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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: Meir Kahane
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:01:01 EST
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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?