August 24, 2017
Comparing Skokie to Charlottesville
By Buzz Alpert
As the former chairman of Chicago's Jewish Defense League (JDL) for ten of its ten and a half years, I led from the front. Fighting scared the hell out of me, but survival burned in my heart. My folks never raised a finger in the Holocaust, and I could not follow those footprints. Frank Collin's neo-Nazi party legally won the right to march in Skokie, Ill. in 1978, where the largest group of Holocaust survivors lived outside Israel. David Goldberger, an ACLU Jewish attorney, led the Nazis to that victory. Per former Illinois senator Howie Carroll, Collin "begged" him to find an alternative site because the Nazi leader said the JDL would kill him in Skokie. Collin had his demonstration in downtown Chicago, and Skokie was spared the ghosts of the Holocaust.
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