75 years ago: March 18, 1921
In New York, the American Jewish Committee reports that anti-Jewish propaganda has been spreading in the United States since the publication of “Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion” in England in 1920.
50 years ago: March 15, 1946
In a memo to the Anglo American Committee opening hearings in Cairo, the Arab League states its opposition to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
25 years ago: March 19, 1971
U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers presses Israel to withdraw from territories it has occupied since the Six Day War in 1967.
10 years ago: March 21, 1986
Stanford University Professor Seymour Martin Lipset tells the American Jewish Congress biennial convention in Washington, D.C., that the threat of widespread anti-Semitism is more remote today than at any time in American history.
Research provided from a periodical collection housed at Berkeley’s Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum.