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BIENSTOCK Marion & Sol Stein & Family Andrea, Bruce & Emily Katz eir Jackson's Fence Mending Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year INEZ% NOTEBOOK '''a... 1 IEF=T GE RESURS all our family t/ Henry & Mala,Dorfman) and friends Sheldon & Karen Schore Andrea & Neal 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. - Parrikhan recently, in a tele- vision interview with Tony'