Final_Judgment

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pioneer American Jewish critic of Israel and its powerful lobby in this
country. Neither found the book to be "anti-Jewish."
In seeking to discredit the Israeli connection to the JFK assassination
conspiracy, WJW slipped up and, effectively, confirmed the explosive
nature of the facts about the Israeli connection to the JFK murder.
WJW tried to discredit the Permindex connection to the JFK
assassination by pointing out that Final Judgment noted that Permindex is
mentioned in Oliver Stone's film, JFK. Then WJW added that Stone's film
"never claims to be factual," 1086 thus suggesting that Clay Shaw's
Permindex connection was one of the instances of artistic license admittedly
utilized by Stone in the making of the film. (And, ironically enough, as we
have seen, Stone himself was gun-shy when it came to facing the so-called
"French connection"—that is, the Israeli connection—head on.)
In short, WJW critiqued the film by a combination of name-calling,
innuendo and playing fast and loose with the facts, an indirect admission
that, clearly, Final Judgment hits perhaps too close to home.
Then, in 1995, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, the
American intelligence and propaganda conduit for the Mossad, weighed in
with some false and defamatory smears of Final Judgment. The comments
appeared in an essay appearing in a rather turgid anthology edited by
Jerome Chanes and entitled Antisemitism in America Today: Outspoken
Experts Explode the Myths. The essay in question—"Antisemitism in
America: A View from the 'Defense' Agencies"—was the work of the
ADL's national director, Abe Foxman.
According to the ADL's Foxman: "Liberty Lobby, the nation's largest
antisemitic propaganda mill, has similarly joined the JFK conspiracy craze
by publishing Final Judgment, a book which purports to expose 'how the
CIA, the Mossad and the Meyer Lansky Crime Syndicate collaborated in
the murder of John F. Kennedy . . . . The book also presents new revelations
which now show that the so-called 'French connection' to the JFK
assassination is, in reality, the Israeli connection . . . [The book] brings forth
new material which links former President George Bush to the JFK
conspiracy.' Of course, Liberty Lobby's chief counsel, Mark Lane, had
already written a JFK conspiracy book titled Plausible Denial; the
organization's mania for conspiracies, however, appears to be inclusive
enough to assimilate both theses. The effort of hate groups to use such
outlandish ideas to lure the gullible into accepting their agendas, or at least
part of them, is easy to understand." 1087
Foxman accurately quoted promotional material for Final Judgment,
but obviously I would disagree with Foxman's characterization of Liberty
Lobby. I would also note that the ADL's spokesman calls the American
interest in the JFK assassination a "craze," reflecting the ADL's lack of
appreciation for the concerns of many Americans about a possible
conspiracy behind the assassination of an American president.