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...supported the demonstration and am proud that over 300 people (not 150 people as Kurzman states) felt strongly enough to make a visible sign of protest against the PLO and its policies. Mr. Rahman's speech was the best confirmation of the fears these people had that it would turn into an anti-Israel, anti-semitic diatribe. I'm only sorry that Mr. Kurzman could not bring himself to report the situation as it actually was, and to see what was behind the "jeering, hissing, and shouting" of members of the audience...
...PLO has shown its true face to the Harvard community. Maybe I should thank the organizers of the event for inviting Rahman and allowing him to expose his fraudulency to the public. William Marks...
...name of objectivity? This may be what The Crimson will claim, but the fact is that the reporting of the talk of Hassan Abdul-Rahman, the PLO representative, was grossly biased by a pro-Israeli stance. I think that The Crimson either succumbed to its editors' preoccupations or to a fear of strong reaction from the biased pro-Israeli part of its readership. As a result, the coverage of the event ignored the main point of it: that a PLO representative came to campus to present his organization's and his people's views on the Mid-East conflict. Instead...
...deeply distressed by issues brought to light by the recent invitation of Hassan Abdul-Rahman, director of the PLO in Washington, by various Black, third world and Arab student organizations to speak at the Law School Tuesday. I question neither his right to speak nor his right to a platform at Harvard, despite the repugnance with which I view his position...
...would like to offer an alternative vision to the present scenario and I invite discussion from anyone who shares my dissatisfaction. Imagine that rather than a surprise invitation of a PLO leader, whose hostility toward Israel is known Jewish, Arab, Black and Third World organizations co-sponsored a series of speakers--a moderate Palestinian, a moderate Israeli, a leftist Israeli and a representative of the Arab nations. What if we not only agreed upon the speakers but met afterwards to discuss their varying viewpoints? What if we joined our strengths to cooperate on this small task and in so doing...