Word: hipac
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...posters, which were placed on kiosks yesterday by the Society of Arab Students (SAS), drew objections from the Harvard-Israel Public Affairs Committee (HIPAC), which charged yesterday that the posters were unnecessarily provocative...
...group of concerned Jews and Zionists and members of Harvard Hillel's HIPAC committee, have been posting fact sheets not to enrage or frustrate you. Rather, these flyers show people that what we see on TV often lacks relevant facts. We are sorry that a statement in the second fact sheet offended you. We in no way intended the quotation to imply that all Arabs are Islamic. Similarly, the statement did not doubt Arab ability to run a democratic government, but rather called impossible a "Palestinian Liberation Organization 'democratic secular state.'" We apologize for the poor wording of the remark...
...Jewish and Arab students, we have the duty to engage in constructive dialogue. We openly invite you to join us to exchange views, participate in a forum, and work together to better understand each other's positions. Glen I.A. Schwaber '91 "10 facts a week" Coordinator Jospeh Enis '91 HIPAC Co-Chairman Laura E. Fein '91 HIPAC Co-chairman
Ellen L. Chubin '90, a member of HIPAC andassociate chairman of Hillel, said the groupexpected the posters to provoke "intelligent discussion," and that they had hoped to hear students' comments on them
...HIPAC officials said they had received littleor no comment about the posters from Jewishstudents. But some members of the liberalJewish-Arab Dialogue Committee, an independentundergraduate discussion group, said the posterscontain "skewed" information. One member calledsome points "disputable." Abu-Ghaida and Sabraalso belong to the group...