Senator Kenneth B. Keating, New York Republican, today called attention of the Senate to the anti-Jewish propaganda now being conducted in the United States by a group of Negroes who call themselves “Moslems.”
“A very disturbing development has been the emergence of a new hate group in the United States, which call themselves ‘Moslems,’ whose leader preaches a cult of racism for Negroes and extreme anti-Semitism, “Sen. Keating told the Senate. “It obviously serves Communist interests to promote dissension among the Negroes in this country, and to incite hatred against Americans of Jewish faith.”
Commenting on the Negro, anti-Jewish group operating in Harlem, Sen. Keating said: “The name adopted by this fanatical organization is an insult to the members of the Moslem religious faith, which has absolutely no relationship to this group.”
“These developments,” the Senator declared, “require the attention of Congress. We must always be on the alert to efforts by subversives in our midst masking under one false front or another to strike at the core of our democratic principles and freedoms. Communism thrives on hate and dissension, and while it has always pretended to be a friend of minorities, those who have studied the history of its operations know that this is false.”
Senator Keating said current anti-Jewish developments in the United States may be a “reflection” of a rising “new trend in Moscow” against Soviet Jewry. He said “reports have been received from many informed sources attesting to discrimination against Jews and suppression of religious services and cultural activities of Jews in the Soviet Union.” He sought to link anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union with anti-Semitism in the United States.
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