Abraham Foxman, president of The Anti-Defamation League, urged Hollings to renounce his latest comments.
“This is reminiscent of age-old, anti-Semitic canards about a Jewish conspiracy to control and manipulate government,” Foxman wrote in a letter to Hollings.
Foxman said he knows some will dismiss Hollings’ choice of words as simply Hollings being Hollings.
“To them we say one doesn’t take bigotry in stride,” Foxman said. “He is one out of 100 (senators). These are 100 of the most prominent people in the country. To hear such crudeness, such ugliness, such classical anti-Semitism. It’s sad.”
Finally Foxman gets a hit. Good.
10 posted on 05/19/2004 6:53:01 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
I agree. I wish he would focus his concern on episodes like this one, and islamonazis, instead of fighting ghosts of antisemitism from decades if not centuries past.