I am not familiar with that particular periodical. I enjoy perusing the World Net Daily web site, though. Here's an interesting little tidbit that I stumbled upon:
Fight violence with violence, Jewish activist says
Updated 12:00 PM ET January 10, 2000
By Nathan Winegar
Daily Northwestern Northwestern U.
(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern must silence World Church of the Creator leader Matthew Hale and ban him from campus because of the violence his organization advocates, militant Jewish leader Mordechai Levy told about 25 people during a Sunday evening speech at a Highland Park hotel.
"Hale must not be allowed to have a campus organization," Levy said. "He should be arrested and thrown out when he tries to pass out pamphlets (on campus)."
During an hour-long address at the Courtyard Marriott, the national director of the New York-based Jewish Defense Organization said Jews must arm themselves to defend against violent white supremacists.
"If someone comes to kill you, you kill them first," Levy said. "Peaceful means when possible, violent means, as a last resort, when necessary."
Levy announced his intentions to immediately start an office of the JDO in Chicago, and bring "New York-style Jewish militancy" to the city. The JDO will begin organizing Jewish "self-defense units" designed to arm and train selected Jews in the fight against radical anti-Semitism.
Levy said one of the first actions of the Illinois JDO will be to force the expulsion of a Deerfield High School student Levy said is behind recent anti-Semitic acts. He named a 17-year-old member of Hale's organization, who he said was responsible for recent anti-Semitic vandalism at the school.
When informed by The Daily of Levy's speech, the student denied being the source of any vandalism, but he did confirm being a member of Hale's World Church, and said he was arrested twice in August and September in connection with passing out literature at Deerfield High School.
"I did distribute literature," the student said, "but it's not right
to get kicked out of school."
The student, a senior a Deerfield High School, said he distributed the literature because he feels his "race is in jeopardy of being run out by Jews and niggers."
According to Levy, the JDO plans to "break the (Deerfield) administration in half" through a lawsuit that would allow the JDO to distribute its own pamphlets in front of the school.
"We must warn the students of Deerfield, which is 50 percent Jewish, that there is a Nazi among them," Levy said.
Levy repeatedly compared Hale to Adolf Hitler and former Louisiana gubernatorial candidate David Duke, and said Hale must not be allowed to gain a foothold of power in Illinois. Hale's message and strategy for recruiting members are, according to Levy, "a repeat of what happened in Germany in the '20s and '30s."
Levy accused Jewish leaders and NU officials of not taking Hale's threats of violence seriously.
"Hitler was a laughable joke, too, until one day a depression hit," Levy said, "and a small Nazi Party became a large one."
If economic conditions were to deteriorate, Levy said more people may begin to believe Hale's view that minorities are the source of the problem.
More rallies such as the anti-hate demonstration at NU Fall Quarter are needed to stop Hale before he becomes too big, Levy said.
"Jews at some college campuses will march to save the whales (or against) fur coats, but not for their lives," Levy said, adding students must make more "loud and lawful" calls on the government to put Hale in jail.
"Cowardice and apathy are the enemy of Jewish survival," Levy said.
In mid-October Hale distributed racist literature at NU, and was told by school officials he could not distribute without recognition as an official religious group at NU. Hale proceeded to ask for permission to become such a religious group.
Late in Fall Quarter University President Henry Bienen said that even if students adhered to NU's policies about establishing religious groups on campus, recognition as a campus organization still might not be granted by NU officials.
In remarks after the speech, Levy said he has talked with student leaders of NU's Hillel Cultural Life chapter.
"I helped them organize ways to call (Bienen) and distribute flyers to get Hale banned on campus," Levy said.
Jeremy Goldman, a biomedical engineering graduate student at NU, traveled to Highland Park to hear Levy speak. Goldman called Levy "very militant" and said he didn't agree with all of the views of the JDO.
He did, however, say he was "motivated and inspired" by Levy to learn to use a gun.
"A small number of people want to kill Jews," said Goldman, the only NU student in attendance. "I think Jewish people should know how to use a gun."
Levy said he hasn't spoken in the Chicago area in almost 10 years. In 1989 he spoke at NU against Holocaust revisionist Arthur Butz, a tenured engineering professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
NU administrators have upheld Butz's tenure on First Amendment grounds, but Levy said constitutional protections shouldn't apply to hateful rhetoric.
"Freedom of speech should be redefined to exclude Hales and Nazis," Levy said. "One doesn't ignore or debate Nazis, one destroys Nazis." |
