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Jackson's appeal for Iranian Jews signals
a long way from "Hymietown."
JULIA GOLDMAN
Jewish Megraphic Agency
New York
hose who remember the
Rev. Jesse Jackson' referring
to New York as
"Hymietown" in 1984 or
embracing Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat in 1979, taboo at the time, may
be surprised to see the African-
American leader taking up the cause
of 13 Iranian Jews facing possible exe-
cution on charges of spying for Israel.
But the Jesse Jackson of 1999 looks
back on decades of activism on behalf
of the Jewish community, whose lead-
ership last week turned to Jackson to
intervene for the arrested Iranian Jews.
Jackson himself reminded Jewish
leaders of this work before a news
conference Sunday in New York,
where he reiterated his commitment
to lobby the Iranian government for
the Jewish prisoners' release.
Introducing Jackson was Ronald
Lauder, the chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, an
umbrella organization of 55 Jewish
groups. Lauder highlighted examples
of the pro-Jewish advocacy by Jackson,