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bConcord Hotel, passed a resolution advocating preferential btreatment for Black applicants for new jobs in civil service as bopposed to Jewish applicants. When the President of the bJewish Teachers Association, the late Dr. Herman Mantell, bdemanded clarification, it was given to him on June 24, b1968, by Morris S. Sass, New York Regional Director of the bB’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League. According to Man- btell, Sass stated that the ADL position was that if Jewish and bBlack applicants of equal preparation seek the same civil bservice job, then the preference should be given to the Black bapplicant.

bADL chairman Dore Schary at the B’nai B’rith’s triennial bconvention at Washington’s posh Shoreham Hotel on Sep- btember 8, 1968, warned “not to exaggerate fears of Black bNegro anti-Semitism.” “Let us be crystal clear,” he said, “the bstatements of a few must not be attributed to an entire bpeople. Negro anti-Semitism presents none of the dangers bof fascism.” This same liberal madness was echoed by the bAmerican Jewish Congress in December 1968 after the bBlack Jew-hatred was obvious to the dullest cretin and had bbeen manifested in hundreds of instances. Following the bcirculating in Harlem of a leaflet that stated “Harlem will bnot stand idly by while these racist, ruthless Zionist bandits b[the United Federation of Teachers] run us out of our own bcommunities,” the American Jewish Congress protested bvigorously and then went on to assure us that “we are bconfident that the views do not represent any significant bnumber of Harlem residents but only a tiny and discredited bfringe group.” The leaflet had been produced by Jesse bGray, who the following year won the Democratic nomina- btion for City Councilman from Harlem . . .

bIt was typical of the mentality of the Jews who ran the bJewish community. And they never really learned. When a blarge and expensive advertisement by tens of militant bBlacks, including professionals, ministers, and political ac- btivists, was placed in The New York Times bitterly attacking bIsrael (November 1, 1970), the National Jewish Community bRelations Advisory Council (NJCRAC), which is the um- bbrella organization for all major Jewish groups, hastily in- b 

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