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Commentary,
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Hammarskjold Believed to Be

Rejecting Egyptian Blockade

Israel Ready to Test Passage Through Suez

ADL Charges Arabs Conduct
Nazified Anti-Jewish Drive

The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith charges that a
"voluminous record of Arab vilification. and action, not at all
anti-Zionist but actually and explicitly anti-Jewish" flatly be-
lies the Arab claim that their attacks are only upon Zionists
• and Israelis.

In releasing a detailed review of Arab anti-Jewish activ-
ities, Arnold Forster, the League's national civil rights director,
charged that Nasser is now "utilizing within his limited cap-
acities a systematic worldwide campaign aganst Jews such as
that used by the Nazis."

In documenting Arab anti-Jewish activity, Forster's report
drew a sharp distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semit-
ism. The report described the several phases of the Arab anti-
Jewish campaign, which included:

1. The libels against Jews as Jews which appear in the Arab
press and magazines, in cartoons and are broadcast over Arab
foreign and domestic radio systems.

Z. The use by some of the Arab governments of former
Nazis, such as Dr. Johann von Leers, in their anti-Jewish prop-
aganda work.
3. The Arab collaboration with professional American anti-
Semites and the extensive exploitation of domestic hate material.
4. The Arab visa restrictions against Jews, even those seek-
ing to travel to the Middle East for cultural, non-political pur-
poses.

5: The worldwide Arab boycott and blacklist of Jewish com-
mercial firms.

Forster noted that "Nasser himself has set the pace in the
Arabs' drive against Jews as Jews, wherever they may be," cit-
ing Nasser's statement to an American reporter that he was
fighting "not Israel alone, but international Jewry and the wealth
Of the Jews."

The anti-Jewish campaign, Forster stressed, "has been high-
lighted . by official discriminatory practices that are distinctly
divorced from considerations of acting against the alleged threat
of Zionism. Restriction against Jews from any nation traveling
to the Middle East for cultural, non-political purposes is typi-
cal."

This policy, he pointed out, was condemned by the U. S.
National Commission for UNESCO, and brought against the Na-
tional Education Association the sharpest criticism by many of
its own members "for compromising its reputation as a liberal
Organization by complying with the Arab travel ban."

This anti-Jewish policy, the report added, has caused Amer-
ican visitors in Jordan 'embarrassment at the hands of author:
ities who suspected them of being Jewish." And in line with
this same policy, said the League, Saudi Arabiaprohibits entry
permits and travel visas even to American Government officials
and members of the United. States armed forces if they are mem-
bers of the Jewish faith."

Reviewing the Arab boycott, Forster declared that the Arab
blacklist, conceived some time in 1953, soon went beyond the
terms of the original boycott and rapidly became anti-Jewish
in the broadest sense."

Arab importers," he added, have been operating under a
general boycott on what their governments regard as Jewish
enterprise. Letters to American businessmen from- the Middle
East reveal the scope of this broad ban . . . informing exporters
in this country that goods from Jewish firms, or manufactured
'in any Jew factories,' are not acceptable . . . Saudi Arabia has
prohibited the importation of any machinery or goods produced
by Jewish firms, or any firm where Jewish capital is predomi-
nant or Jews are on the board of directors in substantial num-
ber. Accordingly, a Saudi Arabian official pointed out, his
government will not accept the shipment of any goods from
Macy's, Gimbel's, and Saks, among others. He said Saudi Arabia
has worked up long lists of the products manufactured or dis-
tributed by Jewish firms and that these lists 'will continue to
–get longer."

The time is "long since past," Forster said, "when the Arabs
should either discontinue their purely anti-Jewish activities or
stop denying them." The report is included in the current issue
of "The Facts," periodical publication of the League's
Civil

Rights Division.

