Student Radicals of the 1960s: their leaders were often Jewish

Students for a Democratic Society [SDS] was the largest New Left organization in the U.S. in the 1960s.

Out of nine presidents of the SDS, five were Jewish: Al Haber, Todd Gitlin, Mike Spiegel, Mike Klonsky, and Mark Rudd. [Rudd also co-founded the Revolutionary Youth Movement I, later called the Weathermen, then Weather Underground, a well-known revolutionary group]. Other top Jews in SDS included Richard Flacks, Robb Ross and Steve Max.

SDS was funded in its early years by the League for Industrial Democracy, a heavily-Jewish entity. Country-wide, 60+ percent of all SDS members were Jewish.

Given that Jews make up only 2.5 percent of the U.S. population, Jews were vastly overrepresented in SDS and other leftist groups.

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