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the Michigan Union, will feature terror-
ism expert and attorney John Loftus of
Florida, who has filed a lawsuit against
Sami al-Arian on behalf of families of
victims of 9-11. Al-Arian will speak at
the divestment conference Saturday.
He's a Palestinian professor on manda-
tory leave from the University of South
Florida and is under federal investiga-
tion for alleged ties to terrorist groups.
Other speakers are Dr. Jerome S.
Kaufman of West Bloomfield, national
secretary of the Zionist Organization of
America; and Stuart Brickner, West
Bloomfield Township trustee, among
others. ZOA and Hasbara Fellowships
of Aish HaTorah are co-sponsors.
National rumblings are loudest in
New York where the Coalition for
Jewish Concerns (CJC)-Amcha is
organizing buses of activists from the
Northeast and Midwest to come to
campus to attend a demonstration
Oct. 13 outside of the Michigan
League, where the conference is being
held.
"We are not outsiders," says Rabbi
Avi Weiss, spiritual leader of the
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the
Bronx, N.Y., and founder of CJC-
Amcha.
"It is an attack on all of us. The issue
is not just Michigan. There is an epi-
demic across the country. We very,
very, strongly feel that when there is
such hate, a resolute, strong, spiritual
and moral voice must be heard. When
there are people in Michigan who are
key individuals in Islamic Jihad who
have killed so many innocent people,
we need to be there."
Rabbi Weiss will spend Saturday,
Oct. 12, outside of the conference with
other CJC-Amcha members wearing
prayer shawls and expressing their
opposition. On Sunday, the buses will
arrive for an onsite demonstration and
to participate in the MSZ rally on the
Diag.
Likening different approaches to an
orchestra, he says, "We are the drums.
But we don't want to drown out the
violins and the others. It's all impor-
tant. We're all in this together." ❑
For links to Web sites with informa-
tion and analysis about this week-
end's divestment conference and
events planned in opposition to it,
check vvww.detroirjevvishnews.com
A conference update will be avail-
able online next week.
DEBATE
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Summers said.
"Serious and thoughtful people are
advocating and taking actions that are
anti-Semitic in their effect if not their
intent." He singled out-the movement
to force universities to divest their hold-
ings in Israel — similar to an effort
against South Africa's apartheid govern-
ment in the 1980s — while raising no
objections to investments in countries
with far worse human-rights records.
While Summers' speech drew criti-
cism from many — the Harvard
Crimson campus newspaper called it
"disingenuous and divisive" — it also
had many supporters.
Lawrence Bacow, president of Tufts
University, praised Summers. "University
presidents ought to raise important
questions, and I think he has," Bacow
was quoted in the New York Times.
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of
George Washington University, issued a
statement of support.
At the University of Michigan, a
major Palestinian solidarity conference
is planned for Oct. 12-14 that calls for
divestment from Israel, equates
Zionism with racism and refuses to
condemn Palestinian terrorism. U-M
President Mary Sue Coleman issued a
statement two weeks ago rejecting the
divestment call.
Summers "speaking out has made it
easier for other college presidents to
speak out as well," said Jeffrey Ross,
director of campus and higher education
affairs at the Anti-Defamation League.
"What's happened is that a major voice
has appeared on the side of reason,"
Ross said. "The fact that it comes from
the president of Harvard University"
makes it "a voice that can't be ignored."
Jeff Rubin, communications director
for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish
Campus Life, agreed that Summers'
speech effectively "raised the issue of
anti-Semitism on the campus to a
national audience." But, he said,
"regardless of whether divestment is
anti-Semitic or not, it's part of a whole
web of anti-Israel activities that are
unsettling the campuses and that we
are working to oppose."
The professor who helped start the
divestment petition at Harvard and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology _
said Summers' remarks have helped his
efforts. The divestment effort "might have
died on the vine," said Ken Nakayama, a
Harvard psychology professor. "Thanks
to President Summers, we are now gain-
ing more attention." Nakayama modeled
the divestment petition after one at
Princeton University, one of about 40 cir-
culating at universities nationwide. ❑