The Anti-Defamation League accused the chairman of an African American newspaper in New York of being an anti-Semite after he wrote in an editorial that Jews bought Joseph Lieberman’s candidacy as Al Gore’s running mate. The “insidious” assertion of William Tatum in the Amersterdam News is an “anti- Semitic canard employed by anti-Semites, racists and conspiracy theorists through the centuries,” the ADL charged.
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