The chairs of the SFSU Italian, German, philosophy and history departments received the eight-page tract, which is unsigned and dated October 1995. It's very old in its ideas of a Jewish conspiracy. A colleague forwarded Astren a copy of the tract, which sent shock waves through the departments that received it.
Some people are very disturbed.
They can't believe what they are reading. For Jews, we're used to this. It's just ugly. We've talked about it, e-mailed about it, had lunch about it. The most recent batch of mailings began with a postmark of Feb. 5.