The City Council here has voted to deny use of the public address system in Armory Park to other than civics groups following complaints that a religious speaker last week made anti-Semitic utterances during an open-air speech.
The British ADL-Community Relations Committee, which investigated the incident, had decided that it would not ask the city authorities to take action since “it is not the policy of the committee to resort to city agencies to silence an alleged anti-Semitic speech before a handful of people in the guise of religion.
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