54	The Story of the Jewish Defense League

bJewish leaders who work day and night to destroy us had bgiven us. But this was hardly the point.

bThe point was that because we were stopped and because bconcrete programs were barred from the agenda, the Jews bof the USSR were doomed to bitter disappointment.

bIn the conference hall, meanwhile, Sperling, who had bbeen released within an hour, told the delegates what had bhappened. Pandemonium broke out as an enraged Dr. bMorris Brafman, a member of the American Zionist Federa- btion and not a JDL supporter, rushed to the platform and bdemanded to know who had asked for my arrest. Amid bshouting and skuffling, Brafman was hustled outside. bThere he told newsmen that Jewish youth was “frustrated band heartbroken that this has been a conference of one bschool of thought.” The uproar refused to die down. Ironi- bcally, among those who protested most were the prestigious b“names” that the Establishment had dragged in. Otto Prem- binger raged that the conference’s actions were as con- btemptible as those of the “Russians, Communists, or the bNazis.” Chayefsky called it “stupid, insolent and un- bAmerican” and characterized the conference as “a Wednes- bday night Hadassah meeting.”

bThis in no way fazed the Establishment Bolsheviks, who bran Brussels as they attempt to run the Jewish world. bRichard Cohen, the conference spokesman and a long-time b“shamas” for the liberal American Jewish Congress, noted bfor their demands for free speech for such persons as bAngela Davis and George Lincoln Rockwell, explained that bI had been barred because “we utterly reject and repudiate bthe philosophy and practice of violence as enunciated and bcarried out by the Jewish Defense League.” The heretical bthought that the conference itself should decide whether bthat was what they wanted never crossed Cohen’s little brow. bIn true fact, the conference was nothing but a stage and bstooge for the American Jewish Establishment and the Is- braeli government, which the former follows on each and bevery major issue. And what is a point that should not be bforgotten; men like Wexler and Schacter, who certainly bapproved of what happened, did the dirty work for the b