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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2004
Jewish student stands at controversy’s center
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BY ADAM RODMAN
STAFF WRITER
Asa hurricane of controver
sy descended on the Palestine
Solidarity Movement conference at
Duke University this weekend, Rann
Bar-On stood alone at the eye.
Bar-On, a graduate student at
Duke, is an Israeli-born Jew. He
also worked for six months to con
vince the school to host the PSM, a
group that seeks to end the Israeli
occupation of the Gaza Strip and
West Bank through divestment,
the economic withdrawal of invest
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ments in Israel.
“He has a really interesting
story,” said Fayyad Sbaihat, a
national representative of the PSM.
“He has a real understanding of the
Palestine situation.”
Bar-On was born in Jerusalem
but grew up in Haifa, an Israeli
town on the Mediterranean. From a
very early age, his parents took him
to political rallies and demonstra
tions about the Palestinian issue.,
“I’ve been going to demonstra
tions in Israel since I was 5 years
old,” he said. “From then, I had the
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idea of coexistence.”
His parents continue to be sup
portive of his activism. “They’ve
been wonderful,” he said.
Asa young man, Bar-On trav
elled to a number of Arab vil
lages and saw the conditions in
which the Palestians were living.
“I asked myself, ‘Where are all
the kids? Why are we not living
together?’”
But he didn’t start thinking
about a specific solution to the
Israeli occupation until his family
moved to Botswana when he was
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13. There he saw firsthand the end
of the apartheid regime in South
Africa, which had been toppled, in
part, by Western divestment.
He immediately drew a connec
tion between the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and the situation in South
Africa. “I saw how similar they
were,” he said. “It was the same thing
between blacks and whites.”
Bar-On’s experiences are
one of his biggest assets to the
PSM, Sbaihat said. “He’s one of
the few people with first-hand
experience of both,” Sbaihat said.
He can really understand what
apartheid is.”
Bar-On didn’t specifically get
involved with divestment issues
until he was an undergraduate at
University of Warwick in England.
Returning from a trip back home,
he said, he was angered by the poor
living conditions of the Palestinians.
These conditions influenced Bar-
On to join the PSM.
Asa Jew, Bar-On disagrees
with the idea that the PSM is anti-
Semitic. “In this country, every
anti-Israeli criticism is considered
anti-Semitic,” he said.
About one-third of the PSM’s
membership is Jewish and another
third is Palestinian, said Sbaihat.
Bar-On said he might be work
ing to end the Israeli occupation for
a long time. Divestment in South
Africa took more than 20 years,
and divestment against Israel is
just getting off its feet, though he
said he hopes faster means of com
munication like the Internet will
speed the processes.
“I hope I will see (the end of the
occupation). I hope to see the end
of the violence,” he said.
In the meantime, Bar-On plans
to be an activist for life. He said
he would like to continue working
toward divestment in Israel and to
work with the PSM after gradua
tion.
“I feel I have a moral and ethical
duty for activism,” he said.
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VOTING
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Amon Anderson, chairman of
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KEITH
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After a series of informal meet
ings between CAA cabinet mem
bers and student officials this
semester, a summit meeting of
sorts was held during the week
before Keith’s resignation to clear
up a list of allegations.
Problems student government
brought to the table included mis
management of the homecoming
concert, of the CAA budget and of
basketball ticket distribution.
Keith allowed that the CAA has
“taken a few tough knocks” this year
but attributed much of the problem
to people’s not knowing exactly
what the association’s job is.
He stressed that his resignation
was unrelated to the criticisms.
Calabria and Student Body Vice
President Alexa Kleysteuber said
Wednesday that one of the agree
ments made during the summit was
that the SBP should have greater
oversight of the CAA president.
“This (would be) helpful so
that the CAA president would feel
more attached, included, informed,
responsible all those things,"
Kleysteuber said, adding that she
hopes the new president will keep
the lines of communication open.
Strunk said she hopes future
conversation will help further
define details of the CAAs role and
regulations. “The CAA has had a
lot of little struggles this year, but
we’ve come together as a team.”
