34—Friday, January 23, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ADL Charges Rightist Youth Alliance
Spewing Anti-Semitic Hate on Campus
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Na-
tional Youth Alliance, formed early
last spring as a "new right" stu-
dent group to counter activities of
left-wing radicals and black ex-
tremists on campuses, is now
spewing a neo-Nazi ideology, ac-
cording to a study in the latest
issue of the ADL Bulletin, a pub-
lication of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith.
"The NYA has become a move-
ment of native American fascism,"
stated J. Q. Purcell, staff mem-
ber of ADL's civil rights division
and author of the study. "It is pro-
moting a clearly neo-Nazi ideology.
Its ranks, and even its leadership,
bulge with. white racists and anti-
Semites of long repute." The NYA
emerged from the "Youth for Wal-
lace" movement.
Purcell noted that part of the
NYA's insidious anti-Semitic pro-
paganda includes the view that
there may be a conspiracy to force
American boys to die for Israel.
He reported that at a rally on ,
the University of California cam-* I
pus called by NYA national or-
ganizer Louis T. Byers, mem-
bers of the Iron Cross Motor-
cycle Club, "at least two of
whom were former members of
the American Nazi Party," were
official guards at the rally. Pur-
cell quoted one of them saying,
"We don't let any Jews or nig-
gers into the club."
The study noted that the basic
work used by the NYA to arm its
members in neo-Nazi ideology is
Francis Parker Yockey's "Imper-
ium." The book has been describ-
ed, according to Purcell, as a sec-
ond "Mein Kampf" and "has be-
come the bible of the NYA." Yoc-
key was active in American and
German neo-Nazi circles until his
suicide in a San Francisco jail
after his arrest on federal charges
of passport rau .
Yockey had labelled Negroes
and Jews "parasites" on western
civilization and likened anti-Semit-
ism o "the
anti-
bodies in the blood stream of
Mystery Beclouds Airline '
Article on Orthodoxy
NEW YORK (JTA) — A mild
mystery surrounds the appearance
1
human pathology. In both cases,
the organism is resisting the alien
life," Purcell noted.
The study also reported that at
a meeting addressed by Byers, the
Horst Wessel Lied, anthem of the
Third Reich, was sung. Byers
urged NYAers to read the anony-
mous "Myth of the Six Million,"
and expressed the view that "next
time the final solution to the Jew-
ish problem will be more efficient-
ly executed."
According to Purcell, the be-
hind-the-scenes chief organizer
and financier of the NYA has
been Willis Carto, the American
publisher of Yockey's book, "who
has expressed open sympathy
for Adolph Hitler." He was
guest of honor at an NYA meet-
ing "which had been marked by
swastika pins and Nazi songs."
Purcell stated that the five-man
advisory board of the NYA in-
cludes Admiral (Ret.) John Crom-
melin, who has spoken of the
"Communist - Jewish conspiracy"
and for many years has been a
standard bearer of the racist, anti-
Semitic National States Rights
Party; Gen. Pedro A. del Valle.
an activist in numerous anti-Semi-
tic groups including the publish-
ers of Conde McGinley's "Com-
mon Sense"; and Austin J. App,
an apologist for German neo-Nazi
movements.
Richard Cotten, described by
Purcell as an anti-Semitic radio
propagandist, and Revilo P. Oliver,
who has bewailed that the race
"called Indo-European or Aryan"
was imperiled by those he design-
ated as "alien slime," round out
the luminaries of the NYA advi-
sory board.
"If a native neo-Nazi 'intellec-
tual' idea lies at the roots of the
NYA, the organization seems
nonetheless ready to exploit more
elemental and common pheno-
mena—fear and backlash," Purcell
stated. He warned that with the
development of NYA on the right
and the continuation of the radical
left there could be a "dangerous
Polarization to the far left and far
right which could bring about vio-
lent confrontations throughout our
society and threaten our demo-
cratic institutions themselves."
of an article on "Orthodox Juda-
ism in America" in the January
1970 edition of "The American
Way," an inflight magazine pub-
lished by American Airlines.
