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...request. Again, this story never appeared in The Crimson, and I never even sought to publicize it. In fact, there is no case on record in the two years I have been a student here which would indicate that Hillel has ever publicly criticized the Foundation. Counter and Reid's assertion is simply false. It reads like little more than a cheap attempt to attack Hillel and to insinuate some sort of hypocrisy on my part...
Counter and Reid's assertion that the Foundation has always "reached out to Hillel students, initially to be told that its members were white and not a minority group" is a bald-faced lie. Who told them this? Hillel has repeatedly argued that Jewish students are in fact members of an ethnic group...
Counter and Reid argue that Black-Jewish relations are the most serious race relations problem on our campus. They assert that Jewish students protest speakers they find "distasteful" and "allegedly 'anti-Jewish.'" In the first place, Hillel does not protest speakers it finds "distasteful," but rather those who are blatantly racist and anti-Semitic...
...Counter and Reid regard Leonard Jeffries' espousal of the view that Blacks are superior to whites, describing them as "pathological," "dirty" and "dastardly devilish folks" (Time, August 26, 1991), as mere legitimate "political beliefs"? Do Counter and Reid not share The Crimson's "hostilities" toward hateful bigots? I would hope that Counter and Reid find such comments not merely "distasteful" but also downright abhorrent. If they do not, I would suggest a different line of work...
...allowed to express their views--however repugnant--to the public. The coalition of campus organizations protested neither Jeffries' right to free speech not any organization's right to invite him. Instead, it protested the repeated and blatant racism and anti-Semitism espoused by Jeffries. How unfortunate that Counter and Reid refused to be "dragged...