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...contribute towards a solution of the Arab refugee problem. Those who have suggested that it may (e.g. the CRIMSON and the President of PBH) have been misinformed. Bedouins are not Palestinian refugees; they are nomads. And the tribesmen whom Project Jarba is to help wander only on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River. It is misleading (at best) to advertise the project as striking a blow for peace in the Middle East. PBH will have to be satisfied with the more modest goal of giving 300 nomads a more secure life...
This goal is not exactly within Harvard's normal sphere of activity, but it is certainly a goal which the University could support unhesitantingly if not for the refusal of the Jordanian government to grant visas to American Jews. The Jordanian ban on Jewish travel would require Harvard to ask a student his religion before considering him for Project Jarba. This is something which in principle Harvard has refused to do. It is something which in point of law Harvard does not have a clear right...
...outraged militants who urge Harvard not to support Project Jarba, Phillips Brooks House's refugee resettlement program, unless Jews can participate, are oblivious both to political necessity and the magnitude of the social problem. In protesting the anti-Judaism of the Jordanian government they refuse to give due consideration to the plight of the refugees from Israel who are cooped in squalid camps along the Israel-Jordan border. Blindly indifferent to the angry and resentful anti-Jewish feeling continuously created by the refugee camps, they refuse to help resettle the refugees...
...Jordanian government has asked Harvard to accept a restriction. But those who proudly oppose Harvard's participation on this ground should be prepared to look with equal pride upon the refugees living in hovels upon a bare subsistence diet. They might remember that these conditions will persist indefinitely unless projects like Jarba succeed. Yet if the project does succeed, the opponents of Jarba will have the privilege of saying, "I oppose this: it was built with un-Jewish labor...
Great would be the hue and cry if a foreign nation refused to let American Negroes enter the country in order to participate on the U.S. Olympic team. This is exactly analogous to the Jordanian refusal to allow American Jews to work on Project Jarba. The phenomena and their origins are different, but the effects are identical: Secondclass citizenship for Americans who are entitled by the Constitution to enjoy equal opportunities...