The New Jersey State Assembly, Lower House of the Legislature, unanimously adopted a resolution yesterday condemning Common Sense, an anti-Semitic sheet published by Conde McGinley.
The resolution expressed “abhorrence of the organized campaign of prejudice and bigotry” conducted by Common Sense and noted that it was edited by a “bigot who is anti-Negro, anti-Catholic and anti-Jew.”
Assemblyman Frank Thompson, who introduced the resolution, characterized McGinley’s paper as “a bit of carrion fit only to attract buzzards.” He blasted Common Sense for using the word Zionist instead of Jew and for then trying to “make Zionism and Communism identical.” However, Thompson opposed attempts to ban the publication of Common Sense because he believed that such a prohibition would breach the Bill of Rights.
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