Representatives of Yeshiva University say that Mr. Gorbachev will give an address condemning anti-Semitism at their banquet Wednesday.

In the discussions prior to his election, he condemned National Socialism and anti-Semitism, but said he would in any event remain a member of the Burschenschaft.

"I still find astonishing why it is so difficult to condemn anti-Semitism without a quid pro quo," Mr. Foxman said yesterday in New York.

In 2003, a resolution condemning anti-Semitism was withdrawn when it ran into opposition from Arab and Muslim nations.

"I certainly welcome it," he said, if Mr. Robertson had indeed condemned anti-Semitism in his program's treatment of the movie.

Mr. Bush vowed, if elected, that he and the Republican Party would "condemn and oppose anti-Semitism in its every manifestation here and around the globe."

He has also ignored the universal teachings of the church, which condemns anti-Semitism.

Jefferson's 1818 letter to Mordechai Noah condemning anti-Semitism has received much publicity.

And in this chapter he condemns "stupid and revolting anti-Semitism."

Must I remind you that the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia has recently condemned anti-Semitism on two occasions.