Rabbi Meir Kahane, the leader of the Jewish Defense League, asserted today that the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations would not be holding their rally tomorrow against the anti-Zionist resolution if Chaim Herzog, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, had not criticized the American Jewish leadership.
Kahane praised Herzog for being one of the first “respectable” Jewish leaders to say what the JDL leader has long charged-that the established Jewish leaders are not meeting the needs of the American Jewish community. Herzog who said that American Jews had not responded adequately to the anti-Zionist resolution later said that his remarks were not aimed at the Jewish leaders but the Jewish man-on-the-street.
Kahane said JDL members will be at tomorrow’s rally and pass out the petitions for the Democracy in Jewish Life movement which calls for the direct election of Jewish leaders. Kahane said the JDL will sponsor a rally at the UN Plaza the night of Nov. 18. He said following the rally the group will go to Herzog’s house to thank him for his remarks and then to the Egyptian UN Mission for an “old time JDL demonstration.”
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