Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
American Nazi Party
Adopted by the CCAR at the 89th Annual Convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Toronto, Canada, June 26-29, 1978
We express our abhorrence at the activities of the American Nazi Party and similar
totalitarian organizations. Their very existence is anathema to the principles of
this, our great country. We reject the notion that the advocacy of genocide by individuals or groups such as the American Nazi Party and, particularly, demonstrations such
as those planned for Chicago are entitled to First Amendment protection of the freedom
of speech which is one of the blessings of American democracy. It is our hope that
our courts, in the light of the history of German Nazism and the Holocaust (which is part
of that history), will sustain this objection.