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, a discussion group at the University of Oregon that has hosted a parade of Holocaust deniers and other far-right extremists, was recently named a hate group by the 澳彩开奖. And the forum is not happy about it. So unhappy, in fact, that it devoted two recent sessions to complaining about the 澳彩开奖.

But the sessions, titled 鈥淧OVERTY PALACE: Deconstructing the 澳彩开奖,鈥� seemed more than anything else to affirm the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 designation. At the first session, for instance, Pacifica Forum presenter Dawn Coslow suggested that the Jews (who else?) might have given money to the 澳彩开奖 to influence which organizations it lists as hate groups, according to two students who attended.

The second session began with Coslow asking Michael Williams of the Anti-Hate Task Force, who鈥檚 helped monitor the forum, if the 澳彩开奖 had sent him there six years ago 鈥渢o get鈥� Pacifica Forum. 鈥淲ell, that鈥檚 a real bullshit question, isn鈥檛 it?鈥� Williams replied. (For the record, the 澳彩开奖 has never enlisted Williams or anyone else to spy on Pacifica Forum.)

The meeting went downhill from there. In a for the University of Oregon student newspaper, the Daily Emerald, Truman Capps described the session this way: 鈥淲hat began as a discussion devolved by the end of the meeting into members of the Pacifica Forum and its detractors exercising their right to free speech very loudly at one another. Notable highlights from the proceedings include a comparison of the 澳彩开奖 to the KGB and the declaration from those involved with the Forum that hate doesn鈥檛 incite violence, which the Forum鈥檚 opponents countered by declaring the Forum a 鈥榝reak show鈥� and defined anti-Semitism as reading Holocaust denier literature 鈥榳ithout puking.鈥� The dispute ended when [93-year-old forum founder Orval] Etter rose from his wheelchair, Dr. Strangelove style, and adjourned the meeting.鈥�

Both sessions took place at the student union, where Pacifica Forum has been meeting thanks to a policy that allows retired professors such as Etter to reserve free space on campus for organizations they sponsor. Pacifica Forum had previously been forced to find new meeting places after former sponsors raised concerns about the group鈥檚 anti-Semitism.

Now, it looks like Pacifica Forum will once again be moving to a new home 鈥� this time, in a building on the outskirts of campus. Sam Dotters-Katz, student body president, said he persuaded Etter and Coslow to leave the student union after meeting with them last month at Etter鈥檚 retirement home in Eugene. 鈥淚t [the student union] houses our institutions of tolerance, and it鈥檚 inappropriate to have this hate group meet there,鈥� Dotters-Katz told Hatewatch. 鈥淲e鈥檙e definitely pleased that they鈥檙e voluntarily leaving because that鈥檚 really the only way we could get them out.鈥�

Meanwhile, as Pacifica Forum griped about being listed as a hate group, a former participant had his vanity license plate rescinded by the state of Oregon after residents pointed out its anti-Jewish message. The Mail Tribune that the license plate on James Marr鈥檚 pickup read 鈥淣O ZOG,鈥� the second word of which stands for 鈥淶ionist Occupied Government鈥� and is commonly used by neo-Nazi groups who assert that Jews control the government. Counter-protesters spotted the plate at an April 26 rally of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement in Phoenix, Ore., and complained to Oregon鈥檚 Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division. The division, which hadn鈥檛 been aware of ZOG鈥檚 meaning when it issued the license plate last September, last week sent a letter to Marr revoking the plate.

The Mail Tribune did not link Marr to Pacifica Forum, but a woman who answered the phone yesterday at Marr鈥檚 home in Springfield, Ore., confirmed that he was involved with the group. Although Marr hasn鈥檛 attended Pacifica Forum since around August of last year, as a participant he distinguished himself by bringing a desecrated menorah to a session and delivering a speech, compiled by another Pacifica Forum attendee, which vilified Martin Luther King Jr.