The Arlington Circuit Court yesterday threw out a libel suit filed by George Lincoln Rockwell against the Arlington B’nai B’rith. Rock-well distributed anti-semitic hate literature. After the B’nai B’rith came out with a statement to this effect, he filed a $50, 000 libel suit, claiming that his reputation was damaged by the statement. He was not anti-semitic but anti-Jewish, he said.
Judge Emery Hosmer dismissed the suit, ruling that since Rockwell admitted distributing literature which would “engender hate,” he could not now claim that his reputation had been damaged. Rockwell said he would appeal against the ruling.
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