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After a second letter from ADL, dated March 19, Hobson replied that Hassan had assured him that the anti-Semitic activities had ended five years ago. The League response documented anti-Jewish activities engaged in by Hassan at least as recently as the fall of 1970. In the current correspondence to Richardson, the League points out that Hassan gave wide distribution to anti-Semitic tracts in September 1970 at a gas station he owned, at the U.S. Department of Labor, and on District of Columbia streets. One of these tracts, signed by Hassan and on the stationery of the “Blackman’s Volunteer Army of Liberation,” declares that “America’s deadly enemy…is The International Jewish Conspiracy.” Labelled “An Open Letter To Americans,” the piece asserts that “America is threatened with takeover from within by a people that are conspiring to destroy the American heritage.” The letter was reprinted in the American Mercury, an anti-Semitic publication which is part of Carto’s operation. Hassan has admitted to being “anti-Zionist” but claims he is not anti-Semitic. Graubard said that “Hassan’s writings are clearly anti Jewish and make obvious that he considers the words ‘Jew’ and ‘Zionist’ to be synonomous.”