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debate has recently exploded in the National Union of Students bringing to the fore questions too long buried - the Palestinians and Israel. Unfortunately it has also become entangled in the issue of 'no platform' for racists and fascists and NUS democracy. It is crucial for the left that this debate untangles itself into two parts. The first is the question of the nature of Zionism and Israel. The second is the problem of democratic rights within the student movement.
There is no massive campaign to ban Jewish Societies in the colleges. A small number of colleges have passed resolutions which in one way or another limit the rights of Zionists to propogate their views. Such actions can in no way be described as antiYet another massive press campaign has been launched against the British student movement. The issue is Zionism and free speecn.
COLIN TALBOT, Executive and supporter of the Socialist Students Alliance, explains how Zionism and the press offensive can be defeated.
and a member of the NUS SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 17 November 1977 page 13 of which over half were racist jibes against "dirty, lazy, stupid Arabs'. We were told of the virtual lynch-mob atmosphere which was whipped up by the town council of Carmiel when one of its inbabitants proposed to sell his house to an Arab.
These racist attitudes stem from the basic character of Israel as a Jewish state. Israel was founded on the expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948, and we saw ourselves some of the camps which house half-million Palescinians in Lebanon. The notorious Israeli "Law of Retum" gives automatic citizenship to any Jew from anywhere in the whilst native Palestinians are allowed to rot in the refugee camps. Ethnic groups other than Jews are systematically discriminated against in Iscael, officially and unofficially. In this sense Isracl is certainly a racist state.
Racism as an ideology usually arises as a justification of theoppression ofone group or nation of another. It is often linked to actual natonal oppression - in the case of