PETE McCLOSKEY: HOLOCAUST DENIER AND ANTI-SEMITE

RECENTLY, I POSTED ABOUT THE L.A. TIMES AND S.F. CHRONICLE'S ENDORSING REPUBLICAN PETE MCCLOSKEY FOR CONGRESS. I POINTED OUT THAT NEITHER PAPER RAISED OR WAS TROUBLED BY HIS HISTORY OF HOLOCAUST SKEPTICISM. EUGENE VOLOKH MADE THE SAME POINT HERE.

NOW VOLOKH HAS COME ACROSS AN INTERVIEW MCCLOSKEY GAVE IN 1982 TO THE "SPOTLIGHT," A PUBLICATION OF THE NOW-DEFUNCT ANTI-SEMITIC LIBERTY LOBBY:

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates. If you look at "Scoop" Jackson, and Alan Cranston, and Teddy Kennedy--any Democratic candidate for national office has more or less go to look to Jewish money, Republicans don't--they are more business-oriented. . . .

The battle [over President Reagan's peace plan for the Mideast] will be for public opinion in the United States, whether the Congress will be willing to back Reagan and stand up to the Jewish lobby in this country. Congress has invariably knuckled under to the Israeli lobby in the past, and for Reagan's plan to succeed, Congress is going to have to be willing to cut off aid to the Israelis if they continue the West Bank settlements.