Israel Says Suez
Decisions Compel
Test Ship Sailing

_ JERUSALEM, (JTA) — In
view of the decision of the Suez
Canal Users' Association to per-
mit ships of member nations to
pass through the Suez Canal,
paying the tolls to the Egyptian
authorities under protest, Israel
"probably will feel free to send
our ships through the Canal,"
the Foreign Ministry said.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry
spokesman said that an Israeli
ship would be sent to the Suez
Canal "at a suitable time," to
be determined by both political
and economic considerations.
The spokesman said Israel
maintains the position that if
the Egyptians stopped this ship,
their action would be "an act
of war."

The spokesman stressed that
Israel still maintains a policy
of active cooperation on the
Canal question with the mari-
time nations, especially France.

Statements by Eisenhower
and Dulles on Page 3

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Egypt's implementation
of her claim to a state of belligerency by acts such as
the blockade of Israel shipping is contrary to the
United Nations Charter, Secretary. General Dag Ham-
marskjold now holds, it was learned here in the wake
of the Ben Gurion-Hammarskjold talks last week. Ben-
Gurion reported fully to his Cabinet Sunday on his
conversations with Mr. Hammarskjold.
It is understood that Hammarskjold has developed
his new "theory" as an attempt to reconcile the fact of
the illegality of the blockade with his earlier statement
implicitly upholding Egypt's claims to belligerency..
According to the Secretary General's theory — as re-
ported here — there is a difference between claiming
the existence of a state of belligerence in the absence
of peace relations and taking hostile actions, which
violate the provisions of the UN Charter, under cover
of belligerent claims.

Authoritative observers here noted, however, that:
1. Israel had brought up again and had received
no real assurances about its insistence that Egypt's
claim to "rights of belligerence" is a violation of the
UN Charter.
2. Israel did not agree with Mr. Hammarskjold's
request to resume participation in the Mixed Armistice
Commissions between Israel on the one hand and, on
the other, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel insisted that
the entire armistice had been broken • down by the
Arab -provocations which preceded this country's Sinai
campaign last fall.
3. Israel still insists on a barbed . wire fence along

Continued on Page 3

Flanders Proposes Recognition of NaSser
Suez Seizure: IlumphrevOffers Refugee Plan

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, Vermont Republican, called
on the Senate floor for greater recognition of the Nasser government and "accep
tance of the nationalization of the Suez Canal" as part of an American
program for the Middle East.
Meanwhile, he suggested "support for Israel in negotiating for the
Gaza Strip as a new area required for settling Jews displaced from
adjoining territory.
He urged assurances to the Arabs on limitation of Israeli boundaries
and future population.
Last week, in another speech, Senator Flanders said that Commun-
ism threatened the Middle East, but "the Zionistic expansion of Israel
is the other active threat of aggression."
In his Senate speech, Flanders called for limitation of immigration
Sen. Flanders into Israel. Unrestricted immigration into Israel, Flanders said, must be
"labelled as a menace to the Arab world." He said immigration should be limited to
Jewish refugees from Egypt. Any "expansion of limits of Israel must be treated in
the eyes of the United Nations and of the nations individually as an act of aggres-
sion. It must be so treated by our own Government. Only when this is done can the
Arab nations feel any security against this menace."
Chairman Hubert H. Humphrey of a Senate subcommittee studying the Middle
East described Arab "fear of Israeli expansionism" as "genuine." He told U.S. News
and World Report that it was America's duty "to make it quite clear that we are
opposed to :expansionism or aggression from any quarter." He said this meant "boun-
daries between Arab countries and Israel must be adjudicated by ne-
gotiation if there's to be any realignment of those boundaries." He
described present boundaries as "temporary" and as "demarcation lines
for the armistice."
Sen. Humphrey described the Arab refugee problem as a "festering
sore" and voiced hope that the United States would be able to prevail
"upon both Israel and the Arab countries to do something about this."
He said "one way that you might get a start is for Israel to accept
the fact of responsibility for repatriation of the refugees, and then, on
a quota basis over a period of time, you could repatriate a certain num-
ber, if they want to come back and go through the process of being
reintegrated. Therefore, the Arab States, having won their point, so toSen. Humphrey
speak, will be in a more receptive mood to re-establish these refugees in other
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