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GOP's national committee. Of
reports of Malek's compliance
with Nixon's phobia concern-
ing Jews, Foxman said that
Malek was not a bigot and,
anyway, his obedience to
Nixon's orders was ancient
history.
This, said The Nation, was
"not the first time official
Jewry has held its fire when
the American establishment
talks anti-Semitism, while
emptying the vials of its
anger over the politically
unrespectable!'
Among those whom The
Nation says Jews have let off
the hook were Gen. George
Brown, former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who
warned that Jews own the
banks and newspapers), right-
wing Christian fundamen-
talist Jerry Falwell (who
received the Jabotinsky
Award from former Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin), and Richard Nixon
(whose Watergate downfall is
"mourned," according to The
Nation, by the Jewish maga-
zine, Commentary, "as a
defeat for America and a vic-
tory for the subversives").
But all these men, accord-
ing to The Nation, including
Malek's benefactor, George
Bush, were "staunch, uncrit-
ical defenders of anything the
state of Israel does. Nobody
with such credentials is going
to face the music of organiz-
ed Jewish sanctimony, unless
they are actually caught
daubing a synagogue [with a
swastika]. On the other hand,
no aside will be forgiven Jesse
Jackson or any other figure
who is not sound on the Holy
State."
This "discrimination," be-
ing "lenient with the power-
ful and high-handed with the
mavericks," states The Na-
tion, "downgrades the serious
charge of anti-Semitism to
a mere grace note of propa-
ganda."
Des Moines
Fights A 20-Foot
Menorah
The possibility of a 20-foot-
high menorah standing next
to the state capitol building
in Des Moines from late
December through early
January has caused a stir in
legal circles.
On the calendar of the
Eighth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals is a decision on a con-
flict between the state of Iowa
and the Chasidic Lubavitch
group, which is appealing the
decision of a lower court. That
court dismissed the Luba-
vitchers' request to erect, for
several weeks, a 20-foot men-
orah because, according to
syndicated columnist Nat
Hentoff, such a religious sym-
bol would have implied that it
was "part of the heart and
soul of the seat of govern-
ment."
Hentoff notes that the lower
court ruled that the Lubavit-
chers could erect the menorah
on statehouse grounds each
time they hold a religious ser-
vice — but it would have to
come down after each service
and there would have to be a
"thorough cleaning" after
each event.
Since the judge ruled that
no one else had ever been
allowed to leave a religious or
secular symbol or object on
state grounds after an event,
there was, says Hentoff, "no
discrimination" in the court's
decision and "certainly not on
the basis of the Lubavitch's
services?'
The Eighth Circuit could
dispose of the case on the
basis of the "housekeeping
rule" of cleaning up after
each event, says Hentoff, "but
that would really be unfair to
the Lubavitch." The dispute,
he asserts, is at the "very
core" of the First Amend-
ment's clause forbidding state
support of — or preference for
— any religion.
Hentoff urged the circuit
court to decide the case on the
basis of the establishment
clause. But he also noted that
when the Lubavitch were ear-
lier denied statehouse
grounds on their own terms,
they "placed the menorah on
private land, where, just as it
imposingly, it called the at-
tention of Des Moines to the
fact that all religions in this
land are given freedom under
the law?'
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Israel Plans
Book Fair
New York (JTA) — Delega-
tions from Yugoslavia and
Hungary will participate for
the first time in the 14th
Jerusalem International
Book Fair, which is expected
to be the largest in its history.
The fair, which will be held
March 12-18 at the newly
renovated Jerusalem Conven-
tion Center, is expected to
draw more than the 1,100
publishers who attended in
1987.
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