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Consequently, it sued the newspaper, charging defamation in articles which de- scribed the outfit as "anti- Semitic". In due course, the case came up in Federal Court in Wash- ington and was thrown out by Judge Thomas Jackson. In the first place, the court ruled, the lobby failed to furnish evidence required in libel actions to prove that the articles were printed with malice or disregard of the truth. As to the truth of the news- paper's charges, Judge Jackson concluded that to the extent that the phrase "anti-Semitic" can be considered "an objec- tively verifiable fact, it is dif- ficult to imagine a case in which the evidence of it is more com- pelling." Liberty Lobby identified itself recently in Spotlight, its weekly newspaper, as "the Washington-based populist in- stitution which was established to combat the special interests." The Anti-Defamation League has described it as "the best- financed anti-Semitic organiza- tion in the United States" and Spotlight" .as "the most widely read right-wing extremist news- paper in the country." A recent issue of Spotlight at- tacked California Sen. Alan Cranston and Jerry Warburg, his 31-year old aide. It had this to say: Warburg "is the great grandson of international banker Felix Warburg, who played a key role in bringing the communists to power in Russia." A parenthetical note adver- tised a supplement, Christian Holocaust, purporting to tell "the full story of the Warburg family's alliance with the Bol- sheviks." F • %HI 11111) The theme of the discussion was to have been, "Writing in a Young • State — In a Traumatized Society." The par- ticipants were 40 Israeli and German authors meeting at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation near Bonn. But the major issue inevitably turned out to be the Holocaust. "The Holocaust is the only issue for discussion by Jews and Germans," asserted Joseph Lapid, writer and former direc- tor of Israel's radio and televi- sion authority. "There can never be another." He criticized what he described as an offensive lack of feeling some Germans showed toward Jews and expressed the feeling that, since 1970, there has been a tendency in German literature to ascribe guilt to the Jews. Lapid cited Heinar Kip- Brother phardt's play, Eichmann, which, he said, clearly equates Auschwitz and the Israel military activities at Beirut. "To compare the histori- cally unique genocide of the Jews with Beirut or any other event," he exclaimed, is to make (Auschwitz) appear harmless." The more the Jews are accused of guilt, he noted, the less re- sponsibility Germans need to The ADL calls the Liberty Lobby the best financed anti-Semitic organization in the U.S. feel for Auschwitz.' "But," he warned, "this guilt can never end — not after 40 years, not after 400 years." Dietmar Kanthak, who wrote about the conference in the Bonn General Anzeiger, reported that Lapid was warmly sup- ported by Lea Fleischmann who complained of the difficulty of communication since the thought and behavior patterns of the German people had not changed. The Germans, she as- serted, had remained as trustful of authority as they were 50 years ago. But member of Knesset Mor- dechai Virshubsky insisted that "life goes on despite Auschwitz" and warned that Auschwitz, as a symbol of horror was being reduced by constant repetition to an empty phrase. Literature and art, he insisted, must not dwell exclusively in the past, Reporter Kanthak noted that the Germans had been put on the defensive. But his, he said, was the historically correct posi- tion since "German writers, in- cluding those representing the younger generation, are victims of German history. They, too, live and write in a traumatized society." Kanthak concluded his report on a hopeful note: the dis- cussions between Germans and Jews had been difficult and painful, yet, "in the end there was a barely perceptible, fragile rapproachement, an agreement to talk with each other regard- less of what had happened. That may not be much but is was still a great deal."