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Leadership Must Pay Attention to Threat to U.S. Jewry
By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Hardly a week goes by
without some anti-Semitic
incident taking place in
some "civilized" traditional
liberal Western country, let
alone the Soviet Union and
Arab countries. Rarely do
these incidents merit more
than one-column headlines
on the inside pages of major
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newspapers in this country
and abroad.
Rarely, if ever, do news-
papers bother to report
anti-Semitic incidents in
this country.
The major headlines and
news reports in the media
deal with social upheavals
in Poland, Iran, Afghanis-
tan and Latin America; the
Presidential race; urban
tensions; racial violence,
individual violence; mili-
tary budgets; and economic
afflictions in industrialized
nations.
The gangs of ruthless
and evil men who commit
anti-Semitic deeds would
just as soon have it this
way. Their nefarious acts
can thus go unnoticed
and unchallenged. For-
tunately, American
Jewish leaders keep ab-
reast of anti-Semitic inci-
dents taking place
abroad and duly make
their protestations to the
ambassadors or consu-
late officials of the coun-
tries where these inci-
dents occur.
Unfortunately, however,
too many Jewish leaders sit
on their hands and do little
to mobilize public opinion
against the growth of anti-
Semitism, especially nwo-
Nazism in this country.
To be sure, some do get off
their hands long enough to
issue vapid press releases
expressing "dismay" or
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the theory that the anti-
Semites can be crushed by
the sheer weight of the
numerous press releases.
Presumably, too, they feel
that American Jews are too
well ensconced in the
metabolism of the Ameri-
can socio-economic system
for anti-Semites to ever de-
velop into an effective mass
movement.
Too many American
Jewish leaders appear to
view anti-Semitic incidents
as sporadic, ephemeral and
incidental to the American
way of life. They appear to
work on the hypothesis that
America is immune to con-
centrated anti-Semitism in
the form of neo-Nazism and
that America is an excep-
tion to the social laws which
govern the formation and
growth of Nazism.
They seem to ignore the
fact that anti-Semitism is
spawned, encouraged,
reinforced and nurtured
by economic instability,
mass dissatisfaction with
the prevailing socio-
economic-juridicial sys-
tem, a disoriented and
leaderless government, a
feeling of helplessness on
the part of large masses
of people to bring the sys-
tem into line with their
needs, and social ten-
sions between ethnic and
racial groups.
Too many Jewish leaders
ignore the fact that Nazism,
pernicious anti-Semitism,
will not come to power in
this country under the lead-
ership of goose-stepping,
swastika-dangling, sieg
heil-shouting neo-Nazis
who would be laughed out of
court as "kooks" and "sic-
kies."
Nazism will not be intro-
duced in this country by
Hitler-like clones but by
men attired in satorial
splendor carrying attache
cases bulging with "scien-
tific" theories about the
Jewish bankers and Jewish
publicists who control or
seek to control the economy
and the media of this coun-
try.
The Challenge of
the Anti-Semitic Front
Far too many Jewish
leaders expend precious
energy trying to determine
which group is most
dangerous to American
Jewry: the KKK, the ultra-
conservative evangelicals,
the New Right or the neo-
Nazis. The fact is that all
these groups, organized
along the lines of giant con-
glomorates, are equally
dangerous. They cross-
pollenate their views, their
resources and their organ- malaise and its solution.
izational staffs, constitut-
The fact that the anti-
ing in effect an anti-Semitic Semitic front, including
front.
neo-Nazism, can take hold
Many of these groups are in this country can be
far more subtle and re- charted by a host of de-
strained in their anti- velopments, including:
Semitic propaganda than
• KKK leader David
their counterparts during Duke has appeared on more
the 1930s, and many of than 600 television and
them disguise their anti- radio talk shows in the past
Semitism by referring‘to the two years.
"menace of Zionism."
• So-called sociologists
The many faces of the like William Shockely, .A
anti-Semitic front consti- thur Jensen and Edv
tute a division of labor to at- Williams, among otheis,
tract different segments of are reviving racial theories
the population to their and getting their works
genocidal goal. And all this published in prestigious
is taking place precisely as journals.
the United States tends
Historical revisionists
toward more conservative are flooding the market
butlooks in its domestic and with books that contend the
foreign policies.
Holocaust was a myth.
The growth of the
A new publication, Insti-
anti-Semitic front has a tute for Historical Review,
broader base and wider published in Torrance,
appeal today in this
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country than did groups
like the Black Legion, the
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German-American Bund
and the Liberty Lobby of
NEW
YEAR
the 1930s. Then, these
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groups and others like
them could incite and
reinforce racial and
ethnic tensions and
hatred but could not sus-
tain them because of
their strident prop-
aganda and their iden-
tification with Nazi Ger-
many.
The anti-Semitic front of
today, with its sophisti-
cated, almost subliminal
approach to anti-Semitism
for the most part identifies
itself with "American tradi-
tion." At the same time,
more Americans express
greater tolerance of "fringe
groups," Nazi Germany is
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