Final_Judgment

”The Other Side of the Jigsaw Puzzle”
A Foreword by the Author . . .
On August 21, 1997 a front-page article appeared in the Los Angeles
Times describing an uproar in Southern California that erupted over my
impending lecture at a community college seminar on the JFK
assassination. The seminar was being held under the auspices of the South
Orange County Community College District. Although four speakers were
scheduled, it was my expected presence—my presence alone—that created
the controversy. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith was
(not surprisingly) upset that I contend in this book, Final Judgment, that
Israel's intelligence service, the Mossad, played a front-line role in the JFK
assassination alongside the CIA and the Lansky Crime Syndicate.
The Times reported that the ADL accused yours truly "of being a
proponent of Holocaust denial and labels his claim that Israelis killed
Kennedy ridiculous." The ADL failed to cite any evidence of my being a
"proponent of Holocaust denial," but evidently the ADL considers that the
ultimate kiss of death and that such accusations are fair game when trying to
silence anyone who runs afoul of its agenda.
That the ADL presumes to label my charge of Israeli involvement in
the JFK assassination as being "ridiculous" is downright laughable.
Inasmuch as the ADL not only functions as a major force in the Israeli
lobby in the United States, but is also an intelligence and propaganda arm of
the Mossad, it seems unlikely the ADL would ever endorse my thesis.
In any case, as a direct result of intense and highly hysterical clamor by
the ADL, the JFK seminar was canceled, although college officials and
others said publicly and forthrightly that they were concerned about the
implications and consequences of the ADL's heavy-handed pressure
campaign to restrict freedom of speech, particularly in an academic forum.
Nonetheless, news reports about the affair appeared in newspapers
nationwide, even including a Newsweek commentary by George Will, a
strident supporter of Israel.
So, as a consequence, I'm pleased to say, there was a positive side to all
of this. Now—for the first time since Final Judgment was published in 1994—
readers of "mainstream newspapers" across America have been told that there
is a theory floating around out there that Israel's Mossad was involved in
the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
As I told the Los Angeles Times and which was quoted in a second
article on August 22: "The Anti-Defamation League has not heard the last
of Final Judgment. The door has been kicked open. There is now going to
be a lot of debate about this book" —whether the ADL likes it or not.
Although the Los Angeles Times reporter, Michael Granberry, made
some attempt to present my views, I do feel compelled, however, to
comment on various aspects of the Los Angeles Times article, inasmuch as
the whole story behind the article needs to be told.