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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another spur to Tarazi's activism was the newsthat a cousin had died in the uprising, beaten todeath by Israeli soldiers. He read about it inThe New York Times...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Soon after, Tarazi won the presidency of SAS byproposing a campus publicity campaign on allegedIsraeli atrocities. The group put up informationalposters that were promptly torn down and defaced,especially in Dunster House, where the masterissued a warning to the defacers...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Tarazi sees SAS as embattled: posters forcultural events and speeches are torn down asoften as political broadsides, he says. That wasparticularly the case in SAS' campaign forQuestion 5, last fall's ballot initiative callingon U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) tosupport sanctions against Israel. Tarazi saysposters in favor of the measure were removed sofast that students finally glued them down andcoated them with clear packing tape...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Charges of anti-Semitism trouble Tarazi. Hesays many of his political allies are liberalJews, and he argues that one can support aPalestinian homeland without being anti-Semitic ordenigrating the Jews' history as victims ofpersecution...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Tarazi says that view was one reason why heplayed a Jewish character in a campus productionof The Diary of Anne Frank. "I wantedpeople to know that you can be pro-Palestinian,pro-Arab, and not be a Nazi," he says. However,Tarazi adds, "Just because one group has beenpersecuted in the past does not give them theright to persecute in the present...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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