`Freedom Note Reviews Big Battle for Civil Rights,
Reveals Anti-Semitic Views of Black Muslim Malcolm X
In "Freedom Now! The Civil
Rights Struggle in America," pub-
lished by Basic Books (404 Park,
S., NY 16), edited by Prof. Alan
F. Westin of Columbia University,
we have what may well be con-
sidered the most thorough com-
pilation of views on the issue and
the best resume of the struggle
for equal and just rights for the
Negro.
Every conceivable opinion is ex-
pressed in the scores of articles
included in this volume, and all
elements involved are heard from.
Malcolm X, too, is given a plat-
form, in an article "Black Mus-
lims and Civil Rights," and in a
series of answers to questions pre-
sented to him he outlined his po-
sition on the issue.
The Jewish position is elabo-
rately dealt with, and Catholic,
Protestant and other spokesmen
offer their views.
Malcolm X was unhesitant in
his attacks on Jews and in hurl-
ing charges that Jews dominate
financially over the Negro.
Asked to reply to Bnai Brith
charges that he was not only anti-
Christian but also anti-Semitic and
a Catholic priest's description of
his followers as "a fascist-minded
hate group," Malcolm X replied:
"Insofar as the Christian world
is concerned, dictatorships have
existed only in areas or countries
where you have Roman Catholi-
cism. Catholicism conditions your
mind for dictators. Can you think
of a single Protestant country that
has ever produced a dictator? ...
Where did fascism start? Where's
the second - largest Communist
party outside of Russia? The an-
swer to both is Italy. Where is
the Vatican? ...
"Let me say just a word about
the Jew and the black man. The
Jew is always anxious to advise
the black man. But they never
advise him how to solve his prob-
lem the way the Jews solved their
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problem. The Jew never went sit-
ting in and crawling in and sliding
in and freedom - riding, like he
teaches and helps Negroes to do.
The Jews stood up, and stood to-
gether, and they used their ulti-
mate power, the economic weapon.
That's exactly what the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad is trying to
teach black men to do. The Jews
pooled their money and bought
the hotels that barred them. They
bought Atlantic City and Miami
Beach and anything else they
wanted. Who owns Hollywood?
Who runs the garment industry.
the largest industry in New York
City? But the Jew that's advising
the Negro joins the NAACP,
CORE, the Urban League, and oth-
ers. With money donations, the
Jew gains control, then he sends
the black man doing all this wad-
ing in, boring in, even buying in.
Never shows him how to set up fac-
tories and hotels. Never advises
him how to own what he wants. No,
when there's something worth own-
ing, the Jew's got it."
Even such diatribes assist in the
study of Negro viewpoints, while
the major contents of the Westin-
collected essays present the posi-
tive viewpoints on civil rights and
describe the battle for their at-
tainment.
Local experiences in the
Grosse Pointe issue on housing
are discussed in "The Struggle
for Open Housing" by Frances
Levenson and Margaret Fisher.
The current senatorial and oth-
er struggles in various communi-
ties are thoroughly reviewed and
the role played by President Ken-
nedy is frequently referred to.
In an article "Marching on
Washington," in - which he de-
scribes the historic events of Aug.
28, 1963, Murray Kempton, editor
of the New Republic, gives an in-
teresting account of the occasion
and there is a reference in his
report to Malcolm X. Kempton
states:
"When it (the march) was over,
Malcolm X, the Muslim, was ob-
served in the lobby of the Statler.
It had, he conceded, been some-
thing of a show. 'Kennedy,' said
Malcolm X, 'should win the Acad-
emy Award—for direction.' "
Will Maslow, American Jew-
ish Congress leader, writing on
Negro-Jewish Relations," main-
tains that relationships between
the 18,000,000 negroes and the
5,500,000 Jews "are limited al-
most exclusively to their organi-
- zational leaders." Yet the Negro
organizations and American Jew-
ish Congress work closely to-
gether on all issues, he indicates.
Commenting on the bias towards
the Jew in Negro ranks, Maslow
says that "the Negro image of the
Jew tends to be that of the ex-
ploiter." He states that "the grow-
ing Negro militancy has been ac-
companied by an increased aware-
ness of race that often degener-
ates into an unabashed anti-Sem-
itism." But he points to the strong
position nevertheless being taken
in congregation and other Jewish
ranks in support of the Negro's
cause and he expresses the view
that "the soul searching going on
within both groups is bound to
strengthen the ties between them."
