1999 ⟶ Anti-Defamation League Disputes Pat Buchanan's Defense of Charles Lindbergh
Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, in an 11 Octob...
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🗣️ Charles Lindbergh's Antisemitic Speech
In a speech at an America First rally at the Des Moines Coliseum on 11 September 1941, Charles Lindbergh accused American Jews of exercising "large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government" and of conspiring to make the United States join World War II.⟶
AntisemitismCharles LindberghAmerica FirstSpeechWorld War IIConspiracy TheoryPoliticsInfluence
United States🗣️ Pat Buchanan's Remarks on Hitler in John Toland biography review
In a 1977 Globe-Democrat column discussing John Toland's biography of Adolf Hitler, Pat Buchanan wrote: Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him... Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.⟶
Pat BuchananHitlerHistorical AnalysisJournalism1970sControversial ViewsAnti-Semitism
United States⚖️ Anti-Defamation League Accusation and LaRouche Libel Suit
When the Anti-Defamation League accused Lyndon LaRouche of antisemitism in 1979, he filed a $26-million libel suit; however, the case failed when Justice Michael Dontzin of the New York Supreme Court ruled that it was Fair comment, and that the facts "reasonably give rise" to that description.⟶
Anti-Defamation LeagueLyndon LaRoucheLibel SuitAnti-SemitismLegal BattlePolitical ActivismFair CommentCriticism
United States🗣️ Anti-Defamation League Disputes Pat Buchanan's Defense of Charles Lindbergh
Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, in an 11 October 1999, letter to The Washington Post claimed that A Republic, Not an Empire by Pat Buchanan "defends Charles Lindbergh against charges of anti-Semitism, not mentioning the infamous 1940 speech in which he accused the Jews of warmongering." Pat Buchanan denies this and points out Foxman's error, saying that he mentioned the 1941 speech to say it "ignited a national firestorm," which lingered after the aviator's death, and shows "the explosiveness of mixing ethnic politics and foreign policy."⟶
Anti-Defamation LeaguePat BuchananCharles LindberghAnti-SemitismHistorical RevisionismAmerican PoliticsWorld War IIPublic Discourse
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