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'Uneasiness Index'
The Anti-Defamation League this week
held its most comprehensive conference
ever on anti-Semitism.
ROBERT GOLDBLUM
Special to The Jewish News
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991
Of Farmington Hills
be Foxman would
have made a great
football coach.
You can just picture the
fiery and passionate director
of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, a
man whose personal odyssey
as a Holocaust survivor
helps drive the organization,
pacing the locker room, at
once glaring at his charges
and inspiring them, giving a
tough-talking "Win One for
the Gipper" speech. In fact,
he looks like former Kansas
City Chiefs coach Hank
Stram, even down to the
snug-fitting double-breasted
jacket.
Mr. Foxman is thick-
necked and built low to the
ground, all the better to feel
what he sees as an increase
in anti-Semitic activity
throughout the world. That
feeling was the impetus for
what the ADL called its
most comprehensive con-
ference ever on world anti-
Semitism, held in Montreal.
At the end of the first day
of the conference, in a speech
peppered with Yiddish and
Hebrew and even a Sam
Levenson story, Mr. Foxman
posed the key question:
"Why are we here? We're
here because our hearts and
our kishkas tell us there's a
reason to worry, that there is
a rising tide of anti-
Semitism — both in quantity
and quality — in the world.
And we are here to test the
uneasiness index toward an-
ti-Semitism."
As if Mr. Foxman had
willed it by the sheer force of
his personality, here is a list
of stories carried in the New
York Times on the day the
conference opened: a front-
page piece documenting the
rise of racial tension and
white supremacist thinking
in Dubuque, Iowa; a story on
p. 16 reporting on a promi-
nent Ku Klux Klan leader
from Oklahoma organizing a
cross burning outside Berlin
and building ties with neo-
Nazi groups in Germany;
and a piece in "The Week in
Review" section recapping
the controversy between the
computer service, Prodigy,
and the ADL, which recently
accused the company of
fostering anti-Semitism by
allowing such statements to
be posted on its electronic
bulletin boards.
If that weren't enough, on
the second day of the con-
ference there appeared on
tables outside the main
meeting room copies of the
extreme right-winger Lyn-
don LaRouche's newspaper,
the New Federalist. You
couldn't have scripted it any
better.
But if the conference —
which brought together
academics, journalists,
historians, religious leaders,
demographers and critics
from around the world —did
anything, it threw up for
grabs exactly what the
"uneasiness index" is con-
cerning anti-Semitism to-
day.
For while speaker after
speaker — from the chief
rabbi of Romania to Julius
Lester, a black activist from
the '60s turned Orthodox
Jew, to former New York
City mayor Ed Koch —
pressed the case for a percep-
tible increase in anti-Semitic
activity, there was also a