THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, November 3, 1961
American Jewish Committee Report
nits U.S. Inaction Over Arab Boycott
- NEW YORK, (JTA) — The American rights," the Committee
American Jewish Committee . said: "The dignity of the United
has made public a report estab- States, its status as a champion
lishing that more than 80 Amer- of universal human rights, de-
ican-owned ships have been mands that this invasion be
blacklisted by the Arab League promptly repelled."
boycott. The report emphasizes
The American Jewish Com-
that the Arab boycott is placing mittee also charged the gov-
"extensive arbitrary restraints" ernment of Libya with pur-
on American foreign trade.
suing on official policy of
In describing, the impact of harsh oppression — religious,
the boycott which not only af- political, cultural and econ-
fects American Jewish citizens omic — against its Jewish
but U. S. citizens of all faiths, citizens. The committee stated
the Committee stressed that it some "former Nazis" are
"has interfered with the com- currently handling "the Jew-
mercial pursuits of Americans ish question" for the Libyan
and American companies in government.
many foreign countries. It has
These restrictive policies are
subjected American f or e i g n carried out despite the fact that
trade to arbitrary restraint. It Libya was created by the
has obstructed American ship- United Nations which helped
ping and has abused American to frame the Libyan constitu-
seamen in defiance of interna- tion, the charge states.
tional law."
Disclosure of Libya's flouting
The U. 'S. firms hit by the of UN principles and suppres-
Arab boycott • are engaged in sion of civil rights and civil
the production of rubber, liberties was based on informa-
chemicals,. petrOleum products, tion obtained from inside Libya.
radio and television equipment, The report was made public
cosmetics, drugs, plastics, busi- by Committee President Louis
ness machinery and watches. Caplan of Pittsburgh, who re-
Construction engineering firms vealed that Libyan Jews cannot
have also been affected by the vote, that the .government is
authorized by law to take title
boycott, the Committee said.
to "the properties of certain
The AJC report on the Jews," that Jews are prohibited
Arab League boycott was from acquiring new property,
made public at the Commit- all JeN;vish religious instruction
tee's national executive board and community affairs are
meeting at Hotel Roosevelt regulated and supervised by a
here.
Moslem Commissioner, a n d
The Committee stated that Jews cannot receive passports
many companies have refused to or certification of their Libyan
yield to the boycott. Some feel nationality
that the Arab market, despite its
strength, would not compensate
for loss of Israeli business.
Some have discovered that cer-
tain Arab countries are not above
dealing with recalcitrant compa-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
nies whose products are in short
to The Jewish News)
supply in the Middle East. Some-
JERUSALEM — The authori-
simply object on principle to ties of Lebanon are contem-
threats and foreign dictation."
plating special measures against
The Committee drew atten- Jews and "other foreigners" to
tion to the fact that the United prevent "subversive actions
States is -suffering "a loss of in- against the State," according to
tegrity and prestige" by "accom- Arab News Agency reports from
modating" to discrimination Beirut, monitored Wednesday.
against American citizens by
The "measures" include prep-
Arab League nations.
aration for expulsion of the ac-
"Apart from the blacklisting of cused, the Agency stated, at-
American firms and vessels, tributing its information to "of-
Arab League nations are refus- ficial sources."
ing visas to American citizens of
Lebanon reportedly has as
the Jewish faith and forbidding'
them to debark in some Arab. many as 10,000 Jews, according
League countries; preventing to some experts, while other
American servicemen and civi- Jewish sources maintain that the
lian employes of the Jewish faith population there has dwindled
from serving at an American air- to between 7,000 and 8,000 Jews.
Through the years since the
base built in an Arab country
with American funds and main- rebirth of modern Israel in 1948,
tained by the United States," the there have been various official
report stated.
actions against Lebanon Jews
Terming the general boycott ,accused of being members of
situation as "an invasion of pro-Israeli "spy rings" or of vio-
-A year. long study of youth
involved in last year's swas-
tika epiAemic, has revealed
that the youngsters came from
middle class backgrounds and
were not typical delinquents,
it was reported to the AJC
meeting.
The study also showed that
extensive press, radio and tele-
vision coverage of the religious
vandalism had triggered wide-
spread imitative acts among the
youth, many of whom were
found to be emotionally ill.
One of the study's major rec-
ommendations is the urgent ed-
ucational need for special em-
phasis on the true meaning of
Nazism and the true historic
significance of the Nazi symbol.
The study begun last April
and recently completed, was
conducted by the Research Cen-
ter of the New York School of
Social Work, Columbia Univer-
sity, in cooperation with the
American Jewish Committee.
Most of the offenders, the re-
port said, came from middle-
class homes which, in the ma-
jority of cases, harbored strong
family conflicts.
Despite high intelligence
scores, many revealed poor
school records.
Common to the group were
these factors: limited experience
in social and neighborhood con-
tact with Jews, strong unsatis-
fied status needs, the absence
of strong father figures, lack of
adult interest in and supervi-
sion of recreational facilities.
Report Lebanon Considers
Expulsion of Jews as Spies
South African Jews Hit Israel
Over Stand Favoring UN Censure
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) —
The South African Jewish com-
munity, the most Zionist-minded
outside-Israel and one with the
highest per capita contributions
to Israel, has indicated that it is
deeply disturbed by Israel-South
African developments in the
United Nations.
One source of the concern was
reports that Israel was being lob-
bied to vote for Afro-Asian moves
to impose sanctions against South
Africa or to expel it from the
United Nations. It was pointed
out in Jewish circles here that
South African Jewry, while rec-
ognizing that Israel must be the
sole arbiter of its foreign poli-
cies, nevertheless feels that it is
wrong in principle for Israel to
align itself against a country in
which the Jewish community en-
joys every freedom and respect.
Such action on Israel's part
may create a strain between Jews
and non-Jews which previously
did not exist, it was stressed.
South African Jews previously
had criticized Israel's support of
the Afro-Asian censure motion
against South Africa's delegate in
the United Nations. This criti-
cism appeared in the Zionist
Record, organ of the South Afri-
can Zionist Federation, and a
statement issued by the South
African Board of Jewish Depu-
ties, the central representative
body of South African Jewry.
In its current issue, the Jew-
ish Herald, a Zionist-Revisionist
organ, extended the criticism
with the comment that "the cen-
sure vote established a dangerous
precedent at the United Nations
for it runs counter to the whole
concept of freedom of speech in
the General Assembly: Today it
is South Africa and tomorrow the
same group might seek to impose
similar sanctions on Israel."
The Herald, expressed the opin-
ion that too much stress had been
placed on the friendship which
some Afro-Asian countries have
shown Israel. "The test of their
Sincerity would come when the
Assembly votes on the Arab ref-
ugee issue," the paper stated.
lating the anti-Israel economic
boycott.
Most of the Jews in Lebanon
live in the capital, Beirut, and
there has also been a smaller but
active Jewish community in Said.
Disclose Attacks
on Dayan at Start
Of Sinai Campaign
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to The Jewish News)
San Francisco Jews Go on Alert
After New Anti-Semitic Attacks
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
The new police watch was
Jewish community relations or- aimed' both at protecting the
ganizations are on the alert Bowmans and at apprehending a
over a campaign of anti-Jewish number of youths who have been
terrorism against a Jewish cou- congregating at the home.
ple which spurred police to pro-
They smashed the windshield
vide a 24-hour guard at their of the Bowman car, which had
residence.
been set afire in the initial at-
Police ordered the around-the- tacks, and have hurled rocks
clock watch over a renewal of through windows of the home.
anti-Semitic telephone calls and
Bowman said that the abuse
attacks on the automobile and was resumed soon after the
home of Mr. and Mrs. William court action and that gangs of
Bowman who previously had boys and girls had staged "vic-
been the victims of a similar tory parades" almost nightly
campaign over a 15-month per- since the court hearing of the
iod.
two juveniles.
The Jewish Community Rela-
Mrs. Bowman said that she
tions Council and the local office and her husband, during the 15
of the Anti -Defamation League months of harassment, had set
issued a joint statement assur- a trap which disclosed the
ing San Francisco Jewry that identiy of some anti - Semitic
they and other Jewish agencies elements in their neighborhood.
were active in the case. •
She said they had worked with
In the statement, the two or- the gang of 12 who had terror-
ganizations rejected demands ized them. The names of the
from outraged Jewish individu- anti-Semitic neighbors would be
als for "vague, undefined and revealed in the trial of the 10
ill-tempered 'action' motivated indicted yoUths, she said.
by resentment."
"The Jewish Community Re- HEBREW CORNER
lations Council, the Anti-Defa-
mation League, the American Millionth Immigrant
Jewish Committee, the Jewish
The first law accepted by the State
Labor Committee, and the Amer- of Israel, on the day of Declaration
of Independence, was a decree to
ican Jewish Congress—all with nullify the laws of the White Paper
offices in San Francisco — are of the British Mandatory Government,
that restricted the immigration into
doing the most useful thing: Palestine. The day that the State was
esablished is the day of opening the
Using the Bowman case, and gates
of the country to immigrants.
other less-publicized outrages, to
Thirteen years passed since then,
and
here
the tidings reached our ears
convince educators and youth that the millionth
immigrant came
leaders that they have an urgent up to Israel. This number tells us
a million people, a million
responsibility in fighting anti- about
stories of life, a million hopes.
Semitism with all the tools,
During the thirty years of the Brit-
mandate a half a million Jews
books, and like educational ma- ish
came to Palestine, and in the thirteen
terials which these agencies of- years of the independent State of
one million immigrants came
fer," the joint statement assert- Israel
up to the country, and if all the Jews
ed..
that want to come would be per-
to leave their countries, the
The attacks against the Bow- mitted
number of immigrants would be much
mans, who conduct a furniture more than one million.
A million immigrants. They came
business in their home, ended from
79 countries from all continents.
briefly several weeks ago when 450,000 from European countries, 280,-
000 from the countries of Asia, a
police sprung a trap and arrest- quarter
of .a million from Africa and
ed 12 youths, two of them juve- another twenty thousand from the
countries
of. America and Australia.
niles.
The map of the Jewish diaspora
The two juveniles had their changed. Iraq, Yemen, Bulgaria exist
no longer as large Jewish commun-
case heard first. The judge de- ities,
because most of the Jews that
nounced their actions and placed lived in these countries came up to
(our) country.
them on probation. The renewal
The map of Israel also changed.
of the violence followed the hear- Immigrant settlements sprang up in
all parts of the country, the close
ing of the two boys and the and the far.
And now the process of ingathering
appearance of the 10 older
of the exiled is continuing. Immi-
youths indicted for conspiracy grants
are continuing to come and
and now • awaiting trial before we hope for the second million.
Translation of Hebrew column,
Superior Judge Harry Neuharth. Published by Brith Ivrith Olamith,
JERUSALEM—The dis-
closure that Moshe Dayan came
under armed attack three times
at the start of the Sinai Cam-
paign of 1956, one of the most
closely guarded secrets of the
campaign, was made Tuesday
by Bamachaneh, the Israel
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fire which killed Dayan's driver
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