Word: foxman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more disturbing, Foxman said, was a 1991 poll showing that 31 percent of Americans believe that American Jews are "too powerful, too successful or too influential," up from 14 percent...
...Foxman said bigotry and racism are finding bases of sympathy in college campuses...
...Foxman, who immigrated to the U.S. after surviving World War II as a child in Poland, criticized revisionist historians and others who deny the Holocaust occurred. In particular, he condemned Blacks who he said were anti-Semites, including Farrakhan and Khallid Mohammed, two leaders of the militant Nation of Islam...
...Foxman cited the stabbing death of a Jewish scholar, Yankel Rosen-baum, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn at the height of Black-Jewish tensions in New York City in the summer of 1991 and a shooting attack on followers of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, as they drove along the Brooklyn Bridge...
...that necessary for Black pride? Why is Holocaust denial an ingredient in terms of oppression [of Blacks]?" Foxman asked, referring to historians who have accused Jews of engaging in a disproportionate share of the Atlantic slave trade...