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"Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend" is an open letter falsely attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. that expressed support for Zionism and declared that "anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so."〔The original text of the document is available on a number of different websites; see () and () for examples.〕 The letter has been widely quoted on the internet and in a speech of the politician Ariel Sharon. The proclaimed sources of the letter, like an appearance in the ''Saturday Review'' from August 1967, do not exist. The first known reference to the text appeared 1999, over thirty years after King's death. ==History== The letter may have been based on a statement attributed to King at a dinner event in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to Seymour Martin Lipset, an African American student made a statement sharply critical of Zionists at a dinner that Lipset recalled as having taken place in 1968, and King replied: "Don't talk like that. When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism." According to Eric Sundquist, a professor at UCLA, "eventually, through channels that are difficult to pin down", this quotation was transformed into a text purportedly by King titled 'Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend,' which supposedly appeared in an August 1967 issue of ''Saturday Review'' and was purportedly reprinted in a book ''This I Believe: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.''〔 However, no such letter was published in any of the four ''Saturday Review'' issues released that month,〔 and no book by that name has been located.〔〔 The letter was not found in the King archives at Boston University.〔 There appear to be no references to the letter before 1999.〔 Tim Wise suggests that it originated with Marc Schneier, who published portions of it in ''Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community'' that year.〔 Fadi Kiblawi and Will Youmans have questioned the authenticity of Lipset's account.〔 According to a ''Harvard Crimson'' article published days after King's death, King had not been to Cambridge since April 23, 1967. Kiblawi and Youmans did not find any 1968 speeches by King in the Stanford University archives.〔 The letter was quoted by Ariel Sharon before the Knesset on January 26, 2005.〔(PM Sharon's Knesset Speech Marking the Struggle Against Anti-Semitism (26 January 2005) )〕 It was also cited by the Anti-Defamation League in testimony before the United States House of Representatives.〔〔〔(A Discussion on the U.N. World Conference Against Racism; Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights ) U.S. House of Representatives, July 31, 2001.〕 Other prominent individuals quoting the letter include Natan Sharansky (in the November 2003 issue of ''Commentary'') and Mortimer Zuckerman (in the September 17, 2001, issue of ''U.S. News & World Report'').〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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