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Washington (JTA) — New-
ly announced Republican
presidential hopeful David
Duke is the first candidate
in recent memory with
whom the Conference of
Presidents of Major Ameri-
can Organizations will
refuse to meet.
Malcolm Hoenlein, its ex-
ecutive director, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that his group regularly
meets with presidential con-
tenders, but in this case, "I
cannot see the cir-
cumstances under which we
would host Duke."
Mr. Duke, who has
disputed that the Holocaust
took place and referred to an
alleged top-heavy Jewish
control of the media, made
ample negative reference to
the "Israeli lobby" in a news
conference, in which he an-
nounced he will challenge
President Bush's Republican
candidacy for the 1992 pres-
idential race.
Blaming the U.S. tilt
toward Israel on the "Israeli
lobby" and its "very strong"
activism, Mr. Duke said, "I
think Israel is an ally of this
country, but we've got to use
the economic influence we
have and the military in-
fluence to have a fair policy
in the Middle East."
"I'm for Israel when it does
correctly and I'm opposed to
Israel when they act incor-
rectly, and I think what's go-
ing on in terms of the 'set-
tlements in Israel needs to
be changed," Mr. Duke said.
But although the Presi-
dents Conference would not
meet with Mr. Duke, Mr.
Hoenlein acknowledged it
would probably meet with
conservative Patrick
Buchanan, who prior to the
Persian Gulf War blamed
the Israeli lobby for pushing
a war.
Mr. Buchanan also opposes
foreign aid, including to
Israel, and he has tried to
thwart Justice Department
moves to deport Nazis from
this country. Still, Mr.
Hoenlein said "I guess we
would" meet with Mr.
Buchanan if he does throw
his hat into the ring.
Despite Mr. Duke's racist,
anti-Jewish and anti-Israel
stance, Mr. Hoenlein said it
is proper for Jewish groups
to be barred from publicly
opposing Mr. Duke's can-
didacy, under Internal
Revenue Service restrictions
governing the activities of
tax-exempt or not-for-profit
groups.

Mr. Duke's past in-
volvement as a Ku Klux
Klan grand wizard has
drawn emotional opposition
from U.S. Jews. Mr. Duke,
now a Republican state
representative in Louisiana,
'conceded in announcing his
candidacy for president that
he was "intolerant" in those
days but that he is a changed
man.
Mr. Duke has changed
several times. In 1987, he
entered the U.S. presidential
primaries on the Democratic
ticket. He ran for president
in the 1988 election as
Populist Party candidate.
At the end of 1988, he ran
as a Republican for the Loui-
siana statehouse and won.
In Mr. Duke's failed bid
last month to win the Loui-
siana governorship on the
Republican ticket, he lost to
Democrat Edwin Edwards.
Jewish activists poured tens
of thousands of dollars into
the Edwards campaign.
But none of that money
came from Jewish commun-
ity groups that receive tax-
exempt status from the IRS,
whose code bars non- profit
groups from endorsing a par-
ticular candidate or sponsor-
ing paid advertisements.
In the four-week span bet-
ween Mr. Duke's Louisiana
loss and his -presidential an-
nouncement, organized Jew-
ish groups maximized the
opportunity to say anything
they wanted about Mr.
Duke, and many took out
paid advertisements in
major newspapers.
But from now on, the
groups will be limited to
only speaking out against
racist comments they at-
tribute to Mr. Duke.
The IRS restriction "offers
protection to both sides and
doesn't restrict our ability to
be heard on issues," said Mr.
Hoenlein, who acknowl-
edged that the "political
climate that tolerates the
candidacies of people who
manifest views like (Duke) is
deeply disturbing."
Matthew Brooks, ex-
ecutive director of the Na-
tional Jewish Coalition, the
major Jewish Republican po-
litical group, said Mr.
Duke's candidacy would
po'se the greatest threat
should he run as a third-
party candidate next
November in the event that
he loses the Republican
nomination.
A Duke candidacy can be
expected to generate in-
creased Jewish fund-raising.

