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October 19 2006

The WSU Student Council reversed
its decision when school resumed in
the fall. The issue has not come up
again.
The organizer of the 2003 divest-
ment effort, Shemon Salam, who
headed the now-defunct Student
Movement for Justice (SMJ), was a
main organizer and speaker at last
week's ARA rally. Now a WSU gradu-
ate, Salam is believed to teach at an
elementary school in Detroit.
In another instance of deja vu,
Salam's efforts were again quickly
rejected by President Reid, who had
letters delivered to Jewish organiza-
tions, including the Detroit Jewish
News, reaffirming his opposition to
divestment. The Oct. 12 letter, much
of which was reprinted as a letter
to the editor in the Oct. 13 Detroit
Free Press, said, in part, "Wayne State
University opposes divestiture and has
no intention of divesting
itself of stocks in corn-
panies doing business
with Israel or any other
legitimate state."

counter-protest, saying: "I am proud
that people are willing to stand up and
support Israel during difficult times."
He called the protesters anti-
American. "They don't like that Israel
is a supporter of America, and that
America is a friend of Israel;' Schwartz
said. "What they are doing shows why
we, and other Americans, are sup-
porting Israel. They say they support
Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, but who
is supporting Iraq? The United States
is. So who are they supporting in Iraq,
the terrorists?"
Schwartz called some of the latest
flyers circulating around campus "too
racist and too inflammatory."
"These are people who want the
destruction of Israel," Schwartz said.
"There are anti-Semitic attitudes in
there."
Omar Faruque, a first-year phar-
macy student from Bangladesh, and
the only Muslim member
of Students for Israel,
can attest to some of the
anti-Semitism on cam-
pus. "Many of my friends
are anti-Semitic and
hate
Jews," Faruque said
Campus Climate
while
participating in
Jonathan Schwartz, a
the counter-rally, quickly
third-year law student
adding that they were
from Farmington Hills,
still his friends and were
says,"The Jewish stu-
"good people."
dent body at WSU has
"They say Jews want
faced an increasingly
David Strau ss, dean of
to take over the world,"
anti-Semitic environ-
students
Faruque added. "I think
ment on campus. The
of myself as a good per-
university has sponsored
son who thinks rationally and it really
numerous anti-Israeli speakers, and
bothered me. They tried to put that
the dialogue is extremely one-sided
stuff in my head, but there was cogni-
and biased against Isr‘ ael."
tive dissonance. So I joined Students
Calling the ARA flyers that attacked
for Israel to learn about the Jewish
Israel, President Reid and Mayor
people and Israel. My friends don't
Kilpatrick "anti-Semitic and racist:'
Schwartz filed a formal complaint with like it. Before I joined SFI, I also hated
most Jewish people and felt badly
the president's office. "They took it
about them."
down but didn't promise any concrete
action," he said.
Schwartz was pleased with the