Question: Hello, LaRouche? I've been under impression by the LaRouche Youth Movement in New Jersey--they've been telling me this rumor of you being anti-Semitic has been spread by Henry Kissinger. But, isn't it mostly your fault, because you were supposed to be in the Million Man March, which was sponsored by Louis Farrakhan--who's an anti-Semitic man--and Malcolm X's wife (who, I believe, is a hero of the organization), claims that Louis Farrakhan is directly responsible for Malcolm X's murder?

LaRouche: [laughs] Well, the anti-Semitic thing, remember how it started: We defended, in 1968 especially, the New York teachers against an anti-Semitic program, which was orchestrated by the Ford Foundation, under McGeorge Bundy. And, at that time, we were subjected to all kinds of attacks, for being something or other, because we opposed the Communist Party and others, who were part of this McGeorge Bundy attack on the teachers at that point--their game was to break up the system of education, by trying to create a racial conflict over the money for the school system. And, the result was they succeeded, and they destroyed the educational system in New York City, largely, piece by piece, by just tearing down those elements of structure, which were essential to the successful functioning of the school system. And, some of the money, off the social welfare expenditures, for some honchos who tried to build political careers around it. It was just that sort of thing.

So, this hostility against us, because of our opposition to the plain and flagrant anti-Semitism expressed by most of the so-called "socialist" or quasi-socialist liberals of that time, became, as a result, about 1977-78, the motive, from certain fascist organizations, which happened to be Zionist organizations, for accusing us of anti-Semitism!

Once you've gone through that experience, and looked at that experience, you sit back, and say "Hey, what's going on here?" First of all, it's false: That's fact number one. Secondly, where's it coming from? It's coming from fascists! Fascists? Yeah, who's working with the fascists? The so-called socialists are working with the fascists! And you say, "Wait a minute! What's real?!" You have so-called anti-fascist socialists, who are supporting racism, and allying with fascists! What's real!?

It gives you a refreshing sense, that there is a reality out there, which none of these characters have any connection to. So, anyone who's intelligent, who's thoughtful, would never believe this anti-Semitic charge against me, or us--ever.

So, that's the way to understand these kinds of things: Don't assume, that there's any truth in gossip. The American is one of the dumbest animals in the world, the typical American. He'll believe in almost any gossip that's fed into his ear. You can barely get the gossip into his ear, before it begins to come out of his mouth--and he doesn't even know about anything in between. [applause]

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