On Self-Hating Jews

In&n bsp;The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese’s fantastic book about the history of the New York Times, there’s a story about editor A.M. Rosenthal’s receiving a letter from The Jewish Agency for Israel in 1965. The letter claimed that a man named Daniel Burros, the New York head of the Ku Klux Klan and an officer in the American Nazi Party, was actually Jewish. Rosenthal was skeptical. The House Committee on Un-American Activities, after all, had included Burros on its list of “prominent Klansman.” Burros had traveled the country starting riots, leading protests and spreading the most virulent Jew hatred imaginable. He had been arrested numerous times in possession of various weapons and of destruction of property — painting swastikas on the wall of the B’nai Brith building in Washington DC. How could he possibly be a Jew? Read Full Article »