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Smythe said the project is excit
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to be able to get the music they’re
interested in,” she said. “Hopefully,
it will be a win-win for everybody.”
Warner also expressed optimism
about the project and said there
will be efforts to educate students
on copyright infringement as well.
“It just seems to me like a really
good way to not only protect our
population, but also get back to
our academic mission of educating
students,” he said. “You can’t work
with (the project) this much and
not get excited about it.”
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Campus leaders said they hope
this morning’s event will highlight
the importance of getting to the
polls. “It’s not just our civic duty,”
Calabria said.
“Especially in such a tight elec
tion, it’s something that really
matters. It matters about how stu
dents are treated and the kind of
consideration and respect students
receive in our community and in
the country.”
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FAIR
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comes from.... They’ve never seen
a peanut plant; they’ve never seen
a cotton plant.”
Outside the fairgrounds, Glass
said, urban North Carolinians can
experience farm life through agrito
urism. People can go to farms across
the state for strawberry picking and
Christmas tree cutting. Farmers also
sell products such as wine or pre
serves derived from their harvests.
Glass said such sales are one way
farmers supplement their income.
“Farmers have been making less
and less money,” she said. “They
may have had the land for five or
six generations, and they want to
stay on their family farm.”
But with more and more small
family farms in the state succumb
ing to corporate agribusinesses,
4-H and livestock shows could
become things of the past.
“These things I’m doing with my
grandchildren are things they’ll
enjoy doing,” Jenks said. “They’re
things they’ll never forget, and nei
ther will I.”
The State Fair will run through
Sunday night. The grounds are
open from 8 a.m. until midnight.
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CONFERENCE
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ers stood in silence then abruptly
started chanting and performing
an Arabic celebration dance.
Brewing tension
Controversy surrounding the
PSM surfaced in August, when it
was announced that the conference
would take place at Duke.
Despite protest from on- and
off-campus organizations includ
ing an online petition with 90,000
signatures Duke officials refiised
to cancel the conference, saying that
because organizers followed proce
dure, they would not stop the event.
Still, the weekend remained
peaceful. Students across campus
held demonstrations, including
an event last week by Chabad, the
school’s Jewish organization, which
featured the display of a bombed-out
bus. The Freeman Center for Jewish
Life also held a counterconference.
A three-day event
During the course of the confer
ence, several panels were held to
discuss the ongoing conflict over
Israeli and Palestinian borders.
Each panel discussion ended
with a question-and-answer session
where Bar-On said dialogue was
encouraged regardless of point of
view. “We want people to engage in
debate instead of screaming at us.”
But when two men voiced oppos
ing opinions, they were quickly
asked to hurry with their questions
or take their seats.
Bob Dickman, a 1969 Duke
graduate from Burbank, Calif.,
stood up Friday to ask about the
Israeli view, but was met with some
opposition. “I feel they are basically
endorsing terrorism,” he said before
the conference. “I want to present
another side of the issue.”
On Sunday, Rick Dorfman, a stu
dent at Rutgers University School
of Law-Camden, asked panelists to
condemn the violence. But when he
tried to discuss the issue, three men
blocked him from the microphone
and asked him to have a seat.
But for the most part, discussions
stuck to the overreaching theme of
the weekend: divestment.
As the situation worsens,
Palestinians continue to suffer
human rights abuses at the hands
of Israelis, said Diana Buttu, a
legal adviser for the Negotiations
Affairs Department of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Buttu also discussed the
International Court of Justice’s rul
ing that the Israeli security wall is
illegal and that construction should
cease. She added that Israelis do not
view Palestinians as equal, and that
Palestinian homes and businesses
are being destroyed to make way.
“It’s not just a system of apart
heid discrimination,” Buttu said.
“It’s a system of trying to get rid of
Palestinians in those areas while
taking as much land as possible.”
There also were discussions
about the history of the U.S. role
in the conflict. Most other events
associated with the conference
were closed to the public.
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Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.