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The Israeli newspaper Hdaretz reports
that Jewish sympathizers with the
Palestinian cause have recently traveled
to the West Bank via free Birthright
Israel trips.
Birthright officials believe six Jewish
student members of the International
Solidarity Movement (ISM) have taken
advantage of the Birthright trips to
tour Israel for 10 days before spending
months in the Palestinian territories
working for ISM.
One told Ha'aretz that he knows a
dozen students who have taken advan-
tage of the Birthright trips, and he
believes the number is higher.
A Birthright spokesman said suspect
applicants for the Zionist program are
rejected, and the number of pro-
Palestinian travelers is a tiny fraction of
the 70,000 Jews between age 18-26
who have visited Israel with Birthright.
— Alan Hitsky, associate editor
Hoax Perpetrator Sentenced
Paris/JTA — A French woman who
claimed she was the victim of a violent
anti-Semitic act but later admitted she
had lied received a suspended sentence.
Marie Leblanc, 23, was found guilty
July 26 for reporting an imaginary
crime and was given a four-month sus-
pended sentence. She also was ordered
to pay symbolic damages to the French
national railroad company and under-
go psychiatric treatment.
On July 9, Leblanc told police she
had been attacked on a train in subur-
ban Paris by four men who she
claimed scrawled swastikas on her
stomach and overturned her baby's
carriage.
The purported attack shocked the
country, with senior politicians and
Jewish organizations issuing
forceful condemnations. Three days
later, however, Leblanc admitted she
had lied about the attack and that she
had drawn the swastikas on her own
body.
ACLU Rebukes Foundation
New York/JTA — The American Civil
Liberties Union protested the Ford
Foundation's new anti-terrorism rules.
The rules, designed to prevent
grants from being used to assist terror-
ist groups, were put into place after a
JTA investigative series last fall found
that the Ford Foundation had funded
virulently anti-Israel groups with links
to terrorist organizations.
Earlier this month, the ACLU sent
the Ford Foundation a letter saying the
foundation's new grant provisions,
which require recipients not to pro-
mote bigotry, terrorism, violence or
any nation's destruction, stifle debate
and threaten academic freedom, the
Chronicle of Philanthropy reported.
In May, nine universities protested
the new provisions, which also have
been adopted by a number of other
foundations. Despite its protests, the
ACLU said it would continue to
accept money from the Ford
Foundation and abide by its anti-ter-
rorism rules.
For its part, the foundation said the
provision's language "should not
restrict ACLU's activities as we under-
stand them."
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UJC Backs Security
New York/JTA — The United Jewish
Communities agreed to give approxi-
mately $4.7 million to help
pay for security guards at Israeli
schools.
The money will pay for 550 security
guards to protect 50,000 kindergart-
ners around the country. The United
Jewish Communities, the umbrella
organization for North American
Jewish federations, has helped raise
some $16.5 million since the request
for aid was first made two years ago by
the Israeli government. The Jewish
Agency for Israel is helping spearhead
the task of providing protection for
Israel's schools.
Iraq: No To Israel
Beirut/JTA — Iraq's interim president
said his country would not normalize
relations with Israel before a compre-
hensive Middle East peace settlement.
Ayad Allawi made the comments
July 26 at a news conference in Beirut
with Lebanese Prime Minister Ralik
Hariri. The U.S.-backed Allawi also
denied reports in the Arab media that
Israeli spies were operating in Iraq.
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New York/JTA — Moment magazine
put out its first issue under its new edi-
to r.
Nadine Epstein, formerly the maga-
zine's managing editor, took over as
editor and executive publisher in April
after the departure of longtime editor
Hershel Shanks.
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Michael Monheit, previously the mar-
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