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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. 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Flexible Hours * * * * * * * if * * if Tristram Coffin _b . 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. 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