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bJewish Afula high school and says, “I was not discriminated bagainst.” And so, having received the same education his Zionist bneighbors received, and having been accepted into Hebrew Uni- bversity while 50,000 poor Sephardic Jews remain outside, Maha- bjana says of his telegram to the PLO in Damascus: “We em- bphasized that we are Palestinian Arabs living in the State of bIsrael and, like others, we claim that the PLO is the sole repre- bsentative of the Palestinian people. . . . The Zionist regime is an boppressive regime. . . .” bThe total lack of any coherent and consistent policy on the bpart of Israel toward the Arabs was seen two weeks later, when bthe national Arab Student Union announced that it, too, saw the bPLO as the exclusive leader of the Palestinian people. No one bwas arrested, no one placed under house arrest. Little wonder bthat in the year that followed Arab boldness increased. bArab students held an unauthorized demonstration at bHebrew University in November 1979 to protest the planned bexpulsion of Shechem’s PLO mayor Bassam Shaka. When the bschool suspended the leaders of the demonstration, the Arab bstudents announced a massive—illegal—protest. The rector, bYisroel Meshulem, a rather spineless academician, fearing a bJewish-Arab confrontation, pleaded with the Arabs to cancel the bdemonstration and promised to rescind the suspensions. The Arab bprotest was held, nevertheless, and as the students shouted, “We bare all Arafat,” and “The state is all ours,” a fight broke out binvolving chains, rocks, and knives. Three Jewish students were binjured. A Jewish student group was formed called Students bWho Are Disgusted. bAt Haifa University, on May 4, 1980, 150 Arab students bmarched through school buildings, disrupting classes and shout- bing against “Israeli fascism.” Three days later a swastika and bthe words “Death to the Jews” were painted on doors at Haifa’s bTechnion. bAt Haifa University, the Arab students published a paper bcalled Bian, in which, among other things, they said: “We are an bindivisible part of the Palestine Arab people and the PLO is our bsole legal representative. . . . Zionism is a racist, colonialist bmovement. . . .” bThe young Arabs of Israel. The fathers are dying. The sons bremain, and they will have sons and daughters—many. The b
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