Roger McAfee, the dairy farmer who put up part of his land as collateral for Angela Davis’ $102,500 bond, says Hitler “hated Jews from his youth because of their racism,” views Israel’s kibbutzim as “a tool of the (Israel) capitalistic structure,” and discloses that in 1970 he worked as a spy for Syria pinpointing locations of Israel’s defense installations in the Sinai.
These statements were made by McAfee in an interview with Rasa Gustaitis and published in yesterday’s edition of The Washington Post. The interview was conducted at his 1,100-acre farm in Caruthers, California, a farming community southwest of Fresno.
According to the interview, McAfee went to Israel originally “for religious purposes, to follow the footsteps of Christ.” When he first came to Israel some 6 years ago he claims he found the kibbutzim an expression of the “Christian” way of life. When he returned 6 years ago and again three years later “there was a decline in human relationships,” he told Gustaitis. “Originally the kibbutz was Israel. Now it’s a tool of the capitalistic structure.”
HITLER HATED JEWISH RACISM
According to the interview, McAfee was so bitter at what he saw in Israel during his subsequent return visits that he offered his help to Syria. The Syrians, he told Gustaitis, put him to work as a spy. Gustaitis notes that as McAfee “talked of his disillusionment in Israel, McAfee’s face reddened, his mouth tightened, and he shouted: ‘Hitler learned the word racism from a Jewish whore who gave him syphilis. He hated Jews from his youth because of their racism and he hated them on a racist basis, too.”
Gustaitis, who described McAfee as “a living paradox,” noted that the dairy farmer is “an opponent of the Vietnam war,” “a professed Communist who is proud of the shrewd way he practices capitalism,” and as “an idealist who bounced around the world trying to start cooperatives yet is viewed by his neighbors as a hard landlord and bad credit risk.”
McAfee, 33, was described by Gustaitis as a person who regards love as man’s basic motivation but “becomes enraged at the mention of his hates” which includes Israel. Miss Davis is charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with a shooting incident in the Marin County Courthouse in Aug. 1970. Her trial is currently underway in San Jose.
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