November 1988 - Binghamton Review

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WORKING FOR .A FREE WQ~D

by Billy- hor ' · .. On the .. morni,Flg .of No¥elilil,ber .. . commented that the attack 'ori the JS.t ; lOth-, the day after the 50th · "showed once and for all that antianniversary ·of Kr~tallnacht, g1ai'Iy S¢mitism and anti-Zionism .are re(\lly . .students gathered outside the locked . the same. It .goes to show that the 'd@ors ·of the Jewish Student Union. " · . 1:1gly face of ariti~Semitism lies under . Disbelief, -sadness, pain and anger the fac¢ of anti-Zionism, as expressed were vividly Written on their faces. by today's attack and the Uriited · Eariier ~at morning smrieone had . Nations · tesolq.tion . that equated ~ vandalized the office by spray painting . Zionis!ll with racism". In facl, some · vfrulently anti-Semitic and intistudents voiced an opinion that the Zionist slogans a5 well as s·wastikas · attack was meant to occur on the · on the walls of the .office and . the annive~sary~ of . that UN_:resolution, . . chapel where the Holy Scrip turd are November 10th. ·· housed . and where Jewish students _. , - Ma~y students d6bated abo11t th¢ pray. Rabbi Slonim, whose own best way to -react to the attack. Some parents suffered under ': the Nazi with anger in their vbices wanted t~ regime; and wl}ose relatives ·died in -- call th~ Jewish Defense Organization, the . Ho~ocaQst, stood by·. the JSU a New Yor~ based group that responds office and t old the studcnts.·gathercd · · -~ anti-Semiti~ actions using strang· there that this was "Kristallnacht . arm tacticts .. However, cooler heads . 1988 style!". Rabbi Sl~nim , heads prevailed and all agreed that the best CHABAD at Binghamton. . way to combat these acts was tc:> · Officers of the University Law : · expose the horror .ofthis attack to the Enforcement division were contacted · mass public. ·"Using TV screens and seon after the . acts of vandalism were' the pages"of newspapers lo portray the . discov~red by JSU member Jennifer . visual images of the horrible cnme . . Rapoport. After the officers arrived . these acts may .b e prevented .in· th~ · o~ the scene they cordoned· the office . future", one student . commented~ · and call~ in the crime experts from , "This is ·a much better ':"ay~ t0. fight · the New York State Police. · · these people; to show ·to ·au that this Meanwhile the crowd outside·the can happen.in America in 1988 'Vili .office grew · larger as the ·students learned of;what had occured. Darryl con~~ed on p4 ·· Fi'lx, ~e fomier president of the J.SU

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