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Page 8 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 5, 1986
Hate comes to Cornell University campus
by Eric Rozenman
Editor. Near East Report
Lisa Berg, a sophomore at
Cornell University, was one of
more than 200 students w ho heard
self-styled revolutionary kwame
Toure deliver anti-capitalist,
anti-Reagan. anti-Zionist bom
bast on campus last month. Ac
cording to Berg, a campus liaison
for the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee's Political
Leadership Development pro
gram. the speaker attacked the
“Zionist entity” (Israel) and as
serted. “I will use bullets and
guns to kill Zionists.”
Many of the black students in
thecrowd almost e\enly divided
between blacks and whites and
some of the whites “applauded
everything he said.” Berg noted.
“He got a standing ovation at the
end."
During the question-and-ans-
wer period she took the micro
phone and said. “I’m a Jew. I
love Israel and consider myselt a
Zionist. Would you shoot me?”
“You don’t know what Zion
ism is..." Toure retorted. Then,
as Berg explained, “he tried to
turn all my words around and
say I didn’t understand" Judaism
or Zionism. She took his response
as a “yes,” but to be sure tried to
ask her question again.
Then, “my mike was turned
off. Some people were yelling.
’Shut up!’ and ‘He's already ans
wered your question.'"
In a perverse way thanks arc
due Toure (Stokeley Carmichael
in a previous incarnation). His
campus lecture circuit which
also has included the University
of Pennsylvania. UCLA, Brook
lyn College and, in the Washing
ton. D C. area. Howard, Ameri
can and Maryland universities
provides an antidote to compla
cency. It reminds us of the en
during power of hatred, the
eternal appeal of scapegoating,
and the “entertainment” value of
incitement. It also illustrates—
through the timidity of univer
sity authorities the abuse of free
speech as the last refuge of the
racist.
At Maryland later in the
month Toure embellished his
Cornell performance. Having
worked as a warm-up act for
Louis Farrakhan at Madison
Square Garden last year. Toure
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borrowed some of the formers
rhetoric and informed Maryland
students that Zionism was “Satan
in disguise.” He claimed that the
philosophy ot Jewish national
liberation transformed Judaism
into “a gutter religion” and called
Jewish students in the audience
“Zionist pigs.”
As Stokeley Carmichael two
decades ago Toure was credited
with coining the phrase “black
power.” He broke with the Stu
dent Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, which he headed,
and became “prime minister” of
the militant Black Panthers.
Moving progressively toward
violence, toward uncompromis
ing hostility toward whites, he
left the Panthers and moved to
Africa.
In Guinea, under Ahmed Sekou
Toure’s brutal regime, he fabri
cated a pan-African revolution
ary ideology. He also supported
Uganda’s murderous Idi Amin.
Back in the United States, as
kwame Toure, he founded the
“All-African People’s Revolu
tionary Party.”
Toure uses the “party's"
hodge-podge Marxist primitivism
and hoary European anti-Semi
tism to wow them on campus.
At Maryland last February,
Toure declared that “the only
good Zionist is a dead Zionist.”
In November, while a standing-
room-only crowd ol about 300
mostlv approving students lis
tened. another 300 or 400 —
including students from Hillel,
the Jewish Students Organiza
tion, the College Republicans,
College Young Democrats and
some fraternities and sorori
ties protested 1 oure s appear
ance.
Toure on campus raises some
provocative questions. He was
participating in black solidarity
activities at Cornell. Would the
university dream of allowing
“white solidarity events?
At Maryland, according to
student journalist Jon Greene, he
received a S750 payment in Feb
ruary and SHOO last month
throueh the Black Student Union,
which is supported by student
fees. Yet one presumes that
Maryland administrators would
have no First Amendment qualms
in telling a Ku Klux K lan speaker
to hire his own hall and sell
tickets if he wanted to speak in
College Park.
Greene quoted the head of the
Maryland Black Student Union
the group w hich sponsored Toure!
as finding a positive side to his
appearance: “It made people deal
with difficult issues.” Yes. bigo
try does that. Now, iust how do
the apologists for toure, Far
rakhan, et al plan to deal with
that hatred, other than applaud
it?
Jewish population drops
TEI. AVIV (.IT A) The world
Jewish population is declining
rapidly and may be reduced to a
total of six million within one
generation, according to a report
of a demographic study presented
to the World Zionist Organiza
tion Executive Monday.
Diaspora Jewry is dwindling
due to intermarriage and a low
birthrate, the study found. The
Jewish population of Israel is
growing slowly because of immi
gration and a slightly higher bir
thrate. The birthrate among Jews
worldwide is only 1.5 children
per family. In Israel it is 2.8
children per family.
But on a global basis this is not
enough to sustain equilibrium,
the study said. It noted that the
Holocaust reduced the number
of Jews in the world from 16.5
million before World War II to
10.4 million after the war. By the
end of 1985 the world Jewish
population was down to 9.5
million.
The study projects a Jewish
population of nine million bv
1990, eight million in the vear
2000 and six million bv 2025. less
than the population of large cit
ies today.
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