A top official of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith charged here that “Billy Carter’s friends in the Libyan Embassy in Washington have begun a newsletter which is dispensing raw anti-Semitism.” Addressing the annual dinner of ADL’s Bergen County Society of Fellows, Abraham Foxman, the ADL associate national director, described the first edition of “Jamahiriya Newsletter” as “an Arab version of the Nazis’ ‘Der Stuermer.”
Foxman told some 300 guests who were paying tribute to David Goldman, a Fort Lee industrialist and benefactor to communal causes, that the inaugural issue of the magazine carried a cartoon of a procession of bearded figures wearing skullcaps and carrying money bags destined to Israel from the United States. The cartoon has Uncle Sam stating. “Now I see who’s the cause of inflation.
Declaring that while “this Kind of anti-Semitism may be acceptable in Libya; it is intolerable for it to be disseminated in this country by the press office of a diplomatic mission in Washington.” Foxman said ADL will register a protest with U.S. officials. The Society of Fellows is a nationwide association of professional, business and civic leaders who assist the ADL in campaigning, recruitment and planning.
Meanwhile, a news agency report from Kuwait quoted Carter in an interview published simultaneously last Friday in the magazines Al Yaqza and Al Nahdha that ” I am determined not to surrender to any threats and will not back down whatever the cost may be, because I believe in the justice of the Arab cause and receive support for my views from an increasing number of Americans.”
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