martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo) (03/25/85)
617/253-5264
24 March 1985
Letter to the Editor
Harvard Crimson
Cambridge, MA 02138
To the Editor:
While I generally have low regard for Alan Dershowitz's opinions,
he is correct about the black intellectual racist anti-Semitism
of the HRBSA (Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association) .
They have engaged in this sort of behavior [inviting some pro-PLO
or other anti-Jewish speaker to dump on Israel every spring]
since at least 1978 when they invited the Libyan Minister of
Justice to give a talk. Since Libya is one of the foremost
proponents of traditional and modern Islamic barbarism which
requires the degradation and humiliation of non-Muslims, inviting
such a person is a moral outrage.
Further Muslims have degraded and humiliated oriental and
Sefardic Jews who are the majority of Jews in Israel for the
better part of a millenium. The PLO is merely the modern
expression of traditional Islamic Jew-baiting. When Blacks
express sympathy for former Muslim oppressors who specifically
state (usually in Arabic) that they intend at least to become
current oppressors of Jews and other non-Muslim minorities,
Blacks forfeit any right to sympathy because they have been
oppressed in the USA.
Sympathisizing with Muslim nationalists is supporting the
absolute right of the majority to humiliate, degrade and
persecute minorities. Since Blacks on Harvard campus support
such majority rights, I can only assume that they oppose
apartheid because they wish the black majority in South Africa
to be able to humiliate, degrade and persecute the white
minority.
The behavior of the HRBSA is morally reprehensible. The desire
of the Hillel Coordinating Committee to discuss and to create a
dialogue upon the morally reprehensible behavior of the HRBSA is
simply grovelling. A more appropriate response would be for all
Jewish groups to deny to all Black groups on campus any
assistance on any cause until the HRBSA cleans up its act.
Sincerely,
Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo-Ajami '78