Benjamin H. Freedman 1961 speech https://youtube/watch?v=x8OmxI2AYV8 Benjamin HarrisonFreedman (1890 – May 1984) was an American businessman, anti-semite.and anti-Zionist He converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism. Freedman was a partner in a dermatological institute and in small business. Biography Freedman was, from 1925 to 1937, a partner with Samuel D. Leidesdorf and the John H. Woodbury Laboratories, a dermatological institute and a derivative company of the old Woodbury Soap Company. Benjamin H Freedman was listed on the letterhead of the Institute for Arab American Affairs and around 1946, along with his wife, listed as R M Schoendorf (Rose M. Schoendorf Freedman), sponsored a series of advertisements under the imprint of The League for Peace with Justice in Palestine. In 1946 he sued the American Jewish Committee for libel and the case was thrown out in less than a month. In 1988, the Institute for Historical Review published Robert Johns Behind the Balfour Declaration, including a single acknowledgment, to Freedman. John wrote that Freedman gave me copies of materials on the Balfour Declaration which I might never have found on my own and (he) encouraged my own research. League for Peace With Justice in Palestine. Freedman published his own broadsheets under the aegis of the League for Peace With Justice in Palestine, which he founded in 1946. He is mentioned in a report by the House Un-American Activities Committee. House Committee on un-American activities, calling him Benjamin Harrison Freedman ... of 960 Park Avenue According to The Harvard Crimson: In the fifties, the most effective sanction was terror. Almost any publicity from HUAC meant the blacklist. Without a chance to clear his name, a witness would suddenly find himself without friends and without a job. But it is not easy to see how in 1969 a HUAC blacklist could terrorize an SDS activist. Witnesses like Jerry Rubin have openly boasted of their contempt for American institutions. A subpoena from HUAC would be unlikely to scandalize Abbie Hoffman or his friends. In an attempt to reinvent itself, the committee was renamed as the Internal Security Committee in 1969. House Un-American Activities Committee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
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