The magazine has never before!
published articles on Jewish sub-
jects and according to its editor,
has none scheduled. The illustrat-
ed article, by Carol Schwalberg,
claimed that Orthodoxy is the
"fastest growing branch of Ameri-
Civil Disobedience
Not New to the
Jewish Experience
NEW YORK (JTA)—A Yeshiva
University historian has asserted
1 that civil disobedience, far from
being a phenomenon of the 1960s
has a long tradition in Jewish
history, although it rarely if ever
resulted in violence.
According to Dr. Leo Landman,
assistant professor of history at
Yeshiva's Bernard Revel Gradu-
ate School, Jewish civil disobedi-
ence dates back as far as the 3rd
Century and stemmed from the
condition of Jews in the Diaspora.
Writing in the current issue
of the magazine Tr a dition
Prof. Landman said that "As
long as Jews lived in their own
land they had but one alegiance:
namely to the law handed to
Moses and developed by their
sages. As soon as they were in
exile, however, there was the
dilemma of those who, as law-
abiding citizens, wished to obey
the laws and enactments of the
state while on the other hand
wished to adhere to the Torah
and Talmudic laws.
Prof. Landman said that the
question was resolved by Samuel,
a 3rd Century scholar and expert
on civil law who proposed the
principle that "the law of the
state was the law, and that in
conflict, accommodations would be
possible in Jewish civil law."
In practice, according to Dr.
Landman, Jews obeyed the law'
of the state only when it improved
the welfare of the state but pro-
tested unjust laws.
"Failure of a civil law to gain
rabbinic sanction would leave a
Jew who benefited from the law
without the backing of the Jewish
court," Dr. Landman wrote. "A
Jew appealing a rabbinic decision
to the gentile court would be con-
sidered an outcast by the Jewish
community."
the young."
According to Don Moffitt, edi-
tor of "The American Way,"
which is published for the airline
by Caldwell Communications, the
article was proposed by Rabbi
Chaim Lipschitz, identified as the
"research director" of Yeshiva
Torah Vodath Mesivta in Brook-
lyn.
practices.
NEW YORK (JTA)--A high of- sponds to the Israeli hard-line
ficial of Israel's ruling Labor claim of all Palestine on the basis
Party, who says he speaks for of historical rights: "True, our
Israel's "silent majority," has de- forefathers lived here and in Jor-
dared that his country must rec- dan. But so did the Arabs. The
ognize that the Palestinian Arabs solution has to be that two states
can live equally together. There is
"exist as an infant nation."
This radical thought, one of the ample place for a Jewish state as
most controversial that can be ex- big as Holland, with 10,000,000
p ressed in Israel, is in direct con- people, and an Arab state as big
tradiction with that of Mrs. Golds as a Belgium with 9,000,000. I think
w should recognize a legitimate
Meir, Israel's premier. The idea we
is expressed in an interview withArab national movement."
Eliav also argues in the Time
Time magazine by 48-year-old
Arie Eliav, newly elected secre- interview that of Zionism's three
principal goals, only one has been
tary-general of the Labor Party.
In the interview with Time cor- attained — the establishment of a
respondent Marlin Levin, Eliav Jewish state in Palestine. The
also expresses another controver- other two, providing a refuge for
sial suggestion — that Israel must all Jews who want or need one
not annex any more territories and creating a model society based
beyond Jerusalem. Describing him- on the Jewish heritage, have not
self as a "superdove," Eliav says: been completely fulfilled, he said.
"My views are those of the silent
A clash between hawks and
majority. There hasn't been a doves is shaking up the govern-
log councils of the Labor Party
show of hands yet, but I hope that
over Eliav's statements.
one day there will be."
Correspondent Levin's interview
Mordecai Surkiss, a Knesset
with Eliav discussing the radical member, demanded that the party
proposals for unilateral Israeli leadership discuss Eliav's re-
concessions to the Arab took place marks. He contended that the
last week in Tel Aviv.
secretary-general had no right to
He told the interviewer:
express views that are contrary to
"Palestinian Arabs exist as an official government policies.
infant nation. It is there. We
Eliav retorted that his views are
have to recognize them. The well known and he had spelled
sooner we do it, the better it
them out many times prior to his
will be for us, for them, for unanimous election as secretary-
eventual peace."
general by the Labor Party execu-
Time notes that Mrs. Meir is on tive.
record as saying that there is no
such thing as either a Palestinian
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nexation of territories, Eliav says:
"We have annexed Jerusalem.
