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In the wake of Jeffries' speech relations between Hillel and the BSA hit a low point.
A week after the Jeffries speech, the Freshman Black Table (FBT) hosted a discussion about Black-Jewish relations that turned into a heated debate. In an indication of the tensions spawned by the speech, students traded opinions but found little common ground.
Jeffries' speech had long-lasting repercussions. From that time on, Kaunfer says, there was a two-year full in communication between the groups.
The Martin event had a different dynamic from the start, Black and Jewish students say. Martin, whose book The Jewish Onslaught draws links between Jewish history and anti-Black racism, is not as prominent as Jeffries.
"Jeffries is a big name, everyone in America knows him," says Jim B. Loeffler '96, co-chair of Hillel's interethnic committee. "Tony Martin is not as well-known, in some ways a much more marginal figure in academia."