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While all three speakers yesterday supported the Presbyterian Church’s decision to divest, Rami R. Sarafa ’07, president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS), said that “at this time, we and our co-sponsoring organizations are not promoting divestment but are promoting discussion and debate about it.” The International Relations Council, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, and the Woodbridge Society of International Students joined SAS to co-sponsor the event along with several graduate school and alumni groups...
After one student attendee questioned the absence of any anti-divestment voices on the panel, SAS Political Action Committee Chair Deena S. Shakir ’08 told the audience that the event had been designed to give Presbyterian leaders the opportunity to present their church's stance and was "not meant to be a debate...
...event was spearheaded by the Harvard Society of Arab Students (SAS), and co-sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Harvard Law School (HLS) Justice for Palestine, and the Palestine Awareness Committee at the Kennedy School of Government...
...event gave everyone a human face to put the Palestinian perspective to this conflict,” SAS President Rami R. Sarafa ’07 said...
...Christians who resist the anything-goes tide find themselves in a society that will tolerate almost anything but conservative Christians, says Jim Wallace, a retired SAS commander who heads the Australian Christian Lobby. "Until the '60s the influence of the Judeo-Christian ethic was quite strong, and that was very constraining for people with counter-Christian agendas, like the homosexual lobby, the sex industry, the marijuana lobby. They couldn't really get anywhere until they neutralized that influence." As a result, Christians have been "blasted and denigrated to the point where they are reluctant to stick their head above...