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News Briefs O'Reilly
to Foxman: Nuts to you BILL O'Reilly called the
Anti-Defamation
League an 'extremist
group ' and its national director
[Abraham
"The Claw" Foxman,
above] a 'nut.
' David
Irving comments: I NEVER liked Bill O'Reilly, but I like
Mr Foxman less. | The ADL had written the Fox network commentator
this week after he told a caller on his radio show
to 'go to Israel ' if he was offended by attempts
to convert American Jews to Christianity and to
celebrate Christmas in U.S. schools.'Jews and other
religious minorities are part of America's great
tradition of religious freedom, ' ADL National
Director Abraham Foxman said in the
letter. 'The discomfort with proselytizing, or
the intrusion of Christian teachings in public
schools, is a very legitimate concern. ' The ADL said such comments play into
anti-Semitic canards, and expressed the hope that
O'Reilly would 'be more
sensitive. ' Discussing the letter Thursday on his radio
show, O'Reilly called the ADL 'an extremist group
which finds offense in pretty much everything, '
and said Foxman was 'just a nut. '
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on the Anti-Defamation League and Mr Foxman |