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Like many other Harvard students, we received a door-drop from the Society of Arab Students (SAS). Knowing that there are peace talks going on right now in Washington, we assumed that this would be about the peace talks. After all, the Harvard Israel Political Affairs Committee (HIPAC, Harvard Radcliffe Zionist Alliance (HRZL) and the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA), the three Zionist groups on campus, as well as the Harvard Gulf Arab Alliance, have all come out in support of the Peace Conference. Upon reading this letter from SAS, we were saddened to discover that the SAS does not seem...
...insulting to have to defend one's nationalism, especially to people who cannot find a harsh word to say about Arab countries which torture and kill their own people, and do not let Jews into (Saudi Arabia) or out of (Syria) their countries. But because the SAS has decided to undermine the peace process and further the dreams of destroying Israel at a time when our thoughts should be of peace and mutual understanding, we are forced to respond. Fortunately, their intellectual exertion leaves much to be desired, making our job particularly easy...
...Zionism is a political ideology professing that the Jews of the world, wherever they may be, constitute one nation, one people, a single ethnicity," reads the SAS letter. Unfortunately, the SAS definition of Zionism is flat-out wrong. Many non-Zionists (Simon Dubnow, for example) who wanted to remain in the Diaspora, believed that the Jews are one nation...
...Palestine Solidarity Committee will break from SAS's non-political stance and actively support a two-state solution to the crisis in Israel's occupied territories, Abu-Ghaida said. "We don't want to have the usual movies and lectures," she said. "We want to confront people with the situation...
...People tear down our posters all over campus," SAS member Rhoda A. Kanaanen '92 said...