Green Faces More Woes On Nod From Muslims

Jewish Week, The, August, 2001 by Dickter, Adam

Dickter, Adam The Jewish Week 08-10-2001 Green Faces More Woes On Nod From Muslims Mark Green expressed concern to a Muslim group that its backing in his mayoral bid would turn into an embarrassment if it was linked to anti-Israel rhetoric, according to a newly surfaced videotape. The secretly recorded tape of a meeting of the Muslim Political Coordinating Committee, first reported in Wednesday's New York Post, was obtained by Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Green foe. Members of the committee are seen discussing their previous interviews with various candidates.

Kevin James, a leader of the Council on American Islamic Relations-New York, tells his colleagues that Green said, "Don't give me your support and then all of a sudden there is a skeleton that's going...

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