Palestine Solidarity Committee Brings Dr. Yigal Arens To Speak On Gulf Crisis

For the first time, residents of Ann Arbor will have the chance to hear Dr. Yigal Arens, a researcher at USC, and activist with Matzpen and the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights. He is also Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Arens son. On a tour for Palestine Solidarity Committee's (PSC) four Michigan chapters, Dr. Arens will be discussing "The Impact of the Gulf Crisis on Prospects for Palestinian/lsraeli Peace." The Ann Arbor talk is scheduled for 6:30 pm, Thursday, October 18, in Room 100, Hutchins Hall, U-M Law School.

At a time when the U.S. has become actively engaged in a possible major war in the Middle East, Palestinians and progressive Israelis are challenged even more than before not to lose faith in the peace process.

Of interest to the U-M academic community is the Palestinian Academic Freedom Network (PAF-Net), a nationwide campaign to establish Sister-University Relationships with Palestinian universities. The Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) and Rackham Student Government (RSG) have already established a Sister-University Relationship with Birzeit University, a major Palestinian university on the West Bank, closed since Jan. 1988. (MSA and RSG, along with PSC sent two student delegates to the Occupied Territories and Israel this past summer.)

A bi-monthly newsletter, The Michigan-Birzeit Sister-University Relationship Newsletter has published a Fall 1990 edition to report on the progress and development of the U-M-Birzeit University relationship.

We are also in the process of establishing an academic advisory board from the university community. The PSC along with the General Union of Palestinian Students (local members of PAF Net) would like to encourage the academic community to become involved in this campaign to reopen Palestinian universities as well as develop the sisterhood relationship and its many projects.

PSC meets every Thursday at 7:30 pm in the International Center (adjacent to the Union). Write for a free copy of the Newsletter, the delegation's schedule of events, or a copy of Palestine Focus (PSC's national newspaper).

Palestine Solidarity Committee, P.O. Box 4325, Ann Arbor Ml 48106; 347-2587.