Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard freshman, Tarazi joined a group of seniors in founding SAS and kept up his informal debates with classmates on Palestinian issues. He says some saw him as waging a private crusade or even as anti-Semitic. Sophomore year, he majored in Middle Eastern History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...
Administrators at the American University in Cairo treated Palestinian students as "controversial people who need to be silenced as much as possible," he says. And while many Egyptians were sympathetic to his cause, Tarazi says he also encountered prejudice similar to Western anti-Semitism from cab drivers and restaurant managers. In a dispute over a fare, one driver, meaning to call Tarazi greedy, said, "don't be such a Palestinian...
Charges of anti-Semitism trouble Tarazi. Hesays many of his political allies are liberalJews, and he argues that one can support aPalestinian homeland without being anti-Semitic ordenigrating the Jews' history as victims ofpersecution...
...Harvard registers students and distributes pamphlets containing its most direct statement to date on anti-gay harassment. In a related move, the College names Janet A. Viggiani assistant dean for coeducation, and announces that six house masters have named resident tutors for bisexual, gay and lesbian issues...
...activist group--the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC)--forms and plans a week of protest. Within the council, the liberal Services Committee suggests the ROTC resolution is unconstitutional because of the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians, and urges a re-vote...