Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site mit-hermes.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Meir Kahane Message-ID: <2517@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:01:01 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2517 Posted: Sat Oct 26 20:01:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 21:23:57 EST References: <979@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 Keywords: Free speech for nasty people? I won't > him, but Don Black posted an article about how Meir Kahane, in the Boston area, was first picketed and then denied entry at another meeting. As I recall, the 2nd meeting was called by Kahane's opponents and he tried to join it to explain his position, so it was a case of "This microphone's mine." Recall, though, how a few years back the American Nazi Party wanted to march in Skokie, Ill., a village with a large Jewish poulation. There was quite a debate about it, but basically the law says anyone, however obnoxious, has the right to speak, provided they don't advocate the commission of a crime. Anyway, Kahane was heard at the synagogue; the pickets also got their chance to be heard; that's "robust debate". Kahane, speaking to the _Globe's_ reporter, was very calm and reasonable. (Yes, he _was_!) He said that Zionism and democracy are on a collision course in Israel, that in 30 years Israeli Arabs and Palestinians will have a commanding number of votes in Israel and that the sooner Israel faces up to this, the better. His solution, of course, is to get rid of the Arabs, but he wasn't really pushing this--he was more challenging people to suggest any other way of keeping Israel Jewish. Anyone for partition?