August 11, 2000

Israel's Arab Students Embrace a New Activism

By HAIM WATZMAN

They say protests are about freedom of speech -- for themselves and for Jews

The scene here last spring was reminiscent of American campuses in the 60's: Radical students were accusing universities of gagging political expression, while moderates and university officials were suggesting that Communist agitators had spawned the unrest.

But the protests were being led not by long-haired antiwar activists but by clean-cut students from Israel's Arab minority -- Palestinians who

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