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...fact that any student organization would even think about bringing a speaker like that, who is not even trusted by his own country, is completely preposterous…Imagine if PSC and SAS and HIPJ wanted to bring a Hezbollah military commander,” Sarafa says, comparing the IAF to a Lebanese group that has attacked towns inside Israel. “Do you think Harvard would allow that...
...Perhaps in contrast to some of his professors, Sarafa, a first-year in Pennypacker Hall, isn’t one to shrink from debate or dialogue. Although he hails from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., he says he feels inextricably linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His mother is from the West Bank town of Tulkarem, and he still has relatives living under Israeli occupation...
...Sarafa feels that some American Jews are emotionally distanced from the tragic consequences of Middle Eastern conflict. As a case in point, he cites a beer mug distributed by HSI last year that read, “Party like it?...
...Nineteen forty-eight was the year that Palestinians saw their destiny—their right to self-determination—taken from them,” Sarafa says. “Now you tell me how you rejoice over a year in which there was so much suffering, in which so many Palestinians died…It’s like the USA saying ‘Let’s party like it’s Aug. 6, 1945,’” he says, referring to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
...When Sarafa aired his indignation at the Mather House gathering, Suskewicz responded apologetically. Dershowitz, weighing in on the matter and stressing that he does not encourage beer-drinking among undergraduates, notes that in the 1948 conflict, “Israel lost one percent of its population in a genocidal war that was conducted by many of Hitler’s deputies. You can never forget the close association between the Palestinian leadership and the Nazi cause,” he says, reiterating a point expressed in far greater detail in his most recent book, The Case for Israel. Still...