Date: 12-03-95 (12:56)              Number: 10994 of 10996 (Refer# NONE)
  To: ALL
From: RAY NORMANDEAU
Subj: Art Spiegelman artist/cartoonist
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SUBJECT: Art Spiegelman

Bess Cutler Gallery in Soho
379 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012
will have until December 8, 1995 a showing of works of artist Art Spiegelman.

His works have been published in the New York Times, Playboy, the Village
Voice and many other periodicals. His drawings have been exhibited worldwide.

Art Spiegelman is perhaps best known outside the artistic community for two
of his works.

"Maus" is the story of his father's (Vladek Spiegelman), survival of Hitler's
concentration came system. Maus is a story told in comic book format with the
Jews portrayed by mice and Nazis portrayed by cats. This book is an ideal
starting point to recommend to people who you feel should read about the
Holocaust but may not be ready yet to read lengthier (and with LOTS of
bibliographic cites) books such as those by Martin Gilbert.

For Maus, Art Spiegelman has been honored by a Guggenheim Fellowship,
nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award and either a Nobel
Prize or Pulitzer Prize (I forget which).

Another of his works which got him international attention was his cover for
New Yorker magazine for Valentines Day in February 1993.

This cover showed an interracial couple kissing. This cover which immediately
made me think of a married couple in the privacy of their home was cruelly
attacked by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL implied that Art Spiegelman's
drawing was anti-Semitic.

Ironically enough, a few month later the ADL was accused of spying on a variety
of groups and individuals including Jewish individuals and organizations.

Yigal Arens (arens@isd12.isi.edu) at that time transmitted by E-mail:

     "Police allege that the organization maintains undercover operatives to
     gather political intelligence in at least seven cities, including Los
     Angeles and San Francisco.

     Groups that were the focus of the spy operation span the political
     spectrum, including such groups as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Aryan
     Resistance, Operation Rescue, Greenpeace, the National Assn. for the
     Advancement of Colored People, the United Farm Workers and the Jewish
     Defense League. Also on the list were Mills College, the board of
     directors of San Francisco public television station KQED and the San
     Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper.

     People who were subjects of the spy operation included former Republican
     Rep. Pete McCloskey, jailed political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche and
     Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent Scott Kraft, who is based in
     South Africa.

     Authorities said much of the material collected by the groups was
     confidential information obtained illegally from law enforcement
     agencies. They also alleged that data on some individuals and
     organizations was sold separately to the South African government."

I think that Yigal Arens was also an ADL victim of their spying operations.

I have a file of people who had been ADL spy targets which I will attempt to
upload to Invention Factory internet site, 212-274-8110 within the next few
days. The file will also contain the ADL's attack on Art Spiegelman and my
rebuttal.

Art Spiegelman being attacked as anti-Semitic was not the first publicized
case of Jews being victimized by the ADL.

A national publication in October 1992 had stated:
     "It's ironic that the ADL complained to local and national federal
     housing officials about the Nation of Islam's bigotry last month, while
     the Federal Appeals Court for the Second Circuit cited the Jewish
     Community Relations Council of New York (composed of sixty
     organizations) for discriminating against a group called Jews for Jesus
     by forcing a resort facility to cancel a contract with Jews for Jesus by
     threatening an economic boycott."

The ADL is part of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.

The ADL has performed valuable public service by exposing bigotry such as in
the case of Kahlid Muhammed, but they do get carried away and one has to be
suspicious of them.

Writer MONA CHAREN (71154.1271@compuserve.com) has said

                            "ADL Betrays Its Mandate"
...
          "Finally, alas, there is the crude but undeniable fact  that the
          ADL is in the anti-Semitism business. The more it  finds, the
          greater its prominence, ...  It  rails at imaginary enemies"


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Herebelow is the ADL's attack on Art Spiegelman and my rebuttal:

From Normandeau Newswire ("Join Newswire") at the Invention Factory internet
site, 212-274-8110.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

              Queensbridge Tenants Appalled at ADL Show of Bigotry
              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                        
Representatives of two tenant groups of the predominantly Black Queensbridge
Houses are shocked at the recent evidence of bigotry on the part of the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), towards Blacks.

The ADL on February 8, 1993 issued the following press release:
   The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed shock and dismay with The
   New Yorker magazine for publisher (sic)  an offensive cover drawing by Art
   Spiegelman depicting a Hasidic man and a black woman kissing.
      In a letter to Tina Brown, editor of The New Yorker, Abraham H. Foxman,
   ADL national director, wrote, "As you are aware, Hasidim observe religious
   precepts by which men may  not touch women other than  their wives  and do
   not kiss women publicly.   We are stunned that  you approved the  use of a
   painting  that is obviously insensitive to  these concerns...it  should be
   clear that the image fundamentally offends Hasidim."
       "Your own public statement and Spiegelman's  remarks," Foxman wrote to
   Brown,  "tacitly acknowledge the offense.  We cannot avoid the observation
   that your judgment was careless....In the  context of events in  New York,
   it is an unnecessary inflammation of a difficult situation."

Ray Normandeau of the Queensbridge Tenant Council stated that the fact that the
ADL capitalizes the word Hasidic but NOT the word Black when referring to ethnic
group names immediately indicates how the ADL feels about Blacks.

Furthermore Normandeau states, there is apparent hatred on the part of the ADL
towards inter-racial marriages as the Hasidic man could very well be married to
the Black woman.

Furthermore the locale could very well be the privacy of the couple's own home.

The only thing that the ADL seems to be showing is that they are anti-Black!

A national publication in October 1992 had stated:
     "It's ironic that the ADL complained to local and national federal
     housing officials about the Nation of Islam's bigotry last month, while
     the Federal Appeals Court for the Second Circuit cited the Jewish
     Community Relations Council of New York (composed of sixty
     organizations) for discriminating against a group called Jews for Jesus
     by forcing a resort facility to cancel a contract with Jews for Jesus by
     threatening an economic boycott."

The ADL is part of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.

The ADL seems to not only be Anti-Black but Anti-Christian which is just as bad
as Anti-Semitic or Anti-White. The ADL is wilfully and deliberately trying to
cause an "unnecessary inflammation of a difficult situation."

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List of files in this .ZIP:

BULLOCK  TXT, R. Bullock, Fact Finder for the Anti-Defamation League SPY FILE

GERARD   TXT, Tom Gerard, retired police officer SPY FILE

READ-ME  TXT, This file

SFDA-SUM TXT, San Francisco District Attorney's findings summary re ADL

Y-ARENS  TXT, Transmission from Yigal Arens

XF930707 TXT, Transmission from NY TRANSFER NEWS

XF930720 TXT, Transmission from NY TRANSFER NEWS

Among others spied on were:
JEWISH COMMITTEE ON THE MIDDLE EAST
JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE 
JEWS FOR JESUS 

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Ray Normandeau
Internet Email: ray.normandeau@factory.com

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