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Rabin and the Nixon Jews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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Last summer in Israel Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli I Ambassador to Washington, suggested that Richard Nixon was the best friend Israel ever had in the White House. Upon his return to Washington before the November election the Ambassador explained that he had not endorsed Richard Nixon's candidacy, and he reaffirmed his country's neutrality in the Presidential election. Despite such assertions, many Americans, both Jews and non-Jews, interpreted Rabin's earlier statement as a Nixon endorsement by Israel. Six months later it is possible to assess the controversy with greater care.

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1973

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References

* Frederick A. Lazin, “The Reaction of American Jewry to Hitler's anti-Jewish policies, 1933-1939.” Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Chicago; David Brody, “American Jews, the Refugees and Immigration Restrictions— 1932-1942,” publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, XLV (September, 1955-1956).

* Some Jewish newspapers after 1933 and until 1938 edited, or did not print, atrocity stories from Germany. See the Chicago Sentinel, 1931-1939; also the American Jewish Yearbook's coverage of Jewish protests and criticisms of President Roosevelt and his policy after 1935.

*** See, for example, Sol Stem, “My Jewish Problem and Ours,” Ramparts Magazine (August, 1970).