The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith said today that it would call upon President Carter to “dissociate himself and his Administration from the recent actions and derogatory statements” about Jews made by his brother, Billy Carter. Stuart Lewengrub, Southeast regional director of the ADL, also labeled as “untrue and inane” a charge by Billy Carter that the reason that he and his Libyan friends have not been able to meet with Mayor Maynard Jackson of Atlanta was due to “Jewish pressure.”
Carter was reported to have mode that remark yesterday after Jackson sent word that he was too busy to receive a Libyan delegation that the President’s brother was hosting on a visit to Georgia to establish a Libyan-Georgia Friendship Society.
Lewengrub called it “the latest example of his (Billy Carter’s) anti-Semitic insinuations.” He said, “We have more respect for the Mayor than to try to tell him with whom he should or shouldn’t meet in this city. It seems to us that Billy Carter is falling more and more into the pattern of blaming Jews for his own displays of poor judgement. Billy would do better to take an objective look at the policies and practices of the Libyan government whose representatives he and his friends are hosting, their support of world-wide terrorism and their absolute hostility to the Middle East peace effort currently underway.”
Last month, Carter was reprimanded by Lewengrub for using the terms “bastardized Jew” and “Pollack” during a fund raising dinner honoring Phil Niekro, a sports figure of Polish descent.
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