The publisher emeritus of the New York-based Amsterdam News claimed that Jews, as a religious group, “run” the city. In an April 12 editorial, Wilbert Tatum wrote that Jews manage to “promote themselves above all others in order to first achieve power and then, most importantly, to keep it.” The Anti- Defamation League said the editorial represents “another episode in Tatum’s long track record of engaging in crude anti-Semitism.”
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