(Editor
Letter

Don't gamble
with worker's lives.

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It's time for the legislature to pass a smokefree law that protects all Michigan workers. Secondhand
smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic and cyanide. It causes lung cancer, heart disease
and other serious illnesses — killing as many as 2,400 Michigan residents each year. Whether you work in
an office, restaurant, bar or casino, you deserve the right to breathe smokefree air.

Call 888-NOW-I-CAN to tell your Representative to vote to concur with HB 4163,
a comprehensive smokefree workplace bill for all.

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CURES CLEAN AIR I SMOKEFREE KIDS

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"For this;' Kovel writes, "one does
not smash or trample Zionism; one
overcomes it and frees people from
its chains!'
The book's key pursuit is forebod-
ing: one state, a secular "universal
democracy" called Palesrael, for Jews
and Arabs with a complete right of
return for displaced Palestinian ref-
ugees. That picture, of course, would
end the Jewish state.

True Partners
The University of Michigan is not
intrinsically biased. It has 8,000
Jewish students, many Jewish fac-
ulty and heavy Jewish investment.
The publicly funded university
has received millions of dollars in
support from Jewish benefactors.
It prides itself on having one of
the largest Jewish enrollments in
the nation. U-M Hillel has been a
national model over the years.
Moreover, the University of
Michigan has a reputation for intel-
lectual rigor in the classroom. It has
worked hard to diversify its student
base. It's a proponent of social
action and social justice. It divested
from apartheid South Africa. It
refused to divest from Israel despite
pro-Palestinian pressure during the
Palestinian reign of terror on the
Jewish ancestral homeland.
The University of Michigan
Press Executive Board, meanwhile,
had the fortitude to reverse a bad
decision. The capacity to correct
a wrong is a Jewish value. But the
board needs to go further and
begin to consider changing its
distribution and marketing agree-
ments, especially with overseas
publishers, so they not just make
money, but also represent intel-
lectual partnerships. How can the
University of Michigan, a taxpayer-
supported university, embrace free
speech in its press offerings absent
of intellectual balance? O

P OINTS TO PON DER...

Support smokefree
air for everyone.

Should U-M
Press assume
responsibility for the
titles it distributes
and promotes?

Should it redirect
part of its Pluto
Press earnings to
fight anti-Jewish
sentiment?