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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (1338)	8/5/2003 11:24:16 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Yet another attempt to block free speech by Jewish-American Israel-Firsters: Governor wants info on Palestine forum. Questions Rutgers group's view on violence, BY JEFF WHELAN, Star-Ledger (New Jersey), July 11, 2003 "Gov. James E. McGreevey is pressing Rutgers University officials for further information about a national pro-Palestine student conference scheduled for this fall, as he weighs whether or not to cancel the event. Rutgers University President Richard McCormick will meet with senior university officials this morning to gather more information on the National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement. Micah Rasmussen, the governor's spokesman, said McCormick and McGreevey are then scheduled to discuss the matter next week. "We've asked for information on the group, what its intentions are, and whether this is going to be a balanced, opened forum, or hate speech calling for violence against Israel," said Rasmussen. "If it's hateful speech and if it's calling for violence, then the governor is going to weigh his options and decide whether or not to intervene. But we're not going to just jump the gun here. We're going to find out all of the facts." Rasmussen said the governor has "grave concerns" about the event because there are differing accounts of the nature of the organization sponsoring it. Some pro-Israel groups allege the student Palestine Solidarity movement is anti-Semitic and supports terrorists and suicide bombers. The group's leaders have said it supports the formation of an independent Palestinian homeland but is not anti-Semitic and takes no official view on Palestinian suicide bombers. Resolutions adopted at the organization's first conference, held in February 2002 at Berkeley, Calif., expressed "solidarity with the popular Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation," while also rejecting "any form of hatred or discrimination against any group." Rutgers has received nearly 230 letters urging the cancellation of the student conference, scheduled for Oct. 10-12 on the New Brunswick campus. State university officials have said they will not cancel the conference and plan to treat the gathering like any other event sponsored by a campus student group."