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...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...
...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...
Referring to a 1991 rash of inci- dents in which college newspapers were sent adsdenying that the Holocaust occurred, Foxman saidthat college students were often misguided inapplying liberal principles of free speech...
...Foxman said no newspaper would have run asimilar advertisement denying the existence ofslavery in the U.S. The Crimson did not publishthe advertisement...
...Foxman also blasted City University of New Yorkprofessor Leonard Jeffries, who was fired as chairof City College's Black studies department foranti-Semitic remarks, but was subsequentlyreinstated...