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on't be misled by a re-
cently issued book
bearing the innocuous
title of Jews in America Today,
published by the reputable
firm of Lyle Stuart, Inc.
The book is about Jews,
about America and about Is-
rael as well. Since it defies any
kind of orthodox review, I have
no choice but to dip into its
pages and let it speak for itself.
None of these quotations are
taken out of context. They are
typical of the contents, the
spirit and the message of the
volume.
On America, the author
writes that the U.S. is now
known not as the land of the
free and the home of the brave,
but as "the land of the freak
and the home of the knave." It
is a country "overwhelmingly
inhabited by apathetic politi-
cal naifs." He looks forward to
the "final battle" against
exploitation and oppression,
and is wrathful that the Jews
will not be in the trenches
fighting that battle on the side
of the oppressed. He mourns
that they cannot be counted on
"in the coming American revo-
lution." Though he
presumably lives in the U.S.,
America is in many ways "re-
pulsive to any sensitive per-
son."
On Israel he has much to say.
His ideal: to build "support for
a democratic, secular Pales-
tine." How was Israel created?
Given half the country in the
1947 partition, the Zionists
were not satisfied. "Terror was
their weapon to widen the con-
quest." The author is proud
that a previous book of his will,
in his words, always be a "razor
at Zionism's jugular." He
utilizes fifteen and more pages
to vent his ire at those who re-
viewed that work critically. Of
course everyone who did not
like the book was a knave or
worse. To him the kibbutzim
are "racist institutions",
Hadassah is "politically vul-
gar", the "ugly Israelis" are
seen as "brash at best, and
often untrustworthy hustlers."
Gleefully he heads one section,
in bold face, with a quotation
from somebody; "Israel draws
to it the insane, the fanatics,
the extremists."
He hints that he is himself
Jewish, but of course, he is far
superior to the other Jews, who
have "made it (in America) fair
and foul, in American ways:
slaveholding, slumlording,
bribery, etc., as well as sweat-
ing and studying." He has a
hang-up on rich Jews, the
capitalists, and devotes scores
of pages to excoriating them.
Even when citing otherwise

cold statistics he has a knack of
doing so with a nasty sneer and
with open contempt for the
Jews. He knows how to use
pejorative words to create
maximum negative im-
pressions.
But Jews don't have to be
rich to merit his smearing. The
Lower East Side, he is happy to
report, was characterized by its
Jewish white slave traffic and
its whorehouses. He tells that
American Jews have become
masters of the use of bribery.
"The shmeer artists are an out-
cropping of the notorious shtetl
mentality."
The author has his heroes,
too. They include Vanessa
Redgrave and Hafaz Assad of
Syria. Louis Farrakhan's
notorious observations are
given ample space.
There are 361 pages of this,
not counting the index. More
typical examples, on women's
rights: "The only way Jewish
women can ever get equality
with Jewish men is when they
unite with the Palestinian
masses and replace the Zionist
state with a democratic, secu-
lar Palestine."
The plight of Soviet Jewry is
treated archly. He points out
that the first Jew in space was
Col. Boris Volynov, who went
up in 1969 and again in 1976,
whereas America's first
Jewish astronaut, the late
Judy Resnick, did not go up
until years later! This is ap-
parently supposed to prove
something.
During the Holocaust the
Zionists collaborated with the
Nazis, and as a result, there
are "six million Jewish skele-
tons in the closet, skeletons
that are now beginning to bang
loudly on the door."
I think that even the author
will agree that all of the above
are fair and accurate excerpts
from the book. With such a
text, which speaks for itself,
who needs to write a review?
Normally, this book should
have been ignored, but I have
given it this much space be-
cause it is handsomely pro-
duced by a reputable pub-
lisher.
The author is one Lenni
Brenner who, I am happy to
say, I never heard of before,
though his writings have ap-
peared in Arab Perspectives,
and his previous book was
lauded by Izvestia.
It would appear that his per-
sonal philosophy is that of a
frustrated Trotskyite who
hates the capitalists, mocks
the liberals and mourns the
disappearance of a revolution-
ary labor movement, but still
dreams of the coming revolu-
tion which will smash the
capitalist establishment in
America and the state of Israel
with it.

