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Jewish. Midwestern Jew. Among those prominent Jews that you know have you found others that would have agreed with Fred Lazarus, Jr.?

Prominent Jews?

Yes, or influential Jews in some fashion.

No. I have former students of mine who are Jewish who share that position but they do not have a public voice. Certainly, this is a position that Ralph Bunche had expressed. He did not endear himself to the government of Israel, I suppose. Ralph Bunche, in spite of his contributions to the state of Israel initially, he is not generally considered to be a hero in Israel. Largely, it's not totally because of that position that the Palestinian refugee problem was the core of this festering [?].

Back, it was not Roger Wilkins, someone else here at this forum that I mentioned made to reference to the roles or apparent roles of Morris Abrams and Ed Koch. Here he was addressing this issue of perceived growing black anti-Semitism, and he said all Jews weren't like Morris Abrams and Ed Koch.

Who said that? It's obvious that that's true, that all Jews aren't like Morris Abrams or Ed Koch, any more than all blacks are like Farrakhan.

Do you think that was a fair remark about Morris Abrams and Ed