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...frustrating to me as a supporter of Jesse Jackson's campaign to have to read and hear of his insensitivities, ignorance or possibly worse," Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson wrote in a March 8 letter to Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith...
...public ground. Indeed, when lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Council of Churches brought suit against the city of Pawtucket, R.I. for violating the separation of church and state by putting up a creche, public sympathy ran low. Even the local B'nai B'rith group reportedly asked the ACLU lawyer, "it's been there so long, why did you even bring...
...last five years, Black leaders, led by Jackson, have moved to support the beleaguered PLO and the outlaw with a heart of gold--Arafat. Jackson's outspoken support for the PLO prompted Nathan Perlmutter, director of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to publish the now infamous 19-page critique of Jackson's politics, distributed widely to Jewish opinion-makers. Perlmutter and others have harped on remarks, attributed to Jackson, that he is tired of hearing about the Holocaust and equating the PLO and Israel, Jackson now denies the former, and calls the latter...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) stayed in the March coalition and worked to keep the visibility of anti-Israel sentiment to a minimum. At the same time, it helped bring B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Congress around to endorsing the March. This is the correct position for Jewish groups: to work within left-wing coalitions, influencing and convincing others. By isolating themselves in a hyper-critical stance. Jews can only bring upon themselves the image of a self-interested and single-issue pressure group. By working on the inside, the UAHC prevented the March from being...
Though the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith reported last January that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. had dropped 14.9% from 1981 to 1982, complacency seems ill advised. Consider the attacks against Jews in West Hartford, Conn., and one in New York City this summer. The past two weeks brought new incidents in both places...