the Israeli team
to play the game to thwart
the Arab students' goal of
stopping it, "but probably
they didn't feel totally safe."
She also tried to get the
Arab students to recognize
the Israeli team wasn't the
Israeli government and that
there were some Americans
on the team, "but they were
determined to make their
point."
UM-Dearborn coach Joe
Zabrzenski, who stayed with
the Israeli team in the field
house until the Israelis
boarded their bus, said Mr.
Gal told him, "Maybe
there's (no violence) now, but
as the game is going on, who
can say."
The coach said his players
were "humiliated and em-
barrassed" by the protest
and cancellation. UM-D had
scouted the Israelis' vic-
tories over Eastern Mich-
igan and the University of
Detroit and "We thought we
could win this thing. It was
our limelight and it was
taken away from us."
Related story, Page 70.