A telephone campaign by the National Socialist White Peoples Party,” formerly the American Nazi Party headed by the late George Lincoln Rockwell, has embarked on such extreme denunciations of Israel that a Congressional request for an investigation was made today. Following the United States and United Nations condemnations of Israel for the Dec. 28 reprisal action at Beirut airport, the rightists recorded a telephone message assailing Israel and the Jewish people. By dialing a widely advertised number, the caller would hear a spokesman for the party state that “a hydrogen bomb on Tel Aviv right now would be an excellent and a just way of settling the entire Middle Eastern problem.” The message charged that the “Politicians who run the United States are totally under the influence of the enormously powerful and well organized Jews in this country.” It said that after “a timid slap on Israel’s wrist, our Government will deliver to the Jews still more military equipment including 50 Phantom jet fighters to be used for further Jewish aggression against the Arabs.” The Nazis stated in their recording that by the reprisal at Beirut, “the Jews once again displayed their colossal arrogance and total contempt for all the non-Jewish peoples of the world — or ‘goyim’, as they sneeringly call us.” Citing Israel’s justification for the Beirut action, the Nazis said, “By this kind of reasoning, the U.S. would have been more than justified in wiping Israel off the map with hydrogen bombs in June, 1967, as the Jews made their murderous attack on the USS Liberty deliberately killing 39 American sailors.”
Rep. Seymour Halpern, New York Republican, said today that “such racist incitements appear to violate Federal regulations governing public utilities and interstate communications.” He said that he is requesting the appropriate Federal agencies to determine whether Government – licensed telephone facilities can be “used for the irresponsible dissemination of slanders, racist incitements, and such flagrant appeals to anti-Semitism”. A tape recording system is used to reply to the callers who telephone the advertised number. The matter is under investigation by the regional office of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.
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