A week before the beginning of the Democratic National Convention, Jackson in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, denounces the American Jewish community for seeking to make him a “pariah” and that Mondale’s failure to consider him as a serious Vice Presidential running mate was due to the “threats” to Mondale from a “significant number of Jewish leaders.”
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