New York City’s police commissioner called the anti-Semitic organizer of last weekend’s Million Youth March a “hatemonger” who behaved like a “black Hitler.” Howard Safir’s criticism of Khalid Muhammad came as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said that those politicians unwilling to condemn the anti-Semitism expressed by Muhammad and other speakers at the march are forgetting the lessons of history. Meanwhile, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is planning an investigation of what took place at the march.
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