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Friday, September 13, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Jackson's Fence Mending
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Jesse Jackson, the man who
roiled black-Jewish relations
last year so strongly that
onetime allies in the civil rights
struggle became virtual adver-
saries, now believes that the
time has come to reaffirm their
"community of suffering" and
re-establish the "collective
capacity" of the two com-
munities when they function as
a coalition.
"Whenever we speak out to-
gether, we're always heard," he
said in an interviewed in
Chicago recently. "You can't ig-
nore that at our best we are
human rights advocates. Our re-
cord of winning when we're to-
gether is a sensational record.
Our record of losing when we're
apart is also fairly evident."
Rev. Jackson, who describes
himself as a potential president-
ial candidate in 1988, now says
he sees the Holocaust as a
unique event in history as do
the Jews, not simply as a tragic
event as he had previously de-
scribed it. He attributes this
change to a discussion he had
with Elie Wiesel, in preparation
for a recent visit to the Struthof
death camp and his reaction to
what he saw and learned at the
camp.
The man who once exclaimed
impatiently that he was "sick
and tired of hearing constantly
about the Holocaust," says he
met with Wiesel because "I
wanted to be instructed by some
of his feelings and gain some
sensitivity."
Speaking with Jane Gross of
the New York Times, in Chicago
after an extended European trip,
Jackson characterized the
Holocaust as "this rather unique
death camp process" which "is
entirely unlike anything I had
experienced before." Previously
he had argued that while the
Holocaust had been "tragic" it
had not been unique in history.
He had told his wife, he re-
ported to the interviewer, that
the impact on the mind of the
appreciation of the extent of the
•Holocaust was "chilling and
traumatizing." The experience,
he added, "certainly makes the
refrain 'Never again' com-
prehensible."
Jackson addressed the Euro-
pean Parliament at Strasbourg
and made a number of other
speeches during his European
visit in which he compared the
slaughter of six million Jews in
the Holocuast to the treatment
of the blacks in South Africa
under apartheid. Both, he said,
were a "cancer," which should
not be shifted from one part of
the body politic to another.
Warning of a resurrection of
racism and anti-Semitism both
in Europe and here, Jackson
charged that "the same forces
that are anti-Semitic in the
morning, by three o'clock of that
same day manifest their anti-
blackness. That's a historical
fact that must always be kept in
perspective."
Jackson gave no indication in
the course of the interview
whether he had altered his
views on the Middle East. His
severe criticism of the Israel
government in the past and his
strong support of Yassir Arafat,
head of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, - as well as his
pro-Syrian stance convinced
many Jews that Jackson was
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.
were
These suspicions
strengthened during the 1984
primaries by his close associa-
tion with Louis Farrakhan,
leader of the Nation of Islam,
It was not until the
question of the
Jackson-Farrakhan
relationship
threatened to
disrupt the
Democratic National
Convention that
Jackson condemned
the Farrakhan
statement as
"reprehensible" and
sought to
disassociate himself
from his ally's
extremist racism.
and his long silence when his
political ally repeatedly assailed
the Jews and insulted Judaisms
as "a gutter religion."
It was not until the question
of the Jackson-Farrakhan .rela-
tionship threatened to disrupt
the Democratic National Con-
vention that Jackson condemned
the Farrakhan statement as
"reprehensible" and sought to
disassociate himself from his al-
ly's extremist racism. Later, in
his dramatic oration before the
convention, Jackson made a
warm plea for racial harmony.
The reaction was divided; there
was applause for the'sentiments
he voiced but doubts as to the
sincerity of • his expressions of
friendship for the Jews. It was
strongly felt that if he were in-
deed holding out his hand to the
Jewish community, he should
have included a positive state-
ment on Israel.
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Parrikhan recently, in a tele-
vision interview with Tony'