Benjamin H. Freedman

Benjamin Harrison Freedman, and Friedman ( born October 5, 1890 in Manhattan, New York City; † April / May 1984) was an American, anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist activist.

Life

As the son of his Jewish parents Maurice Friedman and Annie Kaufmann originally involved in the Jewish community of New York, to Freedman fell out with the Ashkenazi majority and accused of abuse of Judaism.

Freedman was from 1925 to 1937, a business partner of Samuel D. Leidesdorf and the John H. Woodbury Laboratories, a dermatological institute and successor company of the old Woodbury Soap Company. Freedman was listed on the letter head of the Institute of Arab American Affairs and met with his wife, Rose M. Schoendorf Freedman, who was referred to as " R M Schoendorf " in 1946 as a sponsor of a series of ads in the imprint of the organization The League for Peace with Justice in Palestine. ( "Sponsored a series of advertisements under the imprint of 'The League for Peace with Justice in Palestine ' "). In 1946, he sued the American Jewish Committee for libel and the case was dismissed in less than a month.

He assumed the majority of New York Jews to be no real Jews, but descended from the Khazars, claiming they had a corrosive impact on American society. The dispute escalated and Freedman converted to Christianity.

Held on one of Freedman 1961 Washington Willard Hotel speech reference is made to numerous anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and websites.

Activities

He was a financier of the author Conde McGinley, publisher of Common Sense. At the hearing of the defamation lawsuit filed by Rabbi Joachim Prinz against McGinley in 1955, Freedman testified that he had McGinley financial support of more than 10,000 but less than $ 100,000 send. ( " He [ Freedman ] had givenName Mr. McGinley financial support of 'more than $ 10,000 but less than $ 100,000 .' " ) Prince had McGinley sued because he him as " Red Rabbi " ( " red rabbi " ) had referred.

At the Henry George School Benjamin Freedman spoke on " The emergence of tensions in the Middle East" ( " The Genesis of Middle East Tensions "). Long John mist reported on WNBC that Freedman struck anti-Semitic tones. Freedman was politically active until the mid-1970s.

Freedman opposed the nomination of Anna M. Rosenberg as Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1950. An article in the ADL Bulletin entitled The Plot Against Ann Rosenberg wrote the attacks on Rosenberg's loyalty to "professional anti-Semites and crazy nationalists " ( "professional anti- -Semites and lunatic nationalists " ), as the jews mongering cabal of John Rankin, Benjamin Freedman and Gerald Smith ( " Jew - baiting cabal of John Rankin, Benjamin Freedman, and Gerald Smith " ), too.

" Freedman, to apostate Jew, was well known to the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee as on active supporter of the Arab cause in the Middle East. (fn 33) In the course of his erratic and contradictory testimony Often before the Senate committee, Freedman revealed the roles played by anti- Semitic agitators and right -wing anticommunists - including Gerald LK Smith, Conde McGinley, the " Reverend " Wesley Swift, Congressman John Rankin, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and JB Matthews - in the campaign against the Rosenberg appointment. (fn 34) "

" Freedman, a lapsed Jew by faith, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee was well known as an active supporter of Arab interests in the Middle East. In the course of its unpredictable and often contradictory testimony before the committee of the Senate Freedman revealed the roles that the anti-Semitic and anti-communists Agitoren of the right wing, as Gerald LK Smith, Conde McGinley, the " Reverend " Wesley Swift, the Congressman John Rankin, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and JB Matthews, played in the campaign against the appointment of Rosenberg. "

Benjamin Freedman is mentioned in a report of the Committee on Un-American Activities.

Works

• League for Peace With Justice in Palestine. Freedman published his pamphlets under the auspices of the League for Peace With Justice in Palestine, which he founded in 1946.
• Palestine. In: Destiny: The Magazine of National Life, January 1948, pp. 26-28 (originally Appeared in the National Economic Council 's Letter, no 177, Oct 15, 1947. ). Haverhill, Mass..
• Facts are Facts. Noontide, ISBN 0-317-53273-1
• Why Congress is Crooked or Crazy or Both. Founder, 1946, League for Peace with Justice in Palestine ( self-published, New York, 1975)