NY Official Terms Black Convention Position Insult to Israel U.S. Jewry

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NEW YORK (JTA) — The city's
highest-ranking black official con-
siders the National Black Political
Convention's resolution on Israel
a' "gratuitous insult" to both Israel
and American Jewry.
Manhattan Borough President
Percy E. Sutton told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency through a
spokesman that he also "feels
strongly" that a resolution on Is-
rael has no place in a National
Black Political Agenda.
"He personally supports Israel
very strongly," the spokesman
said. — He feels it was wrong to
single out Israel for comment "
The resolution originally adopt-
ed March 12 in Gary, Ind., rec-
ommended the "dismantling" of
Israel. In its revised form. un-
veiled last Friday in Washing-
ton, the resolution condemns Is-
rael's "expansionist policy" and
"forceful occupation" of Arab
territory. It was revised to meet
objections from prominent black
leaders, including Convention of-
ficials. the NAACP and the Con.
gressional - 111.-ick Caucus.
In a letter to the three co , chair-
;lion of the Convention. Sutton al - ,
questioned whether the Israel reso.
lotion and the "equally disturbing . '
ono on school busing — are repre-
sentative of American black opinion
inasmuch as they were passed with
Only a small percentage of the

terested in the development of the
underdeveloped countries of Africa
should find, it necessary to destruct
Israel to construct Black Africa.
The destruction of Israel for the
purpose of constructing Black Af-
rica is a supernational concept
which, in my view, neither reflects
the views of the delegates who at-
tended the convention nor the
thinking of the black community
nationally nor has it ever been the
expressed view of a single head
of state of an African nation. Why
then, should it be advanced as a
position of the Black Political Con-
vention? The answer is — it should

The NAACP quit the Convention poet formerly known as LeRoi ' "thorough review" of the two dis-
last week over its "separatist and Jones — backs it. Sutton wants a I puted measures.
nationalist" Agenda, especially its
"repugnant" resolutions — even as THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 26, 1972-3
revised — on Israel and busing.

Of the co-chairmen, two—Mayor
Richard G. Hatcher of Gary. Ind.,
and Rep. Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (D.
Mich.) — object to the Israel res.
olution. while the third — Imamu :
Amiri Baraka of Newark, N.J., the
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not:'

The resolution on busing or-
iginally condemned it outright.
then in the revised version scored
its use as a political issue. Sut-
ton supports busing to achieve
integration.

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