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I tion that portrays itself as a Marxist-Leninist organization when, in effect, they were nothing more than a power play by an individual to just exercise control over a large number of people.” He described the overall atmosphere of party meetings as follows: “I certainly felt that the folks that were in there were basically under some assumption or intimidation that they shouldn’t oppose anything that came from the front. I felt that way, | felt intimidated.” (See Appendix B.) NAP Anti-Semitism: The Jewish “Deal with the Devil’ For years the New Alliance Party has been plagued by charges of anti-Semitism—for good reason. In the National Alliance of October 25, 1985, Fred Newman referred to Jews as “the storm- troopers of decadent capitalism,” and complained that they had “sold their souls to the devil— international capitalism.” Fred Newmans further remarks in this vein about Jews were contained in this National Alliance article (a transcript of his speech to the NAP’s 1985 regional convention in Harlem), entitled “Breaking a Deal with the Devil”: .. Pm saying all this because I want you to know what happened, what the Jewish people as a people did in response to almost being destroyed. I want to share this with you honestly ~ and openly because it's very painful to say aloud. As a people, we responded to that genocide by selling our souls to the devil. And the contract with the devil has been clear-cut. It becomes clearer every day and we have to hear tin New York and have to hear itin Johannesburg, and we have to hear it inthe MGS East, we have to hear it throughout the world: The contrace with the Jewish prey ce. with the Jewith leatershis has heen “We're ging to let wou live We're going to bet you survive We're poing to mabe sure it never happensto you again as Jorg as wou func: non as the stormeroonets of decadent capitalism against people of color the world over! That's the goddamned deal with the devil... You make sure that you Jews will be in the forefront in the war against the empowerment of Black people, of Puerto Rican people, in this country. We need you to play that role. We have the right to use you to play that role. We will degrade your strugele and your degradauon by waving the flag of your Holocaust in the name of putting down and oppress- ing other sisters and brothers. ... A special issue of Stono, a new NAP publication, entitled “WHAT OF THE JEW?” appeared in August, 1989. In'an editorial, Stono—speaking “as Marxist thinkers and activists’—stated: The DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, [i.e., Jews serving capitalism] forged in the wake of the Holocaust, was quite explicitly made; the survivors had the Scylla-and-Charybdis choice of doing the bidding of capital or dying... Elsewhere, Stono asserted: “Our anti-zionism needs little explanation: We oppose the Jewish colonization of Palestine.” NAP is a fervent supporter of anti-Semitic Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan. It has claimed that “it was the racist white media which inaccurately portrayed Farrakhan as anti-Semitic.” In a state- ment supportive of Farrakhan at the party’s Harlem convention in 1985, Newman again proclaimed his “devil” theory, this time attacking Zionism: The history of Zionism, the manipulation that is Zionism, is nothing more than the making of a deal with the devil. . “To be saved... -Means to follow and build the leadership, the great struggle of people of color all over the world, and in the United States of America, to follow the leadership of the Afro-American people. . . .as Jews, as Puerto Ricans, as gays, 4 BEST COPY AVAILABLE