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Counter and Reid insinuate that Jewish students have serious problems which are "beyond the mission and interest of the Harvard Foundation." They issue a veiled attack on my predecessor as Hillel chair, Daniel J. Libenson '92. What is the relevance (not mention the accuracy) of the quotes Counter and Reid used in their letter? They are used to imply, not too subtly, that the Jews have such serious problems that we don't know what to do with them; they complain all the time and attempt to ruin every attempt to improve race relations...
...seems that Libenson does speak for Hillel students: Richard Primus, for instance, wrote a column in the Independent in October using the rhetoric of affirmative action to raise this concern, and I have heard this concern raised numerous times around Hill with no dissent but mine...
...Libenson was trying to show how both Blacks and Jews face marginalization, his statement betrays a lack of understanding of the enormity of the marginalization of Blacks compared to that of Jews (as do similar statements Libenson has made, and some of Primus's writings; within Hillel I have no protest against these statements, although several Jews outside Hillel have criticized them...
...students in Hillel should be realistic about the discrimination they face and the discrimination Blacks face. They should not trivialize discrimination against Blacks, as some seem to do; and they should not find anti-Semitism where it is not present, as Libenson has done in his call for Counter's resignation...
...Libenson's charges are not supported by Counter's letter, and in persisting with them Libenson delivers a blow to Harvard's racial climate...