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• Standing outside the 
synagogue, Henry Herskovitz, 
the picketers’
 leader, stated 
his motivation in these exact 
words, which on his website 
he acknowledged uttering: “I 
hate Jews. Whatever happened 
to them in World War II they 
brought on themselves. They 
deserved everything they got.
”
• The late Ernst 
Zündel was 
Germany’
s leading neo-Na-
zi, author of the book The 
Hitler We Loved and Why, who 
was imprisoned in Germany 
for inciting race hatred and 
Holocaust denial. Not only 
did Herskovitz campaign tire-
lessly for Zündel’
s release, but 
Herskovitz flew to Germany 
to meet Zündel in Mannheim 
prison, shake Zündel’
s hand 
and express warm admiration.
• The Southern Poverty 
Law Center, a leading civil 
rights organization, listed 
Deir Yassin Remembered, the 
group that initiated the picket, 
on its National Register of 
Hate Groups. Why? Because, 
the SPLC explained, the 
group sympathizes with Nazi 
Germany.
• Larry Brayboy is a local 
political activist whom 
Herskovitz identified in a 
letter to the Washtenaw Jewish 
News as a “
close friend” of the 
picketers. The picketers chose 
Brayboy to represent their 
views in a public debate in 
which he promised to prove 
that the Holocaust never hap-
pened and that Jews caused 
9/11. Brayboy has sent endless 
emails to public figures using 
antisemitic and racist slurs.
• Paul Eisen, a director of 
Deir Yassin Remembered, 
appeared on the radio 

program of David Duke, 
America’
s leading neo-Nazi. 
Said Eisen to Duke on the air, 
“I never heard you, David, say 
anything that I didn’
t think 
was true.
”
This is only the tip of the 
iceberg of the picketers’
 per-
vasive and incorrigibly antise-
mitic activities. Their leaders 
have seized upon the Mideast 
issue, not because they know 
anything about Middle 
Eastern history, but because 
they think the issue will attract 
new supporters while cam-
ouflaging their true motives. 
As a major community orga-
nization, I hope that you will 
provide a full and accurate 
account of their ideology that 
has now resulted in a federal 
court case.
Let me say, finally, that if 
Islamophobes had targeted the 
local mosque year in and year 
out, or Ku Klux Klansmen 
had besieged a Black church, 
I believe that public outrage 
would have forced city coun-
cilmen, clergy and community 
leaders to find the legal and 
political means to end the 
siege. That Ann Arbor has 
done absolutely nothing to 
help the synagogue during an 
ordeal now in its 17th year, 
that community leaders have 
remained silent in the face 
of endless hate-group prov-
ocation, is, in my opinion, a 
frightening reproduction of 
1930s cowardice, a mark of 
shame, a scarlet letter that 
Ann Arbor will have great dif-
ficulty removing. 

— Victor Lieberman

Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished 

University Professor of History

University of Michigan

CORRECTION
We regret that the incorrect photo was 
used to identify the writer of the Torah 
portion on Aug. 20. This photo of Rabbi 
Daniel Schwartz should have appeared. 

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