tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382635099156893364.post1204322061035002636..comments2023-10-07T02:21:49.061-07:00Comments on Israel Jewish News: In 1909, W.E.B. Dubois, Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Stephen Wise and Henry Malkewitz formed the NAACPAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04644518523952793214noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382635099156893364.post-6937552856521580062009-02-12T12:44:00.000-08:002009-02-12T12:44:00.000-08:00The AHA (American Historical Association) in 1995 ...The AHA (American Historical Association) in 1995 issued the following statement:<BR/><BR/>"In January, the AHA Council approved a resolution condemning 'any statement alleging that Jews played a disproportionate role in the exploitation of slave labor or in the Atlantic slave trade.' The council will publish its resolution and the Davis-Drescher statement in this month's issue of its newsletter. The Davis-Drescher statement reads as follows: 'During the past few years there have been a number of egregious assaults on the historical record in institutions of higher learning and at educational conferences. These assaults implicate Jews as a dominant group in the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans in the New World. The claims so misrepresent the historical record, however, that we believe them only to be part of a long anti-Semitic tradition that presents Jews as negative central actors in human history. In such scenarios, Jews are the secret force behind every major social development from capitalism to democracy, every major cataclysm from the Medieval pandemic of the plague through the French and Russian Revolutions to the collapse of Communism, and now, incredibly, appear for the first time as the secret force behind slavery. Unfortunately, the media have given the latest charges wide currency, while failing to dismiss them as spurious. As professional historians, who have closely examined and assessed the empirical evidence, we cannot remain silent while the historical record is so grossly violated.'"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362919810543741017noreply@blogger.com