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The Link ArchivesTitle: Deir Yassin Remembered About This Issue For the professor of economics it was a matter of parity: If his college was going to pull its investments out of South Africa because of its apartheid, why not pull them out of Israel for the same reason? That question led to other questions about Israel--which led protective friends to inquire, with good reason, if he had tenure. That was 1985. In 1989, Dan McGowan went to Palestine. On his return to Geneva, New York, he changed his license plate to INTIFADA. Then, to raise awareness of the Palestinian Catastrophe well beyond his college community, he came up with yet another idea. I first met Dan McGowan in 1995 at an American-Arab Anti-Discrimination conference in Washington D.C. He was sitting behind a small table--paid for with his own money--quietly promoting his extraordinary project. By 1996, he had enlisted the support of Edward Said and Hanan Ashrawi--not, however, the support of Elie Wiesel or Simon Wiesenthal. We invited Dan McGowan to write this issue's feature article because it is both the story of what happened in Palestine that 9th of April 1948, and of what happened at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where Professor McGowan dared to speak publicly of what he had seen in Palestine--a daunting experience, he would discover, whether or not one had tenure.--John F. Mahoney, Executive Director, September 1996 Contents
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