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However, as Jews, we are deeply upset at the BSA's choice of Professor Tony Martin as the speaker to lead the teach-in. We are profoundly offended by Professor Martin's viciously anti-Semitic book, The Jewish Onslaught. In that volume, he makes sweeping generalizations about Jews, and perpetuates negative Jewish stereotypes. We specifically cally object to his assertion that Hillels are merely pawns of larger Jewish organizations, whose members willfully work to stop the progress of African-Americans. We respect the right of the BSA to invite whomever they wish to their programs; however, we are shocked...
...label Professor Martin's book anti-Semitic. Because he criticized the actions of certain Jews. We are not so blind and defensive as to call everyone who criticizes a Jew anti- Semitic. Rather, we objected to his false generalizations about all Jews in his book, The Jewish Onslaught...
Professor Martin wrote on page 5 of that book, "As relations between Blacks and Jews have deteriorated in recent years, Hillel chapters have become the campus-based shock troops in the ongoing Jewish onslaught against Black progress." The idea that I, as chair of Hillel, am a soldier fighting the gains of African-Americans is absurd, and it perpetuates the stereotype that all Jews are an organized unit aimed at wreaking havoc on African-Americans. It is because of false generalizations such as this, not because of criticism against certain Jews, that the Steering. Committee decided to label the book...
Martin is the author of the 1993 book The Jewish Onslaught, which alleges a pattern of Jewish racism against Blacks...
Martin wrote The Jewish Onslaught in his own defense against attacks from the campus Hillel and the national Anti-Defamation League...