Why does Goldman jumble the chronology of events re the LaRouche movements anti-Semitism?
Goldman writes: “LaRouche’s anti-Semitism was rarely in the open but it often lurked just beneath the surface. Sometime in the early 1970s, he had played political footsy with the Liberty Lobby, a group headed by the anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Willis Carto. In a Carto-influenced article LaRouche later tried to suppress, he put the number of Jewish dead at around 1.5 million. I knew about all this, and I looked the other way.” To say LaRouche’s anti-Semitism was “rarely in the open” is patently absurd and utterly dishonest. It would be true only if one defined open anti-Semitism as the donning of a swastika armband and getting on a soap box to shout “Kill them all!” By ordinary standards of what constitutes anti-Semitism, however, LaRouche’s frequent open expressions of it, and those emanating from his followers, have been thoroughly documented by many experts over the past 35 years, including in several Anti-Defamation League reports in the 1970s and 1980s. (See Chapter 6 of Lynd
