"I'm not going to deal with fabrications. I'll deal with my own errors," he said.
Though Koch said that he and Sharpton both had been guilty of "demagoguery" at times, he said he does not believe Sharpton is an anti-Semite.
Koch and Sharpton punctuated the tense atmosphere with some levity.
When the floor opened to questions, second-year law student Aharon J. Friedman stood and said that one of the panelists was a "hate-monger."
"I don't think you should talk about Mayor Koch that way," Sharpton said, smiling.
Many audience members applauded loudly, drowning out Friedman at the microphone.
Koch showed that he could banter just as well as Sharpton.
"I made Al Sharpton famous," Koch quipped. "I had him arrested because he sat in on my office."
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