Twenty-eight students from campuses throughout the nation representing ATID, the college age organization of the United Synagogue of America, will depart for Israel on Dec. 27 on a ten-day fact finding mission. Jacob Stein, president of the United Synagogue who made the announcement today will be in Israel during the project. Its central mission will be to gather on the scene facts on Israel’s relationship with her Arab populace. It will include visits to Arab refugee camps and meetings with Arab and Israeli students. The purpose is to factually reinforce the college student in countering the anti-Israel propaganda on today’s American campus. “The college students will examine Zionism as a movement for national liberation and the kibbutz as a pure form of democracy,” said Rabbi Paul Freedman, director of the United Synagogue Youth Department. He added. “The Israel oriented college student does not lack interest in combatting Arab propaganda but he is put on the defensive. The ten day mission to Israel by ATID collegians will dramatically furnish facts, disqualify New Left concepts and provide the experience for successfully initiating rather than defensively reacting to propaganda on campus.” The visit is being coordinated in Israel by the Jewish Agency.
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