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...this fact sheet was to present to the Harvard community the adverse consequences of the policies stemming from the Zionist ideology. These policies have undeniably resulted in discrimination against the Palestinian people. Our goal was not to attack either Judaism or the Jewish people. It is regrettable that a number of students has misinterpreted the intention of the fact sheet...
...response to the editorial by Richard A. Primus '92 and the letter to The Crimson by representatives of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance, Harvard Israel Political Affairs Committee and Progressive Jewish Alliance in your issue of December 17, the Society of Arab Students (SAS) would like to state the following facts...
First: Zionism is not a tenet of Judaism. Zionism is a political ideology, not a religion. One does not have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and, conversely, not all Jews embrace Zionism. Being anti-Zionist in no way implies anti-Jewish or anti-semitic sentiments; in the same way that being anti-Nazi is not being anti-German; or similarly, being anti-White Supremacy is not attacking all white people...
Herzl's principle has a name: self-determination. It means that each people decides its own political expression. SAS seems to believe in that principle in certain cases only. I believe in self-determination for everyone, including me. That's why I'm a Zionist. And SAS can't tell me what that means...
Richard A. Primus '92, a Crimson editor, is a Social Studies concentrator. His senior thesis deals with the history of conflict between Zionist and anti-Zionist ideologies. He would hate it if we mentioned that he just won a Rhodes scholarship...