THE KLAN PLAN
Being Jewish and having lived in the South, I can attest to the “assimilationist” attitudes of Southern Jews and their unwillingness to display their Judaism because of a historical fear of repression. Their zeal to be more “German”-like than their neighbors didn’t work in Germany and their attempt to fade into the woodwork in the South hasn’t either.
However, there is a virulent anti-Semitic movement among black nationalists that focuses on that very small percentage of Jews who supported slavery (1.5% of Mississippi’s population is Jewish) and ignores that 50% of the 1960s demonstrators for civil rights in the South were Jewish, and that 70% of the attorneys defending them were Jewish.
Jewish law contains a prohibition against slavery, and the majority of American Jews not only detest slavery and the violation of anyone’s civil rights but have been willing to stand up and be counted as well.
BETTY R. PARDO
Laguna Hills
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