Alfred Lilienthal

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Alfred Lilienthal (1913-???) is a writer known for his best-selling book What Price Israel, published by Regnery in the 1950s. In it, he denounced Israel's claims on all of American Jewry and the Holocaust, and he noted that the creation in Israel meant the displacement of Palestinians.

Lilienthal has written for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

In 1965 Senator Jacob Javits described Lilienthal as "a lecturer and journalist whose vehemently anti-Israel views are well known." [1] Radio Islam describes him as one of "Israel's harshest-ever critics". [2]


According to Oscar Kraines, "Despite its unsubtle partisanship and unrestrained vitriol,( What Price Israel) is a serious book. It lacks, however, the degree of objectivity which a book should have if it is to be a valuable contribution to the literature on Middle Eastern affairs." [3]

In his "angry, provocative book" [4]

Lilienthal maintains that the creation of the State of Israel, has dealt great harm to the Jewish people because statehood gives anti-Semites justification for charging Jews with dual loyalty. Lilienthal denies that Israel is democratic, and asserts that if the foreign aid now given to Israel were given instead to Arab countries they would rapidly become democratic societies. He also insists that all American Zionists must either emigrate instantly or cease to call themselves Zionists. [5]

Alan T. Davies describes Lilienthal as "useful" to anti-Semites because he is Jewish and "opposes the State of Israel on principle." [6] - - - Manfred Gerstenfeld describes Lilienthal as a "hard core extremists" among anti-Israel activists. [7] In the introduction to his book, The Zionist Connection, Lilienthal praised the UN resolution which equated Zionism with racism and racial discrimination. [8]

Tariq Majeed praises Lilienthal for following in the footsteps of Henry Ford who " sounded the alarm in the 1920s on the accumulation and subversive use of political power by the Jews and the threats it posed to the American nation. Ford’s book, The International Jew, is a classic in this sphere. Among the others, who followed Ford in this field, the names of Professor Alfred Lilienthal and Congressman Paul Findley stand out." [9]

David Duke praises Lilienthal for daring to "expose the truth" about "Jewish supremicism." [10]

Lilienthal, along with Noam Chomsky and 500 others signed a controversial petition supporting French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson's right to academic freedom and freedom of speech.[11]

Lilienthal believs that it is an "anthropological fact" that "many Christians may have much more Hebrew-Israelite blood in their veins than most of their Jewish neighbors." [12]

[edit] Website

http://www.alfredlilienthal.com

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bates College: Ladd Library: Muskie Archives & Special Collections Library
  2. ^ Mission Statement
  3. ^ What Price Israel by Alfred M. Lilienthal, reviewed by Oscar Kraines The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1. (Mar., 1955), pp. 123-125. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-4078%28195503%298%3A1%3C123%3AWPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
  4. ^ What Price Israel by Alfred M. Lilienthal, reviewed by Oscar Kraines The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1. (Mar., 1955), pp. 123-125. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-4078%28195503%298%3A1%3C123%3AWPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
  5. ^ What Price Israel by Alfred M. Lilienthal, reviewed by Oscar Kraines - The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1. (Mar., 1955), pp. 123-125. - Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-4078%28195503%298%3A1%3C123%3AWPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
  6. ^ Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation by Alan T. Davies , 1992, p. 260
  7. ^ Jews against Israel, by Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No. 30, 1 March 2005 / 20 Adar Rishon 5765 [ http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=614&TTL=Jews_against_Israel ]
  8. ^ Jews against Israel, by Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No. 30, 1 March 2005 / 20 Adar Rishon 5765 [ http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=614&TTL=Jews_against_Israel ]
  9. ^ The Nation
  10. ^ David Duke, A Margin of Hope, New York, 1982, p. 276
  11. ^ Partners in Hate; Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers by Werner Cohn, 1985, 1995 Published by Avukah Press, Cambridge
  12. ^ Alfred M. Lilienthal, Jr., What Price Israel (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953) p. 223.