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...Just like every other group on campus, Hillel is very concerned with outreach," said Laura E. Fein '91, chair of Chai week. "I feel strongly that ethnic identity is extremely important to people...
...Amendment experts generally cheered the Dallas ruling. "Over and over, the court has said that licensing standards must be crystal clear," explained University of Michigan law professor Frederick Schauer. "This is a quite proper application of the court's long-held distrust of official discretion." Conservative court commentator Bruce Fein disagreed, charging that "the high court is doing a pirouette around obscenity laws...
...Fein either has not read Chomsky's books or heard his many talks in the Cambridge area, or she knows his position. If the former, she is irresponsible; if the latter, dishonest. Neither is good journalism...
...Fein complains that Chomsky and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University were not addressing their "area of expertise." What are Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Beit-Hallahmi, a psychologist, doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including Chomsky, and, for that matter, many leading supporters of Israel. Beit-Hallahmi, who appeared on WBGH's "Public Television Evening News" as an expert (along with Harvard's Nadav Safran), has written and lectured extensively on Israel's odious ties with South Africa...
...supporter of self-determination for Black South Africans, Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, I find these ties, which include nuclear weapons cooperation and Israeli aid in maintaining apartheid, e.g., by giving South Africa counter-insurgency aid, repugnant. Rather than attack the messenger, Israel's friends, such as Fein, ought to heed the message. At the least, they ought to support the right of conferences, whether pro- or anti-Israeli policy, to be held at universities. Free speech is free speech, and we cannot allow the exclusion of meetings because they "would have obscured real debate." Edmund R. Hanauer Executive Director...