0 ~ ~ I a9OIA F Kana offers authentic, delightful Korean food w By Laura Cohn and Amanda Neuman For people who enjoy spicy Ko- rean food, eating at Kana will be a delight. The menu offers a wide sampling of authentic Korean cuisine. Al- though the names of the dishes might be foreign sounding to some, each dish comes with its own de- scription. Chicken, vegetable, sea- food, and noodle entrees are offered and prices range from a modest $5.95 for vegetable dishes to $11.50 for seafood. Since choosing just one entree may be difficult (they are all equally delicious), Kana offers a buffet on Saturday evenings and dur- ing the week for lunch from 11:30 to 2:00. The buffet, a panoply of oriental cuisine, is laid out from appetizer to dessert. Five different plate sizes are needed to accommodate each course. As soon as you clear your plate, a waiter comes to take it away. But don't feel guilty about taking sec- onds, or in our case, thirds. For $10.99, the buffet allows you to try items that you otherwise might not dare order, like Choo jingo, a hot squid dish. The first thing to try is Dubuchigae, a hot spicy soup with tofu, vegetables, and noodles. Don't be alarmed by the tofu. If your aren't partial to bean curd, you should at least have the warm broth. Two wonderful appetizers are vegetable tempura, vegetables lightly fried and tossed together, and Kunmandu, a tangy egg-roll-type dumpling with tofu and vegetables. Both can be dipped in either soy or plum sauce. Two salads precede the entrees. The cold noodles are seasoned with a delightful sesame sauce and topped with slivers of egg and assorted spices. Bean sprout salad is another crunchy option. The first entree, Dok Bokum, is a wonderful combination of small cylindrical, chewy rice cakes with green peppers and carrots. Steamed brown and white rice comes on the side. Chap Chai, another popular item, has a pleasingly different con- sistency with vermicelli noodles and vegetables. The spiciest dish by far is Kim Chi, a pickled cabbage in a sharp, bitter sauce, which leaves a burning See Kana. Pane 13 Nation Continued from Page 9 But others do not see criticism of Israel or of Zionism as anti-Semitic. "I think some of the establish- ment Jewish organizations, like the ADL, have trivialized anti- Semitism," said the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Faris Bouhafa. "Anti-Semitism is a real problem and a real form of racism," Bouhafa said. "But when you try to equate criticism of Israeli policy with it, you cheapen the term and render it meaningless." "Being anti-Zionist just cannot be equated with anti-Semitism," he said. Norman Finkelstein, a political science professor at Brooklyn Col- lege and a "revisionist" scholar of Israeli history, also said there is no connection between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. "Historically, there have been two significant elements within Ju- daism criticizing the concept of Zionism without being anti- Semitic," Finkelstein said. "Some Jews were critical because the fear was that if you establish a state be- longing to Jews, it would throw suspicion on Jews living elsewhere" because one could tell Jews to leave a country and "go to Palestine." "A second group wanted a Jewish cultural state but not a Jewish polit- ical state, because that is inherently discriminatory to non-Jews," he said. "If that kind of criticism wasn't improper then, what makes it im- proper now?" Finkelstein asked. But even while most Jewish leaders agree that there is some anti-Semitism involved in anti-Zionism and criti- cism of Israel, there is some ques- tion as to where one can draw the line between legitimate political de- bate and bigotry. "On the one hand, criticism of Israel need not imply anti- Semitism," said the American Jew- ish Congress's Harris. "But on the other hand, some of the criticism of Israel oversteps the bounds of political debate and goes into anti- Semitism." "I can't quantify it," he said. "But I know it when I see it." The ADL's 1988 audit notes a number of incidents of anti-Zionism and anti-Israel incidents which could certainly qualify as examples of anti- Semitism: -four synagogues last year in the Palm Beach, Fla. area were vandal- ized with graffiti including "Victory Uprising" and "Abu Jihad"; - on Nov. 10, 1988 spray-painted swastikas and slogans such as "Kill the Kikes" and "Zionazi racists" were found on the wall of the Jewish Student Center at SUNY-Bingham- ton; and -vandals sprayed "PLO" on the front of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Building at the University of Min- nesota. But other instances of anti-Zion- ism and criticism of Israel cited as anti-Semitic by Jewish leaders are not so clear cut. "One common theme is the inor- dinate attention in the media paid to Israel and the concomitant lack of attention paid to worse human rights violations," said Harris. He added that recent media atten- tion on Israel since the intifadeh is "unconscious anti-Semitism" since Israel-related stories often land on the front page, but the use of chemical weapons by Iraq, the "deliberate use of children in the battlefield by Iran," and the recent Amnesty International report on the government's kidnap- ping and torture of the children of dissenters in Iraq are stories buried deep in the newxpages. Harris calls this a "dual standard" and a form of "moral hypocrisy." "The U.S. has been engaged in crimes against humanity far beyond anything Israel has done," Lerner said. "But people say Israel has no right to exist and the reason is they are anti-Semitic." Many think criticism of Is- rael and its practices is acceptable political debate, but think rejection of the concept of Zionism, which is "the national liberation of the Jewish people," by Lerner's definition, is an anti-Semitic attitude. "To say I'm against Black libera- tion or women's liberation - that means I'm racist or sexist," Lerner said. "So to say Jews don't have the same right to a nation as the Rus- sians, or Chinese, or Japanese, or any other national grouping - What is that? That's anti-Semitism." But Lerner was quick to point out that "it is totally responsible to crit- icize Israel. What is going on there is both immoral and stupid." "Most American Jews are critical of Israel, but the leaders of many Jewish organizations aren't doing that because they are afraid of weak- ening Israel," he said. Lerner is not alone in his senti- ments: "Zionism to me personally is at its core, but not necessarily in prac- tice, a national liberation. move- ment," Rawson said. "To say that is racist is way out of line." * "On the other hand, saying 'I think the way Zionism is practiced is wrong' is not anti-Semitic," he said. Mark Talisman, Director of the Council of Jewish Federations' Washir nation criticis that the comes parlian "Bu used a that's cited th claimir a long Why line b Semiti motiva are do surgica son's n Fin people anti-Se that's critici cisms them,' Tal up ch "stiflei He open ington on Coll "T side b wrong should WEEKEND/JOSE JUAREZ ml DO YOU KNOW Who's Your Spending Money? $ $ $ $ $ Make sure it s o eon you want MSA Elections March 21 & 22 | STARTS FRIDAY I GOo SHWCS CNEA 1 2I4 R PHIZF 97 RR(1 t t^\ FOX IU1EteI AF WT 111].1 IILJI\L .7Jtj'orjuu ' _Ir-I I vn v ILL.MUF- ' 4100 CARPENTER RD. ANN ARBOR 1 Maple Village Shp. Ctr. ON THE SITE OF THE FORMER UNIVERSITY DRIVE-IN 769-1300 PAGE 6 WEEKEND/ MARCH 17,1989 WEEKEND/ MARCH 17,1989