Jewish Republican leader Jacob Stein will host a meeting in New York Wednesday between Jewish leaders and President-elect George Bush’s choice for chief of staff, New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu.
Stein, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, will bring together several Jewish leaders, including current members of the Conference of Presidents, to meet the 49-year-old Arab-American.
Sununu’s relationship with Jews was badly tarnished by his refusal in 1986 to repudiate, at the behest of the World Zionist Organization-American Section, the 1975 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism.
After Bush announced Sununu as his choice Thursday, the New Hampshire governor told a news conference that he had not signed the U.N. resolution because he thought it was an “inappropriate” step for a governor.
Nevertheless, he said that he opposed the U.N. resolution. “I have no problem saying that (the resolution) should be repudiated, that we ought to take actions in the U.N. to take that off the rolls, so to speak,” Sununu said at the news conference.
Sununu, whose father is Lebanese, is a former member of the National Association of Arab Americans.
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