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Article: Anti-Semitism in the states; A hatred that does not fade away.(OPED)(SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2002
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Byline: Nat Hentoff, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As someone with a personal, lifelong interest in anti-Semitism, I noted an omission in a recent editorial in the Washington Post: "The sad reality is that anti-Semitism has no more died away in Europe than racism has in the United States." However, neither has anti-Semitism ever died away in this nation.
As a boy growing up in Boston during the 1940s, I became quite knowledgeable about anti-Semitism by reading the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin's publication, "Social Justice," Gerald L.K. Smith's "The Cross and the Flag" and the periodicals of the Christian Front. I wanted to know why they hated me so.
I ...