Although Anti-Defamation League studies four years ago found less anti-Semitism among Negroes than among whites, “the pendulum has swung the other way” and a marked rise in Negro anti-Semitism has emerged during recent tensions, according to Jason Silverman, regional director of the B’nai B’rith ADL. Mr. Silverman spoke on a special CBS-TV program which examined the problem emerging from the riots here following the assassination of Negro civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. last April. Mr. Silverman said that Jews were singled out although they tried to help Negroes because the Negroes expected something from them and they became the targets of Negro frustrations. He said that Negro anti-Semitism is dangerous and must be rooted out. Negro spokesmen interviewed on the program said that “absentee landlords” and “absentee merchants” were no longer welcome in the ghetto. They charged that white business men exploited the Negroes and that ghetto businesses must be taken over by Negroes.
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