The National Association of Arab Americans, the largest group of Americans of Arab origin in the United States, has informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a mailgram that it “joins other concemed Americans in opposing the Nazi march in Skokie.” The mailgram, signed by Hisham Sharbi, the NAAA president, said the march is “a deliberate provocation by an anti-Semitic group in a community whose members have suffered too much.” The mailgram was dated before the Nazis called off their march.
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