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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Sept. 27, 1968
Further Off Base Than Ever
NYU President Tries
Doubletalk on Malaprop
ish Community Center said that
it will seek 100,000 signatures on
a petition to protest the Hatchett
appointment. Rubin R. Dobin,
chairman of the Far Rockaway
Community Council, said his
group would seek to enroll as
many NYU students as possible
in the protest and to expand it
on a nationwide scale.
Good Wishes for the New Year
NEW YORK (JTA)—The pres
ident of the New York Univer
sity expressed regrets that com
ments he made in defending
John F. Hatchett against charges
of anti-Semitism were misinter
preted as a defense of an article
by Mr. Hatchett critical of Jew
ish teachers in the New York
City public school system.
Mr. Hatchett is the recently
named director of the univer
sity’s new Martin Luther King
Jr. Afro-American Student Cen-
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ter. Dr. James M. Hester, in a
statement issued here, said that
he recognized “the oversimplifi
cation in my reference to the
complex phenomenon of anti-
Semitism,” that he considered
all forms of anti-Semitism ‘“ab
horrent” and strongly opposed
them wherever they appeared
and that “I do not condone Mr.
Hatchett’s article about the pub
lic schools.”
Dr. Hester was criticized by
the Synagogue Council of Amer
ica for his alleged "apologia”
for a “scurrilous anti-Semitic
article.” The Council, representa
tive body of six national syn
agogue and rabbinic organiza
tions, took issue with remarks by
the NYU president that while he
did not subscribe to the views
expressed in the Hatchett article,
he could understand how they
might have been written with
out the author being anti-Semitic
in the classical sense. The con-
Editor Cautions
Anti-Semitism
Might Grow in NY
NEW YORK (JTA)—The ed
ucation editor of the New York
Times has warned of the growth
of anti-Semitism among Ne
groes, particularly in connection
with the New York City school
situation. A “sick and danger
ous kind of racism” is develop
ing in the conflict over decen
tralization of the school system,
Fred M. Hechinger wrote.
“Anti-Semitism among some
Negro separatists should not be
minimized,” he declared. “But
there is also strong indication
that more of the growing anti-
Semitism in the all-Negro areas
is of the angry, largely econom
ically motivated kind that sees
the successful shopkeeper, the
policeman, the bank teller and,
of course, the teacher as the
enemy because he represents
the power structure.”
Mr. Hechinger declared that
“in such irrationality it matters
little that the whites who work
in the Negro ghettoes and their
schools are so often Jews only
because the Jews were among
the last to rise from their own
ghettoes.”
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troversial article, which appear
ed in a Negro teachers periodical
in 1967, charged that Jewish
teachers dominated the New
York public school system and
that they and Negro imitators
were mentally poisoning Negro
pupils. Mr. Hatchett disclaimed
any anti-Semitic intent but de
fended his right to identify the
ethnic group of which he was
critical. Dr. Hester, in effect,
upheld that right when he noted
in the New York Times inter
view that Jewish teachers were
organized in a Jewish teachers
association.
The Far Rockaway, N. Y. Jew-
Trade Increase Seen
VIENNA (JTA)— Trade be
tween Austria and Israel will
increase soon as the result of
talks here between Austrian
Commerce Minister Otto Mit-
terer and Israel’s Finance, Com
merce and Industry Minister
Zeev Sharef. Austria is inter
ested in expanding exports to
Israel. Trade between the two
countries has been quiet since
the Six-Day War. Mr. Sharef
promised to promote more tour
ist traffic to Austria, among
other things.
Interfaith Parley
Weighs Bias Extent
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (JTA)—
Protestant and Catholic clergy
men, Negro leaders and social
scientists participated with
leaders and officials of Jewish
community relations organiza
tions in a three-day conference
here on the extent of anti-Sem
itism in this country and ways
to combat it.
The conference was held be
hind closed doors and its con
clusions will be made public
later in a statement signed by
the participants.
Delay Draft Routine
For High Holy Days
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Selective Service Commission
has advised the National Jew
ish Welfare Board that all draft
boards had been asked to give
“favorable consideration when
ever possible” to requests from
Jewish registrants for postpone
ment of their physical examina
tion or induction in the armed
forces during Jewish High Holy
Days. The official word was re
ceived by Rabbi Selwyn D. Rus-
lander, chairman of the JWB’s
Jewish Chaplaincy Commission,
from Brig. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, director of the Selec
tive Service System.
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