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Despite the protest, Khallid Abdul Muhammad is to appear on a New Jersey campus again, at Trenton State College next week. Governor Christine Whitman will counter with free screenings for college students of the Holocaust film Schindler's List to show "in a very, very graphic way what happens if the kind of attitudes expressed at Kean College are left unchecked...
Second, I can't stand the hypocrisy coming from some in the Jewish world who for decades have used the Holocaust and the history of our very real oppression as an excuse to deny our own racism toward blacks or Palestinians. In our frantic attempts to make it in America, we not only fixed our noses and straightened our hair and learned to talk more softly and genteelly to be acceptable to Wasp culture, but we also began to buy the racist assumptions of this society and to forget our own history of oppression. Jewish neoconservatives at Commentary magazine...
When Louis Farrakhan's aide Khallid Abdul Muhammad spoke to students at Kean College in New Jersey, he blamed the Holocaust on its victims and attacked Jews for "sucking our blood in the black community." It was not only the November speech but the reaction to it from Jewish and black leaders that set off charges of complicity and double standards. TIME asked six leading writers and scholars to comment on Farrakhan, his message and the strained relationship between blacks and Jews...
...screening of "Kanal," a black-and-white film in Polish depicting the harrowing deaths of resistance fighters in the Warsaw sewers. They sombrely flipped through an HFA bulletin, unconsciously echoing the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody Allen and Diane Keaton emerge psychically downtrodden from a five-hour Holocaust documentary. "I think this reflects our own psychically that we would watch this film on a Saturday afternoon instead of going to a bar," said Joshua D. Jones. Why did he come? "I'm obsessed with World War II," he confessed. "I come here a lot... at least once a week...
...letter pointed out that The Princetonian had turned down an advertisement for a Holocaust denial debate...