Harold Wallace Rosenthal

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Harold Wallace Rosenthal (November 2, 1947 – August 11, 1976), was a member of the Jewish community of Washington D.C. and the administrative assistant of senator Jacob K. Javits from New York. On August 11, 1976, while on a fact-finding tour of American embassies Harold Rosenthal, along with three other people, was killed in an attack by the PLO at the El Al gate in Istanbul, Turkey, August 12, 1976.

He graduated from Cambridge University and Harvard graduate school, both on scholarships. After working for Congressman Hugh Carey (D-NY) he moved to the office of Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) where he directed his legislative agenda. After a stint at the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, Harold returned to the senate to work for Jacob Javits.

The year he was killed, his friends in Washington started the Harold Wallace Rosenthal Fellowship in his memory. ^[1] ^[2] For over thirty years the HWR Fellowship has placed young men and women of all nationalities, races and creeds in various summer working positions in Washington including the senate, the Pentagon, the State Department, and various international agencies. It has been a successful living tribute to Harold's dedication to his country and to service.

In a terrible footnote to Harold's life, on March 13, 1978, Walter White Jr., editor and director of an openly anti-semitic, racist monthly newspaper "Western Front", fabricated a interview (ironically, dated after Harold's death) in which an obviously fake "Harold Rosenthal" articulates a Jewish "conspiracy" to "take over" the U.S. government. While the interview is patently false, it quickly caught fire with the lunatic right wing community. Today, it is sold by the Klan, neo-Nazi and Aryan- supremacist groups, often in tandem with the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

White died claiming he had the "tape" of the interview in his possession, but no one has ever heard it. Rational people find the printed interview silly but there is always a willing anti-Jewish audience for these things. The Rosenthal family contacted both Google and Yahoo about keeping this defamation of Harold Rosenthal's name off the Internet but they refused to cooperate.