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J. Eliot Morgan '92, a Crimson editor who alleges his life was threatened by Jeffries in an earlier interview, drew the event's most intense applause for his denunciation of Jeffries.
Hillel Coordinating Council Chair Shai A. Held '94, organizer of the protest, began the rally by noting that many defenders of Jeffries have claimed some of his most controversial statements have to be taken in context. "My friends, in what context are we to respond to lies?" he asked the...
Then, citing Jeffries' belittlement of the Holocaust, Held called for members of each of the protesting groups to come to the podium. Each representative read the name of a concentration camp site and saidhis or her organization remembered the camp.
"Jeffries' presence here represents an insultto a majority of our population here at HarvardCollege," Kilson said. "I'm thoroughly convincedthat Jeffries represents evil," he said.
At one point, Epps told the JDL representativethat he had spoken with Jeffries earlier in theday. Epps confirmed later, in an interview, thathe had contacted Jeffries to discuss the format ofthe speech and details of his arrival.