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Jonathan Harris of StandWithUs Michigan challenges U-M's role.
a contract with Pluto. But after the
Michigan chapter of the Los Angeles-
based, pro-Israel group StandWithUs
he University of Michigan
denounced the book as a "collection
will reconsider its relation-
of anti-Israel propa-
ship with a
ganda, misquotes and
London-based com-
JOEL KOVEL
discredited news sto-
pany that published
NG
OVERCOMI
ries" and questioned
a book denouncing
ZIONISM
why U-M chose to
Zionism, but it will
Creating a Single Cternocratic State
in Itrael/Peestine
distribute it, the uni-
not extend a tempo-
versity press halted its
rary halt of the book's
distribution.
distribution, the
In a letter from U-M
university's executive
Press Director Philip
board announced on
Pachoda to Kovel,
Sept. 11.
which Kovel says is
Written by a profes-
authentic and Pachoda
sor of social studies
and U-M will neither
at Bard College, Joel
confirm nor deny,
Kovel's Overcoming
Pachoda writes that
Zionism advocates
no one at U-M Press
abolishing the State
had read the book before distribut-
of Israel and replacing it with a
single secular state with no ties to the ing it and that after reading it that he
and other faculty "were apalled [sic]
Jewish people, Kovel said.
by your reckless, viscious [sic] and
Kovel, 71, a medical doctor and
unmodulated attack on Zionism and
Yale University graduate who lives
all Zionists. For us, the issue raised
in Woodstock, Mass., ran for a U.S.
by
the book is not free speech but
Senate seat in 1998 as the Green
hate
speech. Perhaps such vitupera-
Party candidate and sought the par-
tive
and
aggressive rhetoric works
ty's presidential nomination in 2000.
for
the
barricades,
but it cannot be
Overcoming Zionism was published
countenanced
or
underwritten
by
by Pluto Press and distributed in
the
university
or
the
university
press,
America by the U-M Press under
New York Sun and IN staff reports
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