That is a fact that cannot be un-
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any more territories."
SAM EMMER
In the interview Eliav also re-
Prosecution Drops Plan
Good Fellowship Officers to Appeal Rohan Ruling
At a meeting of the Goodfellow-
ship Club, the following officers
were elected for 1970:
President, Louis Lyons; vice
president, Ida Berger; treasurer,
Ben Milstein; recording secretary,
Ann Lyons; corresponding secre-
tary, Eva Levin; trustees, Elsie
Bogorad and Jack Schwartz; and
hospitalers, Helen and Morris
Albert.
`Purdue Policy Bars Jewish Students,
!Despite Removal of Restrictions'
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (JTA)
—Students and alumni of Purdue
University complained that recent
modification of the university's ad-
mission policy which virtually
barred admission of Jewish and
other minority students from the
can Judaism" and that the great- New York metropolitan area has
est commitment to it "is among been nullified by administrative
Labor Party's Secretary-General
Sees Palestine Arabs as Infant Nation
ed to be discriminatory of any
minority group. Letters from alum-
ni questioning the admissions poli-
cy are being answered by John W.
Hicks, assistant to President Fred-
erick L. Hovde, who makes this
denial very stringly and describes
the policy modifications as intend-
ed "to remove the least shadow of
doubt" as to the university's inten-
tions.
Hicks points out that the blanket
restrictions applying to the New
York metropolitan area have been
removed "and the director of ad-
missions is authorized to admit a
quota of students from the states
of New York and New Jersey,
based on their academic standing
with preference still extended to
An admission policy of some 20
years' standing which restricted
admissions from the New York
metropolitan area to the sons and
daughters of Purdue alumni was
modified last November to govern
admissions in 1970.
The restriction on admissions
from the metropolitan area was
Moffitt described Rabbi Lipschitz removed and, instead, statewide
as "a very persuasive publicity quotas were established for New and daughters of Purdue alumni
man" and said he was sent to him York and New Jersey to the total as in the past."
But critical students and al-
by Juan Homs Jr., director of population of the nation."
umni pointed out that prospect-
sales promotion of American Air-
No such restriction is applied
states
are discouraged from fil-
lines.
to any other state or part of the
ing applications. Harlan White,
Contacted by the Jewish Tele-
country except the over-all
director
of admissions, advises
graphic Agency, Homs said the
to 25 per cent of the student
applicants from New York and
idea for the article originated with
body. Under the policy modifica-
New Jersey of the preference
him and that he was not approach-
tion, 120 applicants could be ad-
being given children of alumni
ed by anyone. He denied that any
mitted this year from New York
and
advises them that the few
sales promotion objectives were
and 44 from New Jersey.
remaining places will be avail-
involved but wouldn't say why he
Rabbi Gerald Engel, director of
able
to other applicants only
selected orthodoxy rather than the Purdue's Hillel Foundation, wrote
after April.
other branches of Judaism. "We
to alumni who had expressed con-
"This letter," Rabbi Engel told
like to give our passengers serious cern over the university's restric- the JTA, "perpetuates the myth
articles of interest," Homs told the tive admissions policy that the that children of alumni from this
JTA.
new policy "has been nullified by area have come to Purdue in large
a speciad admissions procedure." numbers. However, the fall 1969
Since its inception, Youth Aliya The student senate is expected to record of admissions to undergrad-
—a division of the Jewish Agency take up the question after the ex- uate schools from New York and
—has cared for some 125,000 chil- amination period.
surrounding counties indicates that
dren, many of whom are backward
University authorities deny that almost no children of alumni came
and disadvantaged.
its restrictive policies were intend- from this area."
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The state
prosecutor has decided not to ap-
peal the verdict by a Jerusalem
district court committing Denis
Michael William Rohan to a men-
tal hospital for burning the Al
Aksa mosque in East Jerusalem
Aug. 21.
The court ruled last Tuesday
that the 28-year-old Australian
sheepherder was legally insane
and therefore not punishable under
Israeli law.
Young and Old
I avoid talking before the youth
of the age as I would dancing be-
fore them; for if one's tongue
don't move in the steps of the day,
and tninks to please by its old
graces, it is only an object of ridi-
cule. —Horace Walpole.
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