Jews Say Negro, White Extremists Spread Arab Propaganda In America

New York Times News Service

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Houston, Tex. — The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith yesterday accused two groups, one anti-white and the other anti-Negro, of disseminating Arab-sponsored, “gutter level propaganda” in this country against Jews and Israel. Benjamin R.

Epstein, national director of the league, who made public the study, named the Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee (SNCC) and the National States Rights party (NSRP) as the groups in question. He described SNCC as a “black racist and leftwing revolutionary organization” and its “polar opposite, NSRP,” as “neo-Nazi, white racist.”

The league study declared that the two groups circulate propaganda materials produced by the Palestine Liberation organization and the Palestine Arab delegation. The Arab groups, the league said, are registered with the United States government as agents for foreign powers.

The report highlighted the closing session here of the three-day meeting of the national executive committee of the league, which is devoted to safeguarding the civil and religious rights of Jews throughout the world. The league also plays a role in the civil rights movement.

Epstein charged that the SNCC newsletter and the states rights party’s “Thunderbolt” publication showed almost “word-for-word dependence” on Arab propaganda material against Jews, zionism and the state of Israel.

The league study described the Palestine Liberation organization as a “notorious and extremist Arab propaganda apparatus, masterminded by Ahmed Shukairy, a long-time Arab spokesman who has engaged in anti-Jewish tirades on the floor of the United Nations and elsewhere.”

Context added by this archive

Four months after June 1967, and the frame does a new thing: it brackets the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with a neo-Nazi party by way of what they both allegedly read. The link asserted is not a shared politics — the report goes out of its way to call them polar opposites — but a shared source.

The charge is word-for-word dependence, which is a charge about where a sentence came from rather than whether it is true.

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"Jews Say Negro, White Extremists Spread Arab Propaganda In America," Gazette and Daily, 23 October 1967. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-030. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-030