NYU Post for Negro Jew-Baiter Spurs Attacks; ACLU Defends Appointment
NEW YORK (JTA)—The con-
troversy over the appointment of
a former Harlem teacher accused
of anti-Semitism to a major New
York University administrative
post widened as more Jewish or-
ganizations denounced the action,
and the New York Civil Liberties
Union defended it.
The Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai Brith and the Jewish Labor
Committee assailed the appoint-
ment of John F. Hatchett to be
director of the university's new
Martin Luther King Jr. Afro-
American Student Center.
• Hatchett is a former Harlem
school teacher who charged last
November that Negro pupils in tern and their power-starved imi-
New York City public schools were tators, the black Anglo-Saxons."
being "mentally poisoned" by
After the article appeared,
Jews. Other criticisms were made
the AJCongress, the Catholic
in separate statements by the Inter-racial Council and the
American Jewish Committee and Protestant Council called the
the American Jewish Congress, the charges "black Naiism." Cart-
latter organization urging the uni- ter said the university was re-
versity to reconsider the appoint- viewing the appointment. He
ment.
said he had not known about
the Hatchett article when the
The New York chapter of the
American Jewish Committee pro- appointment was being consid-
tested the appointment in a tele- ered.
gram to Chancellor Alan Cartter.
The New York CLU, however,
The university announced that Mr. said it abhored anti-Semitism but
Hatchett had been named director argued that the .appointment
of the Martin Luther King. Jr. should not be rescinded on the
Afro-American Student Center, premise that .there was a "well-
The AJ Committee said_ that "A established principle of academic
man who, in his public statements freedom that university employes
appeals to racial and religious should be appointed solely on the
hatreds," sullied his credentials basis of ability and competence
and the institution and also "the in their professional fields."
memory" of Dr. King.
The appointment also was de-
BONN (JTA) — The prosecution
David Haber, chairman of the fended by two .Jewish trustees
•
of
Saturday demanded a sentence of AJ Congress Metropolitan Council.
NYU, Jack Seihnan an rbert
life imprisonment at hard labor urged the chancellor to reconsider
former Nazi Fritz Vcin Hahn, the appointment, declaring it Silverman, and by Victor Solo-
. the mili-
used of the murder Of 'Many Would be a "tragedy" if the cen- mon, director of CORE,
n in
Lnousands of Greek and Bulgarian ter was placed under the direction tant Negro organizatioHar-
lem.
Jews during World War II.
of "a person who has attacked
Seil'nan said that university of-
Von Hahn, an aide of Adolf Jews as a race." The former Har-
•Eichmann who served in the Jew- lem teacher declared in an article ficials exercised "care" in hiring
ish department of the Nazi Foreign in the Afro-Asian Teachers Forum administrators and that he saw
Ministry, was allegedly responsible that Jews "dominate and control "no deterrent" in keeping Hat-
for the deportation of some 20,000 the educational bnreaucracy of chett. Silverman said he Was sure
Greek Jews to Auschwit7 in March ! the New York public school sys- that NYU would continue to be
1943 and the deportation of 11,343
Bulgarian Jews to Treblinka.
Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger had
testified on behalf of Von Hahn in
the trial which started Nov. 8 1967,
and brought together some 90 wit-
nesses from all parts of the world.
Adolf Beckerle. former Nazi min- I
ister to Sofia, had been accused
along with Von Hahn, but Beck-
erle's trial was halted because of
his illness.
in the future, as it had been in
the past, "a properly tolerant in-
stitution."
The CORE official backed some
of the teacher's charges, declaring
that the New York City school
system was "rotten," that "those
in power are to blame," and "it
happens that the majority of
them are Jews.
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