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The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront. By Tony Martin. (Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 1993. xii, 144 pp. Paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-912469-30-7.)
This is not a work of scholarship. It is not likely to convince skeptical readers. It is a scurrilous polemic "written in the heat of battle" by an embattled historian--a self-described "intended victim" of "purveyors of intolerance."
In 1993, Wellesley College historian Tony Martin, author of a major study of Marcus Garvey, assigned The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews, published in 1991 by the Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam, as a reading for his survey course on African-American history. Martin's assignment of the book led Jewish students to monitor his class and prompted sharp criticisms from Jewish groups and others at Wellesley.
Martin reports that the attacks against him were fierce and often intemperate. The Secret...