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Moslem Attacks on Jews in Oran
Result in Emigration That May
Double France's Jewish Population
PARIS, (JTA)—The French Jewish com-
munity is prepared to receive and absorb a
massive immigration from Algeria, unprece-
dented in magnitude since the flight of the
Jews from Germany during the Hitler regime.
It is expected to double the size of the
permanent French Jewish population.
The general assembly of the Fonds Social
Juif Unifie, the central welfare organization,
concluding its annual general conference
Monday, heard reports on the situation of
the Jews in Algeria and the extent of the
problems with which the new immigration
will confront the French community. In
recent years, the French Jewish community
has had to receive and absorb large numbers
of Jewish refugees from Egypt, Tunisia and
Morocco.
One of the first plans to be put into
operation will be the reception of thousands
of Algerian Jewish children whose parents
want to place them in safety in Metropolitan
France. The Strasbourg Jewish community is
leading the way in this project and will
receive the largest number of children. The
community will convert all its homes, institu-
tions and other buildings into temporary
children's shelters. It will thus be able to care
for several hundred children in addition to
the 220 for whom it is already caring.
One Jew was killed, seven were injured
seriously, and a number of others were
hurt when Moslems opened a series of
attacks against the Jewish quarter of
Oran, Algeria, last weekend, according to
authoritative news that reached here and
caused grave concern among French Jews.
The fighting started early Friday night
when snipers and other marauders belonging
to the FLN, the Moslem independence move-
ment, drove through the Jewish quarter,
firing at random at homes and passersby. In
this initial attack, at least three Jews were
seriously wounded and a number of others
were injured.
Saturday morning, defense units cornered
another car of FLN marauders, driving down
one of the main streets of the Jewish section,
Boulevard Joffre. The defenders opened fire,
killing four of the five men in the car,
wounding the fifth. Almost immediately,
crowds of Arabs flowed into the Jewish
quarter, brandishing rifles, pistols, knives
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Arab Hate Propaganda Has Hitler Pattern
By MILTON FRI EDMAN
(Copyright, 1962, Jewish Telegraphic Agercy. Inc.)
SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Bay area, long regarded a citadel
of interfaith amity, is witnessing mounting anti-Israel agitation in the wake
of American co-sponsorship of a United Nations Security Council resolution
censuring Israel.
Mohammed T. Mehdi, director of the Arab Information Center of San
Francisco, attributed to President Kennedy recent policy expressions inter-
preted by the Arabs as favorable. According to the Marin County Independent
Journal, Mehdi told a Northern California women's club that President Kennedy
"is thinking more in terms of the non-committed Afro-Asians and for that he
deserves a word of tribute from us, and, of course, the support of the American
people."
A few days later, San Francisco's influential Commonwealth Club invited
Ambassador Nadim Dimechkie of Lebanon to speak. At the head table were
George Mardikian, wealthy restaurateur who once sought to sponsor a California
visit by Egypt's Nasser; also, James Terry Duce, president of the Middle East
Institute, an official of the Arabian American Oil Co. Ambassador Dimechkie
cited happily the recent American stand at the Security Council which singled
out Israel for sole blame in frontier shooting.
The Lebanese diplomat told the assembled California leaders that this was
actually the seventh time Israel had received UN condemnation for aggression.
Consequently, he said, Israel's survival depended on its behavior; war danger
existed as long as this "unnatural body" remained "in an area where it is not
wanted."
Spokesman of the "mildest" Arab League state, the ambassador belligerently
announced that the time had come for American revision of Near - Eastern policy
in light of what he termed Israeli aggression and jeopardy to the Arab world.
He suggested the Arabs would otherwise seek support from the Soviet Union.
He defended visa restrictions by Arab states barring Americans of Jewish
faith, saying "we always have to take precautions as long as Americans with
specific religious beliefs have ties with a country with whom we are in a state
of war."
Pamphlets, depicting pathetic scenes of Arab refugee camps. were dis-
tributed to the Commonwealth Club membership. Under a photo of an Arab
refugee boy peering wistfully in the direction, presumably, of the Israeli border,
appeared a question: "What Lies Ahead?"
Propagandist Mehdi flies about the traditionally tolerant American West,
spreading hate as he goes. In El Paso, Texas, the scene was a high school
auditorium, also a telecast. Next, the self-styled apostle of American-Arab
friendship was at New Mexico State University, sponsored by the Arab Students
Organizations He was again shrieking that "one million Arab refugees have
been displaced from their homes by the Zionist Jews."
Before another audience, he was asked by a good-hearted Westerner why
the Arabs and Jews can't live together in peace. Mehdi's reply: "Would you
want to live with them?" This occasioned an outburst on the part of the
questioner, a non-Jew, provoked by the obvious anti-Semitism.
Lilian McPherson, another non-Jew, writing on the editorial page of the
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury said: "One wonders about Dr. Mehdi's techniques
and ultimate objectives. Especially, I say this, after attending a student meeting
at San Jose State, where Arab students heckled a speaker on Israel by saying,
`Too bad Hitler didn't finish the job'." She went on to describe Dr. Mehdi's
links with the Arab Students Organization at San Jose State College.
When Arab propagandist Fayez A. Sayegh, a visiting professor of political
science at another West coast university. addressed San Jose students, he was
enthusiastically introduced by a faculty member. The host admits John Birch
Society membership and was the subject of controversy when he asked
"patriotic" students to report "subversive" statements by instructors and fellow
students.
At the International Student House on the University of California campus,
at Berkeley. the Israeli flag was twice torn down by Arab students.
A seminar on "Social Change In The Middle East," sponsored by the World
Affairs Council of Northern California. featured six "authorities"—all pro-Arab.
Anti-Israel reading lists were distributed. Registrants included Admiral M P.
Evenson, director of the so-called "American Friends of the Middle East" for
the Western United States.
Arab contributions to civilization are lauded in high schools essays for cash
prizes offered California students by the Arab Information Center here. Material
submitted directly to the social studies teachers in both private and public
schools features a map designating Israel as "Israeli Occupied Territory of
Palestine." This "information kit" also includes anti-Israel testimony by Harold
B. Minor, a former State Department officer, before Chairman J. W. Fulbright's
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In some schools the anti-Israel material was distributed to students for
study and use. But in cases where Jewish students brought the kits home,
parents interceded effectively with school authorities to terminate use of the
biased essay approach. •
An Israeli Arab Christian, visiting , the area to observe labor unions for
Histadrut, was threatened with death by an unruly mob of Arab students at
Stanford University in Palo Alto. Invited to speak before a campus group, the
Israeli Arab was rudely harrassed, called "traitor," and could hardly make
himself heard.
Encouraged by recent indications of new Washington efforts to woo the
Arabs, the Arab propaganda front is intensifying West Coast activities. Northern
California, the educational, cultural, industrial, and commercial center of the
West, has been selected as the convenient cosmopolitan base for the cold war
against Israel. A by-product is anti-Semitism in areas where prejudice was
little evident.
Jewish communal agencies are fighting back. Israel has just opened a
consulate here, in recognition of the sensitivity and importance of this area.
Consul Zadik Shai arrived to find himself busily engaged.
Speakers presenting the Israel viewpoint include such popular local per-
sonalities as Frances Sussna of San Francisco's College of Jetvish Studies. She
is visiting Northern California universities, schools, men's clubs, non sectarian
groups and other organizations to tell Israel's true story.
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