Murray Friedman, Pennsylvania
area director of the American Jew-
ish Committee, writing on "The
White Liberal's Retreat," com-
ments on the attacks by Negroes
on the Jewish leadership of the
International La dies Garment
Workers Union and states:
"The attacks upon Jewish civil-
rights leadership have been still
another element in the growing
estrangement of liberals from the
Negro. A middle-class group with
special-status fears growing out of
their own experiences and dis-
crimination, Jews a r e worried
about Negroes moving into their
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F'riday, July 3, 1964
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
neighborhoods, which are often the
first to be broken in the Negro
advance. They are caught between
their belief in interracial justice
and a desire to join the middle-
class exodus to the suburbs, a de-
sire which has been heightened by
evidence of Negro anti-Semitism
and the rise of the 'black nation-
alist' movements. Jews, however,
continue to remain in the fore-
front of the civil rights fight; they
are often found in the leadership
of efforts to mobilize mixed neigh-
borhoods and are usually the first
to welcome newly moved-in Negro
families. In the final analysis, a
liberal, white, middle-class society
wants to have change, but without
trouble . . "
Among the distinguished lead-
ers and authorities who have con-
tributed articles to this book are
James Baldwin, Martin Luther
King, Louis E. Lomax, James
Farmer, A. Philip Randolph, and
many others.
The Institute of Human Rela-
tions Library of the American
Jewish Committee cooperated in
gathering much of the material.
Mrs. Hill's 'No
Time for Tears':
Moving Testament
"No Time for Tears," published
by Thomas Yoseloff, is the drama-
tic story of the life of the youth
in Russia of Mary Asia, of her
life and activities on the West
Coast after her arrival in this
country, her marriage to Joseph
Hilf and the new role of the
interesting woman who states that
"the Temple is the center of our
religious life" into which she and
her husband have merged with
enthusiasm.
Having experenced many diffi-
culties, in her birthplace in Rus-
sian, then in the United States;
having become rooted in many im-
portant movements, Mary Asia,
now Mrs. Hilf, speaks of a "life-
time of beautiful memories," of a
life based on faith, of a credo that
"the busy have no time for tears."
The experiences in the Old
World have stood her in good
stead. The ghetto activities, the
religious urge, the devotion to
learning; the humiliations that
pursued Jews in Czarist Russia
and the contrasting enthusiams
gained from opportunities in the
New World, combine to make this
an interesting account of a truly
busy life.
Los Angeles Jews will recognize
in this tale the names of many of
Mary Hilf's associates in import-
ant movements, in Hadassah, local
causes, the hospital and the
temple.
"No Time for Tears" is a per-
sonal testament to faith by a dedi-
cated woman, well written and
therefore easy to read and to en-
joy.
Israel Drafts Tax Levy
on Luxury Apartments
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A draft of
a new law that would impose a
special tax on newly constructed
luxury apartments, aiming to use
the proceeds of such a levy toward
slum clearance projects, will be
introduced by Israel's government
in the Knesset.
Under the law, the owner of a
new luxury apartment would be re-
quired to pay 100 pounds for each
square meter of space above an
initial 125 square meters. The spe-
cial tax would be paid once, and
would not be an annual levy.
Award-Winning Film
Hal Wallis' production of
"Becket," shot in England with
Peter O'Toole in the title role
and Richard Burton as the Plan-
tagenet king, has won the "Bell
Ringer Award" of scholastic
magazines which enjoy wide
circulation in grade, junior and
senior high schools throughout
'the United States.
Weekly Quiz
a daily benediction thanking
the Almighty for not having
been created a woman?
This blessing has likewise
caused misunderstanding. As
mentioned above, such blessings
were phrased in the negative
better not to have been born
since it would have still been
(from a practical point of
view). Also, man thanks the
Almighty that he was born with
more responsibility rather than
less responsibility. Since a wom-
an is excused from some com-
mandments she therefore has
fewer commandments to fulfill.
It would have been more practi-
cal for one to have less respon-
sibility to obey the command-
ments, with honor. We thank
the Almighty for the added re-
sponsibility. Furthermore, in
the days of early martyrdom,
the women were not killed, as
were the men. The dying mar-
tyrs thus sanctified the great
Divine Name. By no means is
this benediction to be taken as
an indication of the inferiority
of women. To this day, no
culture or religion has set wom-
en on such a high pedestal as
has the Jewish people and their
faith.
BY
RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
Why is a Jew required to
make a benediction every day
thanking the Almighty that
he was not born a non-Jew?
This daily blessing has been
the cause of misunderstanding.
Some authorities claim that ba-
sically, one thanks the Almighty
for having been born to be a
member of chosen people. How-
ever, this is phrased in the
negative sense since the philo-
sophical argument over whether
it would have been better for
man not to have been born al-
together or to have been born,
is decided in the negative be-
cause of the great trials and
troubles that life brings to hu-
mans. Thus one thanks God, by
saying, if I had to be born, I am
thankful for at least having
been born as a member of the
chosen people. There is even a
deeper reason than this. His-
torically, as seen from the Tal-
mud (Menac hoth) this blessing,
along with two others of similar
nature, were ordained by the
dying martyrs in Roman times.
They lived in fear of death and
went to their death thanking
the Almighty that they were
born to a people that never were
known in history as the despots,
the tyrants and the oppressors
of other peoples. Even though
it would appear to be safer and
easier to be born anything but
a Jew. we thank the Almighty
that we were not born as a mem-
ber of "the master Race" or of
other peoples who slaughtered
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