AJC Appalled by Atlanta Jewish Times Owner's Assassination Threat

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Jan 20, 2012, 07:34 ET

ATLANTA, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC today expressed its total revulsion that Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, called for the assassination of President Obama in a recent column in the paper.

He has since apologized, according to news reports, and promised to publish a retraction.

"The suggestion by anyone, in this case a Jewish newspaper publisher, that Israel should consider assassinating President Obama is shocking beyond belief," said Dov Wilker, director of AJC Atlanta.

"While we acknowledge Mr. Adler's apology, we are flabbergasted that he could ever say such a thing in the first place. How could he even conceive of such a twisted idea?" said Wilker. "Mr. Adler surely owes immediate apologies to President Obama, as well as to the State of Israel and his readership, the Atlanta Jewish community."

SOURCE American Jewish Committee