521 CHRONICLESnaction lawsuit against BYU on thenfollowing grounds:n1. BYU’s IRS tax-exempt statusnchannels funds to the university thatnwould otherwise go to the federal treasury.nThe tax-exempt status results innthe receipt of federal money, whichnbrings the university under the jurisdictionnof the civil rights laws.n2. Located in Provo, Utah, BYUncomes under the civil rights laws becausenProvo City’s roads funnel trafhcnon and off campus. The Provo CitynStreets Department receives federalnmoney through the Utah State Departmentnof Transportation’s UrbannHighway Fund.n3. Provo City’s Department of Waternand Waste Water is using an EPAnrevolving loan program to remodel itsnsewage disposal plant, which processesnwaste from BYU. The EPA loan is anfederal subsidy because it is issued atnbelow market rates.nThe case reaches the SupremenCourt in 1997. Once again, after anbitterly divisive debate among the justices,nthe liberal majority rules 5-4 innfavor of the plaintiffs on all counts andnorders BYU to either cease operatingnor implement an affirmative actionnhiring plan to increase to 10 percentnthe number of gay and lesbian professors.n•*/•*’ in•Hnff.JSnOn the same day the Court announcesnits BYU decision, the Gay andnLesbian Legal Defense Fund and thenNational Organization for Women £lensuit to deny the Mormon Church andnits live million US members all receiptnof federal money because the churchnand its members assert that homosexualnacts are immoral, and refuse tonordain women and practicing homosexualsnto the priesthood. Sound impossible?nI wish.nEdward D. Snow ]r., a former congressionalnaide, is a freelance writernfrom Utah.nETHNIC CONFLICTnWho Speaksnfor thenJews?nby Elliot C. RothenbergnJust before the Minnesota caucuses,none of the nation’s ten or so largestnReform Jewish synagogues, Minneapolis’snTemple Israel, cosponsored anpolitical speech by Kitty Dukakis at thensynagogue’s regular Friday evening sabbathnservice.nTemple Israel is typical of manynsynagogues around the country wherenliberal Democrats are regularly endorsednfrom the pulpit. The fondness ofnJewish leaders for liberal politicians, ofncourse, extends far beyond being ancaptive audience. It is hardly a secretnthat Jewish contributors generously financenliberals aspiring to high ofEce.nThe Jewish establishment’s ties tonliberal politics have a long history. Butntoday there is no reason for Jews tonindiscriminately support liberals, whatevernjustification there may have been innthe past. Of all the nation’s ethnic,nreligious, and interest groups, the politicalnbehavior of the Jewish leadership isnthe least consistent with its community’sninterests, and is often perversely inimicalnto them.nOne would think that AmericannJewry’s special political concernsn(shared by most Christians as well)nwould be the preservation of a strongnIsrael, together with a militarily powerfulnAmerica, Israel’s only ally, and anrejection of bigotry and religious discriminationnat home, with opportunitiesnbased solely on individual merit. Thosenare not the policies of the politiciansnJewish leaders idolize.nThe media has given extensive coveragento the generous support GreeknAmericans have given to Dukakis.nThere has been less coverage of thensubstantial help he has gotten fromnJewish liberals. Many in the establishednJewish leadership have not only givennfinancial and philosophical support tonDukakis, but are actively working on hisncampaign. Hyman Bookbinder, thenAmerican Jewish Committee’s chiefnWashington spokesman and congressionalnlobbyist, serves on the Dukakisnnncampaign staff! At a recent Jewish leadershipnmeeting. Bookbinder boastednthat Dukakis will garner as much as 85npercent of the Jewish vote.nThat notwithstanding, Dukakis subscribesnto the conventional liberal foreignnpolicy dogmas of unilateral Americanndisarmament, sympathy forncommunist and terrorist regimes in thenThird World, and increased deferencenin foreign policy to the dictates of thenUnited Nations, despite its infamousn”Zionism is racism” resolution andnother anti-Semitic slanders.nIn fact, even before Jewish audiences,nDukakis has declined to give sonmuch as token lip service to concernsnover the security of Israel. He hasnrefused to rule out his acceptance of anPalestinian state ruled by the PLO.n(Bookbinder views the creation of anPLO stronghold with similar insouciance.)nDukakis wants to turn over responsibilitynfor a Middle East settlementn(along with the resolution of otherninternational issues) to the UN GeneralnAssembly.nIt goes without saying that the left’snobjectives are not good for Israel. Althoughnin this election year Dukakisnand other liberal politicians are morencircumspect, Democratic Party activistsnare increasingly vocal in their hostility tonIsrael. Several state Democratic conventionsnthis year adopted resolutionsndemanding the creation of a PLO state,nand polls indicate that more than 70npercent of the Democratic NationalnConvention delegates favor the establishmentnof a Palestinian state in part (ornall) of what is now Israel. In anynDukakis administration, Jesse Jacksonnis probably going to have great influence,nwhich means Jackson may soonnbe able to hug Yasser Arafat from anposition of governmental power.nMany important liberal Jewish leadersnfound Dukakis insufficiently liberalnand backed Jackson this year—despitenhis “Hymietown” remarks and his assertion,nduring a trip to Israel yet, thatnhe is “sick and tired of hearing aboutnthe Holocaust.” In his 1988 campaign,nthe “reformed” or at least sanitizednJackson attacked Israel again, this timenfor supposedly invading Angola alongnwith South Africa. No liberal Jewishnleader has challenged Jackson for thisnfabrication.nOn the contrary, the New Yorknpresident of the American Jewishn