Apathy Helping Anti-Semites Do Job
in America, 4-Year ADL Study Finds
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 25, 1969-5
C.
Hadassah Doctors Serve Arabs in Leprosy Clinic
JERUSALEM — Thalidomide, department of dermatology at the
which causes deformities in un- Hadassah Medical Center. Dr.
born children when taken by preg- Sagher became physician at the
found among persons with high ed- cated elite helps to validate and nant
women, has proven helpful in leprosarium following the Six-Day
ucational and occupational status. reinforce the anti-Semitic attitudes certain
cases of leprosy.
War. There was no physician prior
and
beliefs
of
the
less
educated,"
Leprosy can be controlled by a to the war.
The survey showed that 37 per
Schary
said.
group
of
drugs
known
as
the
sul-
cent of the population has a neg-
ative image of Jews based on
Samuel Dalsimer, New York fones which lepers must take
old canards that Jews control advertising executive, was elected throughout their lifetime. Unfor-
international banking, engage in chairman of the Anti-Defamation tunately, some patients suffer a
shady business practices, are too League, to succeed Schary. Sey- violent reaction to the drugs.
According to Prof. F. Sagher,
powerful, too shrewd and tricky, mour Graubard, New York attor-
too clannish, too ambitious, too ney, was named cahirman of the head of the department of der-
matology at the Hadassah-
bossy, and are less loyal to Am- ADL executive committee.
Hebrew University Medical Cen-
erica than other citizens. More
At the meeting, former Vice
ter, thalidomide suppresses re-
than 25 per cent defended the
President Hubert H. Humphrey
action to the sulfones, a major
right of social clubs to exclude
sharply criticized the Nixon ad-
discovery in the treatment of
Jews while 29 per cent though
ministration
in
the
areas
of
mili-
leprosy.
opposed in principle, would do
tary expenditures, cutbacks of
The discovery was made at the
little or nothing to combat social
anti-poverty funds and the en- leprosarium in Ramallah, Jeru- ,
club discrimination. Only 36 per-
forcement of anti-discrimination salem, where it serves the people
cent firmly opposed it. Only 5 per
laws. But he went along with the of Jordan, in cooperation with the
cent of those questioned said they
President's decision to join in
would vote for an anti-Semitic
Four Power talks on the Middle
candidate, but over one-third in-
East even though he had doubts
dicated that a candidate's anti-
about what the conference might
FOR THE BEST DEAL . . .
Semitism would make no differ-
achieve .
ence to them, the survey showed.
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Humphrey said that he thought
It confirmed the findings of other the Middle East was a "cauldron"
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studies which showed that anti-Sem- and that the need for peace there
itism was far less prevalent among , was of great importance to both
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American Negroes than among the United States and the Soviet
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Other pro-Fatah positions have
been taken repeatedly by the fol-
lowing extremists elements the
ADL said: Youth Against War and
Fascism, youth arm of the pro-
Peking Workers World Party; the
Committee to Support Middle East
Liberation, an element of the Youth
Against War and Fascism; and the
U.S. Committee to Aid the Na-
tional Liberation Front, described
as a pro-Viet Cong group. The
latter picketed the U.S. Mission in
the United Nations on Feb. 15 in
support of El Fatah. Other extrem-
ist supporters of El Fatah, the
ADL said, include: the pro-Peking
Progressive Labor Party, formed
in the early 1960s by Communist
Party dissidents, and the Military
Labor Forum, an arm of the Trot-
skyist Socialist Workers Party.
(In Hamburg, Germany, Stoke-
ley Carmichael, Black Power ad-
vocate, said in an interview that
El Fatah guerrilla activities , to-
gether with the Viet Cong and
Fidel Castro's Cuba are part of
the "liberation front" he and his whites: 91 per cent of Negroes in-
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Union. He said that if the Big Pow-
suppo rters h ave embraced).
terviewed were against anti-Jew- ers insisted on an end to belliger-
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There have been recent indica- . ish social club discrimination; 87 ency, they might promote a "cli-
dons, Forster said, that Students per cent opopsed anti-Jewish em- mate of restraint" and that possi-
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for a Democratic Society (SDS), ployment practices: and 68 per bilities might develop for bilateral
strongest of the student New Left cent — as against 51 per cent of negotiations and settlement in
organizations. may be moving to- the whites — said they would not other areas.
ward "acceptance of old-line, anti- be disturbed if a Jew were nomin-
Humphrey declared "There has
Zionist Arab propaganda, overlaid ated for President. But negative never been a friendly or even-
Arnold 1. Feuerman, President
with support for the new Third beliefs about Jews were evident handed (American) policy in the
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World versus colonialism line of among Negroes in the economic Middle East unless a President of
Arab revolutionaries — and toward sphere. For every 100 whites who the United States made it so." He
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said
Jews
use
shady
business
prac- said that without Presidents Tru-
a pro-El Fatah position." He said
that far left elements "view Israel tices, 145 Negroes gave that re- man, Eisenhower, Kennedy and
and the Western 'imperialist' coun- sponse. For every 100 whites who Johnson "tlierg ,,would ‘have been
tries, especially the U.S., as forces said Jews were not as honest as no even-handed policy" faii. to Is-
opposing the efforts of the 'Third other businessmen. 129 Negroes rael. Referring to President Nixon,
World' peoples in Africa, Asia said so. But unlike the white pop- he said "you had better make
and Latin America to defeat 'col- ulation, where the young were less sure" that such a policy continues
onialism' through wars of national anti-Semitic, in the black com- under the new administration,
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or are indifferent to the problem
of anti-Semitism, a four-year
study financed by the ADL has •
disclosed. The study, conducted
by the Survey Research Center
of the University of California,
found only 16 per cent of the
population to be totally free of
anti-Semitic stereotype views and
to warrant the description of
"consistent opponents of anti-
Semitism."
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The results of the study, which
began in 1965, were made public
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at the ADL parley here by its na-
tional chairman, Dore Schary, who
warned that apathy was more dan-
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practices, which were found to be
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a "danger signal" to Jews and to
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all Americans.
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