A spokesman for the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith called on the Philadelphia Negro community today to repudiate Cecil B. Moore, suspended president of the North Philadelphia branch of the NAACP, asserting that people like Moore “offer incitement and nothing else” and, in fact, “are betraying the Negro community.”
I. Budd Rockower, a national commissioner of ADL and honorary chairman of its advisory board here, deplored an attack on the Jews by Moore in the course of a court hearing in a suit by the local Board of Education to prevent Black Power demonstrations in the public schools. During the hearing, Moore assailed David Berger, special counsel for the board, who is chairman of the Philadelphia ADL advisory board and demanded that “you and the rest of you Jews get out of my business.” Mr. Rockower said that the remarks were “in keeping with this man’s record for making racist and anti-Jewish statement.” Previously, the Philadelphia Fellowship Commission had called for “public repudiation” of Moore’s appeals for violence. The NAACP chapter voted his suspension last July.
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