Martin Luther King Jr. 

King and the FBI

King had a mutually antagonistic relationship with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), especially its director, J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI began tracking King and the SCLC in 1961. Its investigations were largely superficial until 1962, when it learned that one of King's most trusted advisers was Stanley Levison. Stanley Levison was a man whom the bureau suspected of involvement with the Communist Party, USA. The bureau placed wiretaps on Levison and King's home and office phones, and bugged King's rooms in hotel rooms as he traveled across the country. The bureau also informed then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy and then-President John Kennedy, both of whom unsuccessfully tried to persuade King to dissociate himself from Levison.

Later, the focus of the bureau's investigations changed from King's relationship with Levison to "discrediting" King through revelations regarding his private life. The bureau distributed reports regarding King's extramarital sexual affairs to the executive branch, friendly reporters, potential coalition partners and funding sources of the SCLC, and King's family. The Bureau also sent anonymous letters to King threatening to reveal information if he didn't cease his civil rights work. Finally, the Bureau's investigation shifted away from King's personal life to intelligence and counterintelligence work on the direction of the SCLC and the "racial" movement.

Views on anti-Zionism

".. You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews - this is God's own truth. Anti-Semitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind....And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe....The anti-Semite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the anti-Semite must constantly seek new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He doesn't hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'! ...Let my words echo in the depths of your soul: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews - make no mistake about it."

Although, the basic message of the above "quote" was indeed, without question, spoken by Martin Luther King, Jr. in a 1968 appearance at Harvard, where he said: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti-Semitism." [ from "The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel" by Seymour Martin Lipset; in Encounter magazine, December 1969], Dr. King's purported "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend," quoted above, appears to be a hoax, according to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America[?] (CAMERA), a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East. The CAMERA communique [1] (http://www.col.fr/judeotheque/archive.doc/Lettre%20a%20un%20ami%20antisioniste-canulard.txt), while exposing the "letter" as a hoax nonetheless persuasively articulates that Dr. King strongly condemned anti-Semitism and unequivocally supported the right of the Jewish People to self-determination, the basic tenet of Zionism.

Additional Quotes

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

See also race, racism, racial segregation, discrimination

Reference

• The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., David Garrow, Penguin Books: New York, New York, 1981. ISBN 0140064869

External link

• the e-text of I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=955)

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