Square One
A Memoir
Description:... Memoirs of the former general counsel and associate national director of the Anti-Defamation League, focusing on his lifelong struggle against antisemitism before and after World War II. Deals with prewar bigotry and Father Coughlin, the America First movement, the Ku Klux Klan, the activities of the ADL against racism and antisemitism, the anti-Jewish element of the anti-communist campaign in the U.S., the Eichmann trial (Forster served as a radio reporter from Jerusalem), the Arab boycott against Israel, anti-Zionism as the "new" antisemitism, U.N. discrimination against Israel. Concludes that since the 1930s there has been a significant decrease in American antisemitism in terms of social discrimination and organized bigotry, but anti-Jewish attitudes are still disturbingly prevalent.
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